Domhnall MacAuley (MD FRCGP FFPHMI FFSEM) graduated from University College Dublin, undertook postgraduate training in general practice at the University of Exeter, and was a senior research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Queen's University of Belfast, where he undertook his MD in cardiovascular epidemiology. He was appointed professor of primary healthcare (research) at the University of Ulster in 1997. He has published more than 250 scholarly articles, including 7 books and 75 original research papers. He also has specialist accreditation in sport and exercise medicine. Since 1995 he held various editorial roles within the BMJ group and was previously editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. He maintains academic links with the Centre of Excellence for Public Health at the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Ulster.

His research extends across the spectrum of primary care and public health but with a particular interest in the benefits of physical activity, soft tissue injury and rehabilitation. He has published on the critical evaluation of the medical literature and developed the widely used READER model for critical evaluation. His combined interests in both epidemiology and sports medicine lead to Evidence Based Sports Medicine with Professor Tom Best from Ohio State University, a ground breaking text and now in its second edition. His Oxford Handbook of Sport and Exercise Medicine is a popular and much used text.

Within the BMJ, he has senior editorial role, dealing with research papers from first submission to the final decision and contributes to the practice and education sections of the journal.  As part of the BMJ's commitment to editorial outreach he visits academic departments and attends research meetings across the world, running workshops, seminars and teaching sessions on research methods and publication. You can read about these and other contemporary issues in his BMJ blog.

He was awarded the Marwood Prize at the University of Exeter and the Valentine Barry award (first place) in the membership examination of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. In 2010 he was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh Prize by the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine and in 2011 received the Robert Campbell Memorial Medal from the Ulster Medical Society.

Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
I have spoken to many academic departments, colleges and organisations that aim to publish research papers in the BMJ but who would not, as far as is known, benefit financially.

Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No

A fee for speaking?
I have received honoraria from The Japanese Academy of Family Medicine, The Irish College of General Practitioners

A fee for organising education?
No

Funds for research?
No

Funds for a member of staff?
No

Fees for consulting?
No

Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No

Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
No

Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No

I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests?
I have edited two books (Oxford Handbook of Sports Medicine; Evidence Based Sports Medicine) and may benefit from sales resulting from raised profile related to speaking engagements