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Clinical Research Initiative Steering Committee

CRISC responsibilities

The steering committee provides governance for the clinical research programme encompassing both the surgical trials units and the surgical specialty leads. The committee will complete an annual review of the surgical trials units and for each surgical specialty lead. The clinical director of research will provide a report to the committee on a tri-annual basis. The committee will provide strategic guidance to the clinical director of research on the development of the programme.

CRISC members

Chair - Sir Professor Robert Lechler 

Professor Neil Mortensen (President, RCS)

Professor Peter Friend (Chair, Research Committee, RCS)

Professor Peter Hutchinson (Director of Clinical Research, RCS)

Murat Akkulak (Clinical Research Manager, RCS)

Ralph Tomlinson (Director of Quality and Improvement, RCS)

Dr Clare Shaw (NIHR Clinical Research Network)

Professor Tom Pinkney (Surgical Clinical Research Specialty Lead, CRN NIHR)

Dr David Cromwell (Clinical Effectiveness Unit, RCS)

Professor Ruth Langley (Director of MRC Clinical Trials Unit)

TBC (Head of Research, AMRC)

Ian Lewis (Head of Strategic Planning and Initiatives, NCRI)

Professor Duncan Summerton (President of FSSA)

Nick Ross (Lay representative)

Andrew Davies (Market Access Director, ABHI)

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