mastermind: Advancing Migraine Management

Developed by a multidisciplinary faculty, mastermind is an interactive, case-based program lead by the Canadian Headache Society aimed to address clinical challenges and optimize migraine management strategies.

This program is no longer accredited.

This program was supported in part by an unrestricted educational grant from AbbVie Corporation, Teva Canada, Eli Lilly Canada, Lundbeck Canada Inc. and Pfizer Canada ULC.

Learning Objectives

• Detect clues for secondary headaches and apply the diagnostic criteria for migraine
• Communicate treatment options for the acute treatment of migraine
• Utilize migraine preventive options, including behavioural and pharmacological approaches

Course Topics

• Module 1: Diagnosis and Lifestyle counselling
  Review the diagnostic approach for patients presenting with headache and discuss lifestyle counselling for migraine 
• Module 2: Acute Treatment and Medication Overuse Headache 

  Describe the management of acute treatment of migraine and medication-overuse headache
• Module 3: Preventive Treatments 

  Summarize first-line options for migraine prevention and define the place of second-line therapies (onabotulinum toxin type A, CGRP antibodies, and gepants)
• Module 4: Hormonal Factors and Auras

  Review the management of menstrual migraine, contraception in the woman with migraine with aura, pregnancy management, and menopausal issues
• Module 5: Focus on CGRP Blockade
  Assess the characteristics of CGRP mAbs and gepants for migraine and define their integration in clinical practice for acute and preventive migraine treatment

Course Planning Committee