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
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
Discrimination of haematoma and peri-haematoma regions of sub-acute intracerebral haemorrhage using Field-Cycling Imaging at field strengths below 0.2 T
2025 - Published
Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Levi, R., Oren, N., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
UK Stroke Forum, pp. 40
Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930251379781

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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

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

Discrimination of haematoma and peri-haematoma regions of sub-acute intracerebral haemorrhage using Field-Cycling Imaging at field strengths below 0.2 T

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Association between the gene encoding 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein and stroke replicated in a Scottish population

ABCA1 gene polymoprhism and lipid profile in a Scottish population

Antihypertensive drug prescribing in Grampian

Timing of aspirin use in acute stroke and use of secondary prevention: stroke unit vs medical unit

Patient compliance in hypertension: role of illness perceptions and treatment beliefs

Genotype and haplotype analysis of ABCA1 gene in ischaemic stroke

Poster Presentation - Using the TOAST Criteria for Retrospective Classification of Ischemic Stroke Patients

Spatial channels of visual processing in cortical blindness

Hypertension in Diabetes: A Perspective from Clinical Pharmacology

Paraoxonase genes (PON1, 2 and 3) polymorphisms and ischaemic stroke in a Scottish population

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