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 |
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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 | - | - |
Professor Katherine Brown | Professor of Paediatrica Cardiac Intensive Care | University College London | Cardiovascular, Congenital disotrders, Clinical trials, Health service research |
Dr Pinkie Chambers | Lead Pharmacist, Cancer Applied Health Research | University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Pharmacology, Cancer, Data Science, Blood Tests |
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 |
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 |
Ms Eva Driskell | Public Member | - | - |
Mr Thomas Hamborg | Senior Statistician | Barts and the London Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit | Statistics, Study design and methodology |
Mrs Mary Harvey | Public Member | - | - |
Professor Angela Hassiotis | Professor of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability | University College London | Epidemiological/population studies and applied health services research |
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 Matthew Maddocks | Professor of Health Services Research & Rehabilitation | King's College London | Expertise in evidence synthesis, intervention development, clinical trials, palliative care, rehabilitation |
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 |
Mr Alan Quarterman | Public Member | - | - |
Dr Clare Robinson | Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics | Queen Mary University of London | Statistical lead on several clinical trials. Methodological areas of expertise include sample size, cluster randomised trials, pragmatic trials and pilot trials |
Dr Amanda Sathyapala | Senior Clinical Lecturer | Imperial College London | Sleep medicine, non-invasive ventilation, respiratory muscle function Skeletal muscle plasticity Muscle wasting COPD Respiratory Failure |
Professor Katie Sheehan | Lecturer | King's College London | Health services research, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, hip fracture, frailty |
Dr Susan Shelmerdine | Consultant Paediatric Radiologist | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust | - |
Dr Cristina Fernandez Turienzo | Research Fellow | King's College London | Clinical trials, Health service research, Qualitative research, Reproductive health and childbirth |
Professor 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 |
Dr Dominik Zenner | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Queen Mary University of London | General Practice, Clinical trials, Secondary analysis, Infection, Respiratory |