Dr William Whiteley (BM BCh MA MSc PhD MRCP)
Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow and Consultant Neurologist
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 537 1089
- Email: william.whiteley@ed.ac.uk
Background
William Whiteley is a Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow (funded by CSO) in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
He is also Senior Clinical Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford; an International Fellow at the Population Health Research Institute, University of McMaster (Canada); and a consultant neurologist in NHS Lothian, working with patients with stroke and dementia.
His work seeks to elucidate the mechanisms for prevention of disability due to stroke and dementia through the design, delivery and analysis of epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Of particular interest are: the contribution of vascular risk factors to dementia; the very long term follow-up of randomized trials; and the better use of large electronic health record datasets for more efficient clinical trials and cohort studies.
He has founded and run the Edinburgh Stroke Winter School www.ed.ac.uk/clinical-brain-sciences/postgraduate-training/edinburgh-stroke-winter-school. His work has been supported by the UK MRC (Clinician Scientist fellowship 2010-2015), the Chief Scientist’s Office (2006-2009, 2018-2025), and the Stroke Association.
Research summary
- Contribution of known vascular risk factors to dementia
- Acute treatment of ischaemic stroke
- Development of novel methods for large scale trials with electronic health records
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Are large simple trials for dementia prevention possible?
In:
Age and Ageing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz152
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Consensus statements and recommendations from the ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference, Stockholm 11-13 November 2018
(11 pages)
In:
European Stroke Journal, vol. 4, pp. 307-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987319863606
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Text Mining Brain Imaging Reports
In:
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-019-0211-7
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Inspiring New Researchers in Stroke
In:
Stroke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.026936
Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Maintaining hope after a disabling stroke: A longitudinal qualitative study of patients’ experiences, views, information needs and approaches towards making treatment decisions
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 14, pp. e0222500
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222500
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)