William Whiteley
Senior Clinical Fellow
William Whiteley is a Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow (funded by CSO) in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
He is also Senior Clinical Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford; an International Fellow at the Population Health Research Institute, University of McMaster (Canada); and a consultant neurologist in NHS Lothian, working with patients with stroke and dementia.
His work seeks to elucidate the mechanisms for prevention of disability due to stroke and dementia through the design, delivery and analysis of epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Of particular interest are: the contribution of vascular risk factors to dementia; the very long term follow-up of randomised trials; and the better use of large electronic health record datasets for more efficient clinical trials and cohort studies.
He has founded and run the Edinburgh Stroke Winter School. He has been supported by personal fellowships from the UK MRC (Clinician Scientist fellowship 2010-2015), the Chief Scientist’s Office (2006-2009, 2018-2025), and his work by the Alzheimer's Society, the Stroke Association and Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland.
Current research interests:
- Contribution of known vascular risk factors to dementia
- Diagnosis and treatment of minor and transient neurological attacks
- Development of novel methods for large scale trials with electronic health records
Recent publications
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Long-Term Incidence of Stroke and Dementia in ASCOT.
Journal article
Whiteley WN. et al, (2021), Stroke
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Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54 million people in England: data resource.
Journal article
Wood A. et al, (2021), BMJ, 373
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Height and risk of ischaemic stroke subtypes: a Mendelian randomisation study
Conference paper
Linden A. et al, (2020), EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL, 41, 2415 - 2415
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Accuracy of identifying incident stroke cases from linked health care data in UK Biobank.
Journal article
Rannikmäe K. et al, (2020), Neurology, 95, e697 - e707
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Are large simple trials for dementia prevention possible?
Journal article
Whiteley WN. et al, (2020), Age Ageing, 49, 154 - 160