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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Cost-Effectiveness of Antihypertensive Deprescribing in Primary Care: a Markov Modelling Study Using Data From the OPTiMISE Trial.
Journal article
Jowett S. et al, (2022), Hypertension
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INTEnsive ambulance-delivered blood pressure Reduction in hyper-ACute stroke Trial (INTERACT4): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Journal article
Song L. et al, (2021), Trials, 22
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Effects of oral anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation after spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage in the UK: a randomised, open-label, assessor-masked, pilot-phase, non-inferiority trial
Journal article
Al-Shahi Salman R. et al, (2021), The Lancet Neurology, 20, 842 - 853
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Second asymptomatic carotid surgery trial (ACST-2): a randomised comparison of carotid artery stenting versus carotid endarterectomy.
Journal article
Halliday A. et al, (2021), Lancet
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Targeted atrial fibrillation (AF) detection in COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
Journal article
Ford GA. et al, (2021), European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes
ORCID
0000-0001-8719-4968