Keith Geraghty

Dr. Keith Geraghty, 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, burnout in doctors and health professionals, medically unexplained illness and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

Geraghty serves on the editorial board of the journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. He is associate editor of the Journal of Health Psychology

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)
 * 2020, The Negative Impact of the Psychiatric Model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on Doctors' Understanding and Management of the Illness - (Full text)
 * 2020, Ethical Psychotherapeutic Management of Medically Unexplained Symptoms - (Abstract, Book Chapter)

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