Our governance

The roles, responsibilities and membership of ACCIA's committees.

Main committee

The Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards’ (ACCIA) main committee establishes the criteria for assessing candidates and administers the process for judging nominations. It also advises on which NHS consultants and academic GPs should receive awards and provides quality control. Members of the main committee also sit on the platinum committee.

Members

  • Dr Stuart Dollow, Chair
  • Professor Kevin Davies, Medical Director

Professional members

  • Iqbal Singh
  • Naeem Soomro

Lay members

  • Jon Cohen
  • Robert Jackson
  • Gianjeet Hunjan
  • Kathryn Lavery

Employer members

  • Mary Ann Ferreux
  • Sheona Macleod
  • Peter Dennis
  • Kiran Patel

Ex-officio members

  • Jeanette Dickson
  • Chris Whitty
  • Navina Evans
  • Gavin Larner
  • Louise Elias-evans
  • Denise Vanstone
  • Peter Durning
  • Jeanelle de Gruchy
  • Stephen Powis
  • Jenny Harries
  • Patrick Maxwell

Sub-committees

Our sub-committees assess applications from consultants and academic GPs for new and renewal of national awards. They take account of recommendations from employers, national nominating bodies and specialist societies, and they submit their recommendations in priority order for consideration to the chairman and medical director of ACCIA.

Roles, responsibilities and membership of ACCIA’s committees for the 2023 awards round

Main committee

See list under ‘Main committee’ above.

Arm’s length body sub-committee

  • Robert Jackson (lay member)
  • Robert Sumerling (lay member)
  • Pradeep Agrawa (lay member)
  • Philip Taylor (lay member)
  • Dani Jayes (lay member)
  • Ibrahim Abubakar (professional member)
  • Brian Keogh (professional member)
  • Sheona MacLeod (professional member)
  • Geeta Menon (professional member)
  • Sunil Bhandari (professional member)
  • Sheethal Madari (professional member)
  • John Macleod (professional member)
  • Julia Hippisley-Cox (professional member)
  • Jonathan Rosenthal (professional member)
  • Daniela Dastros-Pitei (professional member)
  • Amanda Adler (professional member)
  • Namita Kumar (professional member)
  • Ian McCafferty (professional member)
  • Elizabeth Hughes (employer member)
  • Olivia King (employer member)

Cheshire and Mersey sub-committee

  • Art Ationu (lay member)
  • Deirdre Lane (lay member)
  • James Birrell (lay member)
  • Graeme John Poston (lay member)
  • Alison Finney (lay member)
  • Gregory Lip (professional member)
  • Ranjana Dwarkanath (professional member)
  • Venkata Burra (professional member)
  • Kayvan Shokrollahi (professional member)
  • Christopher Halloran (professional member)
  • Rajiv Mittal (professional member)
  • Victoria Tippett (professional member)
  • Hassan Malik (professional member)
  • Thiagarajan Nambirajan (professional member)
  • Bhavna Pandya (professional member)
  • Gurinder Tack (professional member)
  • Indu Kumar (professional member)
  • James Barrett (professional member)
  • Manohar Sharma (professional member)
  • Vishal Sharma (professional member)
  • Sumita Chawla (employer member)

East of England sub-committee            

  • Graham Jagger (lay member)
  • Sarah Baalham (lay member)
  • Rosalind Maxwell-Harrison (lay member)
  • Eni Bankole-Race (lay member)
  • Stephen Conroy  (lay member)
  • Pashmina Kaur (lay member)
  • Alain Vuylsteke  (professional member)
  • Peter Hoskin (professional member)
  • Michael Nicholson (professional member)
  • Peter Hutchinson (professional member)
  • Helen Murphy (professional member)
  • Erika Denton (professional member)
  • Pippa Corrie (professional member)
  • Vincent Gnanapragasam (professional member)
  • Ketan Dhatariya (professional member)
  • Stephen Webb (professional member)
  • Sadasivam Selvakumar (professional member)
  • Stephen Hoole (professional member)
  • Claire Edwards (professional member)
  • James Nicholson (professional member)
  • Martin Heaton (professional member)
  • Grant Stewart (professional member)
  • Thida Win (professional member)
  • Justin Davies (professional member)
  • Stephen Webb (professional member)
  • Martin Snead (professional member)
  • Petre Cristian Ilie (professional member)
  • Alastair Mckelvey (professional member)
  • Mark Millar (professional member)
  • Nick Levell (professional member)
  • Ashley Shaw (employer member)
  • Tayyab Haider (employer member)
  • Raji Ganesan (employer member)
  • Imam Towhid (employer member)

