4 Committee members and NICE project team
Committee members
This topic was considered by NICE's medical technologies advisory committee, which is a standing advisory committee of NICE.
Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technologies to be evaluated. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that evaluation.
The minutes of the medical technologies advisory committee meetings, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.
Additional specialist committee members took part in the discussions and provided expert advice for this topic:
Specialist committee members and experts
Andrew Currie
Consultant in upper gastrointestinal surgery, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Imad Mekhail
Locum GP
Irena Cruickshank
Weight-management nurse specialist, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Helen Parretti
Consultant clinical associate professor in primary care, University of East Anglia
Jennifer James
Physiotherapy lecturer, University of Liverpool
Jessica Munafo
Clinical psychologist, North Bristol NHS Trust
Karen Coulman
Research fellow and obesity specialist dietitian, University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust
Laura Power
GP, Priory Medical Centre, Liverpool
Rebecca Fahey
Advanced specialist dietitian in weight management, obesity and obesity surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Stepped down with no involvement from November 2023.
Richard Cordes
Lay expert
Sarah Le Brocq
Lay specialist committee member
NICE project team
Each early value assessment (EVA) topic is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology assessment analysts (who act as technical leads for the topic), a health technology assessment adviser and a project manager.
Amy Barr and Charlotte Pelekanou
Health technology assessment analysts
Lizzy Latimer and Lirije Hyseni
Health technology assessment advisers
Elizabeth Islam
Project manager