Research for Patient Benefit - South West Regional Advisory Committee

  • Published: 1 January 2019
  • Version: VJan 2025 - January 2025
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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
Professor Kerry Avery Associate Professor in Applied Health and Care Research University of Bristol  Surgical research, complex interventions, randomised controlled trials, pilot/feasibility studies, patient-reported outcomes, PROMs, patient and public involvement, questionnaire studies, consensus methods, qualitative research
Dr Sarah Bailey  Senior Research Fellow University of Exeter Medical School Cancer diagnosis, primary care, electronic health records, dealing with large datasets. 
 
Miss Susan Ball Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics University of Exeter Medical Statistics
Associate Professor Christy Burden Associate Professor Academic Women's Health Research Unit

Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol

Reproductive health and maternity care, with specialist interest in maternal medicine and use of digital health in pregnancy to improve pregnancy outcomes
Mr Simon Chilcott Public Member - -
Dr Ashwin Dhanda  Consultant Hepatologist and Honorary Associate Professor University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Alcohol related liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, alcohol dependence, liver immunology
Mrs Hilary Giblett Public Member - -
Dr Pamela Jacobsen Senior Lecturer, Pyschology University of Bath  
Dr Rachel Johnson Associate Professor in Primary Care University of Bristol Experienced in a range of research methods: qualitative research, systematic review (qualitative and quantitative), questionnaire studies, implementation research, routine primary care data, randomised controlled trials.
Mr Angus McNair Associate Professor in Colorectal Surgery University of Bristol

 Colorectal surgery; outcomes methodology; informed consent and shared decision making
Professor Antonieta Medina-Lara  Associate Professor in Health Economics University of Exeter Health Economics; economic evaluation; modelling, health outcome measures; wellbeing assessment
Associate Professor Siobhan O'Dwyer  Senior Lecturer, Ageing and Family Care  University of Birmingham  -
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
Professor Pat Schofield Professor of Clinical Nursing University of Plymouth Pain and Ageing or Dementia Frailty, Falls
Dr Jenny Scott Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice University of Bath  Substance misuse, harm reduction, pharmacy practice. Non-medical prescribing
Mrs Helen Thomas Head of Clinical Trial Statistics NHS Blood and Transplant CTU

Medical statistician working on clinical trials with experience in the use of registry data
Dr Nicholas Turner Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statitics University of Bristol Medical Statistics
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 
 
Professor Tom Wainwright Professor of Orthopaedics Bournemouth University Physiotherapist whose main research interests are to optimise
surgical outcomes for hip and knee replacement
the non-surgical management of hip and knee osteoarthritis
enhanced recovery after surgery protocols