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The Board of Trustees
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Lord Stone of Blackheath (Chair)
Lord Stone was raised to the peerage 1997. He joined Marks and Spencer plc as a trainee in 1966 and retired from his position as joint Managing Director of the Company in 1999. His community work has been based around his fascination with the juxtaposition between Art and Science, healthcare, working with charities to help bereaved children and a lifelong interest in the process of creating understanding and working towards peace in the Middle East.
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Martin Brown MA, PhD
Formerly an academic - mathematics and theoretical physics - now a director of Martin Brown Consultants Ltd, a company providing mathematical and statistical consultancy mostly directed at the design of intelligent control system software. Most recently I have been engaged in the microsimulation, computer modelling of obesity and related health statistics for UK Government's Foresight programme.
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Fred Hucker
His alliance with the healthcare profession started in 2000 when he joined the Oxfordshire Health Authority as a non-executive director. He has since chaired the board and is now a non-executive of the Thames Valley Strategic Authority. Prior to this his business life has been in the professions of personnel director and/or chief executive in a number of businesses, oil, leisure and for over 20 years, managing a shipping transport group. Since retiring he has remained active in a business advisory service as a non-executive and advisor to a range of businesses; civil engineering, plastics and global internet. He is also involved with other charitable bodies and is a director and trustee of The Wooden Spoon Society and the Irish Youth Foundation.
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Marianne Rigge OBE
Director of the College of Health, a national charity she co-founded with Michael Young, from 1983 to 2003. The College sought to help people make the most effective use of the NHS and to improve communication between health professionals and patients through research, training and the provision
of information services. Marianne Rigge is a non-executive director of Whipps Cross University Hospital Trust.
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Lord Turnberg
Leslie Turnberg was Professor of Medicine in the University of Manchester from 1973-1997, and consultant gastroenterologist at Hope Hospital, Salford. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1986-1989, President of the Royal College of Physicians 1992-1997, Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges 1994-1998, and Chairman of the Specialist Training Authority 1996-1998. He has chaired the Board of the Public Health Laboratory Service 1997-2002, the UK Forum on Genetics and Insurance 1999-2002, Health Quality Service 2000-2004 and the Panel which reviewed the health sciences in London 1998. He was Vice President of the Academy of Medical Sciences 1998-2004. Currently he is President of the Medical Protection Society, a Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of Nations HealthCare and scientific advisor to the Association of Medical Research Charities. He has been a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science Technology since 2001. He was knighted in 1994 and raised to a peerage in 2000.
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Catherine Dilnot
Catherine is a senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Oxford Brookes University, and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Her professional interests are in the area of financial reporting, particularly by charities, and she is a trustee of various charities in addition to DIPEx. She qualified as an accountant with KPMG, working with them in London, Oxford and Australia, and has worked at Brookes since 1991. Her interest in work on patient experiences was prompted by her own experience as the parent of a child with a chronic condition.
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Graham Shaw
Graham is a company director, having worked for many years in high-technology businesses. Graham is also Vice-Chair of The Clive Project (which supports younger people with dementia) and a Trustee of Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers (activities for disabled people).
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Pauline Droop
Pauline is a solicitor, she worked for 15 years for the Citizens Advice Bureau initially as a generalist but ultimately developing an employment law specialism. She then moved into private practice becoming a partner in the employment department of Russell-Cooke LLP. She has now retired but continues as a Consultant. Pauline is an Honorary Solicitor to West London Action for Children, a charity providing counselling and support to disadvantaged children and their parents and/or carers in west London.
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Andrew Herxheimer FRCP
Andrew is the DIPEx co-founder. He spent most of his career teaching clinical pharmacology in London, most recently at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. For 30 years he also edited Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin, published by the Consumers’ Association. Since 1992 he has worked in the Cochrane Collaboration and is now Emeritus Fellow of the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford.
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Charity Staff
The team members who carry out the essential work required to keep the project running smoothly.
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Vicky Harrison - Executive Director
Vicky Harrison read physiology at St Anne's College, Oxford and did a DPhil on neurotransmitters. She held successive posts as a scientific administrator at the Medical Research Council, and while on secondment to the Cabinet Office was Deputy to the Chief Scientific Adviser. She later led the policy divisions of the Agricultural and Food Research Council and its successor the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. She then moved from the public sector to the charitable sector and spent 9 years as the chief executive of the Wolfson Foundation, a post she held until December 2006.
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Tracy Noble - Administrator
Tracy is an experienced and accomplished office manager / administrator with a progressive career record that has embraced general, sales office and HR management in a broad range of high-technology, consumer, business and industrial sectors. She is a highly motivated and well-organised individual and has worked in large multi-national corporations, medium size blue-chip organisations and VC funded start-ups. Tracy is now working part-time helping with the administration and finance of the Charity.
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Jon Snow
Is the main anchor of Channel 4 News. Having taught on VSO in Uganda, his first job was as a youth worker in a day centre for homeless teenagers in London's West End. He's been a journalist with ITN for 25 years and has reported from all over the world, Afghanistan to Antarctica. He's a school governor, and the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
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Professor Sir David Weatherall
Was the Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1974 until 1992. In 1992 he was appointed Regius professor of Medicine at Oxford. In 1979 he became Honorary Director of the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, and in 1989 he established the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford, of which he was Honorary Director (later renamed Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine). His main research interests have been in the application of molecular biology to clinical medicine, particularly the genetic disorders of haemoglobin. He was knighted in 1987, elected FRS in 1977 and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA in 1990. In 1992 he was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He became Emeritus Regius Professor in September 2000 upon his retirement
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