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Rustam Al-Shahi Salman

Prof. Salman leads the Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) programme, which is dedicated to improving the outcome for adults who have diseases that may cause, or have caused, intracranial hemorrhage. He became interested in neurology during undergraduate medical training at Cambridge University. He was inspired to work on common neurological problems by Charles Warlow and the stroke research group in Edinburgh, which he joined in 1998 as an MRC clinical training fellow, progressing to MRC patient-oriented clinician scientist and senior clinical fellowships until 2016. Some of the fundamental study designs of observational clinical epidemiology have underpinned his initial focus on the frequency, prognosis, and pathophysiology of intracranial haemorrhage. Since becoming a professor of clinical neurology at the University of Edinburgh in August 2013, his research has increasingly focussed on methodologically rigorous randomised controlled trials of interventions to prevent and treat stroke due to intracranial haemorrhage. As an honorary consultant neurologist since 2006, he cares for people with neurological conditions including stroke in-hours and out-of-hours, he audits their care, and he helps undergraduate and postgraduate students to develop and address clinical uncertainties within the RUSH programme.