Prof 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.

​Returning to Australia, Prof 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. He subsequently established Singapore’s first homegrown Clinical Psychology training programme at the National University of Singapore including clinical neuropsychological services and training at National University Hospital before going into private practice.

​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.

​Prof Collinson is an AHPRA endorsed Clinical Neuropsychologist and a Member of Australian Psychological Society and National Academy of Neuropsychology (USA), and a Fellow of the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (Australia). He is an accredited Independent Medical Examinator (IME) for Worksafe Victoria.

​​Prof Collinson 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. academic contributions include over ninety scientific publications and five book chapters. Formerly Professor of Psychology at James Cook University (Singapore), he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Yeo Boon Khim Mind Science Centre at the National University of Singapore.