Professor Mary MacLeod

BSc MBChB PhD FRCP

Personal Chair (Clinical)

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

Trends in intracerebral haemorrhage admissions, prior anticoagulant use, acute stroke care, and mortality outcomes 2011-2018:: A national Scottish database study.
2023 - Published
Sterling, K., Macleod, M., Turner, M., Barber, M.
8th World Intracranial Hemorrhage Conference (WICH 2023), pp. 1-107
Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1159/000534450
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22137/1/Sterling_Etal_8th_World_Intracerebral_Haemorrhage_Conference_Abstract.pdf
Cerebral edema in intracerebral hemorrhage: pathogenesis, natural history and potential treatments from translation to clinical trials
2023 - Published
Krishnan, K., Campos, P. B., Nguyen, T. N., Tan, W., Chan, S. L., Appleton, J. P., Law, Z. K., Hollingworth, M., Kirkman, M., England, T. J., Roffe, C., Macleod, M., Dawson, J., Bayraktutan, U., Werring, D. J., Sprigg, N., Bath, P. M.
Frontiers in Stroke, vol. 2, 125666
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fstro.2023.1256664
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21972/1/Krishan_etal_FiS_Cerebral_Edema_in_VOR.pdf
Phase II randomised, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in intracerebral haemorrhage: BLOcking the Cytokine IL-1 in ICH (BLOC-ICH)
2023 - Published
Parry-Jones, A. R., Stocking, K., MacLeod, M. J., Clarke, B., Werring, D. J., Muir, K. W., Vail, A.
European Stroke Journal , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 819-827
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23969873231185208
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21871/1/Parry-Jones_etal_ESJ_Phase_II_Randomised_VOR.pdf
Does following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination affect your checklist score?
2023 - Published
Brown, C. W., Watson, W., Macleod, M., Nath, M.
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-02-2023-0079
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21557/1/Brown_etal_JARHE_Does_Following_an_Excellent_AAM.pdf
Does following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) affect your checklist score?
2023 - Published
Brown, C. W., Nath, M., Watson, W., Macleod, M.
Higher Education Teaching and Learning conference - 2023
Contributions to Conferences: Posters

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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

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Latest Publications

Trends in intracerebral haemorrhage admissions, prior anticoagulant use, acute stroke care, and mortality outcomes 2011-2018:: A national Scottish database study.

Cerebral edema in intracerebral hemorrhage: pathogenesis, natural history and potential treatments from translation to clinical trials

Phase II randomised, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in intracerebral haemorrhage: BLOcking the Cytokine IL-1 in ICH (BLOC-ICH)

Does following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination affect your checklist score?

Does following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) affect your checklist score?

Teaching Responsibilities

Avoiding unseen obstacles: Subcortical vision is not sufficient to maintain normal obstacle avoidance behaviour during reaching

The effects of stroke severity on door-to-needle time delays - a retrospective analysis

Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids therapy for stroke

Simple prediction scores predict good and devastating outcomes after stroke more accurately than physicians

Reasons for non-recruitment of eligible patients to a randomised controlled trial of secondary prevention after intracerebral haemorrhage: observational study

The cost savings of newer oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation-related stroke prevention

Reciprocal Interaction of 24-Hour Blood Pressure Variability and Systolic Blood Pressure on Outcome in Stroke Thrombolysis

Angina and Future Cardiovascular Events in Stable Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: Insights From the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry

Stroke: Are care and outcomes better for participants of stroke trials?

Stroke patients admitted within normal working hours are more likely to achieve process standards and to have better outcomes

Disappearance of the hyperdense MCA sign after stroke thrombolysis: implications for prognosis and early patient selection for clot retrieval

Cause of Death and Predictors of All‐Cause Mortality in Anticoagulated Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Data From ROCKET AF

Agreement between routine electronic hospital discharge and Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA) data in identifying stroke in the Scottish population

Oral anticoagulation after intracranial haemorrhage: A survey of UK stroke physicians

Pre-hospital notification is associated with improved stroke thrombolysis timing

The scope for improvement in hyper-acute stroke care in Scotland

Prevalence of CADASIL and Fabry Disease in a Cohort of MRI Defined Younger Onset Lacunar Stroke

The role of emotion regulation on social participation following stroke

Implementing a Simple Care Bundle Is Associated With Improved Outcomes in a National Cohort of Patients With Ischemic Stroke

Stroke: Stroke outcomes after 90 days-out of sight, out of mind?

The impact of stroke unit care on outcome in a Scottish stroke population, taking into account case mix and selection bias

Comparison of predictive scores of symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage after stroke thrombolysis in a single centre

Diabetes in a stroke population: Incidence and mortality

Stroke recovery and lesion reduction following acute isolated bilateral ischaemic pontine infarction: a case report

Derivation and evaluation of thresholds for core and tissue at risk of infarction using CT perfusion

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