Peter Langhorne is Professor of Stroke Care at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research work has focussed on the effectiveness of different management strategies for stroke patients, including service delivery and stroke rehabilitation. This work has involved the use of various methodological approaches and collaboration with more than 50 colleagues from around the world. During the last 15 years he has been a coordinator and grant holder for randomised clinical trials of occupational therapy, specialist nursing, augmented physiotherapy and early mobilisation. He also has been a coordinator and of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of trials of stroke units, early supported discharge services, outpatient therapy services, intensive physiotherapy input, stroke liaison worker services, and nutritional supplementation. In addition he has served on the steering committees of trials of stroke unit care, stroke service delivery, caregiver training, botulinum toxin therapy, speech and language therapy and nutritional supplementation. He is the coordinating editor of the Cochrane Stroke Group and has worked within the Cochrane collaboration more broadly to encourage the development of evidence-based practice. |