President:
Nick Ross 
is one of the UK's best known broadcasters. His credits include Crimewatch and
many of the most famous news-related programmes, documentaries and debates,
and coverage of live including parliament. In 1997 he was named Broadcaster
of the Year for his Radio 4 programme Call Nick Ross (1986-1997) and his programmes
have won or been nominated for awards almost every year since then.He was Chairman of the Aventis Science Book Prize jury in 2006 and has been a member of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the government's Clothier Committee (on the ethics of gene therapy), the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, and the NHS Taskforce and Health of the Nation Working Group. He is an ambassador for the WWF and chairman of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
at UCL.
Chairman:
Mr. Keith Isaacson is a Senior Consultant Orthodontist currently consulting
at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke. He is also the Visiting Orthodontic
Consultant to the States of Jersey. Formerly Chairman of Examiners for Orthodontics
for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and formerly Chairman of the Medical
Writers Group of the Society of Authors. Life Member of the British Orthodontic
Society. He has lectured extensively in Europe and the Far East and co-authored
four text books which has been translated into 15 different languages. He is
Co-Editor of the British Orthodontic Society Guidelines on the use of radiographs.
Vice-Chairman:
Dr James May graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 1997, and
is now a GP principal in Kennington. 
Professor
Susan Bewley is Professsor of Complex Obstetrics at King's College
London and Honorary Clinical Director Obstetrics, NHS London.
As Director of Obstetrics and Clinical Director at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS
Foundation Trust she helped shape and lead what has become one of the country's
most highly regarded maternity units. During the last 15 years she has been
responsible for setting up many innovative services, for example, personal bereavement,
perinatal mental health and routine enquiry and domestic violence advocacy.
Susan has been an expert advisor to government, NHS and independent reviews
of maternity services, and chaired the RCOG Ethics Committee 2004-7. Her research
centres around severe maternal morbidity and she has authored over 200 publications
including many influential reviews and has edited three books. She has always
been a "critical friend" of Healthwatch, devoted to the cause of rational,
empathic and evidence-based medicine, but is ready to make the move from the
armchair to action.
Professor
Debra Bick is Professor of Evidence-Based Midwifery Practice at the
Florence NIghtingale School of Nursing and Midwifery of Kings College London.
She has a BA in History from the University of Newcastle on Tyne, MMedSci and
PhD from the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are the impact
of pregnancy and birth on women's physical and psychological health; maternity
service delivery and organisation; synthesis and translation of evidence to
enhance maternal and infant health.
Walli
Bounds trained in midwifery but has been involved in contraceptive
research for 34 years, first at the Family Planning Association, subsequently
as research co-ordinator at the Margaret Pyke Centre (University College London).
Diana
Brahams, Barrister, called to the bar in 1972. Has been a tenant in
Old Square Chambers, Gray's Inn since January 1991, and has now retired from
practice. She specialised in medical negligence, personal injury and product
liability claims. Editing Medico-Legal Journal since 1983 and legal correspondent
to The Lancet since 1981. Contributes to textbooks and journals. Founder member
of HealthWatch and Concern for the Mentally Ill.
Malcolm
Brahams, Solicitor, partner in David Wineman. Honorary Treasurer of
Concern for the Mentally Ill, Council member of the Medico-Legal Society. Published
Commercial Leases (Collins, 1985) and Property (Croner Publications, 1994).
Dr
John Illman is a former editor of General Practioner. He spent five
years as medical correspondent on the Daily Mail and eight years on The Guardian
as health editor. The immediate past chair of the Medical Journalists Asssociation,
he divides his time between writing, lecturing and media consultancy work. He
is a visting lecturer in medical journalism at the University of Westminster
and is writing a series of books on mental health. His former titles include
The Body Machine with Christiaan Barnard. He has received several awards. Email:
Les
Rose is a freelance consultant clinical scientist, and has worked for
over 30 years in managing clinical trials, training and advising clinical researchers,
and evaluating results of trials. He coordinates a group of experts associated
with Sense About Science, who are working in support of evidence-based medicine.
This group was responsible for the letter which was sent to NHS trusts in May
2006, requesting them to avoid treatments which lack evidence of efficacy and
safety. He regularly writes and broadcasts on this and related topics. Les is
a Fellow of both the Institute of Clinical Research, and of the Society of Biology.
He serves on the editorial boards of `The Biologist', `Focus on Alternative
and Complementary Medicine' (FACT), and the`Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary
& Alternative Medicine'.