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Latest comment: 2 months ago by Ldm1954 in topic Requesting some updates

Requesting some updates

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Latest comment: 2 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Kia ora. As the University of Otago Wikimedian in Residence, I have a conflict of interest with this page. I would like to request some changes, as follows:

1. Add maiden name: Could the first sentence begin "Annemarei Ranta (known as Anna, nee Wittman)" to cover off the mismatch between proper name and article title (subject uses both), and to include her maiden name, as she has published under that (e.g. [1])

2. Add missing career information: At the end of the first paragraph of Academic career section, after "She moved to New Zealand in 2007, where she was initially a consultant neurologist and lead stroke physician at the MidCentral District Health Board." add "In 2014 she moved to Wellington and has been working as a consultant neurologist at Wellington Hospital/Capital Coast and Hutt Valley District.(source already used in article: CCDHB profile) From 2024 to 2018 she held the role of Executive Clinical Director for the Medicine Directorate at Capital and Coast District Health Board and has served in several regional and national stroke leadership roles for the New Zealand Ministry of Health and Te Whatu Ora. She is the current Medical Director for Stroke Aotearoa.(source:CCDHB profile, and new source[2])

3. Add finish date to role: At end of second paragraph of academic career section, change "As of 2024, she is head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago's Wellington campus." to "She was head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago's Wellington campus from 2018 to 2025." I cannot find a proper published announcement, but you can see that the current head of medicine is Rebecca Grainger (https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/about/senior-leadership) and Ranta's Orcid profile shows her end date as 2025 (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3223-3330) so the current wording is inaccurate.

4. Updates to research section.

Old

Ranta's research is focused on stroke care and the development of interventions to improve stroke care.[3] Ranta led Health Research Council-funded research that showed significant variations in stroke care across New Zealand, for instances some patients received follow-up care within 1–2 weeks while others waited up to five months.[4] There were also differences in care received by Māori and Pacific patients.[4] Ranta has worked on decreasing such inequities in stroke care, leading the development of tools such as electronic decision support tools for stroke prevention, for use by GPs, and ways to improve access to stroke specialists from rural healthcare services.[3]

New (insert 'optimisation', expand, fix broken link for "26 new professors" ref)

Ranta's research is focused on stroke care optimisation and the development of interventions to improve stroke care access and outcomes with a focus on resource constrained settings and reducing health inequities.[3] Ranta led Health Research Council-funded research that showed significant variations in stroke care across New Zealand, for instances some patients received follow-up care within 1–2 weeks while others waited up to five months.[4] There were also differences in care received by rural, Māori and Pacific patients resulting in differential health outcomes.[4] Ranta has worked on decreasing such inequities in stroke care, leading the development of tools such as electronic decision support tools for stroke prevention, for use by GPs, co-ordinating national level hyper-acute stroke care services to improve access thrombectomy, and ways to improve access to stroke specialists from rural healthcare services using telestroke (telemedicine for stroke patients).[5][6][7] Other work includes co-designing stroke interventions to address ethnic inequities, developing models of stroke care for LMIC in the South Pacific, advancing the use of tenecteplase and idarucizumab in acute stroke,[8] and the use of telestroke across international borders and within the pre-hospital ambulance setting.[9] She has also led neuroepidemiology research using big data and data linkage and has published on the associations between stroke, indigenous peoples, greenspace exposure, and climate change as well as the neurology workforce.(Source:University profile) She collaborates with researchers across the globe including the Global Burden of Disease Group.[10]

Old:

Ranta leads the New Zealand National Stroke Registry and Stroke Strategy.[11] Ranta is a on the boards of the World Stroke Organisation and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists.[3] She has been President of the Neurological Association of New Zealand.[12] She is on several editorial boards, including those of Stroke and Neurology.[3]

New (fix broken link for university page, expand, add sources):

Ranta leads the New Zealand National Stroke Registry and has authored several national NZ Stroke Strategies.[11] Ranta is on the boards of the World Stroke Organisation, the Asia Pacific Stroke Organisation, Stroke Aotearoa and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZSO).[13][3][14] She has been President of the Neurological Association of New Zealand, is the current President-elect of ANZSO, and co-chairs the WSO Telestroke Committee.[3][15][16][17] She is on several editorial boards, including those of Stroke, Neurology and Journal of the American Heart Association,[13] and serves as stroke section editor of Springer Nature’s Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports.[18]

5. Changes to publication list. To update publications and give a better representation of the work Ranta does, remove the first two publications of the publication list and replace with these (or as many as you think reasonable):

