Appendix A: Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives 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 Jane Adam (Chair)
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital, London
Professor A E Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Dr Jeremy Braybrooke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Mr Christopher Earl
Surgical Care Practitioner, Renal Transplant Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Dr Sharon Saint Lamont
Head of Quality and Innovation, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Ian Lewin
Consultant Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital
Dr Anne McCune
Consultant Hepatologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr David Newsham
Lecturer (Orthoptics), University of Liverpool
Ms Pamela Rees
Lay member
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay member
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
Dr Eldon Spackman
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mr Mike Spencer
Assistant Director Patient Experience, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Mr David Thomson
Lay member
Mr William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University and National Public Health Service Wales
Dr Anthony S Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine/Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London