Contact information
gary.ford@rdm.ox.ac.uk
gary.ford@ouh.nhs.uk
Jo Harrison
Jo-Anne.Harrison@oxfordahsn.org
Colleges
Gary Ford
FRCP, FMedSci
Professor of Stroke Medicine
- Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
- Consultant Stroke Physician OUH
My work focuses on developing and evaluating treatments that can reduce brain damage in the first few hours after stroke, and developing better processes of care to deliver for stroke patients.
I have developed and evaluated the performance of stroke recognition instruments such as the Face Arm Speech Test (FAST) and Recognition of Stroke in the Emergency Room Scale (ROSIER) to improve early diagnosis of stroke by the public, ambulance paramedics and Emergency Department teams.
My work has evaluated the risks and benefits of thrombolysis in very elderly stroke patients 80 years or older, who are the population at highest risk of stroke.
In addition to my research in stroke my work more broadly seeks to understand the risks and benefits of drug therapies in older people.
Recent publications
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A lifetime economic model of mortality and secondary care use for patients discharged from hospital following acute stroke.
Journal article
McMeekin PJ. et al, (2024), Int J Stroke
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Accessing mechanical thrombectomy treatment for stroke in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the importance of the emergency pathway.
Journal article
Price C. et al, (2024), Emerg Med J
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Extending mechanical thrombectomy service provision to 24/7: a break-even analysis.
Journal article
Balami JS. et al, (2024), BMC Health Serv Res, 24
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Effect of antihypertensive deprescribing on hospitalisation and mortality: long-term follow-up of the OPTiMISE randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Sheppard JP. et al, (2024), Lancet Healthy Longev
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Intensive Ambulance-Delivered Blood-Pressure Reduction in Hyperacute Stroke.
Journal article
Li G. et al, (2024), N Engl J Med, 390, 1862 - 1872
ORCID
0000-0001-8719-4968