NIHR Research for Patient Benefit is a national funding programme that funds research on a regional level through eight Regional Advisory Committees. Each region has a local committee chair and members, and patient or public members.
Regional chair
Caitlin Notley is Chair of the East of England Regional Advisory Committee.
Committee members
| Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Andrew Bateman | Professor in Rehabilitation | University of Essex | Experience in neurological rehabilitation&neuropsychological assessment. Most recent publications concern psychometric analysis of an assessment in dysexecutive syndrome |
| Dr Jo Brett | Reader | Oxford Brookes University | - |
| Professor Tim Dalgleish | Research Clinical Psychologist and Programme Leader | Medical Research Council | - |
| Mrs Abigail Dennington-Price | Public Member | - | - |
| Professor Morag Farquhar | Professor of Palliative Care Research |
University of East Anglia | Palliative care research, breathlessness, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), informal carers, MRC framework for complex interventions, mixed methods, qualitative methods, supportive care |
| Mr Matt Hammond | Interim Director of Norwich Clinical Trials Unit |
University of East Anglia |
Design and conduct of Clinical Trials with a specific interest in decentralised trials and efficient trial design |
| Dr Melanie Handley | Associate Professor | University of Hertfordshire | Leads qualitative and mixed-methods studies of health and care services for people living with dementia, older people and people living with mental health conditions |
| Dr Naoko Kishita | Associate Professor in Dementia and Complexity in Later Life | University of East Anglia` | Applied research on mental health in older people and informal carers of people with dementia, clinical trials of psychological interventions |
| Dr Wendy Kneissl | Public Member | - | - |
| Professor Jon Lartey | Associate Professor | Women's Services, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Clinician scientist with expertise and interest in Prematurity, Fetal growth restriction, infections in pregnancy and the use of genomics in diagnostics and therapeutics |
| Dr Jose Leal | Associate Professor of Health Economics | University of Oxford | Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and based on decision models. Analysis of large administrative datasets. Estimating impact of complications on costs and quality of life |
| Professor Eleanor Mishra | Associate Professor in Translational and Clinical Medicine | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Respiratory disease, clinical trials (drug and device studies), cohort studies |
| Dr Anna Moore | Assistant Professor Child Psychiatry & Medical Informatics | University of Cambridge | Building digitally supported prevention pathways for child mental health and building clinical informatics infrastructure to support research and translation. Plus health services evaluation and implementation of innovations in health systems |
| Mrs Tracy Pellatt-Higgins | Senior Statistician and Research Fellow | University of Kent | Medical Statistics, Stochastic simulation, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic modelling, model based meta-analysis, non-linear mixed effects modelling |
| Professor Gavin Pettigrew | Professor in clinical and experimental transplantation. Honorary consultant | University of Cambridge | clinical and experimental transplant research |
| Dr Toby Smith | Associate Professor in Physiotherapy | University of East Anglia | Rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders in the elderly, particularly those with multiple morbidites including trauma and cancer and reconstructive surgery |
| Mr Ben Waldmann | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Krystal Warmoth | Senior Research Fellow | University of Hertfordshire | Applied research on older people with complex needs, care home research, frailty, qualitative and mixed methods |
| Professor Ian Wilkinson | Professor of Therapeutics | University of Cambridge | Hypertension cardiovascular physiology clinical trials nitric oxide |