Committee on the Safety of Devices: Members

 

This section provides details of the Committee on the Safety of Devices members.

• Dr EJ Perrins BSc MD FRCP FACC - Chair
  

  Consultant cardiologist, Leeds

• Mr Guy Alexander (community nursing)
  

  Clinical advisor for community equipment across Hampshire PCT & Hampshire County Council.

• Dr Steve Bennett Britton (paediatrics)
  

  Hospital and community paediatrician, West Midlands

• Dr Graham Browne (dentistry)
  

  General dental practitioner and member of the Department of Health Foundation Training Group

• Mr Bernard Chang (ophthalmology)
  

  Consultant oculoplastics, ophthalmic, lacrimal and orbital surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

• Mr Geoffrey Crawford (lay member)
  

  Retired

• Professor Ellis Downes (obstetrics and gynaecology)
  

  Consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology with a special interest in urogynaecology and endoscopic surgery at Chase Farm Hospital, London

• Mr Christopher Earl (theatre nursing)
  

  Registered nurse and surgical practitioner at Manchester Royal Infirmary's Renal Transplant Unit

• Dr Karen Facey (public health - health technology assessment)
  

  Evidence-based health policy consultant

• Dr Sheila Fisher (biomaterials)
  

  Associate Director for Patient and Public Involvement at the National Cancer Research Institute and Clinical Research Fellow in the Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine

• Dr Michael Gammage (cardiology)
  

  Reader and Honorary Consultant in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham and University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

• Mrs Christine Glover (lay member)
  

  Lay member, Edinburgh

• Professor Stephen Halloran (clinical chemistry)
  

  Consultant clinical biochemist at Royal Surrey County Hospital & Frimley Park Hospital and a senior lecturer and research fellow at the University of Surrey

• Mrs Rosalind Ham (profession allied to medicine)
  

  Operations manager at Dorset Primary Care Trust

• Professor Simon Kay (plastic surgery)
  

  Professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds

• Professor Ian Kimber (toxicology)
  

  Professor of Toxicology at the University of Manchester

• Dr Richard McWilliams (radiology)
  

  Consultant interventional radiologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital

• Dr Sheila Peskett (rehabilitation medicine)
  

  Group Medical Director (part time) for Ramsay Health Care UK

• Dr Paul Rylance (general medicine)
  

  Consultant in general medicine and nephrology at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals

• Dr Mike Simmons (microbiology)
  

  Director of Health Protection, National Public Health Service, in Wales

• Professor Irving Taylor (surgery)
  

  Professor of surgery and director of medical studies and Vice-Dean, University College London Medical School

• Dr Peter Thornton (general practice)
  

  Locum general practitioner

• Dr Carl Waldmann (anaesthetics and intensive care)
  

  Consultant in intensive care and anaesthesia, and consultant lead in patient safety, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading