Clinical Director

Professor Martin James
Consultant Stroke Physician at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, and Honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School.

Professor Martin James is Consultant Stroke Physician at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, and Honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School. After training in Southampton, he completed his research in hypertension in the elderly with Professor John Potter and the late Professor John Swales in Leicester. He was appointed as physician in medicine for the elderly in Exeter in 1997, assuming responsibility for the stroke service shortly afterwards. The East Devon Stroke Service was awarded NHS Beacon status in 2000. He is specialty Clinical Lead for Stroke for the South West Clinical Research Network, and his continuing research interests include the physiology and management of blood pressure in the elderly and following acute stroke, and methods for improving the prevention of recurrent stroke. He is Clinical Director of the Stroke Programme at King’s College London.

Associate Clinical Director

Associate Director

Dr Rebecca Fisher
Stroke Association Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Rebecca Fisher is Associate Director (Post-Acute) with the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) leading on the development and delivery of the post-acute elements of SSNAP. Rebecca also works nationally as the Rehabilitation and Life After Stroke Workstream lead with oversight of implementation of the NHS Long Term plan. Dr Fisher is a Stroke Association Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. Her expertise is in the implementation and evaluation of complex interventions in real world settings. Rebecca’s current research includes investigation of Early Supported Discharge and Community Stroke services across the UK and organisation of hospital-based stroke rehabilitation services.

Associate Director

Mrs Louise Clark
Head of Occupational Therapy and AHP Lead for Stroke, Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust​.

Project Director, SSNAP 
Data Science Project