Simon Wessely - Revision history

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 The report was not well received by Gulf War veterans and criticism suggested the MoD funding had led to the “whitewash”. Scientific criticism also came from Malcolm Hooper, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Sunderland University:
 "For this survey not to find any evidence of neurological damage makes me very suspicious," he said.
-"I find this research unpersuasive and statistically insignificant." <ref> [http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/nexis/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T18250179649&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=76&resultsUrlKey=29_T18250179634&cisb=22_T18250179651&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=230180&docNo=84 Gulf War report a whitewash veterans] ''The Journal'', 25 November 2002, accessed 4 September 2013 <ref/>
+"I find this research unpersuasive and statistically insignificant." <ref> [http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/nexis/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T18250179649&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=76&resultsUrlKey=29_T18250179634&cisb=22_T18250179651&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=230180&docNo=84 Gulf War report a whitewash veterans] ''The Journal'', 25 November 2002, accessed 4 September 2013 </ref>
 Later research in the US concluded that Gulf War Syndrome is a “real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans”. That report, published in 2008  and compiled by “scientific experts and veterans serving on the congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses” identified the cause as “neurotoxic” exposure causally linked to “the ingestion of pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills, given to protect troops from effects of nerve agents and exposure to dangerous pesticides used during the conflict”. <ref> Alan Silverlieb [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/gulf.war.illness.study/index.html Gulf War illness is real, says new report] ''CNN.com/Health'', 9 December 2008, accessed 27 September 2013 </ref>
 There is still no settled view on the causes of Gulf War Syndrome, but Wessely and the MoD maintain a similar position to that which they did in 2002, despite the conflicting research findings in the US. In 2011, in a BBC article Wessely said”
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 "Something to do with the Gulf has affected health and no-one serious has ever disputed that.
 "Is there a problem? Yes there is. Is it Gulf War Syndrome or isn't it? I think that's a statistical and technical question that's of minor interest." <ref> Caroline Hawley & Stuart Hughes [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12195884 Two decades on, battle goes on over 'Gulf War Syndrome'] ''BBC news'', 16 January 2011, accessed 27 September 2013 </ref>
 Wessely has elsewhere said that mental health problems in all ex-military personnel is minimal, with 20% experiencing some psychological disturbance caused by missing the “camaraderie and support of life in the forces”, with only 3% developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and this isn’t caused by what they have seen or done in combat but rather "it's errors of omission or commission that lead to mental health problems - the feeling that they have let the side down or that they have been let down.'' He also listed inadequate downtime between spells of active duty and a difficult childhood as contributory factors. <ref> Cassandra Jardine [http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/nexis/search/focusSearch.do?risb=21_T18250179649&pap=results_listvihttp://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/nexis/search/focusSearch.do?risb=21_T18250179649&pap=results_listview_Listview&formStateKey=29_T18250179634&format=GNBEXLIST&returnTo=20_T18250649393 Fighting another battle after the war] ''The Daily Telegraph'', 15 December 2008, accessed 27 September 2013 </ref>
 ===Chronic Fatigue Syndrome===

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 ==Affiliations==
-*[[Prisma Health]]
+*[[Prisma Health]] Prisma Health Ltd is a multi-national company providing rehabilitation to long-term disability, in particular those who have "medically unexplained illness" such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia. Prisma Health receives referrals from insurance companies, employers and personal injury lawyers.<ref>Rehab Directory [http://www.rehabwindow.net/showsupplier.aspx?ID=136 Prisma Health Ltd], Accessed 16 December 2010</ref> Wessely was on the Supervisory Board of Prisma Health in 2001.<ref>Prisma Health [http://web.archive.org/web/20010302091247/www.prismahealth.com/ENGLISH/COMPANY/OFFICERS.HTM Supervisory Board],from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine cache of 2 March 2001, Accessed 16 December 2010</ref> The financial disclosure in the [[Journal of the American Medical Association]] (JAMA) 2001 states that, “Dr Wessely serves as an advisor for treatment programs and research opportunities for PRISMA, a  private company that arranges rehabilitation services. Dr Wessely receives no payment for this position, is not a shareholder, and has no financial interest in the company.”