East Midlands sub-committee               

  • Stephen Timmons (lay member)
  • Robert Allan (lay member)
  • Madeleine Wang (lay member)
  • Andrew Burton (lay member)
  • Lynne Brookes (lay member)
  • Karen Lockwood (lay member)
  • Rebecca Allen (lay member)
  • Opinder Sahota (professional member)
  • Elizabeth Carlin (professional member)
  • Muhammed Gill (professional member)
  • Satheesh Gangadharan (professional member)
  • Jayesh Bhatt (professional member)
  • Jonathan Finch (professional member)
  • Omorinsola Muoka (professional member)
  • Martin Orrell (professional member)
  • Brian Rowlands (professional member)
  • Giovanni Mariscalco (professional member)
  • Prashanth Patel (professional member)
  • Neeraj Bhala (professional member)
  • Ruth Murphy (employer member)
  • Tanya Bleiker (employer member)

London North East sub-committee       

  • Melissa Coutino (lay member)
  • Marion Stern (lay member)
  • Aurora Todisco (lay member)
  • Aminul Islam (lay member)
  • Sharmayne Pitkin (lay member)
  • Dani Jayes (lay member)
  • Karin Roberts (lay member)
  • Declan Flanagan (professional member)
  • Karim Brohi (professional member)
  • John Gribben (professional member)
  • Tarek Yousry (professional member)
  • Pranav Pandya (professional member)
  • Asif Muneer (professional member)
  • Mark Slade (professional member)
  • Jamshed Bomanji (employer member)

London North West sub-committee           

  • Nicholas Gash (lay member)
  • Jean Gaffin (lay member)
  • Gillian Schiller (lay member)
  • Soraya Dhillon (lay member)
  • Seema Odedra (lay member)
  • Jennifer Ntiamoah (lay member)
  • Alun Davies (professional member)
  • Clare Higgens (professional member)
  • Andrew Bush (professional member)
  • Jamil Mayet (professional member)
  • Pallav Shah (professional member)
  • Thanos Athanasiou (professional member)
  • Olga Ciccarelli (professional member)
  • David Moore (professional member)
  • Ailsa Hart (professional member)
  • Mark Bower (professional member)
  • Tariq Pasha (professional member)
  • Faye Gishen (professional member)
  • Jonathan Weber (employer member)

London South sub-committee              

  • Robert Sumerling (lay member)
  • Sara Day (lay member)
  • Marcia Philbin (lay member)
  • Roopen Arya (professional member)
  • Lisa Pickering (professional member)
  • Michael Escudier (professional member)
  • Dow-Mu Koh (professional member)
  • Anthony Wierzbicki (professional member)
  • Towhid Imam (professional member)
  • Akash Deep (professional member)
  • Atul Gupta (professional member)
  • Oussama Elhage (professional member)
  • Jo Szram (professional member)
  • Nick Watkin (professional member)
  • Gary Cook (professional member)
  • Robert Morgan (professional member)
  • Una Buckley (professional member)

North East sub-committee

  • Robert Armstrong (lay member)
  • Kate Bowman (lay member)
  • Angela Lamb (lay member)
  • Paul Kupakuwana (lay member)
  • Hayley Hall (lay member)
  • Julie Cox (professional member)
  • Kofi Oppong (professional member)
  • Alex Phillips (professional member)
  • Enoch Akowuah (professional member)
  • Paul paes (professional member)
  • Rakesh Heer (professional member)
  • Anant Kamat (professional member)
  • Mike Wyatt (professional member)
  • Mike Reed (professional member)
  • Yirupaiahgari Viswanath (professional member)
  • Hany Gabra (professional member)
  • Zdenka Reinhardt (professional member)

North West sub-committee                    

  • Stephanie Singh (lay member)
  • Hazel Harding (lay member)
  • William Stephens (lay member)
  • David Peat (lay member)
  • Margaret Boneham (lay member)
  • Mizan Muhammed (lay member)
  • Shirley Foster (lay member)
  • Susan Astbury (lay member)
  • Ashok Handa (professional member)
  • Bernadette Brennan (professional member)
  • Nicholas Roberts (professional member)
  • Harnovdeep Bharaj (professional member)
  • Rizwan Ahmed (professional member)
  • Paul Baker (professional member)
  • Andrew Watson (professional member)
  • Simon Carley (professional member)
  • Clifford Garratt (professional member)
  • Nihal Gurusinghe (professional member)
  • Andrew Jones (professional member)
  • Aali Sheen (professional member)
  • Sunil Bhudia (professional member)
  • Shondipon Laha (professional member)
  • Paul Dean (professional member)
  • Daniel Keenan (employer member)
  • Mohammed Munavvar (employer member)
  • Jaswinder Bamrah (employer member)
  • Robin Proctor (employer member)

