9 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team

9 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team

Diagnostics advisory committee

The diagnostics advisory committee is an independent committee consisting of 22 standing members and additional specialist members. A list of the committee members who participated in this assessment appears below.

Standing committee members

Professor Adrian Newland
Chair, diagnostics advisory committee

Dr Mark Kroese
Vice Chair, diagnostics advisory committee and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, PHG Foundation, Cambridge and UK Genetic Testing Network

Mr John Bagshaw
In-vitro Diagnostics Consultant

Dr Sue Crawford
GP Principal, Chillington Health Centre

Dr Steve Edwards
Head of Health Technology Assessment, BMJ Evidence Centre

Dr Simon Fleming
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital

Dr James Gray
Consultant Microbiologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital

Professor Steve Halligan
Professor of Radiology, University College London

Mr John Hitchman
Lay Member

Professor Chris Hyde
Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG)

Mr Patrick McGinley
Head of Costing and Service Line Reporting, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Dr Michael Messenger
Deputy Director and Scientific Manager National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co‑operative, Leeds

Mrs Alexandria Moseley
Lay member

Dr Peter Naylor
GP, Chair Wirral Health Commissioning Consortia

Dr Dermot Neely
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Simon Richards
Vice President Regulatory Affairs, EME, Alere Inc

Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Professor Matt Stevenson
Professor of Health Technology Assessment, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

Professor Anthony Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine/Chemical Pathology, St Thomas' Hospital

Specialist committee members

Dr Andrew Davenport
Consultant Renal Physician, Hon Senior Lecturer, Royal Free Hospital, London

Dr Elizabeth Lindley
Specialist Clinical Scientist in Renal Care, St James's University Hospital

Dr Graham Woodrow
Consultant Renal Physician, St James's University Hospital

Ms Joanne Prince
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kay Tyerman
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Leeds General Infirmary

Mr Nick McAleer
Renal Dietitian, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Paul Taylor
Lay Specialist Committee Member

Dr Simon Roe
Consultant Nephrologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Wesley Hayes
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital

NICE project team

Each diagnostics assessment is assigned to a team consisting of a technical analyst (who acts as the topic lead), a technical adviser and a project manager.

Thomas Walker
Topic Lead

Rebecca Albrow
Technical Adviser

Robert Fernley
Project Manager

ISBN: 978-1-4731-2539-1

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