Honours list successes
News release from the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment
01 July 2008
This year’s honours list has seen successes for contributors to the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme.
Nine eminent researchers, who have given their time and expertise to the NIHR HTA programme as referees and advisors, have been honoured in the Queen’s 2008 Birthday Honours list for their contributions to Healthcare and Medicine.
Most notable is the Knighthood for services to Preventive Medicine of Professor Nicholas John Wald, Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London. Professor Wald was the lead author on the HTA-funded serum, urine and ultrasound screening study (SURUSS). To view details of this report visit www.hta.ac.uk/907.
Eight further honours went to:
CBE for services to Medicine and to Charity - Professor Brian Ion Duerden, Professor of Medical Microbiology, Cardiff University School of Medicine
CBE for services to Medicine - Professor William David George, lately Regius Professor of Surgery, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
CBE for services to Medicine - Professor Anthony Howard Goldstone, Consultant Haematologist, University College London Hospital Trust and Director, North London Cancer Network
OBE for services to Medicine - Professor Irene Higginson, Professor of Palliative Care and Policy, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College London
CBE for services to Public Health - Dr. Susan Ann Jebb, Head of Nutrition and Health, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Unit, Cambridge
MBE for services to Medicine - Professor Alan Kenneth Burnett, Head of The Department of Haematology, Cardiff University School of Medicine
CBE for services to Healthcare and to the community in Northern Ireland - Professor Hugh Mckenna, Dean, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster
CBE for services to Healthcare - Professor Ian Philp, lately National Director for Older People's Services and Neurological Conditions
Notes for editors
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The HTA programme is a programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and produces high quality research information about the effectiveness, costs, and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. It is the largest of the NIHR programmes and publishes the results of its research in the Health Technology Assessment journal, with more than 400 issues published to date. The journal’s 2007 Impact Factor (3.87) ranked it in the top 10 per cent of medical and health-related journals. All issues are available for download free of charge from the website, www.hta.ac.uk The HTA programme is coordinated by the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA), based at the University of Southampton.
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