Members of IPAC

Members of IPAC

Professor Bruce Campbell
Chair, Consultant Vascular Surgeon

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.

Prof Roger Atkins
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Atkins trained in Oxford, London and Sheffield and has been a consultant since 1988. His major clinical interests are in limb reconstruction and disability following injury. He has researched and published extensively in these areas and lectures on them internationally. He runs the annual British Injured Foot Course. He is a member of the Council of the British Orthopaedic Association, an examiner for the final orthopaedic fellowship and a past president and founder member of the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Ms 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 Tom Clutton-Brock FRCP FRCA

Consultant in Anaesthesia

Tom is Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at The University of Birmingham. He is also Senior Medical Officer at the MHRA, Associate Medical Director, University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust and member of Council at the Royal College of Anaesthetists from March 2010. Clinically Tom works in adult Critical Care and has research interests in point-of-care testing and the management of severe respiratory failure. Tom has extensive teaching commitments at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels with a particular interest in e-learning and simulation based teaching

Dr Andrew Cook

Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Dr Andrew Cook graduated from the University of London in 1994. After posts in surgery, hospital medicine, emergency medicine and psychiatry he trained as a public health physician in the West Midlands. He is currently a Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Fellow in Health Technology Assessment at the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) at the University of Southampton, where he works with the NIHR Health Technology Assessment and Public Health Research programmes, and also leads NETSCC's contribution to the European Network for Health Technology Assessment. Previously he was the first Director of the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation secretariat, based at NETSCC, and subsequently Director of the Public Health Research Programme Secretariat. He is an examiner for the Faculty of Public Health.

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.

Mr Liam M Flood FRCS

Liam Flood qualified from UCH, London in 1976 and trained in ENT Surgery at UCH, the Marsden, Ann Arbor Michigan USA and the Royal National TNE, Gray's Inn Rd. He started consultant practice in Middlesbrough in 1985 and now sub specialises in Otology and Surgery of sleep disordered breathing. He has served five years on the Intercollegiate FRCS Board in ORL and a similar term, subsequently, on the SAC. He is a former President of the North of England ENT Society and is an executive editor for each of the three UK ENT speciality journals. He continues to publish and lecture widely on special interests such as the role of imaging in planning ear surgery.

Mr Mark Hackett,
Chief Executive Officer, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

Mark has worked in the NHS since 1984 when he entered the NHS graduate training scheme in the West Midlands. He worked in general management posts in Birmingham, London and Wales until he was appointed Chief Executive at Birmingham Women's Hospital in 1996 and the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in 1999. He commenced his current appointment as Chief Executive Officer at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2004. The Trust has developed a clear 2020 Vision for its future as a leading clinical and academic centre.

The hospital is a research focused enterprise with strong research partnerships, which Mark has a keen interest in developing.

Mark has a passionate commitment to the NHS. His main interests are strategic development, leadership, operational delivery and human resource management. He has published and lectured to many audiences in these areas.

Mr 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.

Dr Janet McComb
Consultant Cardiologist

Dr Janet McComb trained in Belfast and Boston, Massachussetts and has been a consultant cardiac electrophysiologist since 1986. Her major interests are the management of cardiac arrhythmias, either by catheter ablation, or using implantable cardiac devices, including pacemakers and defibrillators. Her current research interests are in device provision and in remote monitoring of device therapy. She is a past president of Heart Rhythm UK, and has served on the Council of the British Cardiovascular Society. She has previously been an associate editor (electrophysiology) of Heart.

Dr Guilianna Silvestri

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Reader Royal Hospitals, BHSCT and Queen's University Belfast

Dr Silvestri qualified in 1983 at Queen's University Belfast and trained in Belfast and Moorfield's Eye Hospital before being appointed as a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology in 1994. Dr Silvestri's special interests are in the management of retinal disorders including, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetes and inflammatory eye disorders. In terms of research, Dr Silvestri has established a team of clinical and molecular investigators who now conduct internationally recognised research into the genetics of age-related macular degeneration AMD and Retinitis Pigmentosa. Dr Silvestri and her team have published in these areas and have widespread collaborations. Dr Silvestri's also holds the following positions; Programme Director for Ophthalmology Teaching in Northern Ireland, Head of Student Support for the Medical School, Co-chair for Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network, executive member of the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit and a member of the Ophthalmic Research Advisory Group (ORAG) for the Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Dr Nigel Smith
Scientific Advisor to Synthes

