Academic staff
Graeme Smith
Senior Lecturer
Nursing Studies
+44 (0) 131 650 3901
2M2 Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot Place
Outline Biography
Graeme graduated from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh with a BA in Nursing Studies in 1989. His Doctoral studies arose from an interest in psychological care in inflammatory bowel disease.
His current research interests include the use of medical hypnotherapy as a treatment for functional bowel disorders. He is also studying health related quality of life issues in patients with gastrointestinal disease. He is currently working with Asian academics on a collaborative project to examine illness perception in chronic disease.
Textbooks have been published on nurse education and gastrointestinal nursing.
Research Interests
Gastroenterology Nursing, Health Psychology, Health Related Quality of Life and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
Research activity
Graeme's Doctoral studies arose from an interest in psychological care in inflammatory bowel disease, and he continues to practice as a clinical specialist in gastrointestinal nursing.
His main current research interests include the use of medical hypnotherapy as a treatment for functional bowel disorders.
He is also studying health related quality of life issues in patients with chronic illness (including colorectal cancer and eating disorders).
He is interested in the attitudes of nurses towards medically unexplained functional disorders. He has international research links with Professor David Thompson and Professor Roger Watson to examine the role of anxiety in medically unexplained conditions in cardiac and gastrointestinal medicine and quality of life in older people with inflammatory bowel disease.
Publications
Publications list for Graeme Smith
Supervision
Projects supervised by Graeme Smith
Teaching
Honours option Applied Clinical Biology
Honours option Gastrointestinal Nursing
Honours option Complementary Therapies in Nursing
This article was published on Dec 8, 2010