Dr. Geraghty is an experienced health researcher with over a decade of experience working across four Russell Group Universities, Cardiff, Imperial College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University of Manchester. He has published in Q1 level science journals, such as the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association. His research spans different areas of primary care medicine, population and health psychology. He has a special interest in aetiology and treatment of Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (CFS/ME), Long-Term Health Conditions (LTCs) and Multi-Morbidity (MLTCs).

The key themes in his work are improving patient care, reducing or preventing harms in health care delivery, assessment of clinical trials and therapies, promotion of evidence-based practice,, understanding burnout among health professionals and factors that impact on medical error, patient outcomes and experiences of care.

Editorial Roles: Currently associate editor of the Journal of Health Psychology and editorial board of Journal of Fatigue Biomedicine Health and Behaviour,.

Expert Peer Reviewer: For a wide range of scientific journals and health cae organisations, including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Cochrane.

Dr. Geraghty completed his PhD at Cardiff University, where he was awarded a Cardiff University PhD scholarship and an ESRC studentship prize, for research on networking health professionals in the delivery of primary care in NHS Wales.

He went on to study medicine at the University of Leicester, on their graduate-entry programme, however after suffering a chronic illness he withdrew from training and took a career break, before returning to research at Manchester.

Dr. Geraghty started his academic career as a research assistant at Imperial College London working on an NHS Development Project within London hospitals and primary care trusts. He joined the Centre for Primary Care at Manchester with appointments as research associate and honorary research fellow. He has worked on large-scale complex systematic reviews exploring the link between physician burnout and patient safety, and interventions to reduce burnout among health care workers. In 2018, he worked as a visiting scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dept of Clinical Research team to explore risk factors for the development of ME/CFS and MS.

He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and full member of the Division of Health Psychology.

• PhD. Org Behaviour/Psychology
• MPH Master of Public Health (distinction in dissertation)
• MSc. Health Psychology (pending award)
• M.Dip.Research Methods
• BSc (Hons) Life Sciences (Biology & Psychology) (1st Class)
• BS.c (Hons) Business Administration

The main focus of my work is in primary care, health services research and health psychology. I am particularly interested in patient safety issues, harms, care quality and doctor-patient relations. I often explore the ways in which doctors understand, diagnose and treat medically unexplained symptoms and illness. I have a special interest in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and other illnesses that are medically difficult to diagnose or treat in primary care. In ME/CFS, I am interested in disease aetiology, risk factors, pathophysiology and treatment. Many medically unexplained symptoms are now treated with psychotherapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET); part of my research focus is to review the evidence for the effectiveness of these treatments and to explore patients' responses and experiences of CBT and GET. I am also interested in the impact of different medical models on the doctor-patient relationship (biopsychosocial versus biomedical). The overall aim of my research is to produce tangible outputs to improve patient care and well-being, as well as to inform scientific understanding of complex illness states, and to develop more effective and patient-centred treatment approaches.

• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• Member of the Division of Health Psychology BPS
• Director of Doctors with ME (DwME)
• Member of the Greater Manchester Collaboration for Leadership in Health and Social Care and Member of the East Midlands Collaboration for Leadership in Health and Social Care
• Member of the UK ME-CFS Research Collaborative
• Member of the International Assocaition for CFS/ME Research.
• Member of the Society for Academic Primary Care.

Quantitative: Standard statistical methods and multivariate models

Qualitative: Interviews, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and meta-synthesis.

Systematic Review: meta data synthesis and analysis (including crtiical methods, such as Crtical Interpretative Synthesis)

Mixed Methodological Approaches