Appendix A: Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
A 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 four 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
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 Michael Boscoe
Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Professor John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics, Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mark Chakravarty
External Relations Director – Pharmaceuticals and Personal Health, Oral Care Europe
Professor Jack Dowie
Health Economist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Sally Gooch
Independent Nursing and Healthcare Consultant
Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Sanjay Gupta
YPD Service Case Manager, Southwark Health and Social Care, Southwark PCT
Dr Neil Iosson
General Practitioner
Dr Rosa Legood
Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Terence Lewis
Lay member
Dr Ruairidh Milne
Director of Strategy and Development and Director for Public Health Research at the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre at the University of Southampton
Stephen Palmer
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr John Pounsford
Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr John Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
Navin Sewak
Primary Care Pharmacist, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham
Roderick Smith
Finance Director, West Kent Primary Care Trust
Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Professor Ken Stein (Vice Chair)
Professor of Public Health, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter
Nathalie Verin
Health Economics Manager, Boston Scientific UK and Ireland
Dr Colin Watts
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrookes Hospital
Tom Wilson
Director of Contracting and Performance, NHS Tameside and Glossop
B NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of one or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
João Vieira, Sally Doss
Technical Leads
Fiona Rinaldi
Technical Adviser
Jeremy Powell
Project Manager