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
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
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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
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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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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: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534450
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/ef9083eb-d343-479b-a206-146cbed276c6/download
Cerebral edema in intracerebral hemorrhage: pathogenesis, natural history and potential treatments from translation to clinical trials
Frontiers in Stroke, vol. 2, 125666Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDetection of cerebral small vessel disease using denoised field-cycling MRI: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2023
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 36, no. Suppl 1, pp. s297Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-023-01130-x
Phase II randomised, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in intracerebral haemorrhage: BLOcking the Cytokine IL-1 in ICH (BLOC-ICH)
European Stroke Journal , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 819-827Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAutomated segmentation of cerebral small vessel disease from field-cycling MRI: Proffered Conference Abstract - MIUA 2023
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDoes following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) affect your checklist score?
Higher Education Teaching and Learning conference - 2023Contributions to Conferences: Posters- [ONLINE] Book of Abstracts
Higher dose corticosteroids in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 who are hypoxic but not requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Lancet (London, England), vol. 401, no. 10387, pp. 1499-1507Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAntithrombotic use and mortality outcomes in ischaemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation: a Scottish database study
Heart, vol. 109, no. Suppl 2, 19Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-scf-2023.19
Xanthine oxidase inhibition and white matter hyperintensity progression following ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack (XILO-FIST): a multicentre, double-blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
EClinicalMedicine, vol. 57, 101863Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of a parsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19-a data-driven retrospective cohort study
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 10-20Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768221131897
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- [ONLINE] https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61933#details
- [ONLINE] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909113/
- [ONLINE] https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Using_national_electronic_health_records_for_pandemic_preparedness_validation_of_a_parsimonious_model_for_predicting_excess_deaths_among_those_with_COVID-19-a_data-driven_retrospective_cohort_study_/21590604