By
Judith Johnson
The following people are on our Advisory Group. Their
role in this project is to offer advice and support
in the form of feedback on the synopsis and drafts
that Judith Johnson submits.
While the Advisory Group’s feedback will inform
the creative process, Y Touring makes the final decisions.
Advisory Group Members
Sir Iain
Chalmers
Editor, James Lind Library
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Dr David Tovey
Editorial Director, BMJ Knowledge
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Professor
Simon Wessely
MD FMedSci
Professor of Epidemiological and Liaison Psychiatry
at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College
London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at King’s
and Maudsley Hospitals
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Lester
Firkins
Employed by the Department of
Health and the Medical Research Council as a lay
representative for various areas of concern
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David Kaskel
CEO and Managing Director, Languagelab.com
David Kaskel is the CEO and Managing Director of Languagelab.com,
a pioneering Second Life-based language school.
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Professor Max Parmar
Joint Director of the UK Clinical Research Network
Mahesh Parmar has been with
the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit for
over 20 years, and Head of the Cancer Group since 1998.
He is also an Associate Director of the National Cancer
Research Network since its inception in 2001.
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Professor Janet Darbyshire
Joint Director of the UK Clinical Research Network
Janet Darbyshire joined the Medical
Research Council to co-ordinate clinical trials and epidemiological
studies in tuberculosis in the UK and Africa. Subsequently
she developed the MRC’s programme of clinical
trials in HIV infection and in 1998 established the
MRC Clinical Trials Unit. She directs the Unit’s
programme of trials in cancer, HIV infection and other
disease areas. She is a member of many Trial
Steering Committees and Data Monitoring Committees,
and has worked closely with community support groups
particularly in HIV infection. Since February
2005, she has been the Joint Director of the UK Clinical
Research Network with Professor Peter Selby.
Dr Sophie Petit-Zeman -
Head of External Relations, Association of Medical
Research Charities
Sophie Petit-Zeman has been Head of External Relations at the Association of Medical Research Charities since 2004. Before joining AMRC, she was a biomedical researcher focusing on stroke, epilepsy and pain, and her PhD, at London's Kings College Hospital, investigated the causes of brain cell death in motor neurone disease and dementia. She then migrated, via mental health research as Biomedical Research Manager at the Mental Health Foundation, to communications and journalism. Shortlisted MIND Mental Health Journalist of the Year 2001, she has worked for all the UK broadsheets, numerous specialist journals, for the NHS, private and voluntary sectors in the UK and abroad. Sophie appears regularly in the mainstream media, both for AMRC and other ventures (most embarrassingly as the neuroscience expert on the BBC national television quiz, Test the Nation 2007) and has written two books, “Doctor, What’s Wrong? Making the NHS human again (Routledge, 2005) and “How to be an Even Better Chair” (Pearson; 2006).
At AMRC, Sophie is responsible for member support and public engagement on many of the controversial issues affecting the sector, from the use of animals in medical research to embryo and stem cell research and patient involvement in clinical trials. She sits of numerous advisory boards and steering groups, including those of Understanding Animal Research, and the James Lind Alliance. Sophie has recently been elected a Vice President of the Institute of Animal Technologists and is on the Executive Board of the Brain and Spine Foundation.
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Michael played by Max Saunders-Singer
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