Peter goadsby biography
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Peter Goadsby
Australian neuroscientist and physician
Peter Goadsby is an Australian neuroscientist who is Director of the National Institute for Health Research - Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Neurology at King's College London.[1] His research has focused particularly on the mechanism and alleviation of migraine and cluster headaches.
Personal life and education
[edit]Goadsby was born in Australia in 1958.[2] He attended a secondary school that did not have high academic ambitions for the pupils. This made him determined to follow an academic course. He was interested in politics from a young age, and was planning to study economics at university. However, after an argument with his mother, a mathematics teacher, he applied to study medicin, and was accepted by University of New South Wales.[2] As an undergraduate he met James W. Lance and became interested in the area of experimental science applied to
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Biography
Peter Goadsby obtained his medical grad and training at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Neurology training was with James W. Lance and clinical neurophysiology with David Burke. After post-doctoral work in New York with Don Reis at Cornell, Jacques Seylaz at Universite VII, 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 a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, University College London in 1995. He was Professor of Clinical Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London until 2007.
He has been Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco since 2007. He has been an Ho
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Peter Goadsby - Curriculum Vitae#
- Director, NIHR-Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility
- Professor of Neurology, King’s College London
- Professor Emeritus of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles
Education:
- 1977 - 1985 University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney Australia MB BS Honours
- 1981 UNSW BMedSc High distinction
- 1983 UNSW PhD Neuroscience
- 1985 Prince Henry/Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Intern Medicine
- 1988 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates FMGEMS
- 1986-1987 Prince Henry/Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Resident Medicine
- 1988 Prince Henry/Prince of Wales Hospital Registrar Neurology
- 1989 Prince Henry/Prince of Wales Hospital Registrar Clinical Neurophysiology
- 1990 UNSW MD Medicine
- 1990 Royal Australasian College of Physicians FRACP Medicine
- 1990 The National Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases, Queen Square Neurology
- 1996 UNSW DSc Medicine
- 1998 Royal College of Physicians FRCP Medicine
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