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9 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team
9 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team
Diagnostics advisory committee
The diagnostics advisory committee is an independent committee consisting of 24 standing members and additional specialist members. During this assessment the membership of the diagnostics advisory committee changed because some members reached the end of their terms and others were appointed in their place. A full list of the committee members who participated in this assessment appears below.
Standing committee members
Professor Ron Akehurst
Professor in Health Economics, School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
Dr Trevor Cole
Consultant Clinical and Cancer Geneticist, Birmingham Women's Hospital
Dr Paul Collinson
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, 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 Imaging, Department of Health, Honorary Professor of Radiology, University of East Anglia and Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
Dr Steve Edwards
Head of Health Technology Assessment, BMJ Evidence Centre.
Mr David Evans
Lay representative
Dr Simon Fleming
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital
Professor Lisa Hall
Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
Professor Noor Kalsheker
Professor of Clinical Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Dr Gail Norbury
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Mark Kroese
Vice Chair, Diagnostics Advisory Committee and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, PHG Foundation, Cambridge and UK Genetic Testing Network
Dr Peter Naylor
GP, Chair Wirral Health Commissioning Consortia
Professor Adrian Newland
Chair, Diagnostics Advisory Committee
Dr Richard Nicholas
Consultant Neurologist; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals
Ms Margaret Ogden
Lay representative
Dr Diego Ossa
Director of Market Access Europe, Novartis Molecular Diagnostics
Mr Stuart Saw
Director of Finance, North East London and the City PCTs
Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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 representative
Specialist committee members
Ms Marie Hecht
Lay member
Professor Ian Kunkler
Consultant and Honorary Professor in Clinical Oncology, Edinburgh Cancer Centre
Professor Graham T Layer
Consultant surgeon and Director of Professional Standards, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Simon Pain
Consultant Breast and Endocrine Surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Mr Zenon Rayter
Consultant surgeon, North Bristol NHS Trust
Dr Deirdre Ryan
Consultant pathologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
Dr Abeer Shaaban
Consultant pathologist, St James's University Hospital
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.
Sarah Byron
Topic Lead
Pall Jonsson
Technical Adviser