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Annex 3
Membership of the Panel (at November 2000)
Chairman
Professor Anthony Seaton, CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FFOM, FMedSci is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine in Aberdeen University and consultant physician to Aberdeen Royal Hospitals. He was President of the British Thoracic Society in 1999, and from 1978 to 1990 was Director of the Edinburgh Institute of Occupational Medicine. Prior to that he worked as a chest physician in Cardiff and as assistant professor of medicine in West Virginia, USA. In the past his research has contributed to the management of acute severe asthma, to understanding the ecology and pathogenicity of Aspergillus fumigatus, and to the epidemiology of pneumoconioses. His current research interests are in the causes of the increase in allergic diseases, the cardiovascular effects of particulate air pollution and the neurotoxic effects of organic chemicals. He is also a member of COMEAP and the Advisory Committee on Monserrat.
Members
Professor Jon G Ayres BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCP, is Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine at Birmingham Heartlands Solihull NHS Trust and is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Birmingham since 1996. His main research activity is centred on the health effects of air pollution, through epidemiological and challenge studies. He also has a major research interest in the mechanisms and management of severe asthma. He has been a member of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution (Dept of Health) since its inception and acts as a spokesman on environmental matters for the National Asthma Campaign and the British Thoracic Society.
Professor H Ross Anderson, MD, MSc, FFPHM qualified in medicine in Melbourne in 1964. From 1966 to 1972, he worked in Papua New Guinea, where his research interests in environmental epidemiology developed. He moved to Britain in 1972 and spent time at the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit in South Wales and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1976 he was appointed to a senior lectureship in epidemiology at St George's Hospital Medical School and became Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1985. His main research interests are in the epidemiology of asthma and the health effects of air pollution. He is a member of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution.
Dr Peter J Baxter MD, MSc, FRCP, FFOM worked for the UK Health and Safety Executive and at the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, before becoming Consultant Physician in occupational and environmental medicine at Cambridge University and Addenbrookes Trust Hospital, Cambridge, in 1986. He is also a member of government bodies advising on major chemical incidents, natural disasters and climate change. He is an advisor to the World Health Organisation, and since 1995 has been investigating and advising the UK government on the medical aspects (including air pollution) of the volcanic eruption on Monserrat. He is currently co-ordinating an interdisciplinary EC project on modelling the human and environmental impacts of a major eruption of Vesuvius, Italy.
Professor Peter G J Burney MA, MD, FRCP, FFPHM is Professor of Public Health Medicine and Chairman of the Division of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences at King's College London. He is director of the Department of Health's Social Medicine and Health Services Research Unit, which has a particular commitment to research into asthma. He sits on the Department of Health's Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution and the Department of Health's working group on Health Benefit Groups (Respiratory Disease).
Dr John W Cherrie BSc, PhD, FBIOH is Reader in Occupational Hygiene in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He is based part-time at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh. His research interests include human exposure assessment, environmental and occupational epidemiology, natural and synthetic fibres, dermal exposure and particulate air pollution. He is currently involved with a study to investigate particle and gas emissions from domestic cooking.
Dr Anne E. Cockcroft MD, FRCP, FFOM, is Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Occupational Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Free and University College Medical School of UCL. Her research interests include occupational and environmental lung diseases, with work particularly in coalworkers, occupational health in health care workers, the physiology of breathlessness and public health and service delivery in developing countries. She is editor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Professor David N M Coggon MA, PhD, DM, FRCP, FFOM, FMedSci is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, and also holds a Consultant appointment in Occupational Medicine with Southampton University Hospitals Trust. His main research interest is the epidemiology of occupational and environmental causes of disease. He is currently also a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. He is also scientific advisor to the Colt Foundation.
Dr Dick G Derwent MA, PhD, has spent most of his research career studying atmospheric chemistry. He built the first European models of stratospheric ozone depletion, tropospheric ozone build-up, acid rain and ground level photochemical smog formation. He is currently working at the UK Meteorological Office, Bracknell on building a global three dimensional model to describe the issues of acid rain, photochemical ozone formation and the build up of greenhouse gases. He is also a member of the Airborne Particles Expert Group and the National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution.
Professor Roy M Harrison PhD, DSc, FRSC, FRMetS, Hon MFPHM, Hon FFOM is Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham and Head of the Division of Environmental Health and Risk Management. He has previously chaired advisory committees on air pollution (Quality of Urban Air Review Group; Airborne Particles Expert Group) for the DETR and is a member of the Department of Health Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants. He has been involved in air pollution research for more than 25 years, with current interests in the emissions, atmospheric behaviour and health effects of air pollutants, with a special focus on particulate matter.
Professor Stephen T Holgate BSc, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPath, CBiol, FIBiol, FRSA, FMedSci is MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician at Southampton General and Royal Bournemouth Hospitals. After completing his training in general and respiratory medicine in London and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard in 1986, he established a research group in the School of Medicine at Southampton. The central focus of this research is the cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and allied airway diseases encompassing genetics, epidemiology and the roles of allergens, viruses and air pollutants. He is currently Chairman of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants and a member of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment. He is currently co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy and has published in excess of 500 research papers on asthma and allergic disease in the peer reviewed literature.
Mr J Fintan Hurley, MA studied mathematics and statistics in Cork (Ireland) and in Edinburgh, where he joined the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in 1975. He has worked principally in epidemiology, and especially on occupational dusts and chronic lung disease. His particular interests include exposure measurement strategies and research methods generally. In recent years he has been strongly involved in reviewing the growing literature on the health effects of ambient air pollution. He is currently Research Director at the IOM, and is a member of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution.
Ex officio member - Chairman of the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
Professor Peter Blain is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Medical School, Newcastle University. He has extensive experience on the health effects of industrial and environmental chemicals and serves as a medical toxicologist on a number of other Government advisory committees, both in the Department of Health (Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment) and other Government Departments, especially MOD.
Assessors
Dr Antje Branding - Scottish Executive
Dr Havard Prosser - National Assembly for Wales
Mrs Helen Anderson - Department of the Environment in Northern IrelandObservers
Dr P Harrison - MRC Institute for Environment & Health, University of Leicester
Mrs M Meldrum - Health & Safety ExecutiveSecretariat
Dr M L Williams - Air & Environment Quality Division, DETR
Prof. R L Maynard, CBE - Department of Health
Dr S Coster - Air & Environment Quality Division, DETR
Dr H Walton - Department of Health
Dr J Dixon - University College London
Published 16 January 2001
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