Medical Advisory
Committee

The Medical Advisory Committee meets three times a year and reports to the Board of Trustees. The Committee operates under Terms of Reference, which can be found here.

Professor Sam Janes (Chair)
Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Director of Medicine, University College London
Expertise – Respiratory medicine, TB, Cancer

Professor Robin Ali
Professor of Human Molecular Genetics and Director of the Centre for Gene Therapy & Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London
Expertise – Genetics, Gene and Stem cell therapies, Eye health
2001 Sir Jules Thorn Award winner

Professor Payam Barnaghi
Professor of Machine Intelligence Applied to Medicine, Imperial College and Great Ormond Street Hospital / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Machine Intelligence for Medicine
Expertise – artificial intelligence, machine learning for healthcare applications

Professor Tracy Hussell
Professor of Inflammatory Disease and Director of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, University of Manchester
Expertise – Immunology, Macrophage, Chronic lung disease

Professor Kathryn Peall
Personal Chair, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University
Expertise – Neurology, Clinical Neurology, Movement Disorders

Professor A.V. Ramanan
Professor of Paediatric Rheumatology, University of Bristol and Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Expertise – Rheumatology, Immunology, Clinical Trials

Professor Philippa Saunders FRSE
Professor of Reproductive Steroids and Co-Director Exppect Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Expertise – Endometriosis, Reproductive Health, Experimental Medicine