8 Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives 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.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Professor Ken Stein (Vice Chair)
Professor of Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School
Dr Ray Armstrong
Consultant Rheumatologist, Southampton General Hospital
Dr Jeff Aronson
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
Mr Matthew Campbell‑Hill
Lay member
Mr Mark Chapman
Health Economics and Market Access Manager, Medtronic UK
Dr Peter Crome
Consultant, Geriatrics
Dr Neil Iosson
Locum General Practitioner
Mrs Anne Joshua
NHS 111 Pharmacy Lead, Patients and Information, NHS England
Dr Sanjay Kinra
Reader in Clinical Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Paediatrics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London NHS Hospitals Trust
Mr Christopher O'Regan
Head of Health Technology Assessment & Outcomes Research, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Professor Stephen Palmer
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician & Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Nicky Welton
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics/Health Technology Assessment, University of Bristol
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 Mary Hughes
Technical Lead
Eleanor Donegan
Technical Adviser
Jeremy Powell
Project Manager