In 2011 he was awarded the John Maddox prize for standing up for science. Wessely has been honoured by the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards the Royal College of Physicians the American Psychiatric Association the Association of British Neurologists and more recently by Oxford University. He is married to Clare Gerada who was chairperson of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2010 to 2013. From 2014 to 2017, Wessely was the elected president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Wessely has published approximately 600 papers and written books about chronic fatigue syndrome, the history of military psychiatry and clinical trials in psychiatry. He became Director of the Chronic Fatigue Research Unit at King's College London in 1994 and of the Gulf War Illness Research Unit in 1996. While working at the Maudsely, Wessely developed an interest into medically unexplained symptoms and chronic fatigue syndrome. He studied medicine at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and psychiatry at the Maudsely Hospital in 1984. Simon Wessely is the son of Rudolf Wessely, one of the Jewish children who managed to escape the Nazi regime through the help of Nicholas Winton. 7 Talks, interviews, and newspaper articles. 4.4 Death threats and accusations of abuse.4.2 World Health Organization classification.2.10 Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).2.4 A disorder of the perception of effort.2.3 Neurasthenia, depression and burnout.
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