+*[[HealthWatch]], member circa 2001<ref>Michael E Allen HealthWatch Press Officer [http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/newsletterarchive/HWresponse.html We refer to a paper titled “Concerns about the forthcoming Chief Medical Officer’s Report on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), notably the intention to advise clinicians that only limited investigations are necessary” dated 1st May 2001, written by Sally Montague and Malcolm Hooper, which makes a number of wild and unsupportable accusations about the charity HealthWatch]. ''HealthWatch'', 11 July 2001.</ref>
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 Prisma Health Ltd is a multi-national company providing rehabilitation to long-term disability, in particular those who have "medically unexplained illness" such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia. Prisma Health receives referrals from insurance companies, employers and personal injury lawyers.<ref>Rehab Directory [http://www.rehabwindow.net/showsupplier.aspx?ID=136 Prisma Health Ltd], Accessed 16 December 2010</ref>
-Wessely was on the Supervisory Board of Prisma Health in 2001<ref>Prisma Health. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010302091247/www.prismahealth.com/ENGLISH/COMPANY/OFFICERS.HTM Supervisory Board],from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine cache of 2 March 2001, Accessed 16 December 2010</ref>
+Wessely was on the Supervisory Board of Prisma Health in 2001.<ref>Prisma Health [http://web.archive.org/web/20010302091247/www.prismahealth.com/ENGLISH/COMPANY/OFFICERS.HTM Supervisory Board],from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine cache of 2 March 2001, Accessed 16 December 2010</ref>
 The financial disclosure in the [[Journal of the American Medical Association]] (JAMA) 2001 states that, “Dr Wessely serves as an advisor for treatment programs and research opportunities for PRISMA, a  private company that arranges rehabilitation services. Dr Wessely receives no payment for this position, is not a shareholder, and has no financial interest in the company.”

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 ==Activities==
-Director, [[King’s Centre for Military Health Research]] (MHR). MHR's funders include the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Office of the Deputy Prime Minister]], [[Reuters]], the [[BBC]], the [[Economic and Social Research Council]] and the [[Joseph Rowntree Foundation]].<ref>King's College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=979], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+Director, [[King’s Centre for Military Health Research]] (MHR). MHR's funders include the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Office of the Deputy Prime Minister]], [[Reuters]], the [[BBC]], the [[Economic and Social Research Council]] and the [[Joseph Rowntree Foundation]].<ref>King's College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=979 King's Centre for Military Health Research], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
 Advisor in Psychiatry for [[British Army Medical Services]]; Chair, Nato Working Group on Psychosocial Consequences of Chem/Bio Terrorism; Member of the [[Scientific Advisory Panel on Emergency Response]] (SAPER) and [[Defence Scientific Advisory Council]] (DSAC);<ref>Kings College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10206 Institute of Psychiatry Staff], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> [[Science Media Centre]], Science Advisory Panel;<ref>Science Media Centre [http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/sap.htm About Us], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
 Trustee, [[Combat Stress]] Charity;<ref>Combat Stress [http://www.combatstress.org.uk/pages/untitled.html Our Patrons and Trustees], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> Fellow of the UK [[Academy of Medical Sciences]].<ref>The Academy of Medical Sciences [http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/index.php?pid=59&fid=4294, Fellows], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
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		+	Prisma Health Ltd is a multi-national company providing rehabilitation to long-term disability, in particular those who have "medically unexplained illness" such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia. Prisma Health receives referrals from insurance companies, employers and personal injusry lawyers.<ref>Rehab Directory [http://www.rehabwindow.net/showsupplier.aspx?ID=136 Prisma Health Ltd], Accessed 16 December 2010</ref>
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		+	Wessely was on the Supervisory Board of Prisma Health in 2001<ref>Prisma Health [http://web.archive.org/web/20010302091247/www.prismahealth.com/ENGLISH/COMPANY/OFFICERS.HTM Supervisory Board],from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Macine cache of 2 March 2001, Accessed 16 December 2010</ref>
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		+	The financial disclosure in the [[Journal of the American Medical Association]] (JAMA) 2001 states that, “Dr Wessely serves as an advisor for treatment programs and research opportunities for PRISMA, a private company that arranges rehabilitation services. Dr Wessely receives no payment for this position, is not a shareholder, and has no financial interest in the company.”

