DR ELLIOT SHEVEL - CURRICULUM VITAE

Matriculated                  Krugersdorp High School             1959

Tertiary Education         B.D.S. (Witwatersrand)                 1967

                                      Dip. M.F.O.S. (Witwatersrand)     1973

                                      M.B., B.Ch. (Witwatersrand)         1977

Elected Fellow, International College of Craniomandibular Orthopaedics    1999

Chairman, South African Division of the International Headache Society     2003-

National Councilor, South African Dental Association       2005-

University of Witwatersrand SRC                      1961, 1962, 1963

Private practice as a Maxillo-facial and Oral Surgeon, with a special interest in pain in the craniomandibular and craniocervical regions, and in particular, migraine, tension headache, and other primary headaches of muscular, vascular, and neural origin (1973-      ).

Member         International Conference of Craniomandibular Orthopaedics

                      International Association of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgeons

                      American Headache Society

                      International Headache Society

Peer Reviewer

                      Journal of Neurology

                      Medical Science Monitor

                      Headache (Official Journal of the American Headache Society)

                           International Journal Of Clinical Practice

Founder and Director, The Headache Clinic, South Africa with branches in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town. The Headache Clinic is a multidisciplinary practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of Primary Headaches (1992-      ).

Presented papers at International Conferences with particular reference to primary headache and pain and dysfunction of the muscles and arteries of the craniomandibular and craniocervical region.

Argentina       XI International Conference on Maxillo-facial and Oral Surgery - Buenos Aires 1992

Austria           VI International Congress on Headache in Children and Adolescents - Vienna April 2004

Czech Rep     3^rd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology – Prague 2009

France           Video-Forum Europeen de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale - Toulouse 1994

Hungary         XII International Conference on Maxillo-facial and Oral Surgery - Budapest 1996

Israel             X International Conference on Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery - Jerusalem   1989

Italy              X Congress of the International Headache Society - Rome 2003

Netherlands   7^th Headache Congress of the European Headache Federation - Rotterdam 2004.

Spain            8^th Headache Congress of the European Headache Federation - Valencia 2006.

Taiwan         Second Asian Congress on Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery - Taipeh 1993

Zimbabwe    Invited speaker at the Zimbabwe Dental Association Annual Congress - Victoria Falls 1992

Dr Shevel is fluent in English and Afrikaans, and has a working knowledge of Setswana, Sesotho, Zulu, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Greek, and Turkish.

 Dr Shevel - publications