About Professor Simon Wessely MD FMedSci,
Professor of Epidemiological and Liaison Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at King’s and Maudsley Hospitals

His research interests are in the areas of medicine and psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, psychiatric injury and military health.  He is Director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research Unit at King’s College London. In 2006 the unit published the first results of a study of the physical and psychological health of 12,000 UK military personnel, half of whom have served in the Iraq conflict. All the cohort are currently being followed up.

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