NIHR Research for Patient Benefit is a national funding programme that funds research on a regional level through eight Regional Advisory Committees. Each region has a local committee chair and members, and patient or public members.
Regional chair
Chris Gale is Chair of the London Regional Advisory Committee.
Committee members
|
Name |
Position |
Organisation |
Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Jacqueline Birks | NIHR OXBRC Senior Medical Statistician | University of Oxford | Statistics,Clinical trials; Cardiovascular,Mental health,Metabolic and endocrine,Musculoskeletal Neurological,Renal and urogenital,Reproductive health and childbirth,Stroke |
| Dr Thomas Booth | Consultant Neuroradiologist | Kings College Hospital | Quantitative and Qualitative Clinical Trials, Health Service Research, Secondary Analysis, Neurological, Stroke, Machine Learning |
| Miss Eva Broeckelmann | Public Member | - | - |
| Mr Martin Carroll | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Julia Chisholm | Consultant Paediatric and Adolescent Oncologist | Royal Marsden Hospital | Speciality: International trials leadership in paediatric and adolescent soft tissue sarcoma. Current Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute Children’s Research Group. Interest in service development |
| Professor Francesco D'Aiuto | Professor | UCL Eastman Dental Institute and Hospital | Observational/interventional trials aimed at oral health promotion and management of common oral diseases; in particular randomised clinical trials linking oral with systemic health outcomes |
| Ms Mikaela Davies | Public member | - | Mental health, women’s health, back pain, disabilities relating to mobility and access to care, palliative care in the home |
| Dr Anna De Simoni | GP and Clinical Lecturer | Queen Mary University of London | Health science expertise and categories of specialist knowledge: Health services research - General Practice - Qualitative research - Behavioural - General Practice - Clinical Trials - Cardiovascular - Mental Health - Respiratory - Stroke - Generic Health Relevance |
| Dr Martina Di Simplicio | Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry | Imperial College London | Psychiatry, mental health, behaviour, neuroimaging, design and evaluation of experimental medicine studies, proof of concept and feasibility studies, clinical trials, digital tools |
| Dr Johnny Downs | NIHR Clinician Scientist | King's College London | Child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiology mental health informatics |
| Dr Philip Kinghorn | Senior Research Fellow | University of Birmingham | Philip is a Health Economist with interest in assessing and valuing outcomes for inclusion in economic analysis, including outcomes relating to palliative and social care. |
| Professor Hemant Kocher | Professor of Liver and Pancreas Surgery | Queen Mary, University of London | Surgery (speciality liver and pancreas), surgical innovations, clinical trials, statistics, epidemiology, tissue banking, cancer, oral and gastrointestinal, intellectual property |
| Dr Rachel Phillips | Senior Lecturer | Queen Mary University of London | Statistics, Clinical Trials |
| Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa | Consultant Psychiatrist, Senior Lecturer | King's College London | Expertise in mental health services research, systematic reviews, development and evaluation of psychosocial interventions, co-production, clinical trials, mixed methods and qualitative research |
| Dr Katie Sheehan | Lecturer | King's College London | health services research, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, hip fracture, frailty |
| Professor Christina Victor | Professor of gerontology and Public Health | Brunel University | Ageing, gerontology, qualitative research, social care, health, inequalities, exercise interventions, service evaluation falls, dementia, ethics and governance, public engagement |
| Dr Charlotte Warren-Gash | Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine | London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine | Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine |