Peter C. Whybrow

Peter Charles Whybrow (13 June 1939 – 25 August 2025) was an English psychiatrist and award-winning author whose primary research focus was on understanding the metabolic role of thyroid hormones in the adult brain and how to apply this knowledge to the treatment of mood disorder, especially bipolar disorder. He was Judson Braun Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Birth Whybrow was born 13 June 1939 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

Education and career Whybrow was a graduate of University College, and University College Hospital Medical School, London. He received his training in endocrinology and psychiatry in London and North Carolina and was a member of the scientific staff of the British Medical Research Council before migrating to America in the 1970s to join the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School where he was chair of psychiatry and later executive dean of the medical school.