Psychiatry and Old Age Psychiatry Expert Advisory Group of the Commission on Human Medicines

Remit

To advise the Commission on the safety and efficacy of medicines for use in psychiatric conditions.

Meeting dates for 2008

June	September	December
11	10	17

Membership

Chair
*Professor Ken W Woodhouse MD FRCP
Pro Vice Chancellor, External Affairs, Cardiff University & Professor of Geriatric Medicine

Members
Dr Ian M Anderson FRCPsych MD MRCPsych MRCP MBBS MA BA
Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester

Professor Paul E Bebbington BA MA MB BChir MPhil PHD MRCPMRCPsynch FRCPsych FRCP
Head of Department of Mental Health Sciences, Professor of Social & Community Psychiatry,  Royal Free and University College Medical School

Professor Graham Dunn MA MSc PhD
Professor of Biomedical Statistics and Head of the Biostatistics Group, University of Manchester

Dr Simon Fleminger BA MA MB BChir MRCP MRCPsych FRCPsych FMedSci
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Professor Ian M Goodyer MA MD, FRCPCH FRCPsych FMedSci
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
 
Professor Alan House BSc, MBBS, MRCP, MRCPsych, DM
Head of Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Acting Director – Institute of Health Sciences and Public Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Dr Paul Kinnersley MB ChB
Reader, Department of General Practice, Cardiff University

Dr Anne R Lingford-Hughes BA, PhD, BM BCh, BA, MRCPsych
Reader in Biological Psychiatry and Addiction, University of Bristol

Professor Ian G McKeith MD FRCPsych, F MedSci
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Professor John T O’Brien BA MA BMB Ch MRCPsych DM FRCPsych
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Professor David G C Owens MD FRCP FRCPsych
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Edinburgh University

Mrs Meredith H Robson MSc
School Counsellor St. Paul’s Girls’ School London

Mrs Pauline (Polly) A Robson
Non Executive Director of Western Primary Care Trust, Sure Start Manager, General Social Care Council-Committee Member of the Expert Advisory Panel, National Patient Safety Agency

Mrs Kay F Sheldon MSc (mental health research)
Mental Health Act Commissioner

Professor Eric A Taylor BA, MA, MB BChir, MRCP, MRCPsych, FRCP, FMedSci
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London

* Member of the Pharmacovigilance EAG