Professor
Simon Collinson

Professor Simon Collinson completed undergraduate studies in Psychology in Western Australia. After periods working in the Department of Psychiatry at Imperial College London, and the Mental Health Research Institute in Melbourne, he subsequently completed clinical training in Neuropsychology in Sydney at Macquarie University, with clinical rotations in Adult (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital), Child (Sydney Children’s Hospital) Old Age (Concord Hospital) and General Psychiatry (Westmead Hospital). He completed his Doctoral studies in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital and the MRC Clinical Neuropsychology Unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. 

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Returning to Australia, Professor Collinson worked as Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist in Neurosurgery and Trauma at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and as Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist in Brain Injury Rehabilitation at the Epworth Hospital, Melbourne. As an Associate Professor he subsequently founded Singapore’s first homegrown Clinical Psychology training programme at the National University of Singapore. He established clinical neuropsychological training at National University Hospital before beginning private practice at Novena Medical Centre. 

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With over 25 years of clinical experience, he has been engaged in general clinical and medico-legal neuropsychology providing expert opinion to courts in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Australia and the UK. His main area of clinical expertise includes traumatic brain injury, guardianship/mental competence, dementia, and ADHD. 

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Professor Collinson is an AHPRA endorsed Clinical Neuropsychologist, a Member of Australian Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. He has held honorary academic appointments at Monash University, La Trobe University, The Institute of Mental Health (Singapore) and the National University of Singapore. He has sat on various university academic and medical advisory boards in the US, Singapore, and Japan. 

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Professor Collinson’s academic contributions include over 90 authored or co-authored scientific publications and 5 book chapters. He holds a Professorship in Psychology at James Cook University Singapore .