Personal Chair: Gillian Mead

Gillian Mead has been made a Personal Chair in Stroke and Elderly Care Medicine.

Professor Mead is a graduate of Clare College, the University of Cambridge (BA 1985, MB BChir 1987, MA 1989).

As Stroke Research Fellow in Manchester, she set up a trial of carotid endarterectomy in acute stroke, and was awarded an MD (the University of Cambridge) in 1996 and the Palamountain Prize (from Research Into Ageing).

In 1996, Professor Mead moved to Edinburgh to complete her clinical and academic training.

In 1999, she worked in Auckland, New Zealand, as Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician.

She was appointed Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and then Reader in 2009.

Professor Mead has an international reputation for her research into life after stroke.

She has published extensively on post-stroke fatigue and exercise training after stroke, and is co-editor of a new book ‘Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke’ to be published by Elsevier.

Professor Mead developed the first ever course on stroke for exercise professionals, which is now being delivered throughout the UK.

She is co-principal investigator of a multicentre trial of fluoxetine in stroke. She sits on the editorial boards of two Cochrane Collaboration groups.