Rate My Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham

Professor Chew-Graham has led key organizations in primary care, serving as former Chair of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Scientific Foundation Board. She currently chairs the RCGP Research Paper of the Year panel, serves as Editor-in-Chief of Health Expectations, and contributed to the NICE Clinical Guideline Development Group for the Depression update. Her research focuses on primary care management of anxiety, depression, multiple long-term conditions, medically unexplained symptoms, clinician mental health and wellbeing, patient and public involvement, and Long Covid, employing qualitative methods informed by social sciences and psychology.

Key publications include 'Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or heart disease' (BMJ, 2015), 'Incidence, clinical management, and mortality risk following self-harm among children and adolescents: cohort study in primary care' (BMJ, 2017), and the book 'Mental Health and Older People: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners' (2006). Her work has garnered over 33,000 citations on Google Scholar. Awards include the OBE (2023) for services to general practice, patient care, and primary care research particularly on Long Covid, the President's Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2021) for contributions to mental health policy and education, and appointment as NIHR Senior Investigator (2025).