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
Chris Gale is Chair of the London Regional Advisory Committee.
Committee members
| Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Afia Ali | Clinical Reader in Intellectual Disability Psychiatry | Queen Mary University of London | |
| Dr Thomas Booth | Consultant Neuroradiologist | Kings College Hospital | Quantitative and Qualitative Clinical Trials, Health Service Research, Secondary Analysis, Neurological, Stroke, Machine Learning |
| Mr Christopher Bretherton | NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer | Queen Mary University of London | Injuries and accidents |
| Professor Katherine Brown | Professor of Paediatrica Cardiac Intensive Care | University College London | Cardiovascular, Congenital disotrders, Clinical trials, Health service research |
| Dr Pinkie Chambers | Lead Pharmacist, Cancer Applied Health Research | University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Pharmacology, Cancer, Data Science, Blood Tests |
| Professor Francesco D'Aiuto | Professor | UCL Eastman Dental Institute and Hospital | Observational/interventional trials aimed at oral health promotion and management of common oral diseases; in particular randomised clinical trials linking oral with systemic health outcomes |
| Ms Eva Driskell | Public Member | - | - |
| Mr Thomas Hamborg | Senior Statistician | Barts and the London Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit | Statistics, Study design and methodology |
| Mrs Mary Harvey | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Philip Kinghorn | Senior Research Fellow | University of Birmingham | Philip is a Health Economist with interest in assessing and valuing outcomes for inclusion in economic analysis, including outcomes relating to palliative and social care. |
| Professor Matthew Maddocks | Professor of Health Services Research & Rehabilitation | King's College London | Expertise in evidence synthesis, intervention development, clinical trials, palliative care, rehabilitation |
| Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa | Consultant Psychiatrist, Senior Lecturer | King's College London | Expertise in mental health services research, systematic reviews, development and evaluation of psychosocial interventions, co-production, clinical trials, mixed methods and qualitative research |
| Mr Alan Quarterman | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Clare Robinson | Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics | Queen Mary University of London | Statistical lead on several clinical trials. Methodological areas of expertise include sample size, cluster randomised trials, pragmatic trials and pilot trials |
| Dr Amanda Sathyapala | Senior Clinical Lecturer | Imperial College London | Respiratory medicine (sleep medicine and non-invasive ventilation ventilation), respiratory muscle function and muscle atrophy, treatment adherence/ behaviour change, complex interventions |
| Dr Jo Teixeira | NIHR Senior Research Leader for Nursing and Midwifery | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital | Clinical academic expert on mixed methods, ethnography, Delphi and Randomised Control Trials involving people with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers |
| Dr Cristina Fernandez Turienzo | Research Fellow | King's College London | Clinical trials, Health service research, Qualitative research, Reproductive health and childbirth |
| Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash | Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine | London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine | Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine |
| Dr Dominik Zenner | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Queen Mary University of London | General Practice, Clinical trials, Secondary analysis, Infection, Respiratory |