Jessica Redgrave PhD

Dr. Jessica N. Redgrave, Ph.D. is a Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at the University of Sheffield. Dr. Redgrave's doctorate research was undertaken at the Stroke Prevention Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Peter Rothwell. Dr. Redgrave's research interest is in carotid plaque instability. She is now building a program of research in Sheffield to study novel markers of vulnerable carotid plaque. She is particularly interested in the role of red blood cell membrane cholesterol as a determinant of carotid plaque instability after intra-plaque hemorrhage.

Her other main interest is in factors that delay patients with stroke and TIA calling for medical assistance after symptoms onset. She has set up the ongoing Stroke and TIA and Response to Symptoms Study (S.T.A.R.S.) - an observational study of consecutive patients attending hospitals with stroke in Sheffield (population 500,000). S.T.A.R.S. seeks to determine patients’ awareness of the FAST campaign and the barriers to help-seeking which need to be addressed by media campaigns.