HTA Commissioning Board (HTACB)
The HTACB meets twice a year to assess proposals received in response to advertised research topics.
The Board considers the scientific merit of the proposals received, before making funding recommendations to the HTA Prioritisation Strategy Group.
Membership - 2008
Chair
Professor Jon Nicholl, Director of Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield
Deputy Chair
Dr Andrew Farmer, Senior Research Fellow in the Diabetes Trials Unit and Research Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford
Members
Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor of Medical Statistics, Queen Mary University of London
Professor John Cairns, Professor of Health Economics, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine
Professor Nicky Cullum, Director of Centre for Evidence Based Nursing, University of York
Professor Jonathan Deeks, Professor of Health Statistics, University of Birmingham
Professor Jenny Donovan, Professor of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Professor Freddie Hamdy, Professor of Urology, University of Sheffield
Professor Allan House, Professor of Liaison Psychiatry, University of Leeds.
Professor Stuart Logan, Director of Health & Social Care Research, The Peninsula Medical School
Dr Linda Patterson, Consultant Physician, Burnley General Hospital
Professor Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Mark Sculpher, Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Professor Kate Thomas, Professor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of Leeds
Professor David Torgerson, Director of York Trials Unit, University of York
Professor Hywel Williams, Professor of Dermato-Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
Members who served during the calendar year who have left
Dr Jeffrey Kenneth Aronson, Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford
Professor Ann Bowling, Professor of Health Services Research, University College London
Professor Sallie Lamb, Professor of Rehabilitation, University of Warwick
Professor Miranda Mugford, Professor of Health Economics, University of East Anglia
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