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
Professor Robert Hinchliffe is Chair of the South West Regional Advisory Committee.
Committee members
|
Name |
Position |
Organisation |
Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Sarah Bailey | Senior Research Fellow | University of Exeter Medical School | Cancer diagnosis, primary care, electronic health records, dealing with large datasets. |
| Dr Ashwin Dhanda | Consultant Hepatologist and Honorary Associate Professor | University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust | Alcohol related liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, alcohol dependence, liver immunology |
| Dr Elsa Marques | Health Economist | University of Bristol | Designing and conducting economic evaluations within trials and economic decision models in a myriad of clinical areas and settings |
| Dr Antonieta Medina-Lara | Associate Professor in Health Economics | University of Exeter | Health Economics; economic evaluation; modelling, health outcome measures; wellbeing assessment |
| Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer | Senior Lecturer, Ageing and Family Care | University of Exeter | - |
| Mrs Carol-Ann Partridge | Public Member | - | - |
| Miss Shelley Potter | Associate Professor in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, | University of Bristol | Oncoplastic breast surgery; outcomes research, methodology, feasibility work |
| Mr Philip Ruthen | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Jenny Scott | Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | University of Bath | Substance misuse, harm reduction, pharmacy practice. Non-medical prescribing |
| Mrs Hilary Shergold | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Sarah Voss | Associate Professor in Emergency Care | UWE, Bristol | - |
| Dr Julia Wade | Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Health Science applied to randomised trials | University of Bristol | Qualitative health services research in Trials |