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

Tenecteplase versus alteplase for acute stroke within 4·5 h of onset (ATTEST-2): a randomised, parallel group, open-label trial
2024 - Published
Muir, K. W., Ford, G. A., Ford, I., Wardlaw, J. M., McConnachie, A., Greenlaw, N., Mair, G., Sprigg, N., Price, C. I., MacLeod, M. J., Dima, S., Venter, M., Zhang, L., O’Brien, E., Sanyal, R., Reid, J., Sztriha, L. K., Haider, S., Whiteley, W. N., Kennedy, J., Perry, R., Lakshmanan, S., Chakrabarti, A., Hassan, A., Marigold, R., Raghunathan, S., Sims, D., Bhandari, M., Wiggam, I., Rashed, K., Douglass, C., ATTEST-2 Investigators
The Lancet neurology, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1087-1096
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00377-6
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24433/1/Muir_etal_TLN_Tenecteplase_Versus_Alteplase_VoR.pdf
Field-Cycling MRI for Identifying Minor Ischemic Stroke Below 0.2 T
2024 - Published
Ross, J., Mallikourti, V., Maier, O., Guzman Gutierrez, G., Franko, E., Lurie, D., Broche, L., Macleod, M.
Radiology, vol. 312, no. 2, e232972
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.232972
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23512/3/Mallikourti_etal_R_Field_Cycling_MRI_For_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Acute care, secondary prevention, and outcomes after ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in men and women: a data-linkage study
2024 - E-pub ahead of print
Sterling, K., MacLeod, M., Barber, M., Turner, M.
Cerebrovascular Diseases
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000540371
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24484/1/Sterling_etal_CD_Acute_Care_Secondary_VoR.pdf
Does following an “excellent” candidate in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination affect your checklist score?
2024 - Published
Brown, C. W., Watson, W., Macleod, M., Nath, M.
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 891-903
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
Allopurinol and Blood Pressure Variability Following Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Secondary Analysis of XILO-FIST
2024 - Published
MacDonald, A. S., McConnachie, A., Dickie, D. A., Bath, P. M., Forbes, K., Quinn, T. J., Broomfield, N. M., Dani, K. A., Doney, A. S. F., Muir, K. W., Struthers, A., Walters, M. R., Barber, M., Bhalla, A., Cameron, A., Guyler, P., Hassan, A., Kearney, M. T., Keegan, B. C., Sekaran, L., Macleod, M., Randall, M., Shaw, L., Subramanian, G., Werring, D. J., Dawson, J.
Journal of Human Hypertension, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 307-313
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-024-00906-5
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22914/1/Macdonald_etal_JHH_Allopurinol_And_Blood_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus

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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

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Latest Publications

Tenecteplase versus alteplase for acute stroke within 4·5 h of onset (ATTEST-2): a randomised, parallel group, open-label trial

Field-Cycling MRI for Identifying Minor Ischemic Stroke Below 0.2 T

Acute care, secondary prevention, and outcomes after ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in men and women: a data-linkage study

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

Allopurinol and Blood Pressure Variability Following Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Secondary Analysis of XILO-FIST

Teaching Responsibilities

Evaluation of spermine as a biomarker for clinical research in stroke

Pharmacokinetics of blood polyamines after an oral bolus of polyamines

Retrospective audit of pre-admission warfarin use in acute stroke patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation

What is the scale of prescribing errors committed by junior doctors?: A systematic review

Sequence variants on chromosome 9p21.3 confer risk for atherosclerotic stroke

Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of Stroke Subtype and Outcome

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

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