Per Fink

Per Fink is head Professor, MD, PhD, DMSc of The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics. His approach to chronic fatigue syndrome is to classify it as a Functional Disorder with medically unexplained physical symptoms.

Notable studies

 * 2012 - Cognitive–behavioural group treatment for a range of functional somatic syndromes: randomised trial.
 * Dr. James Coyne's Dec. 7, 2016 PLOS ONE blog post critique of Per Fink's 2012 paper: Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you


 * 2017, Long-term economic evaluation of cognitive-behavioural group treatment versus enhanced usual care for functional somatic syndromes

Clinic location
Aarhus University Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Aarhus C

Tel. +45 7845 0000

Email: auh@rm.dk

Talks & interviews
[http://web.archive.org/web/20040908192433/http:/www.auh.dk/cl_psych/term/TERM-UK/term-dias02.pdf An advanced educational program for non-psychiatric physicians]
 * 2012, Somatoform disorders – functional somatic syndromes – Bodily distress syndrome. Need for care and organisation of care in an international perspective - EACLPP Lecture

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * LinkedIn

Learn more

 * Affiliated Institution: Aarhus University Hospital
 * 2015, Per Fink complains about IOM ME/CFS report (Institute of Medicine report)