Professor Sir Simon Wessely
interim dean, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences; regius professor of psychiatry, King’s College London

Professor Sir Simon Wessely FRS is the interim dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, and also regius professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London and a consultant liaison psychiatrist at King’s College and the Maudsley Hospitals. He is also a non executive director of NHS-England.

His doctorate is in epidemiology, and he has over 900 original publications, with an emphasis on the boundaries of medicine and psychiatry, unexplained symptoms and syndromes, population reactions to adversity, military health, epidemiology and others. He has co-authored books on chronic fatigue syndrome, randomised controlled trials and a history of military psychiatry.

Professor Wessely is a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. If he had a motto, it would be ‘trust but verify’.

Follow Professor Wessely on Twitter: @WesselyS

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