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

Remit

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.

Meeting dates for 2008

January	April	July	October
24	24	24	23

Membership

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

Members
Sarah Atkinson General Practitioner

Professor Valerie Beral MB BS MD FRCP FRCOG FFPHM FMedSci FRS
Professor of Epidemiology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

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

Dr Annabelle F Glasier MB ChB MD FRCOG
Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Family Planning and Well Woman Services, Lothian Primary Healthcare, Edinburgh

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

Sally Hope General Practitioner

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

Professor Klim McPherson PHD FFPHM FMEDSCI
Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Nuffield Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

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

+%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

*Lady Carolyn M Roberts RGN RHV MSc
Trustee, The Ethox Foundation-Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Healthcare Practice:  Lay Representative

Dr P C Connie Smith MB BS MFFP
Consultant in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, Raymede Clinic, St Charles Hospital, London

Dr Siobhan M Quenby B.Sc, MD, MBSC, FRCOG, CCST
Reader, Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street, Liverpool

Professor Martin P Vessey CBE MD FRCP FFPHM FRS
Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Oxford University

+% = Chair of the Rheumatology and Immunology EAG and Member of the Clinical Trials EAG
* = Member of the Biologicals & Vaccines EAG and the Patient Information EAG