Consultant in Stroke Medicine and Hon Asst Professor
MBBS, FRCP, FESO, PhD (Stroke Medicine)
Nottingham and nationwide
Dr Kailash Krishnan is triple accredited in General Medicine, Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine. He completed by PhD in Outcomes after acute intra cerebral haemorrhage at the University of Nottingham and has been a full-time Consultant since 2016.
He is involved in the management of patients in stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA) across the whole patient pathway including diagnosis, investigation, acute treatment, rehabilitation, secondary prevention and long-term complications.
Dr Krishnan is the Head of Stroke Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also the clinical lead for Mechanical Thrombectomy including the roll-out and implementation of Artificial Intelligence for detection of large vessel occlusion and optimisation of workflow regionally. Dr Krishnan is also co-lead for Patent Foramen Ovale closure for cryptogenic stroke, which is now a regional service.
Dr Krishnan is an invited member of a panel of international experts for development of guidelines for management of blood pressure after acute ischaemic stroke including mechanical thrombectomy and acute intra cerebral haemorrhage for the European Stroke Organisation. He was a group chair which development the National Guidelines for Stroke which was released in 2023. Dr Krishnan was a member of an expert panel which developed the European Stroke Organisation guidelines for the Hormone Replacement Therapy in stroke, Thrombolysis and Mechanical Thrombectomy during pregnancy and the post-partum period.
Dr Krishnan is the chief investigator of a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial in acute intra cerebral haemorrhage MACE-ICH (awarded by the NIHR RfPB) and principal investigator for eight other clinical trials. He was recently awarded, as a chief investigator, to lead a sub-study which is testing the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the effect of mannitol on brain inflammation after acute intra cerebral haemorrhage.
Dr Krishnan has published widely in national and international journals (including the Lancet) and regularly invited to peer-review publications submitted to various journals. He is an invited and elected member of various national and international committees.
MDDUS, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the ESO