Professor Alex Sinclair MBChB FRCP PhD is a consultant Neurologist and leads the headache and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) Services at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She runs a translational research group at the University of Birmingham which seeks to establish underlying mechanisms and develop  therapeutic strategies for IIH and headache. The research program conducts  in vivo and in vitro research as well as experimental medicine and clinical trial trials. Professor Sinclair is a member of the board for the European Headache Federation and is on the scientific committees for the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS). She is also a council member for the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH). Professor Sinclair is on the MRC Neuroscience and Mental Health Board and the Midland Neuroscience Teaching and Research Fund Board, as well as being Chair of the Brain Research UK Scientific Advisory Board. Previously, she was an elected board member of the IHS and was the Deputy Chair for the Association for British Neurologists grouping for Headache and Pain (ABN AAG). She was on the research committee for the Association for British Neurologists and was also the previous patron of the patient charity IIH UK.