Neurology panel

MARSON
Professor A G

Reader and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, particular interest in epilepsy

• Association of British Neurologists

• International League Against Epilepsy

Member:

• NIHR programme grants board
• MRC college of experts
• International League Against Epilepsy

• Funding for research from Pfizer
• Meetings and educational meetings sponsored by Elsai, Jannsen Cilag, UCD, GSK

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WHITTLE
Professor I R

Forbes Professor of Surgical Neurology.

Consultant Neurosurgeon with interest in brain tumours, functional and stereotactic surgery.  

Trustee:

• William Ramsay Henderson Trust.

Editorial Board:

• Acta Neurochir (Wien).

• British Journal of Neurosurgery

Member:

• Society of British Neurological Surgeons

• Research in neuro-oncology. Funding from MRC, NIH, ECMC/CRUK, Melville Trust

• Review grants for many bodies (MRC, CRUK, etc)

Expert Advisor:

• European Medicines Agency (EMEA).

• Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA); and NICE.

• Ad Hoc expert advisor and speaker for various pharmaceutical companies (Archimedes, Ark Therapeutics, Schering-Plough) on matters related to brain tumour

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READING
Dr P

Consultant Neurologist with an interest in Sleep Medicine

Secretary:

• British Sleep Society

• Association of British Neurologists

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• Xyrem UK Advisory Board, sponsored by UCB Pharma

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CRUICKSHANK
Professor G                    

Professor of Neurosurgery    

• Society of British Neurological Surgeons

• Brain Tumour Clinical Studies Group of UK NRCI

Principle Investigator ‘HSV’ 1716 in recurrent brain tumours – Crusade Laboratories

NICE

• Biopsy outcomes

• Referral Guidelines

• Technology Appraisal

Cancer Research UK grant: Development of pharmacokinetic studies of boron carrying agents in patients having boron neutron capture therapy

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COOPER
Mrs M

Epilepsy Services Manager, Epilepsy Action

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WIGHTMAN
Mrs J

Specialist Occupational Therapist, Scottish Driving Assessment Service

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NASHEF Dr L

Consultant Neurologist King’s College Hospital, Honorary Senior Lecturer, IOP, King’s College London

Trustee:

• Friends of Al-Quds Medical School

• Epilepsy Research UK

• Scientific Advisory Committee Epilepsy

• Bereaved

Grants:

Research into genetics of Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy ERF, FFE

Audit support to unit:

(Pfizer, Eisai) 

• Intermittently a speaker at pharmaceutical sponsored educational meetings.

• Advisory meetings for pharmaceutical industry

Sponsored to attend professional and educational meetings by pharmaceutical industry

SMITH
Professor P E M

Consultant Neurologist with particular interest in epilepsy and blackouts      

• President of the UK Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy 

• Welsh Epilepsy Research Network funded by Welsh Assembly Government

• Research fellow funding from UCB Pharma 2007-10

• Lectures and Teaching sponsored by UCB Pharma

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MACFARLANE

Mr R

Consultant Neurosurgeon Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge.

Associate lecturer Universoty of Cambridge

• Society of British Neurological Surgerons.

• British Skull Base Society

Member:

• Expert Witness Society

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SHORT

Dr S

Consultant in Clinical Oncology with special interests in adult brain tumours University College Hospitals, London

Senior lecturer in Oncology, UCL Cancer Institute

Chairperson, NCRI Brain Tumour Clinical Studies Group.

Board member, European Association of Neuro-Oncology

Trustee, Cyclotron Trust, UK

Scientific Committee member European Society for Therapeutic Radiology in Oncology

EORTIC brain tumour research group member

Panel member, DOH proton treatment advisory committee

Examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists

Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow. Research on radiation biology and molecular determinants of treatment resistance in glioma

Additional research supported by Samantha Dickson Brain Tumor Trust

Clinical research into use of anti-andiodenic agents in glioma and application of novel radiotherapy technologies in meningioma supported by CRUK and UCLH CBRC

Occasional consultancy for Schering Plough

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HUTCHINSON

Mr P J A

Reader & Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, with particular interest in Neuro Trauma

Member:

• Society of British neurosurgical Surgeons (Including Head Injury Guidelines Group)

• European Association of Neurosurgeons

• Congress of Neurosurgeons

• Trauma Audit Research Network Executive

• Neurosurgical Advisor for Headway

• Neurosurgical Advisor for NICE (ICP Monitoring)

• Co-Chair of the Eastern Head Injury Group

Senior Academy Fellow:

• Academy of Medical Sciences

• Health Foundation Senior Surgical Scientist

Fellow and Director:

• Clinical Studies of the European Association of Neurosurgeons

Chairman:

• Research Committee of the European Association of Neurosurgeons

• P.I. Medical Research Council Funded Rescue ICP Decompressive Craniectomy Clinical Trial www.rescuelicp.com

Research:

• Acute Brain Injury (Monitoring and Imaging)

• Neuro Rehabilitation funding from Medical Research Council and Evelyn Trust

Director of Technicam limited

Medico Legal Expert - Opinion on Neurotrauma

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Formula One British Grand Prix

WILLIAMSON

Profesor P

Professor of Medical Statistics, with particular interest in epilepsy, randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews.

Fellow:

• Royal Statistical Society

Statistical Editor:

• Cochrane Epilepsy Review Group

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SHAKESPEARE

Dr D

Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation with particular interests in acquired brain injury, progressive neurological disability and spasticity management.

Member:

• The British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine.

• The International Brain Injury Association

• Headway

• Multiple Sclerosis Society

• Stroke Association

• The International League against Epilepsy

Trustee:

• The Sidney Driscoll Neuroscience Foundation

Reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration (Spasticity in Multiple Sclerosis)

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