Michael Sharpe (psychiatrist)

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Michael Sharpe is a British psychiatrist and academic, specialising in the psychiatric aspects of medical illness. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Saint Cross College, Oxford. From 1997 to 2011, he was Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. [1] [2] Sharpe was the elected President of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine for 2022-2023. [3]

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Work

While a Professor at Oxford, Sharpe ran a research programme to develop and evaluate psychiatric treatments for medically ill patients. [4]

Sharpe has worked on the CFS/ME for years, and is perhaps best known as a co-author on the controversial PACE trial which found exercise and cognitive behavioural therapy to be “moderately effective” treatments for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. [5] He, like many other CFS researchers, such as Simon Wessely, has since then withdrawn from CFS/ME research, saying the climate had become “too toxic” because of online abuse from some patients who reject any hint of a psychiatric element to the illness. [6]

In 2021 he controversially gave a presentation on secondary covid 19 impacts [7] to Swiss Re in which he suggested that Long COVID was partly caused by psychological and social factors such as reportage by the Guardian columnist George Monbiot. [8]

Sharpe's recent work is on depression in people with cancer and the mental health of elderly inpatients. [9]

Honours

In 2009, he was named Psychiatric Academic of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [10] In 2014, he was named Psychiatrist of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Michael Sharpe". People. St Cross College, Oxford. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Michael Sharpe". Department of Psychiatry. University of Oxford. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "EAPM president Michael Sharpe receives the Hackett Award from ACLP". EAPM. European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  4. ↑ "60 Seconds With Michael Sharpe". Oxford University. Department of Psychiatry, Oxford. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  5. ↑ "Chronic fatigue trial results 'not robust', new study says". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  6. ↑ Kelland, Kate (13 March 2019). "Online activists are silencing us, scientists say". Reuters Investigates. Sick and Tired. London: Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "Post Covid 19 Syndrome" (PDF). SwissRe. Swiss Re. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "Apparently just by talking about it, I'm super-spreading long Covid". The Guardian. The Guardian newspaper. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Our Team: Michael Sharpe". Oxford University. Department of Psychiatry, Oxford. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  10. ↑ "RCPsych Awards 2009: Winners". Awards. Royal College of Psychiatrists. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "RCPsych Awards 2014: The Winners". Awards. Royal College of Psychiatrists. 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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