6 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 Kathryn Abel
Reader and Consultant Psychiatrist, Director of Centre for Women's Mental Health, University of Manchester

Dr David Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust

Dr Daniele Bryden
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Andrew Burnett
Director for Health Improvement and Medical Director, NHS Barnet, London

David Chandler
Lay member

Dr Mary Cooke
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester

Dr Chris Cooper
General Practitioner, St John's Way Medical Centre, London

Dr Christine Davey
Research Adviser, North and East Yorkshire Alliance Research and Development Unit, York

Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Director, Public Policy and Advocacy NW Europe, BD, Oxford

Professor Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham

Dr Alan Haycox
Reader in Health Economics, University of Liverpool Management School

Professor Cathy Jackson
Professor of Primary Care Medicine, University of St Andrews

Dr Peter Jackson
Clinical Pharmacologist, University of Sheffield

Dr Janice Kohler
Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Pediatric Oncology, Southampton University Hospital Trust

Henry Marsh
Consultant Neurosurgeon, St George's Hospital, London

Professor Gary McVeigh
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen's University Belfast and Consultant Physician, Belfast City Hospital

Professor Eugene Milne
Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, North East Strategic Health Authority, Newcastle upon Tyne

Dr Neil Myers
General Practitioner, Glasgow

Professor Stephen O'Brien
Professor of Haematology, Newcastle University

Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay member

Dr Peter Selby
Consultant Physician, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team, Warrington

Professor Andrew Stevens
Chair of Appraisal Committee C, Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham

Dr Matt Stevenson
Technical Director, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

Professor Paul Trueman
Professor of Health Economics, Brunel University, London

Dr Judith Wardle
Lay member

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.

Emma Stewart
Technical Lead

Joanne Holden and Rebecca Trowman
Technical Advisers

Lori Farrar
Project Manager