Appendix A: Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
A 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.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital
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
Professor John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Professor Jonathan Grigg
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London
Professor Daniel Hochhauser
Consultant in Medical Oncology
Dr Neil Iosson
General Practitioner
Anne Joshua
Associate Director of Pharmacy, NHS Direct
Terence Lewis
Lay Member
Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner and Clinical Director, BMJ Evidence Centre
Dr Peter Norrie
Principal Lecturer in Nursing, DeMontfort University
Professor Stephen Palmer
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay Member
Dr John Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
Alun Roebuck
Consultant Nurse in Critical and Acute Care, United Lincolnshire NHS Trust
Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Cliff Snelling
Lay Member
Marta Soares
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
David Thomson
Lay Member
Dr Nerys Woolacott
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
B 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.
Ahmed Elsada
Technical Lead
Pall Jonsson and Raisa Sidhu
Technical Advisers
Jeremy Powell
Project Manager