Simon Wessely

Sir
Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely in 2016
Born
Simon Charles Wessely

December 1956 (age 67)
Education
Years active1978–present
SpouseClare Gerada
Medical career
ProfessionRegius Professor
Psychiatrist
InstitutionsKing's College London
ResearchChronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, Military psychiatry
AwardsJohn Maddox Prize
Jean Hunter Prize
Knight Bachelor

Sir Simon Charles Wessely FMedSci FRS (born 23 December 1956) is a British psychiatrist. He is Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and head of its department of psychological medicine, vice dean for academic psychiatry, teaching and training at the Institute of Psychiatry, as well as Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research. He is also honorary consultant psychiatrist at King's College Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, as well as civilian consultant advisor in psychiatry to the British Army.[1] He was knighted in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to military healthcare and to psychological medicine.[2] From 2014 to 2017, he was the elected president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists[3] and then became the first psychiatrist to be elected as President of the Royal Society of Medicine in 200 years.[4]

He became Britain's first and only Regius Professor of Psychiatry in 2018,[5] and joined the board of NHS-England in 2023.

  1. ^ "Official homepage". Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
  2. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 1.
  3. ^ "RCPsych Presidential Election results announced". Royal College of Psychiatrists. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Professor Sir Simon Wessely becomes President of the Royal Society of Medicine". www.rsm.ac.uk. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  5. ^ "World's first Regius Professor in Psychiatry - Professor Sir Simon Wessely | Website archive | King's College London". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2024.