Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.

Clinical/Research Interests

Clinically, I'm interested in encouraging patient motivation for behavior modification to aid in preventive health care. My research interests include spatial epidemiology and geographic information systems (GIS) as methodologies for understanding the interplay between health and the environment.

Title:

Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine

Specialty:

Internal Medicine

Address:

Patient Support Services Building
4150 V St., Suite 2400
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

(916) 734-7005

Education:

UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California
M.D. 2002

UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California
M.P.H. 2006

UC Davis
Davis, California
M.S. 2002

Internships:

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
2003

Residency:

California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, California
2005

Fellowships:

UC Davis
Sacramento, California
2007
Primary Care Outcomes Research

Board Certifications:

American Board of Preventive Medicine, Public Health, 2008
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2005

Professional Memberships:

American Medical Informatics Association
California Medical Association
Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society
Society of General Internal Medicine

Select Recent Publications:

Redline S, Yenokyan G, Gottlieb DJ, Shahar E, O'Connor GT, Resnick HE, Diener-West M, Sanders MH, Wolf PA, Geraghty EM, Ali T, Lebowitz M, Punjabi NM. Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea and incident stroke: the sleep heart health study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010 Jul 15;182(2):269-77. Epub 2010 Mar 25.

Geraghty EM, Balsbaugh T, Nuovo J, Tandon S. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess outcome disparities in patients with type 2 diabetes and hyperlipidemia. J Am Board Fam Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;23(1):88-96.

Leigh, JP, Geraghty EM. High Gasoline Prices and Mortality from Motor Vehicle Crashes and Air Pollution. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2008, Mar;50(3):249-54.

Geraghty E, Franks P, Kravitz RL. Primary Care Visit Length, Quality and Satisfaction for Standardized Patients with Depression. J20 Gen Int Med, 2007 Dec; 22(12):1641-7.

Geraghty E, Ristow B, Gordon S, Aronowitz P. Overwhelming parasitemia with Plasmodium falciparum infection in a patient on infliximab for Rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007 May 15;44(10);e82-84.

Lau D, Seibert A, Gandara D, Laptalo L, Geraghty E, Coulon C. Computer-assisted image analysis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. Clin Lung Cancer, 2005 Mar;6(5):281-6.

Geraghty EM, Boone JM, McGahan JP, Jain K. Normal organ volume assessment (NOVA) from abdominal CT. Abdominal Imaging, 2004 Jul-Aug;29(4)482-90.

Geraghty EM, Boone JM. Bland-Altman Plot [Letter] Response. Radiology, 2004;231:604-605.

Geraghty EM., Boone JM. Determination of height, weight, body mass index and body surface area with a single abdominal CT image. Radiology, 2003 Sep;228(3):857-63.

Boone JM, Geraghty EM, Seibert JA, Wootton-Gorges SL. Dose reduction in pediatric CT: A rational approach. Radiology, 2003 Aug;228(2):352-60.