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8 Diagnostics Advisory Committee members and NICE project team
8 Diagnostics Advisory Committee members and NICE project team
Diagnostics Advisory Committee
The Diagnostics Advisory Committee is an independent committee consisting of 22 standing members and additional specialist members. A list of the Committee members who participated in this assessment appears below.
Standing Committee members
Professor Adrian Newland
Chair, Diagnostics Advisory Committee
Dr Mark Kroese
Vice Chair, Diagnostics Advisory Committee and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, PHG Foundation, Cambridge and UK Genetic Testing Network
Professor Ron Akehurst
Professor in Health Economics, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
Dr Paul Collinson
Consultant Chemical Pathologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Biomarkers, St George's Hospital
Dr Sue Crawford
General Practitioner (GP) Principal, Chillington Health Centre
Professor Ian A Cree
Senior Clinical Advisor, NIHR Evaluation Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, University of Southampton
Professor Erika Denton
National Clinical Director for Diagnostics, NHS England, Honorary Professor of Radiology, University of East Anglia and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Dr Steve Edwards
Head of Health Technology Assessment, BMJ Evidence Centre
David Evans
Lay member
Dr Simon Fleming
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital
Professor Chris Hyde
Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG)
Professor Noor Kalsheker
Professor of Clinical Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Mr Matthew Lowry
Director of Finance and Infrastructure, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Michael Messenger
Deputy Director and Scientific Manager NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co operative, Leeds
Dr Peter Naylor
General Practitioner (GP), Chair Wirral Health Commissioning Consortia
Dr Richard Nicholas
Consultant Neurologist; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals
Dr Gail Norbury
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Guys Hospital
Dr Diego Ossa
Director of Market Access Europe, Novartis Molecular Diagnostics
Dr Steve Thomas
Consultant Vascular and Cardiac Radiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Mr Paul Weinberger
CEO, DiaSolve Ltd, London
Mr Christopher Wiltsher
Lay member
Specialist Committee members
Mr Peter Birtles
Lay member
Mrs Diane Kitchen
Specialist Scientific Lead for Point‑of‑Care Programmes
Dr Niall O'Keefe
Clinical Lead Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Dr Peter MacCallum
Senior Lecturer in Haematology
Ms Dianna Oxley
Lay member
Dr Rishabh Prasad
End of Life Clinical Lead, Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group
Ms Sue Rhodes
Anticoagulant and VTE lead
NICE project team
Each diagnostics assessment is assigned to a team consisting of a Technical Analyst (who acts as the topic lead), a Technical Adviser and a Project Manager.
Dr Sarah Byron
Topic Lead and Technical Adviser
Robert Fernley
Project Manager