Peter Goadsby FRS is Director, NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility, Professor of
Neurology, King’s College London, an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s
College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St, London, UK. He
is a National Institute for Health and Care Research Senior Investigator. He is
Professor emeritus of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles. His major
research interests are in the basic mechanisms of primary headache disorders, such
as migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, in both experimental and clinical
settings, and translating mechanistic insights into better management.
Peter Goadsby obtained his medical degree and training at the University of New
South Wales (UNSW), Australia, and neurology training with James W. Lance and
clinical neurophysiology with David Burke. He did post-doctoral work in New York
with Don Reis at Cornell, and Jacques Seylaz, Paris, and post-graduate neurology
training at Queen Square, London with C David Marsden, Andrew Lees, Anita
Harding and W Ian McDonald. He returned to UNSW, and the Prince of Wales
Hospital, Sydney, as a consultant neurologist and became an Associate Professor of
Neurology. He was appointed Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of
Neurology, University College London and was Professor of Clinical Neurology and
Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He was Professor of Neurology, at University
of California, San Francisco.