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Willingness to take PhD students: Yes
Master of Science, University of London Epidemiology | |
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh Biomarkers in Stroke | |
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Oxford | |
Bachelor of Arts, University of Cambridge Neurophysiology |
2018 | Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP |
Research expertise | Stroke, Epidemiology, Diagnosis of TIA, Neurology, Vascular dementia, Big data |
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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 TIA, stroke and dementia.
He has founded and run the Edinburgh Stroke Winter School and clinical PhD research training programs in stroke (funded by the Stroke Association) and dementia (funded by the Alzheimer's Society and University of Edinburgh). 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.
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 randomized trials; clinical diagnosis; and the better use of large electronic health record datasets for more efficient clinical trials and cohort studies.
He founded the Edinburgh Clinical Natural Language Processing Group with Dr Honghang Wu and Dr Bea Alex, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Edinburgh who apply natural language processing to clinical text.
Stroke medicine
General neurology
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Project: Awarded Facility Time
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