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7 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team
7 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
Mr John Bagshaw
In-vitro Diagnostics Consultant
Dr Phil Chambers
Research Fellow, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds
Dr Sue Crawford
GP Principal, Chillington Health Centre
Professor Erika Denton
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
Dr Simon Fleming
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital
Dr James Gray
Consultant Microbiologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
Mr John Hitchman
Lay member
Mr Patrick McGinley
Head of Costing and Service Line Reporting, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Dr Michael Messenger
Deputy Director and Scientific Manager, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co‑operative, Leeds
Mrs Alexandria Moseley
Lay member
Dr Peter Naylor
GP, Chair Wirral Health Commissioning Consortia
Dr Dermot Neely
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust
Dr Simon Richards
VP Regulatory Affairs, EME, Alere Inc
Dr Deirdre Ryan
Consultant Cellular Pathologist, Royal London Hospital
Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Steve Thomas
Consultant Vascular and Cardiac Radiologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine/Chemical Pathology, St Thomas Hospital
Specialist committee members
Dr Andrew Latchford
Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark's Hospital
Miss Demetra Georgiou
Genetic counsellor, St Mark's Hospital
Dr Fiona Lalloo
Consultant in Clinical Genetics and Clinical Director of Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine/St Mary's Hospital
Dr Kevin Monahan
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Family History of Bowel Cancer Clinic West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
Professor Mohammed Ilyas
Professor of Pathology (Honorary Consultant) and Head of Division, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham
Dr Pauline Skarrott
Lay specialist committee member
Dr Robert Glynne-Jones
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Hospital
Dr Yvonne Wallis
Consultant Clinical Scientist, West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory
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.
Brendan Mullaney
Topic Lead (until February 2016)
Thomas Walker
Topic Lead (from March 2016)
Sarah Byron
Technical Adviser (until March 2016)
Rebecca Albrow
Technical Adviser (from April 2016)
Robert Fernley
Project Manager