BSc MBChB PhD FRCP
Personal Chair (Clinical)
- About
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- 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
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Chair, Clinical Studies Oversight Group
- External Memberships
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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
Allopurinol and Blood Pressure Variability Following Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Secondary Analysis of XILO-FIST
Journal of Human HypertensionContributions to Journals: ArticlesAssociations Between Prior Oral Anticoagulant Use and Stroke Outcomes in a National Stroke Cohort: A Scottish Database Study
INTERNATIONAL STROKE CONFERENCE 2024, Abstract TP163Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/str.55.suppl_1.tp163
Assessing severity of cerebral small vessel disease using field-cycling MRI and automated segmentation: Proffered Conference Abstract - World Stroke Congress 2023
International Journal of Stroke, vol. 18, no. 3_suppl, EP201Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930231192010
Trends in intracerebral haemorrhage admissions, prior anticoagulant use, acute stroke care, and mortality outcomes 2011-2018:: A national Scottish database study.
8th World Intracranial Hemorrhage Conference (WICH 2023), pp. 1-107Contributions to Journals: AbstractsCerebral edema in intracerebral hemorrhage: pathogenesis, natural history and potential treatments from translation to clinical trials
Frontiers in Stroke, vol. 2, 125666Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Teaching
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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
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Improved detection following neuro-eye therapy in patients with post-geniculate brain damage
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 206, no. 1, pp. 25-34Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2395-z
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
Temporal properties of spatial channel of processing in hemianopia
Neuropsychologia, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 879-885Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.008
Validation of stroke candidate genes identified with DNA pools and SNP chips
Stroke, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 630-631Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/​STROKEAHA.107.100001
Saccadic distractor effect and S-cone processing in normal observers and two cases of hemianopia
31st European Conference on Visual Perception, pp. 63Contributions to Journals: AbstractsBlindsight and visual rehabilitation in the cortically blind
Perception, vol. 35, pp. 232-232Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncreased sensitivity after repeated stimulation of residual spatial channels in blindsight
PNAS, vol. 103, no. 40, pp. 14971-14976Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.0607073103
Stress, debt and undergraduate medical student performance
Medical Education, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 584-589Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02448.x
Study of CETP gene polymophisms and ischaemic stroke in a Scottish population, using pooled DNA samples
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsPoster Presentation - Design and validation of DNA pools in an ischaemic stroke population
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsParaoxonase gene polymorphisms and haplotype analysis in a stroke population
BMC Medical Genetics, vol. 7, 28Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-7-28
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3929/1/paraoxonase_gene.pdf
Association between the gene encoding 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein and stroke replicated in a Scottish population
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 505-509Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/428066
ABCA1 gene polymoprhism and lipid profile in a Scottish population
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsAntihypertensive drug prescribing in Grampian
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 300-305Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2005.02414.x
Timing of aspirin use in acute stroke and use of secondary prevention: stroke unit vs medical unit
Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 50, pp. 69-72Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPatient compliance in hypertension: role of illness perceptions and treatment beliefs
Journal of Human Hypertension, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 607-613Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001721