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, dentists and academic GPs should receive awards and provides quality control.

Members

  • Dr Vinay Patroe, 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
  • Louisa Elias-Evans
  • Denise Vanstone
  • Peter Durning
  • Jeanelle de Gruchy
  • Stephen Powis
  • Jenny Harries
  • Patrick Maxwell

Sub-committees

Based on scoring outcomes, sub-committees submit their recommendations for consideration to the chairman and medical director of ACCIA.

Membership of ACCIA’s committees for the 2024 awards round

Main committee

See list under ‘Main committee’ above.

Arm’s length body sub-committee

  • Dani Jayes (lay member)
  • Pradeep Agrawal (lay member)
  • Robert Jackson (lay member)
  • Anjum Memon (professional member)
  • Brian Keogh (professional member)
  • Claire Stewart (professional member)
  • Geeta Menon (professional member)
  • Jonathan Rosenthal (professional member)
  • Leena Inamdar (professional member)
  • Sheethal Madari (professional member)
  • Sheona MacLeod (professional member)
  • Simon Gregory (professional member)
  • Sunil Bhandari (professional member)
  • Elizabeth Hughes (employer member)

Cheshire and Mersey sub-committee

  • Alison Finney (lay member)
  • Art Ationu (lay member)
  • Deirdre Lane (lay member)
  • Graeme John Poston (lay member)
  • Ascanio Tridente (professional member)
  • Bhavna Pandya (professional member)
  • Christopher Halloran (professional member)
  • Gregory Lip (professional member)
  • Hassan Malik (professional member)
  • Kayvan Shokrollahi (professional member)
  • Rajiv Mittal (professional member)
  • Vishwanath Hanchanale (professional member)

East of England sub-committee            

  • Eni Bankole-Race (lay member)
  • Graham Jagger (lay member)
  • Pashmina Kaur (lay member)
  • Rosalind Maxwell-Harrison (lay member)
  • Sarah Baalham (lay member)
  • Alain Vuylsteke (professional member)
  • Alastair Mckelvey (professional member)
  • James Nathan (professional member)
  • Justin Davies (professional member)
  • Ketan Dhatariya (professional member)
  • Martin Heaton (professional member)
  • Martin Snead (professional member)
  • Michael Nicholson (professional member)
  • Nick Levell (professional member)
  • Peter Hoskin (professional member)
  • Peter Hutchinson (professional member)
  • Pippa Corrie (professional member)
  • Sadasivam Selvakumar (professional member)
  • Thida Win (professional member)

East Midlands sub-committee               

  • Andrew Burton (lay member)
  • Jayne Green (lay member)
  • Lynne Brookes (lay member)
  • Robert Allan (lay member)
  • Stephen Timmons (lay member)
  • Arumugam Rajesh (professional member)
  • Giovanni Mariscalco (professional member)
  • Jayesh Bhatt (professional member)
  • Jonathan Finch (professional member)
  • Louise Potter (professional member)
  • Martin Orrell (professional member)
  • Muhammed Gill (professional member)
  • Neeraj Bhala (professional member)
  • Omorinsola Muoka (professional member)
  • Opinder Sahota (professional member)
  • Pius Tansinda (professional member)
  • Satheesh Gangadharan (professional member)

London North East sub-committee       

  • Amin Islam (lay member)
  • Aurora Todisco (lay member)
  • Dani Jayes (lay member)
  • Melissa Coutino (lay member)
  • Sharmayne Pitkin (lay member)
  • Asif Muneer (professional member)
  • Declan Flanagan (professional member)
  • John Gribben (professional member)
  • Mangesh Thorat (professional member)
  • Naaheed Mukadam (professional member)
  • Pranav Pandya (professional member)
  • Prasanna Sooriakumaran (professional member)
  • Tarek Yousry (professional member)

London North West sub-committee           

  • Gillian Schiller (lay member)
  • Jean Gaffin (lay member)
  • Nicholas Gash (lay member)
  • Soraya Dhillon (lay member)
  • Ailsa Hart (professional member)
  • Alun Davies (professional member)
  • Andrew Bush (professional member)
  • Faye Gishen (professional member)
  • Jamil Mayet (professional member)
  • Lucy Cook (professional member)
  • Martin Wilkins (professional member)
  • Meenakshi Nayar (professional member)
  • Pallav Shah (professional member)
  • Sam Sonappa (professional member)
  • Siobhan Carr (professional member)
  • Tariq Husain (professional member)
  • Tariq Pasha (professional member)
  • Jonathan Weber (employer member)

London South sub-committee              

  • Graham Layer (lay member)
  • Marcia Philbin (lay member)
  • Sara Day (lay member)
  • Akash Deep (professional member)
  • Atul Gupta (professional member)
  • Gary Cook (professional member)
  • Jo Szram (professional member)
  • Michael Escudier (professional member)
  • Nick Watkin (professional member)
  • Robert Morgan (professional member)
  • Roopen Arya (professional member)

