7 Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
7.1 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 Andrew Stevens
Chair of Appraisal Committee C, Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham
Professor Gary McVeigh
Vice chair of Appraisal Committee C, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queens University Belfast and Consultant Physician, Belfast City Hospital
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
Professor Peter Crome
Consultant Geriatrician and Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Keele University
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 Greg Fell
Consultant in Public Health, Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trust
Dr Wasim Hanif
Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University Hospital Birmingham
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 Paediatric Oncology, Southampton University Hospital Trust
Dr Grant Maclaine
Director, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, BD, Oxford
Henry Marsh
Consultant Neurosurgeon, St George's Hospital, London
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
Professor Katherine Payne
Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay Member
Dr Martin Price
Head of Outcomes Research, Janssen‑Cilag, Buckinghamshire
Alan Rigby
Academic Reader, University of Hull
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
Dr John Stevens
Lecturer in Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics, School of Health and Related Research, Sheffield
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
7.2 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.
Christian Griffiths
Technical Lead
Joanne Holden
Technical Adviser
Lori Farrar
Project Manager