South sub-committee

  • Lorna Beckford (lay member)
  • Janice Romer (lay member)
  • Margaret Fahey (lay member)
  • Aomesh Bhatt (lay member)
  • Kathryn Chapman (lay member)
  • John Primrose (professional member)
  • Rajul Patel (professional member)
  • Diana Baralle (professional member)
  • Elizabeth Foley (professional member)
  • Jeremy Crew (professional member)
  • Raman Uberoi (professional member)
  • Timothy Underwood (professional member)
  • Belinda Lennox (professional member)
  • Bhaskar Somani (professional member)
  • Keith Godfrey (professional member)
  • Suvitesh Luthra (professional member)
  • Julia Hippisley-Cox (professional member)
  • Hani Marcus (professional member)
  • Caroline Man (employer member)

South East sub-committee

  • Gillian Francis-Musanu (lay member)
  • Pradeep Agrawal (lay member)
  • Dimple Keen (lay member)
  • Jignesh Patel (lay member)
  • Geeta Menon (professional member)
  • Chakravarthi Rajkumar (professional member)
  • Koshy Jacob (professional member)
  • Abhay Rane (professional member)
  • Anahit Zakaryan (professional member)
  • Ashok Handa (professional member)
  • Nikhil Patel (professional member)
  • Aftab Ala (professional member)
  • Mayura Deshpande (professional member)
  • Suneeta Soni (professional member)

South West sub-committee

  • Tracey Barber (lay member)
  • John Burgess (lay member)
  • Nigel Williams (lay member)
  • Richard Day (lay member)
  • Andrew Hunt (lay member)
  • Carl Lander (lay member)
  • Lee Howell (lay member)
  • Helen Quinn (lay member)
  • Athimalaipet Ramanan (professional member)
  • Frank Smith (professional member)
  • Mark Slade (professional member)
  • Joanne Watson (professional member)
  • Amit Bahl (professional member)
  • Lisa Munro-Davies (professional member)
  • Otto von Arx (professional member)
  • Richard Martin (professional member)
  • Richard Graham (professional member)
  • Mark Callaway (professional member)
  • Gary Watson (employer member)

West Midlands sub-committee

  • Rosemary Harris (lay member)
  • Gianjeet Hunjan (lay member)
  • Gill Tomlinson (lay member)
  • Samantha Hooper (lay member)
  • Shashi Sharma (lay member)
  • Neil Gittoes (professional member)
  • Raji Ganesan (professional member)
  • Rajiv Vohra (professional member)
  • Helen Goodyear (professional member)
  • Kin-Leong Kong (professional member)
  • Sanjeev Nayak (professional member)
  • Susan Protheroe (professional member)
  • Mohammed Haris (professional member)
  • Milind Chaudhari (professional member)
  • Colin Watts (professional member)
  • Chandru Kaliaperumal (professional member)
  • Saaeha Rauz (professional member)
  • Amit Arora (professional member)
  • Fang Gao Smith (professional member)
  • Ashok Roy (professional member)
  • Robert freeman (professional member)
  • Sanjeev Nayak (professional member)
  • Shakila Thangaratinam (professional member)
  • Evelyn Ong (professional member)
  • Kiran Patel (employer member)
  • Nicholas White (employer member)

Yorkshire and Humber sub-committee

  • Kathryn Lavery (lay member)
  • Charlotte Dyson (lay member)
  • Christopher Caddy (lay member)
  • Andrew Henderson (lay member)
  • Phil Storr (lay member)
  • Dee Lynes (lay member)
  • Hilary Thompson (lay member)
  • Ruby Bhatti (lay member)
  • Graham Smith (lay member)
  • Suzy Braine (lay member)
  • Karen Marshall (lay member)
  • Keith Ramsay (lay member)
  • Navjot Ahluwalia (professional member)
  • Galina Velikova (professional member)
  • Nick Phillips (professional member)
  • Swati Jha (professional member)
  • Fahmid Chowdhury (professional member)
  • Simon Clark (professional member)
  • Vijay Jayagopal (professional member)
  • Anastasios Kanatas (professional member)
  • Daniele Bryden (professional member)
  • Tun Aung (professional member)
  • Soon Song (professional member)
  • Janet Brown (professional member)
  • Marcel Ivanov (professional member)
  • Alenka Brooks (professional member)
  • Sunil Bhandari (professional member)
  • Fiona Kew (professional member)
  • Sushil Maslekar (professional member)
  • Michael Ho (professional member)
  • Amr Mohsen (employer member)
  • Makani Purva (employer member)
  • Stuart Hall (employer member)
  • Joanne Gander (employer member)

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