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
Mallikourti, V., Ross, P. J., Maier, O., Guzman-Gutierrez, G., Franko, E., Lurie, D. J., Broche, L. M., Macleod, M. J.
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/2164/24218/1/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
Field-Cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging for identifying Minor Ischemic Stroke below 0.2 tesla
2024 - Accepted/In press
Ross, J., Mallikourti, V., Maier, O., Guzman Gutierrez, G., Franko, E., Lurie, D., Broche, L., Macleod, M.
Radiology
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23512/1/Ross_R_Field-Cycling_Magnetic_Resonance_AAM.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
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

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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

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

Field-Cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging for identifying Minor Ischemic Stroke below 0.2 tesla

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

Teaching Responsibilities

Effects of mailed dissemination of the Royal College of Radiologists' guidelines on general practitioner referrals for radiography: a time series analysis

Genotype and Haplotype Analysis of Paraoxanase Genes (PON 1&2 ) and Ishcaemic Stroke in a Northern Scottish Population

Lack of association between apolipoprotein E genotype and ischaemic stroke in a Scottish population

Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis

Pharmacokinetic factors in the modern drug treatment of tuberculosis

No association between Glu/Asp polymorphism of NOS3 gene and ischemic stroke

Drug Treatment of Hypertension Complicating Diabetes Mellitus

Identification of a common low density lipoprotein receptor mutation (C163Y) in the west of Scotland

Renal artery stent placement in renal artery stenosis: Technical and early clinical results

Effect of renal-artery stenting on progression of renovascular renal failure

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