Members of IPAC
Professor Bruce Campbell
Chair
Professor Campbell is a consultant in vascular and general surgery at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he was Chairman of Clinical Audit for many years, and has a leading role in risk management and the provision of information for patients. Professor Campbell served on the Development and Evaluation Committee (DEC) for the South West, and chaired that Committee for the South of England. More recently he has been a member of the NICE Appraisals Committee, and Chairman of the Interventional Technologies Panel for the HTA Programme. He has lectured and published extensively on vascular surgery, provision of services, risk management issues, and palliative care.
Professor Paul Abrams Mb CHB FRCS MD
Professor of Urology and Consultant Surgeon at the Bristol Urological Institute, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
After qualifying in 1970 at Sheffield University Medical School, Professor Abrams was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1974. He received his MD from Bristol in 1977 and was accredited in Urology in 1981. Professor Abrams was a Nuffield Travelling Scholar to Hong Kong (1968), Education Officer for the British Medical Student Association (1968-1969) and President of the Sheffield Medical Society (1969-1970). He is now considered one of the world's leading experts in the field of urology and is involved in many ongoing research projects. Professor Abrams was Chairman of the DoH working party on Continence Services (2000) and has been Chairman of the WHO consultations on Incontinence (1998, 2001, and 2004). He is currently serving as General Secretary of the International Continence Society, is deputy Editor of Neurology and Urodynamics and is a member of several editorial boards and an expert reviewer and referee. Professor Abrams serves as an university examiner for higher degrees, acts as a referee for research grants and for academic professorships, and acts as an advisor for the US FDA, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the US Agency for Healthcare Policy Research. Since 1993, Professor Abrams has been the founding member of the Bristol Urological Institute and is the Director of Research. He has contributed to more than 30 academic books, has produced over 200 journal articles and abstracts, and is an invited speaker in over 30 countries.
Ms Salma Audi
Manager, International Health Economics & Government Affairs, Boston Scientific, UK.
Salma Audi holds a Bachelors degree in neurobiology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters degree in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics. Before joining Boston Scientific, Salma worked as a strategy & reimbursement consultant in the United States, Italy, and England. Part of her experience includes undertaking scientific due diligence for public / private investors. Her current position at Boston Scientific involves working with national and regional agencies on matters relating to cost-effectiveness modelling and implementation, approval and reimbursement of new medical devices and supporting clinical and regulatory teams in the design of health economic components of international trials.
Dr Thomas Barrie
Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow.
Dr Thomas Barrie qualified in 1973 and trained in Glasgow and London prior to taking up his present post in 1981. As well as General Ophthalmology, Dr Barrie's special interests are Surgical Retinal Disease and Diabetic Eye Disease, and has published in both areas. Dr Barrie has served on the Council of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is also an Examiner with the College.
Dr Anna-Maria Belli FRCR
Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Radiology at St Georges Hospital, London
Having originally trained at the Middlesex and St Georges Hospital, Dr Belli is currently Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Interventional and Diagnostic Vascular Radiology at St Georges Hospital and Medical School. Dr Belli is President of the British Society of Interventional Radiology and is a member of numerous committees, both international (including Standards Committee of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE)), national (including Board member of the Faculty of the Royal College of Radiology, the Patient Liaison Group and the Standards Committee of the RCR and the Committee of Safety of Devices of the MDA).
Sue Bennett
Lay member
Sue Bennett, MPhil, took early retirement 14 years ago due to spinal problems.
She is currently a trustee of Incontact, an organisation for people with bladder and/or bowel dysfunction, a member of Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR) and a member of the DH HCAI Service Users in Research Forum.
Sue has previously been a member of the NHS Information Authority Public Reference Group, was a member of the NICE Faecal Incontinence Guideline Development Group, and on the NICE pilot Patient Safety Advisory Committee.
Her main interests include disability equality especially in relation to health issues.
Dr Roger W G Chapman BSc(Lond) MD(Lond) MBBS FRCP(Lond)
Consultant Gastroenterologist Oxford Radcliffe Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Oxford University Medical School
Dr Chapman underwent his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He acts as an external examiner for the University of London, Cambridge, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and Manchester as well as an internal examiner for final MBBS at the University of Oxford. He has been a member of various editorial boards of medical journals including GUT, Journal of Hepatology and International Journal of Gastroenterology. Dr Chapman has published many books, for exampleTopics In Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology for Patients and Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease - A Clinicians Guide as well as numerous specialist chapters in other books. Dr Chapmans's research interests include primary sclerosing cholangitis and its relationship to liver dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease. He currently has a grant from the European Study Group to promote collaboration with Norway into PSC. Other areas of research include the immunopathogenesis and treatment of Hepatitis C and B using new anti-viral agents, peptic ulceration, reflux oesophagitis and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr Chapman was born in Cardiff, and he is married to a General Practitioner and has four children.
