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 Jane Adam (Chair)
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital

Professor A E Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol

Elizabeth Brain
Lay Member

Dr Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool

Dr Paul Ewings
Statistician, Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton

John Goulston
Chief Executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust

Adrian Griffin
VP Strategic Affairs, LifeScan, Johnson & Johnson

Dr Alec Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Ann Richardson
Lay Member

Angela Schofield
Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT

David Thomson
Lay Member

William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Professor Karl Claxton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York

Dr David Newsham
Lecturer (Orthoptics), University of Liverpool

Professor Iain Squire
Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester

Dr James Moon
Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer, University College London Hospital (UCLH) and UCL

Dr Peter Heywood
Consultant Neurologist, Frenchay Hospital

Dr Ian Lewin
Consultant Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital

Dr Louise Longworth
Reader in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University

Christopher Earl
Surgical Care Practitioner, Renal Transplant Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Dr Anthony S Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine / Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust

Professor Jonathan Grigg
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London

Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer / Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University and National Public Health Service Wales

Dr Olivia Wu
Reader in Health Economics, University of Glasgow

Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme

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.

Raphael Yugi and Sally Doss
Technical Leads

Rebecca Trowman
Technical Adviser

Bijal Joshi
Project Manager

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