Board members' interests

Details of our Board members' interests are listed below: 


Sir David Carter

  • Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh University
  • Founding Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Vice Chairman, Trustee, Chair of Research Strategy Group for Cancer Research UK.
  • Chairman, Board for Academic Medicine (BfAM), Scotland
  • Chairman, External Advisory Group, Social Dimensions of Health Institute (University of Dundee, St Andrews)
  • Chairman, Queens Nursing Institute, Scotland
  • Chairman, Scottish Foundation for Surgery in Nepal
  • Chairman, External Advisory Group, Glasgow Centre for Population Health
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Dr Elizabeth Vallance

  • Chair of ICAN
  • High Sheriff of Greater London (from March 2008)

Jim Easton

  • Chief Executive, South Central Strategic Health Authority

Adrienne Fresko

  • Director of Foresight Partnership whose clients include a wide range of NHS trusts and national agencies 

Mark Goldman

  • Chief Executive, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Neil Goodwin

  • Interim Director, The Nuffield Trust

Margaret Goose

  • Lay member, Council of Royal College of Physicians, London; chair of Patient & Carer Involvement Steering Group
  • Trustee, Royal College of Physicians, London
  • Chair, Partners Board of NICE National Collaborating  Centre for Chronic Conditions, based at RCP London
  • Vice- President , The Stroke Association
  • Former Chief Executive, The Stroke Association

Professor Chris Ham

  • Non-executive director, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
  • Board Member, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.
  • Director, Strategy Unit in the Department of Health 

Professor Deirdre Kelly

  • Commissioner, Healthcare Commission

Professor Andrew Morris

  • Chair, Translational Medicine Research Collaboration Steering Group
  • Member, Wellcome Trust Population and Public Health Funding Committee
  • Director, eHealth NHS Tayside
  • Member, Scottish Executive Health Department eHealth Strategy Board
  • Member, NHS Tayside Board
  • Member, Diabetes UK
  • Member, American Diabetes Association
  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicans of Glasgow
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Director, Aridhia Informatics
  • Member, Association of Physicians (GB & Ireland)
  • Shares in GSK
  • Chairman, Translational Medicine Research Collaboration
  • Chairman, Generation Scotland Scientific Committee

Professor John Savill

  • Member, MRC Council
  • Chair, British Heart Foundation, Chairs and Programmes grants committee
  • Non-executive director, Lothian Health Board

Jan Sobieraj

  • Chief Executive Officer, NHS Sheffield Primary Care Trust 

John Wilford

  • Chairman Hammersmith Hospitals Charitable Trustees