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Biography

Isla Mackenzie is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK. She is the Deputy Director of the Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO Research) and Hypertension Research Centre (HRC), University of Dundee. Prof Mackenzie completed Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics specialist training in Cambridge. She currently leads clinical research studies in cardiovascular disease and drug safety and has an interest in the decentralisation of clinical trials. Prof Mackenzie sits on several trial steering committees and other national committees relating to clinical pharmacology, pharmaceutical medicine, medicine and hypertension. She leads a work package in the recently awarded Trials@Home project – a 5-year IMI project aiming to reshape clinical trials in Europe. Ongoing trials include ALL-HEART which is investigating whether the gout medicine allopurinol provides cardiovascular benefit and TIME which is testing whether it is better to take blood pressure lowering medicines in the morning or at night.

Forthcoming events

The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis in the context of intestinal schistosomiasis

Monday, 09 October 2023, 1pm to 2pm @ BDI/OxPop Building seminar rooms

Defeating Meningitis by 2023 Global Roadmap

Monday, 16 October 2023, 1pm to 2pm @ BDI/OxPop Building seminar room 1

OxPop Festival of Global Health - The Cancer Conflict

Thursday, 19 October 2023, 5pm to 8pm @ Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7LF

Cancer Treatments: trust and information

Chronic infections and risk of NCDs in Chinese adults

Monday, 30 October 2023, 1pm to 2pm @ BBDI/OxPop Building seminar rooms

Metabolomics and diabetes in CKB and UKB

Thursday, 02 November 2023, 12pm to 1pm @ BDI/OxPop Building LG seminar room 0