8 Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives and NICE project team
8.1 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 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 Iain Squire (Vice-Chair)
Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester
Professor Thanos Athanasiou
Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences and Cardiac Surgery, Imperial College London; Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Jeremy Braybrooke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Gerardine Bryant
GP, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Dr Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Mr Andrew England
Lecturer in Medical Imaging, NIHR Fellow, University of Liverpool
Professor Jonathan Grigg
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London
Dr Brian Hawkins
Chief Pharmacist, Cwm Taf Health Board, South Wales
Dr Peter Heywood
Consultant Neurologist, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
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
Professor John McMurray
Professor of Medical Cardiology, University of Glasgow
Dr Mohit Misra
GP, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
Ms Sarah Parry
CNS Paediatric Pain Management, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Ms Pamela Rees
Lay Member
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay Member
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Ms Ellen Rule
Programme Director, NHS Bristol
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr Peter Sims
GP, Devon
Dr Eldon Spackman
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mr David Thomson
Lay Member
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University; Consultant in Public Health Medicine, National Public Health Service Wales
Dr Olivia Wu
Reader in Health Economics, University of Glasgow
8.2 Guideline representatives
The following individuals, representing the Guideline Development Group responsible for developing NICE's clinical guideline related to this topic, were invited to attend the meeting to observe and to contribute as advisers to the Committee.
Dr Anthony RB Smith
Consultant Gynaecologist (urinary incontinence clinical guideline development group Chair)
8.3 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.
Dr Grace Jennings
Technical Lead
Dr Kay Nolan (until March 2013)
Technical Adviser
Bijal Joshi
Project Manager