SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine - Meet the Editors for SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine
Paolo Martelletti
Editor-in-Chief
Paolo Martelletti is currently Adjunct Professor at Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome and Director Training Couse in Headache (this opens in a new tab) and has been an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (2005 - 2022), and Certified Full Professor of Internal Medicine (this opens in a new tab) (since 2019) at the University Sapienza of Rome and Director (Founding) of the Regional Reference Centre for Headaches at Sant'Andrea University Hospital in Rome, (2003-2022) and Director of Residency Program in Internal Medicine at Sapienza University (2016-2022).
After extensive research activities in the fields of internal medicine, headaches, and pain management since 1980s, he explored new research avenues for the study of factors for chronicity, comorbidities, and aspects of health economics in primary headaches; elaborating rehabilitation protocols in patients with secondary headache as a consequence of medication abuse, COVID-19 and SARS-COV2 vaccination; and studying innovative therapies for the acute treatment and prophylaxis of primary headaches. Public health policies, including headache field in the United Nations program SDG3 "Good Health and Wellbeing” and education, are now his ultimate area of interest. He founded and directed since 2003 for 19 Academic Years the first global Master in Headache Medicine at Sapienza University of Rome.
He is an Editor of Handbook of Headache (this opens in a new tab); Editor of Migraine in Medicine (this opens in a new tab) and Non-Migraine Primary Headaches in Medicine (this opens in a new tab) (both created by using AI); Editor, Springer Headache Book Series (this opens in a new tab) (16 Volumes), Editor-in-Chief (Founding) of The Journal of Headache and Pain (this opens in a new tab) (IF 2022 = 7.4), and SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine (this opens in a new tab).
He was President of European Headache Federation (2017-2018) and Director (Founding) of European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (2017-2022; 15 Editions). He serves also as EU Expert of European Medicine Agency (this opens in a new tab) since 2016.
He was the winner of the Enrico Greppi International Prize in 1993 and was among the worldwide top ten researchers in migraine (this opens in a new tab) (1999-2019).
He was awarded the highest honor of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross (this opens in a new tab) (2022).
PubMed: 376 articles (as of 18 Jan 2024) - Please see Paolo Martelleti’s articles in PubMed (this opens in a new tab)
Scopus: H-index 48, Citations: 8,404, Co-Authors: 150 (as of 18 Jan 2024) – For more information please see Scopus (this opens in a new tab)
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6556-4128 – Please see ORCID (this opens in a new tab)
Tara Hughes
Managing Editor
Tara Hughes has worked for over 30 years within the NHS in the UK, firstly as a nurse then as an Advanced Practitioner in Critical Care and finally as a Manager. Her expertise is in Acute and Critical Care, but she has been continually involved in Adult/Paediatric patient safety, education and human factors all with the aim of delivering quality, evidence-based care. Completing Masters modules at Warwick University of both a clinical and academic nature has afforded her numerous opportunities in clinical practice, education, NoRF.org and NHS initiatives. Tara notes: “Participating in R&D has enabled me to appreciate how this can impact directly on our global network of clinicians and students. After a fortuitous career I hope to be able to uphold and foster the ethos of SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine.”