7 Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committee is a standing advisory committee of NICE. Its 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. The Appraisal Committee meets three times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The Committee membership is split into three branches, each with a chair and vice chair. Each branch considers its own list of technologies, and ongoing topics are not moved between the branches.
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.
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
Dr Darren Ashcroft
Reader in Medicines Usage and Safety, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester
Professor David Barnett (Chair)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr Peter Barry
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Professor John Cairns
Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mark Chakravarty
External Relations Director – Pharmaceuticals & Personal Health, Oral Care Europe
Professor Jack Dowie
Health Economist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Ms Sally Gooch
Independent Nursing and Healthcare Consultant
Mrs Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Professor Gary McVeigh
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr Ruairidh Milne
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology
Dr Neil Milner
General Practitioner, Tramways Medical Centre, Sheffield
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Rosalind Ramsay
Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Mental Health Services, Maudsley Hospital, London
Dr Lindsay Smith
General Practitioner, East Somerset Research Consortium
Mr Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Mr Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Professor Ken Stein
Professor of Public Health, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter
Professor Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Dr Rod Taylor
Associate Professor in Health Services Research, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
Ms Nathalie Verin
Health Economics Manager, Boston Scientific UK and Ireland
Dr Colin Watts
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Mr Tom Wilson
Director of Contracts and Information Management and Technology, Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of one or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Elangovan Gajraj
Technical Lead
Helen Chung, Prashanth Kandaswamy
Technical Advisers
Shaun Minehan, Jeremy Powell
Project Managers