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-[[Simon Wessely]], born 1956 in Sheffield, is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at King’s and Maudsley Hospitals. According to his King College London web page “His research interests are in the grey areas between medicine and psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, psychiatric injury and military health ... has covered epidemiology, post traumatic stress, psychological debriefing, chronic fatigue syndrome, history, chronic pain, somatisation, Gulf War illness, military health and terrorism”. Wessely has published extensively on M.E/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, researching “many aspects of the illness, including biochemistry, epidemiology, history, immunology, neuroimaging, neurology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, virology and other areas”.<ref>Kings College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10206 Institute of Psychiatry Staff], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+[[Simon Wessely]], born 1956 in Sheffield, is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, [[King’s College London]], and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at King’s and Maudsley Hospitals. According to his King College London web page “His research interests are in the grey areas between medicine and psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, psychiatric injury and military health ... has covered epidemiology, post traumatic stress, psychological debriefing, chronic fatigue syndrome, history, chronic pain, somatisation, Gulf War illness, military health and terrorism”. Wessely has published extensively on M.E/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, researching “many aspects of the illness, including biochemistry, epidemiology, history, immunology, neuroimaging, neurology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, virology and other areas”.<ref>Kings College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10206 Institute of Psychiatry Staff], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
-Wife, Dr [[Clare Gerada]], Vice-Chair of [[Royal College of General Practitioners]].<ref>The Royal College of General Practitioners [http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/Council_Members_2009_10.pdf About Us], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+Wessely's wife is Dr [[Clare Gerada]], Vice-Chair of [[Royal College of General Practitioners]].<ref>The Royal College of General Practitioners [http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/Council_Members_2009_10.pdf About Us], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
 ==Activities==
-Director, King’s Centre for Military Health Research (MHR). MHR's funders include the [[Ministry of Defence]], the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Reuters, the BBC, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.<ref>King's College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=979], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+Director, [[King’s Centre for Military Health Research]] (MHR). MHR's funders include the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Office of the Deputy Prime Minister]], [[Reuters]], the [[BBC]], the [[Economic and Social Research Council]] and the [[Joseph Rowntree Foundation]].<ref>King's College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=979], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
-Advisor in Psychiatry for [[British Army Medical Services]]; Chair, Nato Working Group on Psychosocial Consequences of Chem/Bio Terrorism; Member of the [[Scientific Advisory Panel on Emergency Response]] (SAPER) and [[Defence Scientific Advisory Council]] (DSAC);<ref>Kings College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10206 Institute of Psychiatry Staff], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> Science Media Centre, Science Advisory Panel;<ref>Science Media Centre [http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/sap.htm About Us], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+Advisor in Psychiatry for [[British Army Medical Services]]; Chair, Nato Working Group on Psychosocial Consequences of Chem/Bio Terrorism; Member of the [[Scientific Advisory Panel on Emergency Response]] (SAPER) and [[Defence Scientific Advisory Council]] (DSAC);<ref>Kings College London [http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10206 Institute of Psychiatry Staff], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> [[Science Media Centre]], Science Advisory Panel;<ref>Science Media Centre [http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/sap.htm About Us], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
-Trustee, Combat Stress Charity;<ref>Combat Stress [http://www.combatstress.org.uk/pages/untitled.html Our Patrons and Trustees], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences<ref>The Academy of Medical Sciences [http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/index.php?pid=59&fid=4294, Fellows], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>
+Trustee, [[Combat Stress]] Charity;<ref>Combat Stress [http://www.combatstress.org.uk/pages/untitled.html Our Patrons and Trustees], accessed 21 November 2010</ref> Fellow of the UK [[Academy of Medical Sciences]].<ref>The Academy of Medical Sciences [http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/index.php?pid=59&fid=4294, Fellows], accessed 21 November 2010</ref>