Dr Keith Geraghty

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Dr Keith Geraghty

Dr Keith Geraghty

@keithgeraghty

Research Fellow | Primary Care, Medical & Health Psychology | People-focused, evidence-based researcher & chartered psychologist |@FBMH_UoM, @PrimaryCareMcr

Katılım Eylül 2010
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Dr Keith Geraghty
Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
@emmiskyten The basic advice is speak to patients, family members, stakeholders, reformulate research to include stakeholders, engage with charities and groups representing patients, use Co-design methods, make PPIE a fundamental part of study design. Talk to people!
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Emmi Skytén
Emmi Skytén@emmiskyten·
@keithgeraghty Well done! Do you have any tips for someone who would like to encourage researchers to start PPIE? It looks like a really established thing in UK but I'm not aware of any projects like this in my country.
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Dear followers, sorry I have had minimal time on X this last few months, I was completing some clinical training and doing ongoing research projects. I hope to have a lot more to share with you in 2026 and I continue to focus on ME/CFS, LongCovid, and related conditions. To anyone out there suffering this time of year, my thoughts are with you. We have made great progress over the past few years, and I truly believe the science will catch up and help us unravel the mechanisms at work that cause cardinal symptoms. Ron Davis and others rightly ask researchers to focus more on treatment work, and hopefully new treatments will emerge. Until then, I hope to develop new protocols to support people living with ME/CFS. Much more to come from me in 2026. Happy Christmas everyone.
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Prof Russell Viner (Chief Scientific Adviser to the DfE) is asked whether he’s ever provided advice on Long Covid in children - he ponders whether he should answer, tries to recall civil service code, even though he says he is not a civil servant, but works as an advisor, and then says he doesnt recall ever been asked to give advice about the impact of LongCovid on the education of children. Folks, this is the chief scientific advisor to Dept for Education - dare I say, we had the experts from ME research who could of told or informed Prof Russell, but seems he and Gov just didnt ask them.
Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat

COVID INQUIRY In this clip, Prof Russell Viner (Chief Scientific Adviser to the DfE) is asked whether he’s ever provided advice to the DfE on Long Covid in children. I think this must be the 2nd most awkward moment of the Covid Inquiry. I’ve dubbed it ‘The Long Prevarication’.

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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Dr Miller once said in a Royal Society of Medicine online seminar I attended, that in his Liverpool clinic 1/3rd of patients with ME/CFS got better, 1/3rd fully recovered and 1/3rd stayed the same or got worse. he had no data to back this up, and didnt match any data I know of. bmj.com/content/389/bm…
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Prof Sir Simon Wessely is to oversee some sort of Government investigation into over diagnosis of mental health illness and ADHD. I must remind folks that Wessely argued ME/CFS was nothing but an illness of belief, he said Gulf War Syndrome was a hysteria, and he argued post-viral fatigue was so simialr to depression, perhaps both were mental illnesses. If you have followed Wessely's talk's over the years, as I have, he has long argued there is no real explosion in mental health diagnoses and his go to joke is the DSM is a silly American thing that no UK doctors use, and its not getting larger (in breath of conditions), it's getting smaller, because its printed on different paper.
Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty

Hope I am not labouring the point but noted this in the Anthony/Wessely paper: "investigations and clinical practice must take into account" - similarities between post viral fatigue and psychiatric disorders, Essentially Wessely argues depressed patients present with physical symptoms therefore, post-viral syndrome should be considered similar! Which is really an obfuscation of ME/CFS or PVFS?

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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Shocking really, its much worse to ignore the reality or existence of LongCovid or ME/CFS in either adults or children, than to decide the name is harmful!
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
I just got my copy of Dr Bot - by my colleague and the amazing academic @crblease - hold still whilst I read a few chapters - I am mentioned in here somewhere, so very excited to read about me, and ME/CFS, and to read about the role of AI and how it might change medicine and to see if Charlotte thinks things might improve for people with ME/CFS and other conditions often neglected by drs.
Charlotte Blease, PhD@crblease

Brilliant to sign copies of Dr Bot in No Alibis bookshop. Tickets to Belfast launch here: crescentarts.org/events/no-alib…

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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Yes, a researcher from Australia gave a very comprehensive systems based talk yesterday - many of the researchers at the meeting had a systemic approach, or multi-systems view - cant speak on individual talks, but I can say, what from I have seen, ME impacts all body systems and organs
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FionaPWME @fioname.bsky.social
FionaPWME @fioname.bsky.social@FionaPWME·
@keithgeraghty I know you can't divulge specifics, but are the various presentations this year placing more emphasis on looking at ME as the multi-systemic beast that it is, rather than just small parts of it? I really feel more studies need to do that.
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
I have been off X for a few months, but back on today to say I am attending the yearly Stanford University ME/CFS working group meeting and delighted to be so inspired by the amazing research and researchers dedicating their time to moving the field forward, each year I see progression of ideas and evidence - researchers are pushing to understand mechanisms to develop treatments.
RonaldwDavis@Ronaldw_Davis

Our third and final day of the closed portion of our ME/CFS Working Group Meeting. Don't forget to register for our community day TOMORROW! #MECFS25

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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Back for another day at the Stanford ME-CFS working group today, yesterday a talk by Dr Brayden Yellman on the topic of MCAS, which sparked ideas on writing up what drs can do right now to help and treat some of the issues people with ME/CFS are dealing with, eg POTs, MCAS and so on, something I have long said is needed, even though we dont have a cure, drs can do a lot to treat symptoms and support patients now, I wrote about this in the British Journal of General Practice some years ago, I will make an effort to progrress my ideas of mgt of ME/CFS in the present, whilst the science is evolving, we need to help people today.
Janet Dafoe@JanetDafoe

#MECFS25 Brayden Yellman talking about MCAS and other comorbidities that researchers need to know about.

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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
What a question to answer - I'd say some of the researchers are trial testing off the shelf meds to see whether they help now - we are also developing better protocols to treat some of the symptoms that we can help now, eg POTs and MCAS spring to mind, and then there is ongoing devleopment of new drugs based on theories and ongoing research - sorry for the poltiical answer, there is no silver bullet cure, but having been at this group for all the years since it started almost, I see major progress and convergence of ideas on whats going on with the immune system and brain.
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TreatyofWestphalia
TreatyofWestphalia@TWestphalia·
@keithgeraghty How far away are they from serious treatments which would address PEM crashes and relapses Thank you
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Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty·
Hi, this is a working group meeting of scientists, leaders in the field, who are asked to present their ongoing work, not yet published, not public just yet, so the work can be discussed and help other researchers and help forge new collaborations, and help get funding. for those reasons its closed to patients or the public and researchers also can not report anything. @JanetDafoe is however, tweeting on what topics are being presented and by whom - the public and patients are at the forefront of all our minds when trying to progress research on ME/CFS and Longcovid.
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Froglet 🐸
Froglet 🐸@froglet80·
so, can patients see this one or will they be extorted again? i wonder if the reason thats been the case is to keep us from finding the confessions of grift? too late....
Dr Keith Geraghty@keithgeraghty

I have been off X for a few months, but back on today to say I am attending the yearly Stanford University ME/CFS working group meeting and delighted to be so inspired by the amazing research and researchers dedicating their time to moving the field forward, each year I see progression of ideas and evidence - researchers are pushing to understand mechanisms to develop treatments.

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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
The warning signs were there. Here’s a reminder of when Andrew Neil completely skewered Angela Rayner on the basics of taxation.
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