Sarah T. Pendlebury MA, FRCP, DPhil

Sarah T. Pendlebury is a Physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUHFT) and Professor of Medicine and Old Age Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. She works 50/50 in clinical and research work.

She studied pre-clinical medicine at Cambridge and then clinical medicine at Oxford before working as a junior doctor in London and Grenoble, France, returning to Oxford in 1995.

She has supervised numerous junior doctors, medical students, nursing trainees, and visiting fellows as well as clinical, non-clinical, and nursing doctoral candidates.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of Stroke, International Journal of Stroke, Neurology, and Cerebrovascular Diseases. She is the lead author of four books on TIA/stroke, neurology in general medicine, and geriatrics and senior editor of a series of case-based learning books (OUP) covering medical/surgical specialties; several are recommended reading for specialty exit examinations.

She participated in local BBC TV, radio interviews, and local and national newspaper features on dementia and delirium in the hospital setting.