Dr Kevin Cleary
Medical Director, NPSA
Dr Kevin Cleary joined the NPSA as Medical Director in July 2007. Since graduating from the Otago School of Medicine New Zealand he has worked as a psychiatrist and a Clinical Director in the NHS. Recently, he worked closely with the Department of Health to develop a secure inpatient unit for adolescents in West London. He continues to work one day a week as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist.
Dr Allan Cole
Medical Director, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Dr. Allan Cole has been a Consultant Anaesthetist in Leicester since 1985. He was subsequently appointed Medical Director when the Glenfield Hospital NHS Trust was established in 1993. When the three acute hospital trusts in Leicester merged to form the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL NHS Trust) on 1 April 2000, he was appointed Medical Director. Dr. Cole continues to practice clinically on a part-time basis in General Anaesthesia. As Medical Director of UHL he has developed the Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance systems of this Trust, which is one of the largest in the UK. He has also had a close involvement in the development of Clinical Governance nationally - working with several national Bodies on a number of issues, particularly those associated with Clinical Risk Management, Consultant Appraisal and Medical Staff Performance Management. Dr. Cole is an active member of BAMM (British Association of Medical Managers) since its inception and has been on the Board for 7 years. He was Chairman from 2003 - 2005.
Miss Sohier Elneil PhD MRCOG
Consultant Urogynaecologist and Gynaecologist
Miss Sohier Elneil is a Consultant Urogynaecologist and Gynaecologist at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. She started her career in the field of Urogynaecology in the early 1990's when she became involved with patients who suffered obstetric pelvic floor trauma in Africa. She went on to develop a clinical and academic career looking into pelvic floor dysfunction in women. Miss Elneil sits on numerous National and International committees, whose remit is to improve the provision of healthcare for women suffering with incontinence and prolapse in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. These include specific committees within the Federation Internationale for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the United Nations Family Planning Association, the World Health Organization, and the European Association of Urology.
Peter Gosling
Lay Member
Peter Gosling BSc (Physics), MSc (Biomechanics) is a retired Clinical Engineer/Scientist who specialised in the provision of professional clinical & electronics engineering support for clinical routine and research applications of electro-medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment within the NHS.
Following his retirement Peter was involved with the Community Health Councils, and has, until recently, been a member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists Patient Liaison Group. Other involvements have included membership of the Department of Health expert group on blocked anaesthetic tubing (EGBAT) and the NICE Perioperative Hypothermia (Inadvertent) Guideline Development Group.
Peter is also member of two other NICE committees: The Topic Selection Advisory Committee (General and Acute) and a Guideline Review Panel. His specific interests include the impact of developing technology on the quality of patient care and experience as well as the broader ethical issues modern medical developments give rise to.
Dr Peter Groves MBBS, MD, FRCP
Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Director of Cardiothoracic Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Dr Groves qualified from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1984 MBBS (Hons); completed general medical training in the Newcastle Hospitals (MRCP) and then moved to Cardiff to undertake specialist cardiology training. Dr Groves performed cardiovascular research in Cardiff (BHF Fellowship; MD awarded) and Freiburg, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Scholar). Two years as senior registrar at the Royal Brompton National Heart Hospital was followed by appointment as Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of Wales in 1996. Dr Groves is a full-time Clinical Cardiologist with an interest in percutaneous interventional cardiac procedures and has been the Clinical Director of cardiac services at the University Hospital of Wales for the last five years. He is currnetly President of the Welsh Cardiovascular Society and Council member of the British Cardiovascular Society. He has a continued interest in cardiovascular research and teaching.
Stephen Large
Consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon
Stephen Large is a consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital, taking up the post in 1989. It has included leadership of the heart transplant programme. His interests in the surgery of heart failure has led to the development of a National programme of mechanical heart support and to numerous publications in the field of intervention for heart failure. He also has an interest in training and is the cardio-thoracic sub-dean to Cambridge medical school.
Dr Susanne M Ludgate BSC(Hons) MBChB DMRT FRCR FRACR
Medical Director of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (formerly Medical Devices Agency)
Dr Ludgate has been responsible for the setting up and management of the clinical investigation system of new medical devices under the provisions of the Medical Devices Regulations. She is a member of the European Commission Working Party on clinical investigations of medical devices and has helped to write both the CEN and ISO Standards relating to clinical investigations of medical devices. She has also written a number of guidance documents on clinical data and meeting the provisions of the Medical Devices Regulations for industry and clinical investigators.
