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 4 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.

Professor Peter Clark (Chair)
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology

Professor Jonathan Michaels (Vice Chair)
Professor of Clinical Decision Science, University of Sheffield

Professor Darren Ashcroft
Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester

Dr Aomesh Bhatt
Regulatory and Medical Affairs Director Europe and North America, Reckitt Benckiser

Dr Andrew Black
General Practitioner, Mortimer Medical Practice, Herefordshire

Dr Matthew Bradley
Therapy Area Leader, Global Health Outcomes, GlaxoSmithKline

Dr Ian Campbell
Honorary Consultant Physician, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff

Tracey Cole
Lay Member

Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester

John Dervan
Lay Member

Professor Simon Dixon
Professor of Health Economics, University of Sheffield

Dr Martin Duerden
Assistant Medical Director, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales

Gillian Ells
Prescribing Advisor – Commissioning, NHS Hastings and Rother and NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald

Dr Jon Fear
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Head of Healthcare Effectiveness, NHS Leeds

Professor Paula Ghaneh
Professor and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University of Liverpool

Dr Susan Griffin
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Professor John Hutton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York

Professor Peter Jones
Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Keele University

Dr Steven Julious
Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield

Dr Tim Kinnaird
Lead Interventional Cardiologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Rachel Lewis
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Manchester Business School

Professor Femi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health

Dr John Radford
Director of Public Health, Rotherham Primary Care Trust and MBC

Dr Phillip Rutledge
GP and Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian

Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Dr Murray Smith
Associate Professor in Social Research in Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham

Paddy Storrie
Lay Member

Professor Carolyn Young
Consultant neurologist, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery

B NICE project team

Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.

Helen Tucker
Technical Lead

Kay Nolan
Technical Adviser

Kate Moore and Rebecca Pye
Project Managers

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