Margaret Esiri#
| Membership Number: | 6598 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology, Oxford University
- 1996 - 2007 Professor of Neuropathology, Oxford University
- 1988 - 1996 Clinical Reader in Neuropathology, Oxford University
- 1985 - 1988 Consultant Neuropathologist, United Oxford Hospitals
- 1980 - 1985 MRC Senior Clinical Fellow in Neuropathology, Oxford University
- 1975 - 1980 Senior Registrar in Neuropathology, United Oxford Hospitals
- 1974 - 1975 Senior Registrar in Histopathology, United Oxford Hospitals
- 1973 - 1974 Trainee Pathologist, United Oxford Hospitals
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical Neuropathology
- Neuropathological basis of psychiatric disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Inflammatory disease of the CNS
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Cerebral small vessel disease
- Neuropathology of Dementia
- Brain banking
Honours and Awards
- Ranked 72 among the top hundred women scientists in the UK and 714 among top 1000 worldwide according to publications and H index by Research.com in 2022.
- 1989 Short-listed for Glaxo Prize for best British illustrated medical textbook for 1989 with Dr D R Oppenheimer, for Diagnostic Neuropathology
- 1997 Certificate of Commendation in BMA Book Competition for Oppenheimer’s Diagnostic Neuropathology, 2nd Edition
- 2006 Short-listed for Glaxo Prize for best British illustrated medical textbook for 2006 with Professor D Perl for Oppenheimer’s Diagnostic Neuropathology, 3rd Edition
