HTA Commissioning Board (HTACB)

The HTACB meets four times a year to assess proposals received in response to advertised research topics.

The Board considers the scientific merit of the proposals received, before making funding recommendations to the HTA Prioritisation Group.

Membership - 2011

Programme Director

Professor Tom Walley, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Liverpool

Chair

Professor Hywel Williams, Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham

Deputy Chair

Professor Jon Deeks, Professor of Bio-Statistics, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology

Members

Professor Ann Ashburn, Professor of Rehabilitation, Head of Research, Southampton General Hospital

Professor Peter Brocklehurst, Director and Professor of Perinatal Epidermiology, University of Oxford

Professor John Cairns, Professor of Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Peter Croft, Director of Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, University of Keele

Professor Jenny Donovan, Professor of Social medicine, University of Bristol

Dr Jonathan Green, Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Manchester

Professor John Gregory, Professor in Paediatric Endocrinology, Cardiff University

Professor Steve Halligan, Professor of Gastrointestinal Radiology, University College Hospital

Dr. Martin J Landray, Reader in Epidemiology, Hon Consultant Physician. University of Oxford

Professor Stephen Morris, Professor of Health Economics, University College London

Professor Irwin Nazareth, Professor of Primary Care & Head of Department, Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences, University College London

Dr Andrea Nelson, Professor of Wound Healing, University of Leeds

Professor John Norrie, Chair in Clinical Trials and Biostatistics, Glasgow University

Professor Rafael Perera, University Lecturer in Medicine Statistics Primary Health Care, University of Oxford

Professor Barney Reeves, Professorial Research Fellow in Health Services Research, Bristol University

Professor Martin Underwood, Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Warwick

Dr Duncan Young, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant in Anaesthetics, University of Oxford

Observers

Ms Kay Pattison, Senior NIHR Programme Manager, Research and Development Directorate, Department of Health

Mr Tom Foulkes, Medical Research Council

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