Joanna Wardlaw#
| Membership Number: | 7250 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/professor-joanna-wardlaw |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9812-6642 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Professor of Applied Neuroimaging, University of Edinburgh (main)
- 2024 - present Clinical Co-Director, BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research
- 2018 - present Director, Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain, UEdin
- 2017 - present Foundation Chair, MRC UK Dementia Research Institute, UEdin
- 1998 - present Director, Brain Research Imaging Centre, now Co-Director Edinburgh Imaging, UEdin
- 1998 - 2001 Reader in Neuroimaging, University of Edinburgh
- 1994 - 1998 MRC Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
- 1994 - present Honorary Consultant Neuroradiologist, NHS Lothian
- 1992 - 1994 Consultant Neuroradiologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Neurological Sciences, NHS Glasgow and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- 1990 - 1992 MRC Research Training Fellow in Neuroradiology, Edinburgh
- 1982 - 1990 Medical and Radiology postgraduate training, Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Neuroimaging
- Computed tomographic scanning
- Dementia
- Clinical research
- Small vessel disease
- Treatment
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Diagnosis
- Stroke
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Ettles Scholarship and Leslie Gold Medal (top graduate in Medicine)
- 1997 Royal Society of Medicine Medical Book Awards, winner
- 2008 British Society of Neuroradiologists President’s Medal for Lifetime Achievement
- 2008 University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research
- 2013 Chiari Award, Austrian Stroke Society
- 2015 Barnett Visiting Professorship, London, Ontario, Canada
- 2016 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE);
- 2017 President’s Award, European Stroke Organisation, for lifetime contribution to stroke
- 2018 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Feinberg Award (1st female awardee)
- 2018 Karolinska Stroke Award for Lifetime Contribution to Stroke
- 2018 - 2024 Clarivate highly cited researcher, cross-discipline or neuroscience
- 2019 Lenstra Award, Switzerland
- 2021 British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience
- 2022-2024 Research.com, top 1000 global women researchers, (149th in the world)
- 2023 British Neuroscience Association Wolstencroft Award
- 2023 Biochemical Society - Sustained Excellence Award, 2024
- 2023 Association of British Neurologists Lord John Walton Memorial Award
- 2023 UK Stroke Forum Outstanding Achievement Award
- 2025 C Miller Fisher Visiting Professor Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
