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. A list of the Committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal appears below. There are 4 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.
Professor Darren Ashcroft
Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester
Dr Brian Buckley
Lay member
Mark Campbell
Director of Standards, Bury Primary Care Trust
Professor Usha Chakravarthy
Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Peter Clark
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Liverpool
Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Dr Simon Dixon
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Dr Martin Duerden
Medical Director, Conwy Local Health Board
Dr Alexander Dyker
Consultant Physician, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Newcastle
Dr Jon Fear
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Head of Healthcare Effectiveness NHS Leeds
Miss Paula Ghaneh
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, University of Liverpool
Dr Susan Griffin
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Carol Haigh
Professor in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Kevin Hardy
Consultant Physician, St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Alison Hawdale
Lay member
Professor John Hutton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Professor Peter Jones
Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise and Professor of Statistics, Keele University
Dr Steven Julious
Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Dr Vincent Kirkbride
Consultant Neonatologist, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield
Dr Rachel Lewis
Doctoral Researcher
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Neil Milner
General Medical Practitioner, Tramways Medical Centre
Professor Femi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health, Birmingham
Mike Pinkerton
Chief of Business Development – The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
John Radford
Director of Public Health, Rotherham Primary Care Trust
Dr Phillip Rutledge
GP and Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Dr Stephen Saltissi
Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Paddy Storrie
Lay member
Dr Cathryn Patricia Thomas
GP and Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Mike Wallace
Health Economics and Reimbursement Director, Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd
Dr Lok Yap
Consultant in Acute Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Whittington Hospitals NHS Trust, London
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Panagiota Vrouchou
Technical Lead
Rebecca Trowman
Technical Adviser
Kate Moore
Project Manager