Obesity: Guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children
This is an extract from the guidance. The complete guidance is available at guidance.nice.org.uk/cg43
Appendix A: The Guidance Development Groups
Professor James McEwen (Chair)
Emeritus Professor in Public Health and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Public health
Mrs Mary Amos (from October 2005)
Health and Social Policy Manager at Eastleigh Borough Council and South West Hampshire Primary Care Trusts Alliance
Miss Elizabeth Biggs
Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Coordinator and East of England Regional Coordinator
Dr Mary Corcoran
Director of Public Health, Gedling Primary Care Trust
Dr Sara Kirk
Principal Research Fellow, University of Leeds
Mrs Esther Kurland
Planning Advisor, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Dr Louis Levy
Branch Head, Nutrition Policy and Advice, Food Standards Agency
Ms Sue Mabley (to February 2005)
Public Health Specialist, Welsh Local Government Association
Dr Harshad Mistri
Lay representative
Mr Andy Ramwell
Director of the Manchester Institute of Sport and Physical Activity, Manchester Metropolitan University
Mrs Tracy Sortwell
Lay representative
Ms Helen Storer
Dietetic Services Manager, Nottingham City Primary Care Trust
Mr Malcolm Ward
Principal Public Health Practitioner, National Public Health Service for Wales
Clinical management
Mrs Mandakini Amin
Health Visitor, Hinckley and Bosworth Primary Care Trust
Ms Jude Cohen
Lay representative
Ms Helen Croker
Clinical Research Dietitian, University College London
Dr Penelope Gibson
Consultant Community Paediatrician, Blackwater Valley and Hart Primary Care Trust
Professor Paul Little
General Practitioner and Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Southampton
Mrs Suzanne Lucas
Consumer representative
Ms Mary O'Kane
Clinical Specialist Dietitian, The General Infirmary at Leeds
Mrs Sara Richards
Practice Nurse, Slough Primary Care Trust
Dr Ken Snider
Public Health Physician, Director, County Durham and Tees Valley Public Health Network
Professor John Wilding
Professor of Medicine and Honorary Consultant, University Hospital Aintree, University of Liverpool
Guidance Development Group co-optees
Public health
Professor Gerard Hasting
Director, Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling and the Open University
Dr Gill Hawksworth
Community Pharmacist and Lecturer/Practitioner, University of Bradford
Ms Wendy Hicks
Specialist Nurse, Weight Management Service, Newcastle Primary Care Trust
Mrs Anne Hollis
Clinical Manager for School Nursing, Fareham and Gosport Primary
Care Trust
Dr Ira Madan, nominated by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine
Consultant Occupational Physician, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust
Mr Lindley Owen
Manager, Sustrans Cornwall
Dr David Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh
Clinical management
Dr John Buckley
Exercise Physiologist, Keele University
Laurel Edmunds
Research Psychologist and Independent Consultant, Bristol Royal
Children's Hospital
Dr Nicholas Finer
Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, and Honorary
Consultant in Obesity Medicine, University of Cambridge Hospitals Trust
Mr Tam Fry
Honorary Chair, Child Growth Foundation
Professor Philip James
Chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce and Senior Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Mr David Kerrigan
Consultant Surgeon, University Hospital Aintree
Dr Krystyn Matyka
Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Warwick
Professor Mary Rudolf
Consultant Paediatrician and Professor of Child Health, Leeds Primary Care Trust and the University of Leeds
Russell Viner
Consultant/ Honorary Senior Lecturer in Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology, University College London Hospitals and
Great Ormond St Hospital
Professor Jane Wardle
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University College London
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Project Team, Centre for Public Health Excellence
Dr Hugo Crombie
Analyst
Dr Adrienne Cullum
Analyst (Technical Lead)
Mr Simon Ellis
Associate Director (Methodology)
Professor Mike Kelly
Director
Dr Caroline Mulvihill
Analyst
Ms Susan Murray
Analyst
Dr Bhash Naidoo
Analyst
Ms Karen Peploe
Analyst
Dr Nichole Taske
Analyst
Obesity Collaborating Centre – Cardiff
Ms Sally Fry
(from October 2004 to September 2005)
Information Specialist
Ms Hilary Kitcher
(from April 2005 to September 2005)
Information Specialist
Dr Helen Morgan
(from January 2006)
Information Specialist
Ms Lesley Sander
(from April 2005)
Information Specialist
Dr Alison Weightman
Associate Director and Head of Library Service Development; Director, Support Unit for Research Evidence
Obesity Collaborating Centre – University of Teesside
Ms Tamara Brown
Research Fellow
Mr Phil Ray
Research Assistant (from September 2004 to September 2005)
Professor Carolyn Summerbell
Professor of Human Nutrition and Assistant Dean for Research
External Collaborators – University of York
Dr Catriona McDaid, Research Fellow, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Dr Amanda Sowden, Associate Director, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Ms Sarah Redmond, Research Fellow, York Health Economics Consortium
Mr Paul Trueman, Director, York Health Economics Consortium
National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care (NCC-PC)
Ms Janette Camosso-Stefinovic, Information Librarian, NCC-PC, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Ms Charmaine , Project Manager, NCC-PC
Mr Richard Norman, Health Economist, NCC-PC, and Queen Mary College, University of London
Ms Vanessa Nunes, Research Associate (Children's Lead); NCC-PC, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Ms Elizabeth Shaw, Research Fellow (Adult's Lead); NCC-PC, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Dr Tim Stokes, Project Lead; Clinical Director, NCC-PC, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Dr Kathy DeMott, Senior Health Research Fellow, NCC-PC
Ms Katie Pike, Statistician, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Mrs Nancy Turnbull, Chief Executive, NCC-PC