Dr Ludgate has published extensively on the Medical Devices Regulations and the reporting and handling of device related adverse incidents. She is a member of the Department of Health Technology Advisory Group, a member of the HTA Diagnostic Technologies and Screening panel and a previous member of SERNIP.
Ms Karen McColgan
Lead Nurse for Surgery, Belfast City Hospital.
Karen began her nursing career in 1986 qualifying in 1990 and has spent approximately fifteen years working within the peri-operative environment as a staff nurse, team leader and manager. In 2005, she accepted the position of Lead Nurse for Surgery a role which enables her to take a holistic approach to surgical nursing with responsibility for vascular, ENT, breast, colorectal and general surgery.Karen has received numerous awards over her career including the RCN Ward Manager of the year for Northern Ireland in May 2004, Award for Innovative Practice in Ophthalmic Daycare in February 2004, and a Travel Fellowship Award (Association for Peri-operative practice) in 2005. She has presented at various national and European conferences on subjects including surgical throughput and ophthalmic daycare and is a qualified nurse lecturer (2005). Karen is due to complete her MSc in Nursing in 2007.
Michael Rhodes
Consultant Surgeon
Michael Rhodes has been a consultant surgeon and honorary reader at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital since 1995. After medical training in Cambridge then Oxford, his surgical training was in Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff and finally as the first laparoscopic fellow in Brisbane. His major clinical interests are laparoscopic surgery and weight loss surgery. As well as fulfilling the role of the senior surgeon on the upper GI unit in Norwich, he as been active in teaching laparoscopic surgery to other disciplines such as urology and paediatric surgery. He also has an active research programme in collaboration with the Institute of Food Research in Norwich and has supervised 13 MD theses as well as publishing over 100 papers on laparoscopic surgery and gastrointestinal disease. He holds council positions on the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons, British Obesity Surgery Society and the British Obesity Surgery Patients Association. Outside medicine, he is a keen photographer and has had 17 books of his pictures published.
Mr John Saxby
Chief Executive, County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospital
John Saxby graduated in 1972 from King's College London with a BA Honours degree in German. He worked in the Insurance Industry for two years , joining the Health Service in late 1974. He worked in a variety of management roles in London, Bristol and Cornwal. He was appointed Chief Executive in Darlington in 1993. Two Trust mergers later he is Chief Executive of the three Acute Hospitals in County Durham and Darlington, two of which are PFI Hospitals. Along the way he has completed an M.Phil on Alienation in German Expressionist Literature and an MBA.
Dr Henry Smithson
General Practitioner
Dr Henry Smithson is a GP in North Yorkshire and is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate training. He is research lead for the practice and chaired the NICE Epilepsies guidelines group. He chaired the Yorkshire Faculty of the RCGP and has served on the College Council and previously as a Prince of Wales RCGP fellow.
Dr Merran Thomson
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital London
Dr Thomson is the Chief of Service for Paediatrics and Neonatology within the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, and Lead Clinician for the neonatal service at QCCH - the largest tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in the South East of England. Dr Thomson is responsible for assessment, evaluation, introduction and development of treatment therapies, procedures and equipment within this service. She is also the Lead for Clinical Governance including risk management, policy development and consent implementation. Dr Thomson's research interests include neonatal respiratory disease and using technology and treatment in an optimal way to improve outcome. She is working in collaboration with the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the University of Texas, USA on the development of new models of treatment neonatal bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Mr Barrie White BSc MBBS FRCP FRCS(SN) (Vice-Chair)
Neurosurgeon at The University Hospital in Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham
Barrie was a late entrant to medicine following a degree in pharmacology at Portsmouth Polytechnic. He qualified from King's College, London, in 1982, and followed this with general professional training in medicine and surgery in London and Bath, then neurosurgery in Nottingham and Liverpool. Since consultant appointment in 1994, Barrie has served six years as Clinical Director for Neurosciences at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, and three years as its Assistant Medical Director (Clinical Audit & Practice). Part of this role includes managing the introduction of new procedures in the Trust. He has developed methods commended by CHI and CNST for auditing individual clinical & overall Trust performance. Barrie is a Council Member and Clinical Standards Committee Member of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. He is interested in clinical performance analysis and making sense of Clinical Information and Clinical Indicators.
Professor Charles Wolfe MD FRCOG FFPHM
Academic public health physician at King's College, London and Guy's & St Thomas' Trust
Professor Wolfe heads a stroke research group assessing the natural history of stroke and evaluating new ways of providing stroke care. He is Director of Research in the Trust and is involved in the evaluation of service innovations across the health sector. Professor Wolfe has been involved in evaluating health services in the field of stroke, maternity, gynaecology and oncology using methods ranging from audit to cluster trials.
