5 Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
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 4 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.
Professor Darren Ashcroft
Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester
Professor Usha Chakravarthy
Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Peter Clark (Chair)
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Professor Simon Dixon
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Dr Martin Duerden
Assistant Medical Director, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Dr Alexander Dyker
Consultant Physician, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle
Gillian Ells
Prescribing Adviser, NHS Sussex Downs and Weald
Dr Jon Fear
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Head of Healthcare Effectiveness NHS Leeds
Paula Ghaneh
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, University of Liverpool
Niru Goenka
Consultant Physician, Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Susan Griffin
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Carol Haigh
Professor in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Alison Hawdale
Lay member
Professor John Hutton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Professor Peter Jones
Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Keele University
Dr Steven Julious
Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Dr Vincent Kirkbride
Consultant Neonatologist, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield
Rachel Lewis
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Manchester Business School
Professor Jonathan Michaels (Vice Chair)
Professor of Clinical Decision Science, University of Sheffield
Professor Femi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health
Dr John Radford
Director of Public Health, Rotherham Primary Care Trust
Dr Phillip Rutledge
GP and Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Dr Murray D Smith
Associate Professor in Social Research in Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham
Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Charles Waddicor
Chief Executive, NHS Berkshire
Mike Wallace
Health Economics and Reimbursement Director, Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd
Dr Lok Yap
Consultant in Acute Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Whittington Hospitals NHS Trust
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Matthew Dyer
Technical Lead
Joanne Holden
Technical Adviser
Kate Moore
Project Manager