The membership of the Committee is as follows:

Dr Andrew Harris (Chair) began his NHS career as a paediatrician, and has a wide range of NHS appointments including being a GP, medical director, Director of Clinical Governance, and Consultant in Public Health. Andrew was admitted as a barrister and more recently transferred to practice as a consulting solicitor with an interest in health law, on which he writes. He runs his own consultancy business, specialising in NHS governance, mediation and legal research. Andrew is also currently Coroner for London Inner South.

Dr Mark Taylor (Deputy Chair) is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Deputy Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics (SIBLE) at the University of Sheffield. He gained his PhD in 2004 for research into the legal and ethical issues raised by the acquisition and use of genetic information within the contractual context. A Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar (session 392) on ‘Biotechnology: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues’ he was joint Principal Investigator on an EU FP6 funded project considering privacy and research using genetic data.

Mrs Pauline Brown is a senior member of Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT's Information Governance team. She is an advocate for the rights of individuals particularly to ensure the fair and lawful use of information. She has a longstanding interest in information law and human rights and is an active member of a number of local Information Governance and Freedom of Information Networks.

Dr Tony Calland is a retired general practitioner who worked on the Welsh border for 34 years. He has been a non executive director of Gwent Health Authority and also Chairman of three major BMA committees including currently the Medical Ethics committee. He was part of the BMA GP team which negotiated the new GP contract in 2003. He has an interest in information governance and is involved in these matters in England and in Wales.

Dr Robert Carr is a consultant haematologist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital London, where he specialises in leukaemia and leads the young adult cancer service. He is an active researcher in the field of haem-oncology and neonatal immunology. For the last ten years he has been a member, and recently chair of a research ethics committee. He has 30 years experience of recruiting children, young people and adults into clinical trials. He has a particular interest in improving patient understanding of the importance of research data collections, and novel approaches to achieving appropriate informed consent.

Dr Tricia Cresswell is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, currently working for the Health Protection Agency and as Deputy Medical Director for the North East Strategic Health Authority. Previously she was Director of Public Health for County Durham PCT and Darlington PCT, and prior to that Associate Director of the North East Public Health Observatory, Director of Public Health in Newcastle and North Tyneside and a General Practitioner. She has managed and developed regional databases in relation to maternal and infant health.

Dr Fiona Douglas is a Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the Institute of Human Genetics in Newcastle. She is co-author of the 1st edition of the guidance document for the Joint Committee on Genetics about consent and confidentiality in clinical genetics. She is a member of the Northern and Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee. She is also a member of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust Clinical Ethics Advisory Group.

Ms Alison Emslie is the Information Governance Manager at NHS North of Tyne with over 20 years experience in NHS governance. She has an MSc in Health Sciences (Research Methodology) and has a particular interest in information rights legislation. She has been involved in the delivery of the pseudonymisation implementation project.

Dr Colin Harper is currently Manager of the Centre on Human Rights for People with Disabilities, Disability Action, Belfast. He was a Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Ethics before becoming a Research Fellow in Ethics, Human Rights and Mental Health at Queens University, Belfast. He has experience in law, ethics, public and patient engagement and mental health both in Northern Ireland and in the context of the EuroSOCAP project. He has experience of Research Ethics Committee work and has acted as a Consultant to the Northern Ireland Privacy Advisory Committee.

Mr Stephen Hinde is the Head of Information Governance and the Group Caldicott Guardian for the Bupa Group and is a member of the Board's Information Governance Executive Committee. Stephen is the past Chairman of the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians, and of the Data Protection Panel of the Association of British Insurers, Chairman of the Confidentiality Working Group of the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, Chairman of the Private Medical Insurance Companies Confidentiality Forum and a member of the Wales Information Governance Board. Stephen also represents the Independent Sector on the NHS Scotland Information Governance Network.

Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox is currently Professor of Epidemiology and General
Practice at the University of Nottingham. After graduating in Medicine at the University of Sheffield she trained in general practice medicine and obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nottingham and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. In addition to an extensive career in research utilising NHS data sets (Q Research/Q Surveillance) with a large portfolio of publications she has retained her role as a Sessional General Practitioner. She is director of ClinRisk Ltd.

Dr Jane Kaye is currently Director of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. Following legal training at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, she undertook postgraduate research at Oxford on the privacy and governance issues arising from the establishment of biobanks. She participates in a number of international projects aimed at developing policy, best practice and governance frameworks to facilitate international data sharing.

Ms Gillian Wells has worked for 25 years as Manager and Chief Executive in the Voluntary and Health Sectors and is a Non Executive Director and Chair of the Serious Incident Committee for Kent and Medway NHS. As a Consultant in organisational development and health promotion she works with local and international public health and research programmes. Gillian has specific interest in projects and research focusing on improving older people’s quality of life.

Dr Chris Wiltsher is trained in philosophy and taught in university adult education. He served as a patient representative with the Royal College of Radiologists, developing a particular interest in information governance relating to the use and exchange of digital images. He also served as the lay lead in the development of the Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme.

Mr Terence Wiseman is a retired accountant and company director. He has recently retired as a member of Trent NHS Research Ethics Committee, is an Ethicist Member of the CJD Incidents Panel and sits on a number of local committees for NHS Lincolnshire and United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust . He has been Chairman of Lincolnshire Research Ethics Committee, Vice-Chairman of Lincolnshire Community Health Council and a member of a number of national, regional and local health-related committees. Terence frequently lectures current and potential researchers on the research ethics system.