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
Randomised Trial of Tenecteplase versus Alteplase for Acute Stroke within 4.5h of onset: the second Alteplase-Tenecteplase Trial Evaluation for Stroke Thrombolysis (ATTEST-2)
2024 - Published
Muir, K., Ford, G., Ford, I., Wardlaw, J., McConnachie, A., Greenlaw, N., Price, C. I., Macleod, M., Dima, S., Venter, M., Zhang, L., O’Brien, E., Sanyal, R., Reid, J., Sztriha, L., Haider, S., Whiteley, W. N., Kennedy, J., Perry, R., Sekaran, L., Chakrabarti, A., Hassan, A., Marigold, R., Raghunathan, S., Sims, D., Bhandari, M., Douglass, C., ATTEST-2 Investigators
Working Papers: Preprint Papers
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4831843
- [ONLINE] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4831843
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

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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

Randomised Trial of Tenecteplase versus Alteplase for Acute Stroke within 4.5h of onset: the second Alteplase-Tenecteplase Trial Evaluation for Stroke Thrombolysis (ATTEST-2)

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

Teaching Responsibilities

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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