Dr. Peter Goadsby, a neurologist, specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of all headache disorders, including migraines and cluster headache and the various forms of chronic daily headache. He is director of the Headache Center at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center and is considered to be one of the world's leading headache experts and researchers.

Dr. Goadsby came to University of California, San Francisco, from the Institute of Neurology at University College London, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, in London. His research focuses on the mechanisms and management of head pain, with a special interest in migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. His studies aim to understand the parts of the brain involved in headache and from this to derive new approaches to treatment.

Dr. Goadsby received a medical degree from the University of New South Wales School of Medicine, completed a residency in neurology at Prince of Wales Hospital and completed a fellowship in neurology at the National Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases in London. He completed postdoctoral work in laboratories in New York and Paris.