Medicines for Women's Health Expert Advisory Group of the Commission on Human Medicines

To advise the Commission on the safety and efficacy of medicines related to endocrinology and women’s reproductive health from menarche to menopause and conditions related to the menopause, such as osteoporosis. The medicines covered will include medicines for contraception, emergency contraception and termination of pregnancy; medicines for infertility and assisted conception; hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and non-hormonal treatments for osteoporosis.

Remit

Doctors at a meeting
To advise the Commission on the safety and efficacy of medicines related to endocrinology and women’s reproductive health from menarche to menopause and conditions related to the menopause, such as osteoporosis. The medicines covered will include medicines for contraception, emergency contraception and termination of pregnancy; medicines for infertility and assisted conception; hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and non-hormonal treatments for osteoporosis.
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Membership

Chair
Dr Mary Armitage CBE BSc MB ChB(Hons) DM FRCP FRCPE
Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Clinical Director of Medicine and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Southampton University, (Chair)

Members
Dr Sarah Atkinson MB BS DFSRH
Associate in General Practice, Parkstone Health Centre, Poole, Dorset, Specialty Doctor Bournemouth & Poole Contraceptive Health Services

Professor Dame Valerie Beral FRS MBBS MD FRCP FRCOG FFPHM FMedSci
Professor of Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Professor Juliet E Compston MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci
Professor of Bone Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University

Dr Katherine Darton BA BSc PhD LGSM
Lay representative

Dr Ailsa E Gebbie MB CHB FRCOG
Consultant in Community Gynaecology, Family Planning and Well Woman Services, Lothian Primary Healthcare, Edinburgh

Professor Philip Hannaford MB ChB DRCOG DCH MD FRCGP FFSRH FFPH
Professor of Epidemiology, University of Aberdeen

Dr Sally Hope MA BM BCh FRCGP DRCOG
General Practitioner

Professor Mary A Lumsden BSc MB BS MD FRCOG
Professor of Medical Education and Gynaecology, University of Glasgow

Professor Julietta Patnick CBE
Director, NHS Cancer Screening Programmes Sheffield: Lay Representative

Professor Siobhan Quenby MBBS BSc MD FRCOG
Professor of Obstetrics, Warwick University

+Professor Stuart H Ralston MD FRCP FMedSci FRSE
Head of the School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine and ARC Professor of Rheumatology, Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Mrs Margaret Shotter BSc MSc
Lay representative

+ = Chair of the Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, Immunology and Dermatology EAG

Commission on Human Medicines observer

Carolyn, Lady Roberts RGN RHV MSc
Chair, The Ethox Foundation-Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Healthcare Practice. Health visitor

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