8 Diagnostics advisory committee members and NICE project team

8 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 and Professor of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust

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

Professor Enitan Carrol
Chair in Paediatric Infection, University of Liverpool

Dr Sue Crawford
GP Principal, Chillington Health Centre

Dr Owen Driskell
Lead for Laboratory Medicine, National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network West Midlands

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 Diagnostic Evidence Co‑operative, Leeds

Mrs Alexandria Moseley
Lay Member

Dr Peter Naylor
GP, Wirral

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

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

Professor Richard Edmondson
Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, The University of Manchester

Dr Jurjees Hasan
Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester

Mr Jeremy Hawe
Consultant Gynaecologist, The Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Tracie Miles
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal United Hospital, Bath. Information Nurse Specialist to The Eve Appeal

Mr Stuart Morgan
Lay Specialist Committee Member

Dr Hilary Morrison
Lay Specialist Committee Member

Dr Cathie Sturgeon
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Dr Sudha Sundar
Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Gynaecological Oncology, City Hospital, West Midlands

Dr Michael Weston
Consultant Radiologist, St James's University 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 (until July 2017)

Jessica Maloney
Topic Lead (from August 2017)

Frances Nixon
Technical Adviser

Robert Fernley
Project Manager (until July 2017)

Donna Barnes
Project Manager (from August 2017)

ISBN: 978-1-4731-2726-5

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