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.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Professor Ken Stein (Vice Chair)
Professor of Public Health, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter
Dr Ray Armstrong
Consultant Rheumatologist, Southampton General Hospital
Dr Jeff Aronson
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
Dr Peter Barry
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Professor John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
David Chandler
Lay Member
Mark Chapman
Health Economics and Market Access Manager, Medtronic UK
Professor Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Professor Daniel Hochhauser
Consultant in Medical Oncology
Dr Neil Iosson
General Practitioner
Anne Joshua
Associate Director of Pharmacy, NHS Direct
Terence Lewis
Lay member
Professor Ruairidh Milne
Director of Strategy and Development and Director for Public Health Research at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre at the University of Southampton
Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner and Clinical Director, BMJ Evidence Centre
Dr Elizabeth Murray
Reader in Primary Care, University College London
Dr Peter Norrie
Principal Lecturer in Nursing, DeMontfort University
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician & Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay member
Alun Roebuck
Consultant Nurse in Critical and Acute Care, United Lincolnshire NHS Trust
Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Cliff Snelling
Lay Member
Marta Soares
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Dr Nerys Woolacott
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York