UK NSC Fetal, Maternal and Child Health (FMCH) group
This expert group advises and supports the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) in its work to consider evidence and make formal recommendations on screening for health conditions affecting babies, mothers and children.
Membership
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Dr Sharon Hillier – Chair (Director of the Screening Division, Public Health Wales)
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Professor Helen Bedford (Professor of Child Health, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
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Professor Felicity Boardman (Professor of Social Science in Medicine at Warwick Medical School and affiliate social scientist at the Wellcome Genome Campus)
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Dr James Bonham (lab expert, President of the International Society of Neonatal Screening)
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Dr Philippa Brice (patient and public voice (PPV))
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Ms Jane Fisher (PPV)
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Mrs Hilary Goodman (midwife)
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Dr Kathryn Johnson (Paediatrician, clinical lead for the National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service)
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Prof Asma Khalil (Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Maternal Medicine Subspecialist, St Georges Hospital)
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Dr Robin Lachmann (Consultant in Metabolic Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
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Bertie Leigh (medicolegal expert)
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Dr Peter McEwan (Consultant Neonatologist, Poole Hospital)
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Joanne Preston (Health Visitor, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust)
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Dr Oliver Rivero-Arias (Senior Health Economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health and Associate Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford)
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Dr Martina Rodie (expert in rare diseases, Consultant Neonatologist – Royal Hospital for Children; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Glasgow)
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Dr Bernd Schwahn (Geneticist, Consultant in Paediatric Metabolic Medicine)
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Professor Basky Thilaganathan (Consultant Obstetrician, St Georges Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)
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Prof Rachael Wood (Epidemiologist, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland)