Appendix A: Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
A Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committees are standing advisory committees of NICE. 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. There are four Appraisal Committees, each with a chair and vice chair. Each Appraisal Committee meets once a month, except in December when there are no meetings. Each Committee considers its own list of technologies, and ongoing topics are not moved between Committees.
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.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair from 2010)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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, 2009)
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
Dr Martin Duerden
Medical Director, Conwy Local Health Board
Professor Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Dr Neil Losson
General Practitioner
Dr Rosa Legood
Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Terence Lewis
Lay member
Professor Gary McVeigh
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast
Professor Ruairidh Milne
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment
Dr Neil Milner
General Practitioner, Tramways Medical Centre, Sheffield
Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner and Clinical Director, BMJ Evidence Centre
Dr Peter Norrie
Principal Lecturer in Nursing, DeMontfort University
Professor Stephen Palmer
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician & Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Stephen Saltissi
Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Dr Casey Quinn
Lecturer in Health Economics, Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham
Dr John Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
Alun Roebuck
Consultant Nurse in Critical and Acute Care, United Lincolnshire NHS Trust
Dr Florian Alexander Ruths
Consultant Psychiatrist & Cognitive Therapist, Maudsley Hospital, London
Navin Sewak
Primary Care Pharmacist, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham
Dr Lindsay Smith
General Practitioner, East Somerset Research Consortium
Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Professor Ken Stein (Vice Chair)
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
Nathalie Verin
Health Economics Manager, Boston Scientific UK and Ireland
Mr Colin Watts
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Tom Wilson
Director of Contracts and Information Management and Technology, Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust
B 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.
João Vieira, Dr Ruaraidh Hill and Panagiota Vrouchou
Technical Leads
Joanna Richardson and Helen Chung
Technical Advisers
Jeremy Powell
Project Manager