6 Appraisal committee members and NICE project team
Appraisal committee members
The appraisal committees are standing advisory committees of NICE. Members are appointed for a 3-year term. There are four appraisal committees, each with a chair and vice chair. Each appraisal committee meets once a month, except in December when there are no meetings. Each committee considers its own list of technologies, and ongoing topics are not moved between committees.
Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technology to be appraised. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that appraisal.
The minutes of each appraisal committee meeting, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.
The following is a list of the committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Professor Keith Abrams
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Leicester
Dr Ray Armstrong
Consultant Rheumatologist, Southampton General Hospital
Dr Jeff Aronson
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
Dr Michael Boscoe
Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Professor John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics, Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mark Chakravarty
External Relations Director, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Health, Oral Care Europe
Professor Jack Dowie
Health Economist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Ms Sally Gooch
Independent Nursing and Healthcare Consultant
Mrs Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Dr Neil Iosson
General Practitioner
Dr Rosa Legood
Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Mr Terence Lewis
Lay member
Dr Ruairidh Milne
Director of Strategy and Development and Director for Public Health Research, NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, University of Southampton
Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner and Clinical Director, BMJ Evidence Centre
Mr Stephen Palmer
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Mr Philip Pugh
Strategic Development Lead for Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, Health Protection Agency
Dr John Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
Dr Florian Alexander Ruths
Consultant Psychiatrist and Cognitive Therapist, Maudsley Hospital, London
Mr Navin Sewak
Primary Care Pharmacist, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham
Dr Lindsay Smith
General Practitioner, East Somerset Research Consortium
Mr Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Mr Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Professor Ken Stein (Vice Chair)
Professor of Public Health, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter
Professor Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Ms Nathalie Verin
Health Economics Manager, Boston Scientific UK and Ireland
Dr Colin Watts
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of one or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Scott Goulden
Technical Lead
Fiona Rinaldi
Technical Adviser
Jeremy Powell
Project Manager