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

Baseline characteristics of patients recruited to the mannitol for cerebral oedema after acute intracerebral haemorrhage (MACE-ICH) trial
2026 - Published
Krishnan, K., Grace, E., Woodhouse, L., Roffe, C., Dawson, J., England, T. J., Hewson, D. W., Dineen, R. A., Law, Z. K., Pszczolkowski, S., Wells, K., Buck, A., Craig, J., Havard, D., Macleod, M. J., Werring, D. J., Doubal, F. N., Sprigg, N., Bath, P. M.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, vol. 264, 109342
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030384672600034X
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2026.109342
Use of Andexanet-Alfa in non-traumatic intracerebral bleeds for patients on direct oral anticoagulants in Aberdeen royal infirmary: a retrospective analysis
2026 - Published
Anderson, E., Cooper, J., Macleod, M. J., Carter, K., Irvine, J.
Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Conference 2026, 3934
Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2026-rcem.27
Association of neighbourhood deprivation with secondary prevention prescribing and all-cause mortality among stroke patients in Scotland: a population-based study
2026 - Published
Sterling, K., Turner, M., Langhorne, P., Macleod, M.
Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 63-71
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000546261
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/3d0b7aba-4f38-4a03-a45a-986a2ba03c86/download
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
A scoping review of randomised controlled trials of vaccines that recruited care home residents: lessons for future trials
2025 - Published
Subbarayan, S., Smith-Dodd, I., Nicolson, G., Burton, J. K., Vasan, S. S., Shenkin, S. D., Soiza, R., The WATCH Consortium, Treweek, S., Stewart, C., Macleod, M.
Age and Ageing, vol. 54, no. 12, afaf355
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf355
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/042377b1-a7c0-4f28-b2be-141e5228d177/download
Factors influencing time spent in hospital for unscheduled readmissions after stroke discharge
2025 - Published
Turner, M., McLernon, D., Murchie, P., Langhorne, P., Macleod, M.
International Journal of Stroke, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1290 - 1300
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930251355864
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/f9d66105-841c-4590-9fd8-e49727648046/download

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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

Baseline characteristics of patients recruited to the mannitol for cerebral oedema after acute intracerebral haemorrhage (MACE-ICH) trial

Use of Andexanet-Alfa in non-traumatic intracerebral bleeds for patients on direct oral anticoagulants in Aberdeen royal infirmary: a retrospective analysis

Association of neighbourhood deprivation with secondary prevention prescribing and all-cause mortality among stroke patients in Scotland: a population-based study

A scoping review of randomised controlled trials of vaccines that recruited care home residents: lessons for future trials

Factors influencing time spent in hospital for unscheduled readmissions after stroke discharge

Teaching Responsibilities

Validation of MAP2K6 as a Novel Stroke Candidate Gene

Emotion perception and activity limitations following stroke: A pilot study

Temporal properties of spatial channel of processing in hemianopia

Validation of stroke candidate genes identified with DNA pools and SNP chips

Saccadic distractor effect and S-cone processing in normal observers and two cases of hemianopia

Blindsight and visual rehabilitation in the cortically blind

Increased sensitivity after repeated stimulation of residual spatial channels in blindsight

Stress, debt and undergraduate medical student performance

Study of CETP gene polymophisms and ischaemic stroke in a Scottish population, using pooled DNA samples

Poster Presentation - Design and validation of DNA pools in an ischaemic stroke population

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