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
Dr Tracey Sach is Chair of the East of England Regional Advisory Committee.
Committee members
| Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Melanie Boyce | Senior Research Fellow | Anglia Ruskin University | - |
| Dr Jo Brett | Reader | Oxford Brookes University | - |
| Professor Tim Dalgleish | Research Clinical Psychologist and Programme Leader | Medical Research Council | - |
| Mrs Abigail Dennington-Price | Public Member | - | - |
| Professor Morag Farquhar | Professor of Palliative Care Research |
University of East Anglia | Palliative care research, breathlessness, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), informal carers, MRC framework for complex interventions, mixed methods, qualitative methods, supportive care |
| Dr Naoko Kishita | Associate Professor in Dementia and Complexity in Later Life | University of East Anglia | Applied research on mental health in older people and informal carers of people with dementia, clinical trials of psychological interventions |
| Dr Jose Leal | Associate Professor of Health Economics | University of Oxford | Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and based on decision models. Analysis of large administrative datasets. Estimating impact of complications on costs and quality of life |
| Dr Jacqueline Mitton | Public Member | - | - |
| Professor Eleanor Mishra | Associate Professor in Translational and Clinical Medicine | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Respiratory disease, clinical trials (drug and device studies), cohort studies |
| Mrs Tracy Pellatt-Higgins | Senior Statistician and Research Fellow | University of Kent | Medical Statistics, Stochastic simulation, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic modelling, model based meta-analysis, non-linear mixed effects modelling |
| Professor Gavin Pettigrew | Professor in clinical and experimental transplantation. Honorary consultant | University of Cambridge | clinical and experimental transplant research |
| Dr Toby Smith | Associate Professor in Physiotherapy | University of East Anglia | Rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders in the elderly, particularly those with multiple morbidites including trauma and cancer and reconstructive surgery |
| Mr Ben Waldmann | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Krystal Warmoth | Senior Research Fellow | University of Hertfordshire | Applied research on older people with complex needs, care home research, frailty, qualitative and mixed methods |
| Professor Ian Wilkinson | Professor of Therapeutics | University of Cambridge | Hypertension cardiovascular physiology clinical trials nitric oxide |