About Severe Headache Expert by Dr Raeburn Forbes MD(Hons)

About Dr Raeburn Forbes MD(Hons) FRCP Ed FRCP Lond

I trained in Medicine at the University of Dundee Medical School, graduating MBChB (1992) and MD(Honours) in 2000.

I completed specialist training in Neurology in July 2003 and hold a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Adult Neurology with The General Medical Council (GMC Registration No 3687413).

I have worked as a Consultant Neurologist in Craigavon Area Hospital since March 2004.

I was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the summer of 2007.

I am a member of the following Medical Organisations:

The British Association for the Study of Headache, The International Headache Society and The American Headache Society.

I have served on the board of The Irish Institute for Clinical Neuroscience, and am a full member of the Association of British Neurologists, serving on their Standards and Services Committee from 2012.

My research interests include headache disorders, specifically thunderclap headache, Chronic Migraine and health service research relating to management of acute neurological illness.

I have been interested in developing a website for sometime, and this one started in August 2008.

Medical Disclaimer

This website is not a substitute for proper medical care.

This website is an educational resource to educate people about headaches, and is a means of contacting me to arrange private neurology consultations.

If you have symptoms causing you concern you must discuss this with your own doctor.

If you sign up for an email series or purchase The Billionaire’s Book of Headaches you agree that it is an educational resource and NOT formal medical advice.

The Billionaire’s Book of Headaches, all related materials and website content on www.severe-headache-expert.com are designed to help you understand your migraines and severe headaches better and do not constitute formal medical advice.

If you sign up for emails you are agreeing that you are using the material for educational not therapeutic purposes and that if you have symptoms causing you concern that you have sought formal medical advice or will continue to seek formal medical advice.

Drugs doses are illustrative only and are not to be used as an indication of actual doses you must take.

Information on this website or in The Billionaire’s Book of Headaches are educational materials are not to be used as a specific direction to you from Dr Raeburn Forbes or Forbes Neurology Services Ltd. that you must take a certain medication in any specific context.

If you do wish to take medication that has been described or mentioned then this must first be discussed with your pharmacist or doctor.

This website is owned by Forbes Neurology Services Ltd., and all personal data shared with this website is subject to GDPR according to UK Law. This means that your data is only used for the purposes for which you shared it – for example to obtain more information or to allow Forbes Neurology Services Ltd arrange an appointment with Dr Raeburn Forbes, Consultant Neurologist. Your personal data will not be shared with a third party for any other purpose and proper care is taken to protect your data, including use of encryption technologies.