Professor Martin Dennis
Chair of Stroke Medicine
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Stroke Research Group
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 465 9617
- Email: martin.dennis@ed.ac.uk
Background
- Trained St Thomas’ Hospital London, qualifying in 1980.
- Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project. MD thesis on "Transient Ischaemic Attacks in the Community"
- Moved to Edinburgh in 1990 as Senior lecturer, and to develop a stroke service. Personal Chair awarded in 2002
- Established Scottish Stroke Care Audit
- Help set up the British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP)
- Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Stroke in Scotland
- Lead clinician for the Managed Clinical Network for Stroke in Lothian
Research summary
Prof Martin Dennis is a consultant stroke physician who looks after patients in the stroke unit and clinic. He also runs a programme of research aiming to help detect, prevent and treat the complications of stroke more effectively.
He has completed large international studies to establish the best ways of feeding patients after a stroke and also how to reduce their risk of developing blood clots in their legs. The CLOTS trial 3 showed that intermittent pneumatic compression devices (see picture) applied to patients' legs reduced their risk of DVT and improved their chances of survival.
Research aims and areas of interest
Prof Dennis' research interests have focused on the organisation and evaluation of stroke services, predicting the prognosis of stroke and the management of post stroke problems. More specifically:
- A randomised controlled trial of a stroke family care worker
- FOOD trials evaluating feeding regimes
- CLOTS trials evaluating external compression for DVT prevention
Related links
Brain vascular disease research at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences