Retired. Formerly Visiting Professor of Pathology, School of Biological
Science, University of Surrey, Consultant Histopathologist, Royal
Marsden Hospital.
BP Amoco, Shell, Glaxo-Wellcome, Land Securities, Diageo, Abbey National,
Lloyds TSB, Unilever, Granada, Pearson Fidelity EUR Value, Fleming
Continental Europe, Edinbugh US Track, Fleming American INV, Fleming
Japanese inv.
Non commercial interests
Consultant to Thames Cancer Registry
Political Activity: None declared
PROFESSOR ILANA CROME Harplands Hospital,
Stoke on Trent
Date of birth:
2nd February 1951
Gender:
Female
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member of SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Received hotel expenses from Merck for a meeting on alcohol in Lisbon
1998 and in London 2000 where she was a speaker. Costs from Boehringer
(£300) and Schering Plough (£300) - fees for speaking at symposia.
Travel expenses from Merck Lipha (Strasbourg 1999). Has shares with
Novartis and Roche
Non commercial interests
Political Activity:
Labour
PROFESSOR GODFREY FOWLER Emeritus Professor of General Practice, University
of Oxford
Date of birth:
1 October 1931
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
No shareholdings. Chaired a smoking cessation group funded by an
educational grant from Novartis but no consultancies. Emeritus Professor
of General Practice, University of Oxford. GP Consultant to ICRF (one
session a week based in the ICRF General Practice Research Group.
Non commercial interests
Interests in preventive medicine, particular CVD and Cancer and
tobacco control. 20 years experience in smoking cessation research
and practice. GP in Oxford for nearly 40 years. On the Councils of
the British Heart Foundation and Stroke Association and Executive
Board of ASH. Also on COMA and SCOTH.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR JAMES FRIEND
Consultant Respiratory Physician,
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Date of birth:
2nd June 1938
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Chair SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Attended European Respiratory Society Annual Conference in Florence,
September 20000 and World Conference on Smoking or Health in Chicago,
August 2000, supported by Glaxo UK Ltd at no personal financial gain.
No consultancies. Employed full time as Consultant in thoracic medicine,
Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Aberdeen, since 1973. Honorary
Clinical Professor in medicine and therapeutics, Aberdeen University
since 1998.
Non commercial interests
Interest in clinical respiratory medicine, particularly asthma,
and the organisation of care. Commitment to health promotion, and
prevention of disease. Research interests in asthma, smoking cessation
and prevention. Board member, Grampian Heart Campaign (charitable
body); Medical Adviser National Asthma Campaign, Scotland. Member,
Research Committee, Chest Heart and Stroke, Scotland.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR A HAMID GHODSE
Department of Addictive Behaviour and Psychological Medicine
St George's Hospital Medical School
Date of birth:
30th April 1938
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
PEP bank and building society windfalls. Has always worked full
time in the NHS/University with no private practice. No links formally
or informally with any drug companies or the tobacco and alcohol industry.
Non commercial interests
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,
Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh. Member of Faculty
of Public Health Medicine and member of the Executive Committee (one
of the directors) on Medical Council on Alcoholism. Advisor, Joint
Formulary Committee, British National Formulary. President of the
International Narcotics Control Board. Member of World Health Organisation
(WHO) Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR CHRISTINE GODFREY
Department of Health Sciences and Clinical Evaluation
University of York
Date of birth:
27th June 1950
Gender:
Female
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
President of Society for the Study of Addiction (registered charity).
Trustee, Alcohol and Health Research Centre, Edinburgh. Received lecture
fees from various universities, reviewing work etc, less than £300
in 1999/00
Non commercial interests
Attended Pharmaceutical company dinners at 2 conferences. Received
occasional payments from management consultation companies for research
advice on alcohol and tobacco related issues paid into University
of York, less than £1,000 in 1999/00. Grant of £20,000 from Reckitt
and Coleman Ltd in 1997 for analysis of costs and benefits of illicit
drug treatments in Europe.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR ROGER GREENHALGH Professor of Surgery,
Imperial College of School of Medicine
Charing Cross Hospital
Date of birth:
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Professor of Surgery. Receives grants from the Medical Research
Council and British Heart Foundation. Trustee of the British Vascular
Foundation and President elect of the Vascular Surgical Society of
Great Britain and Ireland. President from 1998-2002 of the Section
of Surgery of the UEMS for the European Union. Director of a company,
Biba Medical which organises an annual symposium which publishes an
annual book and newspaper.
Non commercial interests
Lead applicant for the Medical Research Council UK Small Aneurysm
Trial. This shows that aortic aneurysm dilate faster in patients who
smoke. Researched relentlessly on the effect of tobacco smoke and
arterial disease for 30 years but have never been a member of an action
group such as ASH. Lead applicant for the NHS R&D EVAR Trials for
endovascular aneurysm repair which is described as the largest surgical
trial of all time in the UK. Just been elected to the Health Services
Board of the Medical Research Council. The only surgeon to serve since
Sir Miles Irving.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR MARION HALL Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
Date of birth:
5th September 1934
Gender:
Female
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist. Full time NHS employee.
Currently in receipt of research grants from the Scottish Health Services
Research Committee, the Department for International Development and
the British Heart Foundation.
Non commercial interests
Previously served as a member of the Centre for Research and Development
Committee for the National Health Service and is the current chair
of the Scottish Health Services Research Committee (part of the Chief
Scientist organisation in Scotland).
Senior Regional Adviser to the Scottish Advisory Committee for Distinction
Awards. Previously chaired the RCOG Audit Committee. Member of the
WHO Expert Panel for Mother and Child Health and a member of the FIGO
Advisory Panel on Epidemiology.
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR TIM HIGENBOTTAM BSc MBBS MA MD DSc FRCP
Post
Global Clinical Expert AstraZeneca R&D
Date of birth:
12th March 1947
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Status:
Member SCOTH & TAG
Formerly:
Visiting Professor of Medicine
Medicine and Pharmacology
Division of Clinical Science
University of Sheffield
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
None other than employer from January 2000.
Non commercial interests
1. Past chairman of the Pulmonary Circulation Working group European
Society of Cardiology.
2. Leading investigator: Framework Five EU Commission Grant, COPHIT
"The modelling and validation of the model of inhaled aerosols and
gases"
Including: University of Mainz, AEA Technology Ltd, Aventis PLC, Messer
PLC, Areco PLC and the University of Sheffield. (1.5 million ecu)
3. Site investigator: Framework Five EU Commission Grant, PHIL
"Functional imaging of the lungs with Magnetic Resonance with special
reference to chronic obstructive lung disease"
Including: Mainz University, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel Department
de Physique de lEcole Normale Superieure Paris, University Sheffield.
Political Activity: Labour
PROFESSOR MARTIN JARVIS
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
University College London Medical School
Date of birth:
30th June 1939r
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Chair
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Assistant director, ICRF Health Behaviour Unit. Has received honoraria
for speaking from several pharmaceutical companies with smoking cessation
products including Pharmacia and Upjpohn, Novartis, SmithKline Beecham
and Glaxo. Has also done ad hoc consultancy for Pharmacia and Upjohn.
Has no shareholdings and no research funding with either companies.
Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Star Scientific.
Non commercial interests
Director of ASH and on the Executive Council of the Society for
the Study of Addiction. Member of Scientific Advisory Committee on
Tobacco, World Health Organisation.
Political Activity: Labour
PROFESSOR NEWELL JOHNSON Department of Oral and
Maxillofacial Medicine and Pathology
Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and
Biomedical Sciences
Date of birth:
5th August 1938
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Non commercial interests
Receives grants from ZILA Pharmaceuticals Ltd for studies on the
use of Tolonium Chloride in screening for oral cancer.
Political Activity:
None declared
DR STUART LOGAN Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond
Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
University College London Medical School
Date of birth:
12th March 1955
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Editor of Child: Care, Health and Development for which I am paid
a small honorarium.
Non commercial interests
Member of the following: Childhood sub-group of the National Screening
Committee (DH), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, War
on Want.
Political Activity: Labour
PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD PETO Clinical Trial Service Unit
and Epidemiology Unit
Oxford University
Date of birth:
14th May 1943
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
None. (RCTs run by the CTSU receive grants to the University of
Oxford from particular pharmaceutical companies). Professor of Medical
Statistics and Epidemiology ICRF, Oxford University since 1992. All
donations to Oxfam and Amnesty International.
Non commercial interests
Political Activity:
None declared
PROFESSOR DAVID PURSER
Fire Research Station
Building Research Establishment
Date of birth:
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Employed by The Building Research Establishment Ltd. This is former
DETR Agency, now a non-profit making foundation. BRE Ltd carries out
research and consultancy related to buildings for various government
bodies (principally DETR) and commercial customers. Has shares with:
British Airport Authority, British Telecom, Cable and Wireless, Lloyds-TSB,
Reckitt, Allied Domecq, Reckitt Benkister
Non commercial interests
Member DoH, Health Advisory Group on Chemical Contamination Incidents
- working subgroup on environmental hazards from smoke toxins. Chairman:
British Standards Institution Committee FSH/16 (Hazards to Life in
Fire), Chairman: British Standards Institution Panel H/-/2/2 Co-ordination
of fire safety.
Visiting Professor of Fire Safety and Toxicology, University of Greenwich,
Department of Mathematics and Computing. Visiting Fellow - University
of Salford, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry.
Political Activity: None declared
PROFESSOR ROSALIND L SMYTH - MA MBBS FRCPCH MD
Brough Professor of Paediatric Medicine
Department of Child Health
Institute of Child Health
Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool
Date of birth:
28th September 1958
Gender:
Female
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Sponsorship to attend medical/scientific conferences at Solvay Healthcare
and Glaxo-Wellcome. Honoraria and travel expenses for presenting at
and attending meetings at Merck Sharp & Dohme, Astra Zeneca, Solvay
Healthcare, Glaxo-Wellcome and Pharmax. Sponsorship to enable members
of my research group to attend medical/scientific conferences at Solvay
Healthcare, Roche Products Ltd and Glaxo-Wellcome.
Non commercial interests
Chairperson of Cystic Fibrosis Trust Clinical Trials Advisory Group
from 1998 to present. On the Executive Committee of the Royal College
of Paediatrics and Child Health, Research Unit from 1998 to present.
Member of the Advisory Board, Cochrane Child Health Field from 1998
to present. Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel, Action Research
from 1999 to present. Member of BTS/SIGN Asthma Guidelines Executive
Committee and Steering Committee from 2000 to present. Member of the
Committee on Safety of Medicines, Subgroup on Paediatric Medicine
from 2000 to present.
Political Activity: None
declared
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS WALD
Department of Environment and Preventive Medicine
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Date of birth:
Gender:
Male
Date of appointment:
July 2000 - July 2003
Occupational group:
Health professional
Status:
Member SCOTH
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS WALD Department of Environment and Preventive Medicine
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine St Bartholomew's and the Royal
London School of Medicine and Dentistry Date of birth: Gender: Male Date
of appointment: July 2000 - July 2003 Occupational group: Health professional
Status: Member SCOTH Commercial Interests (including shareholdings) Director
of Logical Medical Systems Non commercial interests His department receives
drugs free of charge from Wyeth Lederle in connection with a randomised
trial being conducted in the department. Political Activity: None declared.
Commercial Interests (including shareholdings)
Director of Logical Medical Systems Non commercial interests His
department receives drugs free of charge from Wyeth Lederle in connection
with a randomised trial being conducted in the department. Political
Activity:
Non commercial interests
His department receives drugs free of charge from Wyeth Lederle
in connection with a randomised trial being conducted in the department.
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