Sudeh Cheraghi-sohi

Biography

I joined the University of Manchester in 2004 after working in industry. I then completed a two-year project looking at patient priorities for aspects of prmary care. After this I was awarded an MRC stipend in order to complete my Masters research. Subsequently I was employed on a HS&DR funded project looking at the impact of new incentives across primary care. Along side this I conducted (and completed in April 2011) my PhD entitled "Contractual Change and UK General Practitioners: Still a Case of Street-Level Bureaucrats?" for which I was fortunate to be awarded a highly commended award in the 2012 Emerald/EFMD outstanding doctoral research awards. My post-doctoral work focussed upon the phenomenon of multi-morbidity (MM) and how patients experience and manage their multiple conditions. This inspired work on a project looking at medicine-taking in MM patients, leading to my first grant as Principal Investigator.

Research Interest

As a health services researcher, my research interests are fairly broad and inlcude areas such as health policy, self-management and multimorbidity. I have recently been employed as a Research Fellow within the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (GM PSTRC) http://www.population-health.manchester.ac.uk/primary-care-patient-safety/. The research within the GM PSTRC covers 4 areas (Medication Safety, Multimorbidity, Informatics and General Practice) and my work will focus on issues in the context of General Practice. My focus is on 'missed diagnostic opportunities' and tools which may help reduce these. Finally, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is key to my work and is a developing interest.