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

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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Memberships and Affiliations

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

Research protocol – Assessing Post-Stroke Psychology Longitudinal Evaluation (APPLE) study: A prospective cohort study in stroke

Joint multi-field T1 quantification for fast field-cycling MRI

Safety and early outcomes after intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke patients with prestroke disability

Conscious awareness modulates processing speed in the Redundant Signal Effect

Urgent introduction of iPAD-based WPB programmatic assessment due to the COVID-19 pandemic for final year medical students

Following a star: Does who you follow in an OSCE station affect your checklist score?

Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

Statin Therapy is Associated With Lower Mortality One Year After Ischemic Stroke: A National Data Linkage Study

VARIATIONS BY AGE, SEX AND DEPRIVATION CATEGORY IN THE PRESCRIBING OF SECONDARY PREVENTION MEDICATIONS AFTER STROKE IN SCOTLAND: A NATIONAL DATABASE STUDY.

Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study

Real-world user acceptability of the FreeStyle Libre: A pilot study on human factors and technology acceptance

Brain hyperintensities in magnetic resonance imaging of patients with mild acute focal neurology

Anaemia and incidence of post stroke dementia

Patient Factors Influencing Oral Anticoagulant Prescribing for Atrial Fibrillation After Stroke

Increased wholegrain intake does not reduce blood pressure and other markers of cardiovascular disease risk in unmedicated pre-hypertensive/stage 1 hypertensive volunteers

Patient-related FActors Influencing Blood Pressure Lowering Medication Prescribing after Index Stroke in Scotland: A National Database Study

Scanning Conditions in Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging: How to Standardise Resting-State for Optimal Data Acquisition and Visualisation?

The impact of pre-stroke comorbidities on home-time following stroke: a national data linkage study

Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids therapy for stroke

Marine-Derived n-3 Fatty Acids Therapy for Stroke

Association of Baseline Hyperglycaemia with Outcomes of Diabetic and Non-diabetic Acute Ischaemic Stroke Patients treated with Intravenous Thrombolysis: a Propensity Score Matched Analysis from the SITS-ISTR registry

A whole-body Fast Field-Cycling scanner for clinical molecular imaging studies

Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids therapy for stroke (Review)

Home-Time Is a Feasible and Valid Stroke Outcome Measure in National Datasets

Effects of fluoxetine on functional outcomes after acute stroke (FOCUS): a pragmatic, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial

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