  • Thompson, Stephanie; Barber, Alan; John H. Gommans; et al. (2022). "Geographic Disparities in Stroke Outcomes and Service Access". Neurology. 99 (4). doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000200526. PMID 35623890. Wikidata Q135238964.
  • Imogene Mary Scott; Csilla Manoczki; Andrew Herbert Swain; Abhishek Ranjan; Michael Garth McGovern; Alicia Lucy Shyrell Tyson; Melissa Claire Hyslop; Martin Michael Punter; Ranta, Anna (2022). "Prehospital Telestroke vs Paramedic Scores to Accurately Identify Stroke Reperfusion Candidates". Neurology. 99 (19). doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000201104. PMID 36240100. Wikidata Q124714671.
  • Ranta, Anna; Margaret Hart; Angela Dos Santos; et al. (2025). "Stroke Care in Indigenous Populations: A World Stroke Organisation (WSO) Scientific Statement". International Journal of Stroke. doi:10.1177/17474930251347394. PMID 40415682. Wikidata Q134610513.
  • Ranta, Anna; Janice Kang; Ali Saad; Mohammed Wasay; Yannick Béjot; Serefnur Ozturk; Maurice Giroud; Jacques Reis; Jeroen Douwes (2024). "Climate Change and Stroke: A Topical Narrative Review". Stroke. 55 (4): 1118–1128. doi:10.1161/strokeaha.123.043826. PMID 38436104. Wikidata Q134610524.

This was a complicated request to format so if anything is unclear let me know, and of course happy to discuss requested changes as necessary, many thanks. DrThneed (talk) 01:35, 5 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

I am going to decline it as currently written. I think the additions to the research are a bit too much resume-like, and have too many citations. A good general number is 10 or less to an academics own work, ideally using sources they did not write. Please provide a more condensed version. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:28, 31 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ↑ Ranta, Anna; G. F. Wooten (2001). "Amoxicillin-induced aseptic meningitis". Neurology. 57 (9): 1734. doi:10.1212/wnl.57.9.1734. PMID 11706130. Wikidata Q30308272.
  2. ↑ "Prof Anna Ranta". www.stroke.org.nz. Retrieved 2026-04-28.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Board, Otago Bulletin (2020-12-08). "Otago announces 26 new professors". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Lewis, John (2022-06-13). "Stroke victims asked about care experience". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  5. ↑ Ranta, Anna; Barber, Alan (2016). "Transient ischemic attack service provision: A review of available service models". Neurology. 86 (10): 947–953. doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000002339. PMID 26802089. Wikidata Q38708571.
  6. ↑ New Zealand Ministry of Health. Stroke Clot Retrieval: A National Service Improvement Programme Action Plan (14 January 2021) ISBN 978-1-98-859707-2
  7. ↑ Ranta, Anna; Jeremy Lanford; Busch, Suzanne; Carolyn Providence; Ivan Iniesta; Ian Rosemergy; Andrew Wilson; Pietro Cariga; Victoria Richmond; John Gommans (2017). "Impact and implementation of a sustainable regional telestroke network". Internal Medicine Journal. 47 (11): 1270–1275. doi:10.1111/imj.13557. PMID 28742223. Wikidata Q38662494.
  8. ↑ Karim Mahawish; John Gommans; Timothy Kleinig; Bhavesh Lallu; Alicia Tyson; Ranta, Anna (2021). "Switching to Tenecteplase for Stroke Thrombolysis". Stroke. 52 (10). doi:10.1161/strokeaha.121.035931. PMID 34465202. Wikidata Q124714675.
  9. ↑ "REGIONS II - Reducing stroke inequities for rural Māori | Health Research Council of New Zealand". www.hrc.govt.nz. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  10. ↑ Feigin, Valery L.; Melsew Dagne Abate; Yohannes Habtegiorgis Abate; et al. (2024). "Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021". The Lancet Neurology. 23 (10): 973–1003. doi:10.1016/s1474-4422(24)00369-7. PMID 39304265. Wikidata Q137152537.
  11. 1 2 University of Otago, Wellington (2023-06-30). "Professor Anna Ranta". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  12. ↑ "ANZCA | Professor Anna Ranta". www.anzca.edu.au. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  13. 1 2 "About APSO: Council members". Asia Pacific Stroke Organization. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  14. ↑ "Who we are". www.stroke.org.nz. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  15. ↑ "ANZCA | Professor Anna Ranta". www.anzca.edu.au. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  16. ↑ "ANZSO Presidents and Office Bearers". Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  17. ↑ "Committees". World Stroke Organization. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  18. ↑ "Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2026-04-28.

DrThneed (talk) 01:35, 5 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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