North East sub-committee

  • Angela Lamb (lay member)
  • Hayley Hall (lay member)
  • Kate Bowman (lay member)
  • Paul Kupakuwana (lay member)
  • Robert Armstrong (lay member)
  • Alex Phillips (professional member)
  • Enoch Akowuah (professional member)
  • Hany Gabra (professional member)
  • Julie Cox (professional member)
  • Justin Durham (professional member)
  • Kofi Oppong (professional member)
  • Mike Reed (professional member)
  • Rakesh Heer (professional member)
  • Yincent Tse (professional member)
  • Yirupaiahgari Viswanath (professional member)

North West sub-committee                    

  • Hazel Harding (lay member)
  • Mizan Muhammed (lay member)
  • Shirley Foster (lay member)
  • Stephanie Singh (lay member)
  • Susan Astbury (lay member)
  • William Stephens (lay member)
  • Andrew Jones (professional member)
  • Arutchelvam Vijayaraman (professional member)
  • Bernadette Brennan (professional member)
  • Carl Waldmann (professional member)
  • Clifford Garratt (professional member)
  • Harnovdeep Bharaj (professional member)
  • Hector Chinoy (professional member)
  • Nicholas Roberts (professional member)
  • Nihal Gurusinghe (professional member)
  • Paul Baker (professional member)
  • Paul Dean (professional member)
  • Rizwan Ahmed (professional member)
  • Shondipon Laha (professional member)
  • Simon Carley (professional member)
  • Daniel Keenan (employer member)
  • Jaswinder Bamrah (employer member)
  • Mohammed Munavvar (employer member)
  • Robin Proctor (employer member)

South sub-committee

  • Janice Romer (lay member)
  • Lorna Beckford (lay member)
  • Margaret Fahey (lay member)
  • Steph Garfiel-Birbeck (lay member)
  • Belinda Lennox (professional member)
  • Bhaskar Somani (professional member)
  • Jeremy Crew (professional member)
  • John Primrose (professional member)
  • Keith Godfrey (professional member)
  • Peter Brennan (professional member)
  • Suvitesh Luthra (professional member)
  • Zaed Hamady (professional member)
  • Suzy Fraser (employer member)

South East sub-committee

  • Dimple Keen (lay member)
  • Ellen Jones (lay member)
  • Gillian Francis-Musanu (lay member)
  • Jignesh Patel (lay member)
  • Melanie Richardson (lay member)
  • Michael Davies (lay member)
  • Noeleen Mcfarland (lay member)
  • Pam Coen (lay member)
  • Paul Davies (lay member)
  • Thelma Gage (lay member)
  • Angela Riga (professional member)
  • Barbara Phillips (professional member)
  • Chakravarthi Rajkumar (professional member)
  • Geeta Menon (professional member)
  • James Gossage (professional member)
  • James Price (professional member)
  • Jason Watson (professional member)
  • Louise Wilson (professional member)
  • Matthew Clark (professional member)
  • Nikhil Patel (professional member)
  • Robert Hill (professional member)
  • Sumita Verma (professional member)
  • Suneeta Soni (professional member)
  • Will Kieffer (professional member)
  • Justin Kirk-Bayley (employer member)
  • Peter Dennis (employer member)

South West sub-committee

  • Andrew Hunt (lay member)
  • Carl Lander (lay member)
  • Helen Quinn (lay member)
  • John Burgess (lay member)
  • Julie Stone (lay member)
  • Lee Howell (lay member)
  • Richard Davies (lay member)
  • Richard Day (lay member)
  • Tracey Barber (lay member)
  • Agne Straukiene (professional member)
  • Amit Bahl (professional member)
  • Andria Merrison (professional member)
  • Athimalaipet Ramanan (professional member)
  • Daniel Augustine (professional member)
  • David Chan (professional member)
  • Jay Suntharalingam (professional member)
  • Gary Watson (employer member)

West Midlands sub-committee

  • Gianjeet Hunjan (lay member)
  • Gill Tomlinson (lay member)
  • Rosemary Harris (lay member)
  • Shashi Sharma (lay member)
  • Ansu Basu (professional member)
  • Ashok Roy (professional member)
  • Chandru Kaliaperumal (professional member)
  • Colin Watts (professional member)
  • Evelyn Ong (professional member)
  • Neil Gittoes (professional member)
  • Rajiv Vohra (professional member)
  • Saaeha Rauz (professional member)
  • Sanjeev Nayak (professional member)

Yorkshire and Humber sub-committee

  • Andrew Henderson (lay member)
  • Charlotte Dyson (lay member)
  • Christopher Caddy (lay member)
  • Dee Lynes (lay member)
  • Graham Smith (lay member)
  • Hilary Thompson (lay member)
  • Kathryn Lavery (lay member)
  • Ruby Bhatti (lay member)
  • Suzy Braine (lay member)
  • Anastasios Kanatas (professional member)
  • Daniele Bryden (professional member)
  • Fahmid Chowdhury (professional member)
  • Galina Velikova (professional member)
  • Janet Brown (professional member)
  • Lynda Wyld (professional member)
  • Marcel Ivanov (professional member)
  • Michael Ho (professional member)
  • Navjot Ahluwalia (professional member)
  • Omar Mulla (professional member)
  • Simon Clark (professional member)
  • Soon Song (professional member)
  • Sunil Bhandari (professional member)
  • Swati Jha (professional member)
  • Umesh Chauhan (professional member)
  • Amr Mohsen (employer member)
  • Joanne Gander (employer member)

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