Keith Geraghty

Dr. Keith Geraghty, B.Sc., B.Sc., M.Dip., M.P.H., Ph.D., is a Honorary Research  Fellow  at  the  University  of  Manchester (UK) in the Centre for Primary Care. His main research interests are patient safety and harms, doctor-patient relations, medically unexplained illness and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). He holds a Ph.D. in Health Management, a Master of Public Health (Merit with award of Distinction in Dissertation) and a Master Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methodology. In addition to being a ME/CFS researcher, Dr. Geraghty lives with ME/CFS.

In 2012, Geraghty became the Founder Director of The ME/CFS Research Group, whose goal is to bring together researchers and clinicians to undertake innovative studies of ME/CFS.

Geraghty serves on the editorial board of the journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior.

2015

 * 7 Nov 2015, "Deviant cellular and physiological responses to exercise in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome"

2016

 * 1 May 2016, "Doing Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Fatigue." 12th International IACFS/ME Research and Clinical Conference
 * 27 Jun 2016, "The ‘all in the mind’ myth of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome"
 * 1 Aug 2016, "Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?"
 * 15 Sept 2016, "Cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review on efficacy and informed consent"
 * 23 Sept 2016, Editorial - "'PACE-Gate': When clinical trial evidence meets open data access"
 * 6 Dec 2016, "Mind the Gap: Ethical Failures in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" - (Full Text)
 * 5 Dec 2016, "Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome"
 * 2016, "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Biopsychosocial Model: Accounting for Harm in the Medical Encounter" Conference paper

2017

 * 14 June 2017 - Editorial - "Further Commentary on the PACE Trial: Biased Methods and Unreliable Outcomes"
 * 29 Aug 2017 - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients’ reports of symptom changes following cognitive behavioural therapy, graded exercise therapy and pacing treatments: Analysis of a primary survey compared with secondary surveys
 * 5 Oct 2017 - Guest blogger for Mind the Brain - The SMILE Trial Lightning Process for Children with CFS: Results too good to be true?

2018

 * 2018, Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT (Full text)
 * 2018, Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the biopsychosocial model: a review of patient harm and distress in the medical encounter (Full text)
 * 2018, Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations “Militant”? (Abstract)

2019

 * 2019, The Importance of Accurate Diagnosis of ME/CFS in Children and Adolescents: A Commentary (Full text)
 * 2019, The 'Cognitive Behavioural Model' of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Critique of a Flawed Model (Abstract)
 * 2019, A logistic regression analysis of risk factors in ME/CFS pathogenesis - (Full text)

2020

 * 2020, Treating medically unexplained symptoms via improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT): major limitations identified - (Full text)

Talks, interviews and blogs

 * 2016, Mind the Gap: Ethical Failures in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - guest post in the BMJ blog with Charlotte Blease

Online presence

 * Twitter
 * ResearchGate
 * Facebook
 * LinkedIn

Learn more

 * May 2016 IACFSME Newsletter - Doing Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Dr. Keith Geraghty