Paediatric Medicines Expert Advisory Group of the Commission on Human Medicines

Remit

To advise the Commission on the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines for paediatric use, and on the implementation of the Department of Health/MHRA paediatric strategy, the recently implemented EU paediatric worksharing project, and the European regulation on medicines for paediatric use (when the latter is adopted).

Meeting dates for 2008

January	February	March	April	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
10	6	5	3	30	29	25	24	27-29*	11	9	3	1

* by correspondence

Membership

Chair
Professor Rosalind L Smyth FMedSci
Brough Professor of Paediatric Medicine, Institute of Child Health, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool

Members
Mrs Alison Bowser
Independent lay representative Royal College of GP's, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT, NICE medicines concordance guidelines development group

Professor Richard W I Cooke MD FRCP DCH
Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Liverpool Women’s Hospital

Mr Ian Costello BPharm MSc MRPharms
Paediatric Pharmacist & Deputy Chief Pharmacist at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London

Dr Paul Ewing BSc MSc PhD CStat FRSS
Head of Research & Development and Director of Peninsula and Taunton & Somerset R & D Units

Professor Ruth Gilbert MB ChB MD FRCP CH
Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health & UCL

Mrs Jane Houghton RGN RSCN MSc
Networks and Policy Implementation Officer, ACT the association for children's palliative care

Professor Stuart G Logan MB ChB MRCP FR CPCH
Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology/Honorary; Director, Institute of Health and Social Care Research, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter and Plymouth University

Dr Rebecca J Mann BMBS FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatrician, Taunton and Somerset Hospital

*Dr Vas M Novelli MB BS FRCP FRCPCH
Consultant and Lead Clinician in the Clinical Infectious Diseases Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Dr Shirley C Price MSc PhD FBTS ERT FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Toxicology and Pathology, University of Surrey

Dr George W Rylance MB CHB FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

Professor Michael CG Stevens MB BS Md (Lond) FRCP FRCPCH FRCR
CLIC Professor of Paediatric Oncology, University of Bristol

Dr Jane Tizard MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Dr Heather M Wallace PhD FRCPath FBTS ERT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicines and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen

Mrs Madeleine Wang
Patient Advocate

Professor Andrew R Wolf MB B Chir FFA RCS Eng
Paediatric Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Bristol Royal Infirmary

Dr Geoffrey Wong MA, MB BS, MRCGP, ILTM
General Practitioner and Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care at Royal Free and University College Medical School

Dr Edward Wozniak BSc MB BS FRCP FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatrician and Trust Associate Medical Director, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, (CMO representative)

Dr Morris Zwi MB BCh FRCPsych
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Richmond Royal Hospital

Commission on Human Medicines Observer
Mr Anthony J Nunn BPharm FRPharmS Hon FRCPCH
Clinical Director of Pharmacy, Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust & Associate Director Medicines for Children Research Network, University of Liverpool, Industrial Professor, School of Pharmacy and Chemistry, Liverpool John Moores University

* = Member of the Anti-Infectives/AIDs/HIV EAG