Professor David Barnett MD FRCP
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Professor Barnett is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Leicester Medical School. He is an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Leicester Royal Infirmary with a special interest in cardiovascular disease. He was previously a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the LRI NHS Trust. He has also been Chairman of the Specialist Advisory Committee for General Internal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (1996-99) and a senior examiner for MRCP(UK) Part II. Professor Barnett is a member of the Medical Research Society and the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland.
Dr David Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County PCT
David Black was appointed as Director of Public Health for the new Derbyshire County PCT and Derbyshire County Council in November 2006. He completed General Practice vocational training in 1992, before working in New Zealand in both general practice and psychiatry. His public health training was in South Yorkshire and the Department of Health and first consultant appointment was in North Derbyshire. He became Director of Public Health for Chesterfield PCT in 2002. His interests range from employment and health, harm reduction in substance misuse through to specialised service commissioning.
Mr Brian Buckley BA HDip MHSc
Voluntary Chairman, Incontact
Brian Buckley is voluntary Chairman of Incontact (Action on Incontinence), a charitable organisation based in London providing support and information to people affected by bladder and bowel problems and campaigning for greater awareness and understanding of these very common conditions. Originally an artist and film/television designer from Belfast, since the mid 1990s he worked increasingly in the health and disability fields for voluntary organisations and health authorities and is now a full time researcher in Primary Care. Brian research interests include patients' and carers' relationship with and experience of ill-health, health care and health research and the inclusion of representative patient perspectives in health services research and decision making. He currently collaborates with the James Lind Alliance, the QALYity project and several projects at Aberdeen University such as the Cochrane Library review group, the MAPS study (a large multi-centre RCT), the Scottish Collaboration of Triallists (SCoT), and the Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT). He is lead author on a Cochrane Review currently in progress of multidisciplinary service organisation for the secondary prevention of Ischaemic Heart Disease.
Dr Carol Campbell CPsychol, AFBPsS
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teeside
Dr. Carol Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social sciences and Law at the University of Teesside. She is a Chartered Health Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Her research areas of interest include the study of pain, health cognition (particularly expectations and perceptions) and user/lay knowledge of health and illness.
Professor Mike Campbell BA, PhD, CStat
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Mike Campbell started his career with the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit in South Wales, and he then spent 16 years at the medical school in Southampton. He has worked on problems in practically all areas of medical research, and been consulted widely by the pharmaceutical industry. He is a BMJ statistical referee and an editor of Statistics in Medicine. He has served on national Committees for the MRC and the Department of Health. He was previously Chair of the Royal Statistical Society's Examination Board and is a media contact for the Society on health and disease.
Professor David Chadwick
Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurological Science, Liverpool University
David Chadwick is Professor of Neurology and Head of Department of Neurological Science at the University of Liverpool. He was consultant neurologist to Mersey Regional Health Authority from 1979 to 1992 before taking up his current appointment. His research and clinical interests are in epilepsy where he has been responsible for organising large pragmatic trials examining the impact of drug treatment policies on clinical and psychosocial outcomes.
Dr Peter Clark
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
Dr Clark is a consultant medical oncologist at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, the cancer centre for Merseyside and Cheshire. He is the lead clinician for the Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Research Network and is Director for Research and Development in his Trust. He is Chairman of the Association of Cancer Physicians, the specialist society for Medical Oncology in the UK. He is chairman of the Royal College of Physicians Joint Specialty Committee for Medical Oncology and is a Board member for the National Collaborating Centre for Cancer. Dr Clark is also Co-Chairman with the National Cancer Director of the National Chemotherapy Advisory Group and is a member of the Steering Committee for the National Cancer Research Institute Cancer Conference. He is a member of several Data Monitoring Committees for international cancer treatment trials. He was Medical Director of his Trust between 1994 and 2001.
Ms Jude Cohen-Phillips
Lay Member
Special Projects Consultant, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Biography to follow.
Dr Christine Davey GradDipPhys, BA, MSc, PhD
Senior Researcher, North Yorkshire Alliance Research and Development Unit
Christine Davey's clinical background is in physiotherapy although her working experience has been very broad, In addition to working as a paediatric physiotherapist she has been a researcher and a lecturer, most recently in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences at the University of Southampton. Here she taught all aspects of evidence based practice and research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate health professionals and was programme director for an MSc in the management of childhood disability. She currently works in an NHS Research and Development department providing research support, advice and education to staff in four NHS trusts in North Yorkshire. As an NHS patient, she has also experienced life as a research participant, having taken part in a drug trial.
Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, Royal Infirmary, Manchester
Dr Davies is a consultant general physician with a special interest in disorders of parathyroid gland function, calcium, magnesium and vitamin D metabolism and disorders of the skeleton. He spent 14 years as a member of District Health Authority in East Lancashire latterly as a non-executive member of the purchasing authority until 1994. For 15 years until 2005 he was Vice Chairman of the charity National Association for the relief of Paget's Disease. He is Director of the Supra-Regional Assay Service for the measurement of Vitamin D and its metabolites and presently the Chair of the Specialist Training subcommittee for General Internal Medicine in the North West. A former regional Adviser and Censor of the Royal College of Physicians of London he is a senior examiner for the MRCP(UK) Paces examination. Dr Davies is a member of the Medical Research Society, Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, British Endocrine Society and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Mr Richard Devereaux-Philips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Limited
Richard was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool and Brighton Polytechnic, where he obtained a degree in Sports Science. He graduated with an MBA in Health Economics Research and Management from Keele University in 2003. He is currently the Healthcare Policy and Payment Manager for Medtronic Ltd., having spent a decade in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. He is a member of the Institute of Healthcare Management and Chair of the Association of British Healthcare Industries Parliamentary Working Group. It is as a representative of the Association that Richard sits on the Committee. Richard and his wife Joanne live in North London and West Cornwall.
Dr Rachel Elliot BPharm MRPharmS PhD
Senior clinical lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester
Rachel Elliott is Senior Clinical Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is also Honorary Principal Pharmacist at Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust. She has a PhD in health economics and her research perspective is in health economics and health technology assessment, focussing on the economic analysis of medicines in real-world settings. Her principal research themes are in influencing medicines taking behaviour, pharmaceutical policy and infection control. She recently completed a Commonwealth Fund of New York Harkness Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of a local Medicines Management Committee charged with implementing prescribing policies within the NHS. She is the director of the MSc in Clinical and Health Services Pharmacy.
Dr Dyfrig Hughes BPharm MSc PhD MRPharmS
Senior Research Fellow, University of Wales Bangor
Dyfrig Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacoeconomics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Economics and Policy in Health at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is a pharmacist and pharmacologist by training, and was awarded an NHS fellowship in Health Economics in 1998. His interests include the evaluation of the impact of non-compliance on the pharmacological, clinical, and cost-effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. Dyfrig provides health economic support to the Welsh Medicines Partnership and is currently deputy health economist for the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group. He is a member of the editorial boards of PharmacoEconomics, and Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
Dr Catherine Jackson BSc MRCGP
Clinical Lecturer Primary Care Medicine, Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee
Dr Jackson qualified at the University of Manchester in 1977, and is currently working as a Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care Medicine at the Tayside Centre for General Practice, Dundee Medical School. She continues to practice as a GP in a rural practice, and is responsible for running the Clinical Consultation Skills programme for the senior medical students at Dundee medical school. She has research interests in both medical education and airways inflammation.
Dr Peter Jackson PhD, FRCP
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Sheffield
Doctor Jackson is Reader in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics in the academic unit of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sheffield. He is Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield practicing General Internal Medicine with a special interest in hypertension. His research interests are the factors that influence decisions to start and stop long-term drug treatment. He is Regional Specialty Advisor and sits on the Specialist Advisory Committee for Clinical Pharmacology of the Royal College of Physicians (1996-99). Doctor Jackson also sits on the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, was previously Chairman of the South Sheffield Research Ethics Committee and more recently a member of the Trent Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee. He is a member of the British Pharmacological Society and the British Hypertension Society.
Professor Peter Jones BSc MSc PhD CStat
Pro Vice Chancellor for Research & Enterprise, Keele University
Professor of Statistics, Keele University
Peter Jones obtained his PhD in Mathematical Statistics at Aberystwyth and was an assistant lecturer and lecturer there before arriving at Keele. He was appointed PVC for Research & Enterprise in April 2005 after previous posts as Dean of Natural Sciences and Head of the Mathematics Department. He has research interests in adaptive experimental designs, statistical modelling, medical application of Bayesian methods and genetics. He was previously a Non Executive Director and Vice Chair of the trust board at the Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry and is currently serving on the Hefce/DH Nursing and AHP Policy Committee and the core panel of the NCC RCD Personal Award Scheme.
Ms Rachel Lewis RGN, RSCN, BA (Hons), MA
Practice Development Facilitator for Intermediate Care, South Manchester
Rachel Lewis is a nurse and Practice Development Facilitator for Intermediate Care in South Manchester. She is also a nurse adviser to the Renal NSF team at the Department of Health.
Dr Damien Longson
Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital
Biography to follow.
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Jonathan Michaels is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Sheffield. He has been Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Sheffield Vascular Institute, which is now part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, since its formation in 1995. His current research relates to all aspects of vascular disease including varicose veins, venous ulceration, endovascular aneurysm repair, carotid and peripheral vascular disease. He has a particular interest in the appraisal of new technology, clinical trials and economic and decision modelling. He has also been closely involved in the development of sub-specialist vascular services and is the Lead Clinician for the North Trent Vascular Network. He was an honorary chair with the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield and has been elected to the Council of the Vascular Society. Prior to his appointment in Sheffield he was Clinical Lecturer at the Nuffield Department of Surgery in Oxford.
