List of members
The current list of members with information on their professional backgrounds.
Professor Leslie Iversen
Chair
Re-appointed from 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2013
Retired professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. A neuropharmacologist who has worked in academia and in industry. His research focuses on the actions of drugs on the brain. Les acted as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords "Cannabis" enquiry (1998) and a member of the Royal College of Physicians enquiry into medical uses of cannabis (2006). The author of two books on psychoactive drugs: "The Science of Marijuana”, OUP, 2000 & 2008, and "Speed, Ecstasy and Ritalin: the Science of Amphetamines", OUP, 2006.
Dr Jason Aldiss
Appointed 30 June 2010
Veterinary scientist
Mrs Gillian Arr-Jones
Appointed 29 March 2010 – 28 March 2013
Pharmacist and chief pharmacist for the Care Quality Commission.
Mr Martin Barnes
Re-appointed from 1 January 2008 – 31 December 2010
Chief executive of DrugScope. DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and drugs policy. He was previously Director of the Child Poverty Action Group which works for the abolition of poverty among children in the UK. He is a trustee of the Family Welfare Association and a member of the advisory board for Transact, the national forum for financial inclusion.
Simon Bray
re-appointed 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
Simon is a commander in the Metropolitan Police and currently oversees the policing of 10 south London boroughs. His career has included a variety of uniform, detective and specialist roles, with secondments to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Cabinet Office. He has been a member of the drugs committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 2005 and leads for ACPO on drugs precursors, drugs in sport and methamphetamine.
Dr Roger Brimblecombe
Appointed 30 June 2010
Pharmacologist
Annette Dale-Perera
Newly appointed 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
Strategic Director of Addiction and Offender Care, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Paul Dargan
Newly appointed 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Reader in Clinical Toxicology, King's College London
Professor Simon Gibbons
Appointed 29 March 2010 – 28 March 2013
Professor of phytochemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of London.
Professor Simon Gibbons is Professor of Phytochemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry at The School of Pharmacy, University of London. He is a member of the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory products Agency (MHRA) Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC) and is a member of the Governing Council of the College of Medicine.
His research interests are on the isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products from plants, particularly antibacterials and bacterial resistance modifying agents. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phytochemistry Letters and a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Planta Medica, Natural Product Reports, Phytochemical Analysis, Phytochemistry Reviews, Phytotherapy Research, Fitoterapia, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products and the Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.
Sarah Graham
Newly appointed 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
Director, Sarah Graham Solutions
Professor Raymond Hill
Appointed 30 June 2010 - 29 June 2013
Neuropharmacologist, current president of the British Pharmacological Society, member of Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Judge Kyrie Ll James
Newly appointed 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
First Tier Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber)
Nigel Kirby
Newly appointed from 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2013
Branch Head (Drugs and Firearms), Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
David Liddell
re-appointed 1 January 2010 - 31 December 2013
Director of the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF). He has played an active role within the Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse since its inception in 1995 and has been a Secretary to the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Drug and Alcohol Misuse Group since 1999. He served on the Ministerial Drug Task Force in Scotland 1994 and was a key player in the development of harm reduction services in Scotland, advocating the introduction of needle exchanges and substitute prescribing programmes.
David represents Scottish Drug Forum on the Hepatitis C Action Plan Co-ordinating Group in Scotland and has championed the role of User Involvement and human rights/advocacy services for users. He has made a significant contribution to promote access to, and investment in, employability and other routes out of problematic drug use.
Mr Hew Mathewson, CBE
Dr Fiona Measham
Jo Melling
Mr Graham Parsons
District Judge Justin Philips
Re-appointed 1 January 2010- 31 December 2013
Judge Philips was appointed to the Bench in 1989 after 19 years as a criminal barrister, he became a District Judge in 2000. From 1994 he also sat in the Crown Court resigning as a Recorder in 2006 to devote his time to the West London Dedicated Drugs Court of which he is lead Judge. Judge Philips is a Patron of Drugfam.
Richard Phillips
Re-appointed 1st January 2010- 31 December 2013
Richard Phillips has worked in the substance misuse field for 20 years, in roles ranging from street outreach, commissioning, national policy work and senior management. He was previously the Director of Services and Director of Business development at Phoenix Futures and before that Director of Policy and Services and interim CEO at Alcohol Concern. For the last two years, he has worked as an independent consultant within the sector and is currently helping secure a long term future for SMART Recovery, a secular / science based alternative to AA.
Mr Howard Roberts
Re-appointed from 1 January 2010- 31 December 2013
Retired Deputy Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire Police . After graduating with a degree in Law LLB (Hons), he began a policing career with North Wales Police and had a strong interest in tackling drug issues. In 2001 he was selected as an Assistant Chief Constable in Nottinghamshire. He has worked extensively combating the supply of class A drugs in Nottinghamshire and played a strong part in developing, with other agencies, the innovative Sherwood Project which won the National Criminal Justice Award, in 2005, for the outstanding management of offenders. Selected as Deputy Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police in June 2003, he has been an active member of the ACPO Drugs Committee and has held the portfolio for Drug Treatment and Education. He became the Committee’s Vice-Chair in 2005.
Professor Fabrizio Schifano
Chair of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Hertfordshire and Consultant Psychiatrist in addictions at Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Harry Sumnall
Reader in Substance Misuse, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University
Mr Arthur Wing
Re-appointed from 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2013
Assistant Chief Officer, Sussex Probation Area
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