Keith Geraghty

Overview

Keith Geraghty is an Honorary Research Fellow within the Primary Care Group in the Department of Health Sciences and Population Health. Keith currently works on a project exploring factors leading to burnout among doctors and interventions aimed at reducing burnout. Keith has a special interest in medically unexplained symptoms, patient safety issues, doctor patient relations, and the illness Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. The key themes in Keith''s work are improving patient care, promotion of physician well-being, reducing harms, assessment of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, and improving doctor-patient relations. Keith has begun to gain national recognition for his work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. He is the recipient of a number of grants from the charity sector and has recently published papers reviewing clinical trials in the treatment of ME/CFS, the efficacy of treatments, particularly CBT and exercise therapies, the doctor-patient relationship and harms. Keith recently undertook a review of patient survey evidence and is currently working on a new stream of research that is focused on improving care for sufferers and raising awareness of the illness and patient needs among health professionals.

Biography

Keith attended Cardiff University in Wales as an undergraduate. Keith won a number of awards, the Richard E. Benedict prize and the FirstPlus prize, for outstanding student achievement in research. He undertook his PhD at Cardiff, where he was awarded a Cardiff University Doctoral Scholarship and also a prestigious Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) scholarship (an external competition award) to research the management and organisation of primary health care services, a thesis titled ''From Market and Hierarchy to Network in the NHS''. Later he worked as a research assistant at Imperial College London on an NHS Strategic Development Organisation (SDO) project exploring changing clinical roles in the NHS.  He went on to study medicine MBBS at the University of Leicester on their graduate-entry programme, however following an unexpected illness he withdrew from clinical medicine to focus his efforts in research. Keith completed his Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Manchester with an award of distinction for his disseration project on ''Chronic Fatigue Patients Reports of Harms in the Medical Encounter.''

Dr. Geraghty has attended academic training events and research conferences around the world, at Stanford, Oxford, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the London School of Economics and elsewhere.

Keith is currently and associate editor of the Journal of Fatigue and an associate editor of the BMJ Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. He is an expert peer reviewer for a number of scientific journals and health care organisations, including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR UK) and Cochrane.