Dr Eugene Milne B.Med.Sci (hons) MBBS MRCP MSc FFPH
Deputy Medical Director, North East Strategic Health Authority
Eugene Milne is Deputy Medical Director of North East Strategic Health Authority and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Institute of Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. He is a board member of the Faculty of Public Health, North East Public Health Observatory and Smoke Free North East. Prior to working in public health, he trained in paediatrics, but has, in recent years, focused on the reduction of adult cardiovascular disease and tobacco control. He has research interests in ageing and biodemography.
Dr Simon Mitchell MD MRCP FRCPCH
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Simon Mitchell qualified from Dundee University in 1985 and trained in paediatrics in London, Oxford and Birmingham. He was awarded a research fellowship funded by the Birth Defects Foundation based initially at the University of Birmingham and subsequently transferring to the University of Leeds, investigating the influence of genetic factors in some cases of spastic cerebral palsy. Following this, Simon trained in neonatal medicine in Birmingham, UK and Toronto and was appointed Consultant Neonatologist at Hope Hospital, Salford in 1999 until moving to the regional neonatal medical unit at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester in January 2003. Simon was a member of the Trust clinical governance committee at Hope Hospital and has been the medical lead for the development of an MSc programme training advanced neonatal nurse practitioners with the Universities of Salford and Central Lancashire. Current research interests include vitamin K metabolism in the preterm neonate, neonatal ventilation and sedation and analgesia for preterm infants.
Dr Richard Nakielny
Chairman, Scientific Programme Committee, Royal College of Radiology
After qualifying in both engineering and medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively, Richard Nakielny undertook training in radiology. In 1985 he was appointed in Sheffield as a consultant radiologist specialising in Computed Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Body Imaging particularly in cancer. Richard has also developed an extensive involvement with the Royal College of Radiology and has been responsible for several publications and is at present Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee for the Royal College of Radiology. Richard is also co-author of two radiology teaching books.
Dr Katherine Payne B.Pharm, M.Sc. (Health econ), PhD, Dip.Clin.Pharm, MRPharmS
Research fellow, Academic Unit of Medical Genetics and The North West Genetics Knowledge Park, The University of Manchester.
Katherine Payne is the health economist for the North West Genetics Knowledge Park. She is also a qualified pharmacist with clinical experience of working in hospital practice. Katherine has over 12 years research experience and her main interests include health technology assessment using methods of economic evaluation and stated preference methods. She has used qualitative and quantitative techniques to evaluate the appropriateness of outcome measures for clinical genetic services. She has also used methods of economic evaluation to quantify the economic impact of different approaches used by Area Prescribing Committees to introduce new drugs into the NHS.
Dr Martin Price BPharm, MRPharmS, PhD
Head of Outcomes Research, Janssen-Cilag Ltd.
Martin is head of health economics and outcomes research at Janssen-Cilag Ltd. He trained as a Pharmacist and spent several years working in both hospital and community pharmacy before undertaking a PhD in Outcomes Research at the Welsh School of Pharmacy. For the last ten years he has held a variety of positions working as a Health Outcomes Researcher within the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Mr Miles Scott
Chief Executive, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Miles joined the NHS graduate management training scheme in 1998. Following training at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton he joined the King's Fund to work on their acute hospitals accreditation programme. Miles has held general management and planning roles in a range of acute, community and mental health services. He also spent time at the Trent Regional Office as Assistant Director of Policy Development. From
2001 to 2005 he was Chief Executive of Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust and has been Chief Executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals since August 2005.
Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mark Sculpher leads the Programme for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment within the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. Between 1988 and 1997 he worked at the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel University; during 1998 he was a visitor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Canada. Mark's research interests are the methods and application of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. He leads the economic component of the University of York's contribution to technology assessment reviews for NICE. He also chaired NICE's Task Group on the methods of technology assessment relating to cost-effectiveness for NICE's 2004 methods guidelines.
Professor Andrew Stevens MA MBBS FFPHM
Chairman
Professor of Public Health and Head of Department, University of Birmingham
Andrew Stevens is the Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham where he is also Head of the Division of Primary Care, Public and Occupational Health. He is a founding member of Euroscan group for Monitoring emerging Medical Technologies, he was the first director of the National Co-ordination Centre for Health Technology Assessment, and he is co-director of the NHS National Horizon Scanning Centre at Birmingham.
Dr Cathryn Patricia Thomas MBChB, FRCGP
General Practitioner, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham
Cathryn Thomas is a part-time GP in an eight partner practice in Sutton Coldfield, which is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate training of doctors and nurses. In addition she works at the University of Birmingham where she is responsible for the undergraduate medical student training which takes place in Primary Care in each of the five years of the course. Cathryn is also Senior Tutor responsible for the welfare of the 1400 Medical Students at Birmingham Medical School. From 1996 - 2002 she was a member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners and from 1999 - 2002 was Chairman of the Midland Faculty of the RCGP.
