Simon Wessely
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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”.[1]
Wessely's wife is Dr Clare Gerada, Vice-Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners.[2]
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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.[3]
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);[4] Science Media Centre, Science Advisory Panel;[5] Trustee, Combat Stress Charity;[6] Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.[7]
Record and controversies
Affiliations
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.[8]
Wessely was on the Supervisory Board of Prisma Health in 2001[9]
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.”
Conflicts of interest
Personal information
Biography
Contact
- Address:
- 3rd Floor
- Department of Psychological Medicine
- Weston Education Centre
- Cutcombe Road,
- London
- SE5 9RJ
- Phone:
- Institute of Psychiatry: +44(0)20 7848 0002
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Kings College London Institute of Psychiatry Staff, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ The Royal College of General Practitioners About Us, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ King's College London King's Centre for Military Health Research, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ Kings College London Institute of Psychiatry Staff, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ Science Media Centre About Us, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ Combat Stress Our Patrons and Trustees, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ The Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows, accessed 21 November 2010
- ↑ Rehab Directory Prisma Health Ltd, Accessed 16 December 2010
- ↑ Prisma Health. Supervisory Board,from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine cache of 2 March 2001, Accessed 16 December 2010
