Clinical Senior Lecturer

MB BS Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, 1995
MRCP (UK) Royal College of Physicians, London, 2001
MD University of Leicester, Leicester 2009

Email: akm17@le.ac.uk

Address: Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Level 1, Victoria Building, LE1 5WW.

For general enquiries please email Sue Lewin and Janette Moore, Secretaries, or telephone 0116 258 7250

Research Interests

• Blood Pressure and Acute Stroke

• TCD Bubble Tests for detection of PFO

• Effective Secondary Prevention of Stroke

• Stroke patients’ participation in research trials

• Epidemiology of stroke

External Positions

Clinical Lead – Trent Stroke Research Network (South)
Clinical Lead for Development of Stroke Database – East Midlands
Coordinator - East Midlands Stroke Group
Clinical Lead for Research & Audit - Stroke Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Professional Memberships

Royal College of Physicians (London)
British Geriatric Society
British Association of Stroke Physicians
European Stroke Organisation
American Stroke Association

Supervision

Co-Supervisor - Kate Lager PhD
Co-Supervisor - Victoria Haunton MD
Supervisor - Nazia Syed BSc
Supervisor - Sara Al-Ansari BSc

Teaching

People & Diseases Course
Consultation Skills Foundation Course
VLE Lead for Geriatrics & Stroke
Vascular Biology Module Lectures
- Physiological Control of BP
- Blood Pressure Variability
- Clinical Trial Interpretation
Nervous System Module - Blood Supply to the Brain & Spinal Cord
MSc Biochemistry Lecture - Cerebrovascular Disease
MSc Pain Module - Post-stroke Pain

Key Publications

Lager K, Wilson A, Khunti K, Mistri AK. Secondary prevention measures in TIA patients: a cross-sectional study. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2012, doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130484

Banahan C, Mistri AK, Evans D, Chung E. Microbubble signal properties from PFO tests using transcranial Doppler ultrasound. Perspectives in Medicine 2012, in press.

Saeed NP, Horsfield MA, Panerai RP, Mistri AK, Robinson TG.  Measurement of cerebral blood flow responses to the thigh cuff maneuver: a comparison of TCD with a novel MRI method. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2011, 31 (5): 1302-1310

Robinson TG, Potter JF, Ford GA, Bulpitt CJ, Chernova J, Jagger C, James MA, Knight J, Markus HS, Mistri AK, Poulter NR; COSSACS Investigators. Effects of antihypertensive treatment after acute stroke in the Continue Or Stop post-Stroke Antihypertensives Collaborative Study (COSSACS): a prospective, randomised, open, blinded-endpoint trial. Lancet Neurology 2010 Aug 9 8 767-75

Wilson EC, Ford GA, Robinson T, Mistri A, Jagger C, Potter JF. Controlling hypertension immediately post stroke: a cost utility analysis of a pilot randomised controlled trial. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2010 Mar; 23 (8):  3

Potter J, Mistri A, Brodie F, Chernova J, Wilson E, Jagger C, James M, Ford G, Robinson T. Controlling hypertension and hypotension immediately post stroke (CHHIPS)--a randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment 2009 Jan; 13 (9): 1-73

Potter JF, Robinson TG, Ford GA, Mistri A, James M, Chernova J, Jagger C.  Controlling hypertension and hypotension immediately post-stroke (CHHIPS): a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial.  Lancet Neurology 2009; 8: 48–56

Mistri AK, Robinson TG, Potter JF. Pressor Therapy in Acute Ischaemic Stroke: Systematic Review. Stroke 2006; 37: 1565-1571.

The CHHIPS Trial Group (Trial Coordinator: A Mistri). CHHIPS (Controlling Hypertension and Hypotension Immediately Post-Stroke) Pilot Trial: rationale and design. Journal of Hypertension 2005 Mar; 23(3): 649-55. 

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