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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Association of Time From Stroke Onset to Groin Puncture With Quality of Reperfusion After Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data From 7 Randomized Clinical Trials.
Journal article
Bourcier R. et al, (2019), JAMA Neurol
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One-year clinical outcomes in older patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiography: An analysis of the ICON1 study.
Journal article
Batty J. et al, (2019), Int J Cardiol, 274, 45 - 51
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Case costing of mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke in routine clinical setting: cost differences between mothership vs drip and ship
Conference paper
Balami JS. et al, (2018), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE, 13, 45 - 46
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A trial to evaluate an extended rehabilitation service for stroke patients (EXTRAS): economic evaluation
Conference paper
Bhattarai N. et al, (2018), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE, 13, 55 - 55
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Incorporating evidence from recent trials in to estimates of stroke patients eligible for thrombectomy
Conference paper
McMeekin P. et al, (2018), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE, 13, 22 - 22
ORCID
0000-0001-8719-4968