Nigel Smith is Scientific Advisor to Synthes and previously has worked for a variety of medical device and consultancy companies, both large and small over the past 25 years. Dr Smith has worked in a range of application areas and throughout his industrial experience has been responsible for early stage research leading to pre-clinical evaluations of medical technologies. With a PhD in Chemistry combined with business experience managing collaborative and multidisciplinary research areas, product development groups, regulatory and clinical affairs, Dr Smith gained his MBA in 2000 and is an experienced Research Director and Research Manager in leadprojects and product development portfolios in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Dr Rod Taylor
Associate Professor in Health Services Research & Scientific Director of Peninsula Clinical Trials Unit, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter

Professor in Health Services Research at and Scientific Director of the Peninsula Clinical Trials Unit, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry at Universities of Exeter & Plymouth in UK. From 1999 to 2001, he was first Director of Appraisals at National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and is currently a member of the NICE's Technology Appraisal and Interventional Procedures Advisory Committees. His previously held academic appointments include the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London and Universities of Birmingham and Glasgow. He published over 120 research articles in the field of health services research and health technology assessment. He has PhD Clinical Physiology (Glasgow), MSc in Medical Statistics (London) and Postgrad. Dip. Health Economics (Aberdeen). His research interests include clinical trial design, the use of surrogate outcomes in HTA, evaluation of medical devices and the international trends and development in HTA.

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.

Dr Kevin Harris, MD FRCP

Medical Director and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Dr Harris has been a Consultant since 1993 and is currently also a Reader in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Leicester. He was Clinical Vice President of the Renal Association until 2010.
He is executive lead for safety and quality in UHL, which is one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in the UK.
He previously served as a member of the NICE Chronic Kidney Disease guideline development group and has also been a member of the Topic Expect Group for the development of Quality Standards for people with Chronic Kidney Disease.
He has published on the pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease and currently is examining methods to improve the care and outcomes of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Mr Abhay Rane, MS FRCS(Urol)
Consultant Urological Surgeon at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust

Abhay was appointed consultant urological surgeon at East Surrey Hospital in 2000. He has clinical and research interests in the minimally invasive treatment of kidney pathology, with an emphasis on surgical innovation. He has spearheaded the development of single site surgery in urology, having performed the first ever single-port nephrectomy in 2007. He has acted as a mentor in laparoscopic surgery for over 25 consultant urologists in the UK and abroad. He is elected to Council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and is Regional Advisor to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Abhay is founder and current Chairman of the Southern Laparoscopic Urology Group, a peer review group focused on patient safety.

Mrs Rosemary Harris,
Lay member

Rosemary is a solicitor. Since 1993 she has been involved in complaints and client care, including training, in the legal profession. Her particular interest is communication between professionals and between them and their clients/patients.

She is an Associate Consultant with the Law Society's Risk and Compliance Service. Rosemary is an examiner of communication skills and a lay reviewer resolving concerns about the performance of individual surgeons or units, both for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She is a member of the Consumers' Forum of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was previously a member of the Patient Liaison Group of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. She is also a member of a Research Ethics Committee. Recent appointments include lay advisor for the West Midlands Deanery and lay representative for the National GP Recruitment Steering Group. She has also been a member of the West Midlands Committee of the Department of Health's Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards and has worked with GP practices advising on patient experience.

Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald MACantab, MD, FRCP
Consultant Gastroenterology and Oncology, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

Rebecca Fitzgerald is Programme Leader at the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge and Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She qualified from Cambridge University, trained at St Barts and The Royal London, and performed her research at Stanford University, California. Her research interests include malignant transformation processes in the oesophagus and the development of novel clinical methods for early cancer detection incorporating devices and molecular technologies.

Dr Anthony Emmerson
Consultant Neonatologist, St Mary's Hospital Manchester

Dr Anthony Emmerson has been a consultant neonatologist since 1993. He was the Clinical Director of the combined medical and surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit until 2011 and is the Clinical Lead for the Greater Manchester Neonatal Network and the Medical Director of the Greater Manchester Neonatal Intensive Care Partnership. He has had a long interest also in medical education and is the Head of School for Paediatrics in the North Western Deanery and the Medical Editor of the Journal Infant. His academic interests include investigating the use of erythropoietin for the treatment of neonatal anaemia and the use of technology for the automatic detection of apnoea in preterm infants.

Professor Jon Moss
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, North Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust

Professor Jon Moss qualified in medicine in 1979 Edinburgh. After a fellowship in the U.S.A. in interventional radiology he took up a consultant post in Glasgow in 1992. He has a keen interest in research and was awarded an honorary Professorship by the University of Glasgow. He has been on the council of the British Society of Interventional Radiology in several capacities over the last 15 years and was recently secretary. He holds several research grants and has published and lectured widely on interventional radiology. He is a panel member of the Interventional procedures panel of the HTA and sits on the editorial board of CVIR.