elderly care and community medicine

Name: Dr Khalid Ali

Academic position: Senior Lecturer in Geriatrics (BSMS) and honorary stroke consultant (BSUH)

Research: Hypoxia and blood pressure in early stroke

Contact details:

The Audrey Emerton Building
Room G24
Royal Sussex County Hospital
Eastern Road
BRIGHTON
BN2 5BE

Tel: +44 (0)1273 523368
Tel: +44 (0)1444 441881 ext: 8275
Fax: +44 (0)1273 523366

E-mail:

Biography:

MBBS Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum (1994)
MRCP (Royal college of Physicians- London) 1999
Specialist registrar training in Geriatrics (West Midlands) 2000-2005
MD student at Keele University (awaiting exam dates) 2004-

Teaching focus:

Geriatrics and GIM to BSMS students
Academic tutor for year 1 BSMS students
Therapeutics in older people (SBM module)

Current research:

The effect of hypoxia and oxygen supplementation in acute stroke (SOS Study)
The effect of blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias and vascular stiffness on the outcome of ischaemic strokes
The effect of community rehabilitation teams on functional outcome and speech in stroke patients in the community (MOSAIC Study)
The implementation of the ABCD guidelines for hypertension in primary care (NAAG Study)
The effect of Mediterranean diet on vascular stiffness in elderly subjects in Brighton (BRAVES Study)

Key/recent publications:

Ali K, Koshi I, Rajkumar C. Developments in metabolic syndrome. Geriatric Medicine 2 2006; 36: 15-18

What patients want: Consumer involvement in the design of a randomised controlled trial of routine oxygen supplementation after acute stroke. Stroke 2006; 37: 865-71

Ali K, Sills S, Roffe C. The effects of different doses of oxygen administration on oxygen saturation in patients with stroke. Neurocritical Care 2005; 3(1):24-6

Ali K, Ajaj A, Dean S, Panayiotou B, Roy R. The use of blood pressure monitoring in a hypertension clinic. Middle East Journal of Age & Ageing 2004; 1 (1): 1449

Ali K. Attitudes among rehabilitation nurses towards love and intimacy in older people. Geriatr Today: J Can Geriatr Soc 2004; 7: 46-48

Active collaborations:

Professor Zamboni, University of Verona, Italy (BRAVES Study)
Professor Helen Smith (NAAG Study)
Professor Ken Miles (Cerebral perfusion study in newly diagnosed heart failure patients)
Professor Jenny Rusted (Cerebral perfusion study in newly diagnosed heart failure patients)

Other information:

Executive member of the Cardiovascular section of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS)
Reviewer for Age and Ageing