Catherine Sudlow
Personal Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology
- Usher Institute
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
Contact details
Address
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Nine Edinburgh BioQuarter
9 Little France Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Cathie Sudlow graduated in medicine from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, with postgraduate training in medicine and neurology in Oxford, Plymouth, Worthing and Edinburgh. She obtained her MSc in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) in 1997 and DPhil (University of Oxford) in 2000. From 2000, she has been based at the University of Edinburgh, where she is Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology and, since 2017, Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics in the Usher Institute.
Her research focuses on large scale collaborative efforts to determine the causes (genetic, environment and lifestyle) of - and the effects of treatment on – common diseases of middle and older age. She has played a major role in such initiatives: to establish the role of antithrombotic therapy in preventing heart disease and stroke; to investigate differences between stroke subtypes; and to discover genes that influence stroke. Since 2011, she has been Chief Scientist of UK Biobank, whose unparalleled depth and breadth of open access phenotype and genotype data on 500,000 UK adults make it the UK’s single most important investment in population health research.
Professor Sudlow is PI or co-I on several multi-million pound research awards for population health, stroke and dementia research. She directs the newly established Scottish substantive site of Health Data Research UK and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.
Research summary
My group’s main interests are in classical and genetic epidemiological approaches to understanding different subtypes of stroke, and - through my involvement with UK Biobank and collaboration with other very large cohorts (including Million Women Study and China Kadoorie Biobank) - large scale prospective observational epidemiology. Our work will evolve over the years ahead to encompass prospective studies of neurodegenerative disorders as well as of stroke and related phenotypes.
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Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54 million people in England: data resource
In:
British Medical Journal (BMJ), vol. 373, pp. n826
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n826
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Conducting public involvement in dementia research: The contribution of the European Working Group of People with Dementia to the ROADMAP project
In:
Health Expectations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13246
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Severe mental illness and mortality and coronary revascularisation following a myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study
In:
BMC Medicine, vol. 19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01937-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Midlife vascular risk factors and risk of incident dementia: Longitudinal cohort and Mendelian randomization analyses in the UK Biobank
In:
Alzheimer's & Dementia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12320
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Comparison of Rule-based and Neural Network Models for Negation Detection in Radiology Reports
(22 pages)
In:
Natural Language Engineering, vol. 27, pp. 203-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324920000509
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)