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Ethics task group on familial hypercholesterolemia screening

Updated 10 January 2024

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This register records declarations made by members in respect of interests they have that are relevant to the remit of the UK National Screening Committee’s ethics task group on child-parent cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia.

Professor Roger Brownsword (chair)

  • King’s College London (current employer)
  • member of the UK National Screening Committee

Dr Sunil Bhanot

  • Tadley Medical Partnership (current employer)
  • member of the Adult Reference Group, UK National Screening Committee

Professor Louise Bryant

  • University of Leeds (current employer)
  • member of the UK National Screening Committee

Professor Angus Clarke

  • Cardiff University and All Wales Medical Genetics Service (current employer)
  • member of the Public and Professional Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics
  • coordinator of the UK Genetics Forum
  • co-chair of the Working Group on Genetic Testing in Childhood of the British Society for Genetic Medicine

Dr Sharon Hillier

  • Public Health Wales (current employer)
  • chair of the Fetal, Maternal and Child Health Group, UK National Screening Committee

Katherine Robertson

  • personal and family experience of familial hypercholesterolemia

Dr Graham Shortland

  • University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff (current employer)
  • vice chair of the UK National Screening Committee
  • principle investigator on the ‘PEACE’ trial (Pegzilarginase Effect on Arginase 1 Deficiency Clinical Endpoints)

Professor Anne-Marie Slowther

  • Warwick Medical School (current employer)
  • member of the UK National Screening Committee
  • co-investigator on research project funded by National Institute of Health Research: ‘Valuing the benefits and harms of antenatal and newborn screening programmes in health economic assessments’
  • member of the board of trustees of the UK Clinical Ethics Network
  • member of the board of trustees of the Institute of Medical Ethics
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