Rate My Professor Mary Joan MacLeod

Professor Mary Joan MacLeod holds a Personal Chair (Clinical) in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen. She is a Clinical Pharmacologist and honorary Consultant Physician within NHS Grampian. Her clinical work focuses on acute stroke management, hypertension clinics, and primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention. Her research interests include novel imaging markers in stroke and small vessel disease using fast field cycling MRI, the use of linked datasets to explore stroke management including service organisation and secondary prevention, and interactions between stroke and other diseases such as cancer.

Professor MacLeod serves as Chair of the Clinical Studies Oversight Group and Chair of Scotland A and B Research Ethics Committees. She is Honorary Deputy Secretary of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians and a Trustee of SHARP (Scottish Heart and Arterial Disease Prevention). Her teaching responsibilities include Year 5 MBChB OSCE coordination, Situational Judgement Test leadership, Clinical Pharmacology teaching across multiple years, and contributions to MSc programmes in Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiovascular and Diabetes, Neurosciences, and Genetics. She is an MRCP PACES examiner. She holds the degrees BSc, MBChB, PhD, and FRCP (Glas).