Professor Martin James
Consultant Stroke Physician and Honorary Clinical Professor
Expertise
Stroke Medicine
Biography
Martin James is Consultant Stroke Physician at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, and Honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School. He trained in Southampton, and completed his research in hypertension in the elderly with Professor John Potter and the late Professor John Swales, in Leicester. He has led the East Devon Stroke Service at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter since 1997, and has been Clinical Director of the South West Cardiovascular Network since 2008. His ongoing research interests in the ARC include improving methods for the prevention of stroke, stroke rehabilitation and operational research in hyperacute stroke care – his work together with Prof Ken Stein and the PenCHORD team has been influential in the implementation of reperfusion treatments for acute stroke in the South West and the rest of the UK. He is Clinical Director of the Stroke Programme and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, which runs the national stroke audit ‘SSNAP’, and joint editor of the 2016 RCP National Clinical Guideline for Stroke. He has served terms as both President and Honorary Secretary of the British Association of Stroke Physicians.
Publications
- What would other emergency stroke teams do? Using explainable machine learning to understand variation in thrombolysis practice
- What would other emergency stroke teams do? Using explainable machine learning to understand variation in thrombolysis practice
- Updating estimates of the number of UK stroke patients eligible for endovascular thrombectomy: incorporating recent evidence to facilitate service planning
- National implementation of reperfusion for acute ischaemic stroke in England: How should services be configured? A modelling study
- Use of Clinical Pathway Simulation and Machine Learning to Identify Key Levers for Maximizing the Benefit of Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke
- Stroke Care in the United Kingdom During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Operational Research Seeks Benefit for Stroke Victims
- The cost of providing mechanical thrombectomy in the UK NHS: a micro-costing study
- Can clinical audits be enhanced by pathway simulation and machine learning? An example from the acute stroke pathway.
- Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke: an implementation guide for the UK – First edition August 2019
- Planning and providing acute stroke care in England: the effect of planning footprint size