Simon Collin

Dr Simon Michael Collin works for Public Health England and is attached to Bristol Medical School. Dr Collin publishes research about chronic fatigue syndrome, and frequently co-authors research with pediatrician Professor Esther Crawley.

Research ethics investigation
Dr Collin was co-author or principle author on a number of ME/CFS publications with Esther Crawley which stated an exemption from research ethics approval using a reference to an apparently unrelated study of school absences. In 2019 the University of Bristol announced an investigation into this.

Notable studies

 * 2011, The impact of CFS/ME on employment and productivity in the UK: a cross-sectional study based on the CFS/ME national outcomes database (Full text)
 * 2013, Treatment outcome in adults with chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study in England based on the CFS/ME National Outcomes Database (Full text)


 * 2013, The feasibility and acceptability of conducting a trial of specialist medical care and the Lightning Process in children with chronic fatigue syndrome: feasibility randomized controlled trial (SMILE study) (Full text)


 * 2014, G160(P) Case series of Pervasive Refusal Syndrome presenting Chronic Fatigue: avoiding the pitfall of a wrong diagnosis (Full text)


 * 2015, Maternal and childhood psychological factors predict chronic disabling fatigue at age 13 years’. Journal of Adolescent Health (Full text)
 * Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) symptom-based phenotypes in two clinical cohorts of adult patients in the UK and The Netherlands (Full text)


 * 2016, "It’s personal to me": A qualitative study of depression in young people with CFS/ME (Full text)


 * 2017, Endogenous Pain Facilitation Rather Than Inhibition Differs Between People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, and Controls: An Observational Study (Full text)


 * 2017, Natural course of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in adolescents (Full text)


 * 2017, Trends in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in the UK, 2001–2013: a Clinical Practice Research Datalink study (Full Text)


 * 2018, Childhood sleep and adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME): evidence of associations in a UK birth cohort (Full Text)


 * 2018, Defining the minimally clinically important difference of the SF-36 physical function subscale for paediatric CFS/ME: triangulation using three different methods (Full text)


 * 2018, The International Collaborative on Fatigue Following Infection (COFFI) (Full text)

Online presence

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Learn more

 * University of Bristol profile