4 Committee members and NICE project team

Committee members

This topic was considered by NICE's medical technologies advisory committee, which is a standing advisory committee of NICE.

Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technologies to be evaluated. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that evaluation.

The minutes of each committee meeting, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.

Additional specialist committee members and professional experts took part in the discussions and provided expert advice for this topic.

Specialist committee members

David Chuter
Lay member

David van Dellen
Consultant transplant and general surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary NHS Foundation Trust

Declan Dunne
Consultant hepato-pancreato-biliary and general surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

John Organ
Lay member

Liviu V Titu
Consultant colorectal surgeon, Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Prasanna Sooriakumaran
Consultant urological surgeon, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sheraz Markar
Consultant oesophago-gastric surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Toby Page
Consultant urological surgeon, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Experts

Carmine Civilli
Robotic surgical care practitioner, The Christie Private Care

Debashis Ghosh
Consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon, Royal Free Hospital London

Deena Harji
Consultant colorectal surgeon and associate professor of surgery, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and University of Leeds

George Mochlolis
Senior consultant ENT/head and neck/thyroid/robotic surgeon, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Gijs van Boxel
Consultant esophagogastric and bariatric surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Jajini Varghese
Consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon, Royal Free Hospital London

James Tibbott
Consultant gynaecologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

Jason Fleming
Honorary consultant head and neck surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Joshua Burke
Academic colorectal surgery registrar, Manchester Foundation Trust

Karen Redmond
Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, Blackrock Health and The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Leanne Ashrafian
Consultant thoracic surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Marielle Nobbenhuis
Gynaecological oncology surgeon, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Nahid Gul
Consultant gynaecological pelvic surgeon, Spire Murrayfield Hospital

Nuha Yassin
Consultant colorectal surgeon and honorary associate clinical professor, University Hospitals Birmingham 

Tim Pencavel
Consultant hepatobiliary surgeon, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

NICE project team

Each evaluation assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the topic), a technical adviser, a project manager and an associate director. An evidence generation team lead and implementation team lead were also assigned for this topic.

Louisa Robinson and Ivan Maslyankov
Technical analysts

Kimberley Carter
Technical adviser

Catherine Pank
Project manager

Anastasia Chalkidou
Associate director

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