BSc MBChB PhD FRCP
Personal Chair (Clinical)
- About
-
- Email Address
- m.j.macleod@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 437842
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Dr Macleod is a Clinical Pharmacologist with a personal chair (Teaching and Research) at the University of Aberdeen and honorary Consultant Physician within NHS Grampian. Her clinical work is largely in the area of acute stroke management, hypertension clinics and primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention. Current research interests include:
Novel imaging markers in stroke and small vessel disease using fast field cycling MRI
Using linked datasets to explore management of stroke including service organisation and secondary prevention
Interactions between stroke and other diseases (e.g. cancer)
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
-
Chair, Clinical Studies Oversight Group
- External Memberships
-
Chair of Scotland A and B Research Ethics Committees
Honorary Deputy Secretary, British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians
Trustee SHARP (Scottish Heart and Arterial Disease Prevention)
Latest Publications
A scoping review of randomised controlled trials of vaccines that recruited care home residents: lessons for future trials
Age and Ageing, vol. 54, no. 12, afaf355Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDiscrimination of haematoma and peri-haematoma regions of sub-acute intracerebral haemorrhage using Field-Cycling Imaging at field strengths below 0.2 T
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930251379781
Stroke Diagnosis from Field-Cycling Imaging using Machine Learning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930251379781
Mannitol for cerebral oedema after acute intracerebral haemorrhage (MACE-ICH): protocol for a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint phase IIb trial
BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 7, e103776Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103776
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Field-Cycling Imaging yields repeatable brain R1 dispersion measurement at fields strengths below 0.2 Tesla with optimal fitting routine
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 38, pp. 465–474Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Teaching
-
Teaching Responsibilities
Year 5 MBChB OSCE coordinator
Situational Judgement Test lead
Year 1, 3 and 4 Clinical Pharmacology teaching
MSc Clinical Pharmacology: Pharmacovigilance, Medicines Management
Delivers teaching to MSc Cardiovascular and Diabetes, BSc Neurosciences, BSc Genetics
MRCP PACES examiner
- Publications
-
Page 13 of 17 Results 121 to 130 of 165
Statin treatment and stroke outcome in the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) trial
Stroke, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 3526-3531Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.557330
Perceptual Learning in the Blind Field of Hemianopic Patients
49th Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Psychophysiological-ResearchContributions to Conferences: AbstractsEvaluation of spermine as a biomarker for clinical research in stroke
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsPharmacokinetics of blood polyamines after an oral bolus of polyamines
European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, pp. 122-123Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsRetrospective audit of pre-admission warfarin use in acute stroke patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 105, pp. 35-35Contributions to Journals: AbstractsWhat is the scale of prescribing errors committed by junior doctors?: A systematic review
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 629-640Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2008.03330.x
Sequence variants on chromosome 9p21.3 confer risk for atherosclerotic stroke
Annals of Neurology, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 531-539Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.21590
Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of Stroke Subtype and Outcome
American-Association-International-Stroke Conference 2009Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsValidation of MAP2K6 as a Novel Stroke Candidate Gene
International Stroke Conference 2009, pp. E179Contributions to Journals: AbstractsEmotion perception and activity limitations following stroke: A pilot study
Psychology & Health, vol. 23, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 231Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08870440802299543