Guidance
7 Committee members and NICE lead team
7 Committee members and NICE lead team
Medical Technologies Advisory Committee members
The Medical Technologies Advisory Committee is a standing advisory committee of NICE. A list of the Committee members who took part in the discussions for this guidance appears below.
Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technology to be evaluated. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that evaluation.
The minutes of each Medical Technologies Advisory Committee meeting, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.
Professor Bruce Campbell (Chair)
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Exeter
Dr Peter Groves (Vice Chair)
Consultant Cardiologist, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
Professor Dilly Anumba
Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University of Sheffield
Ms Susan Bennett
Lay member
Dr Keith Blanshard
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Professor Nigel Brunskill
Professor of Renal Medicine, University of Leicester
Mr Matthew Campbell‑Hill
Lay member
Mr Andrew Chukwuemeka
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Professor Daniel Clark
Head of Clinical Engineering, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor Tony Freemont
Professor of Osteoarticular Pathology, University of Manchester
Professor Shaheen Hamdy
Professor of Neurogastroenterology, University of Manchester
Dr Jerry Hutchinson
Independent Medical Technology Adviser
Dr Cynthia Iglesias
Health Economist, University of York
Professor Mohammad Ilyas
Professor of Pathology, University of Nottingham
Dr Greg Irving
GP, University of Liverpool
Dr Eva Kaltenthaler
Reader in Health Technology Assessment, ScHARR, University of Sheffield
Dr Paul Knox
Reader in Vision Science, University of Liverpool
Mrs Karen Partington
Chief Executive, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Brian Selman
Managing Director, Selman and Co
Professor Wendy Tindale
Scientific Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Allan Wailoo
Professor of Health Economics, ScHARR, University of Sheffield
Mr John Wilkinson
Director of Devices, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Dr Amber Young
Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, North Bristol NHS Trust
Dr Janelle Yorke
Lecturer and Researcher in Nursing, University of Manchester
NICE lead team
Each medical technology assessment is assigned a lead team of a NICE technical analyst and technical adviser, 2 clinical expert advisers, a patient expert (where appropriate), a non‑expert member of the Medical Technologies Advisory Committee and representative of the External Assessment Centre.
Joanne Higgins
Technical Analyst
Bernice Dillon
Technical Adviser
Amber Young and Bruce Philp
Lead Expert Advisers
Cynthia Iglesias
Non‑Expert MTAC Member
Sue Peirce and Grace Carolan‑Rees
External Assessment Centre Representatives