Steering committee
The Sight Loss and Vision Priority Setting Partnership will be managed by a Steering Committee, which will be led by an independent chair, from the James Lind Alliance. The Steering Committee includes patient representatives and eye health professionals.
- Katherine Cowan – James Lind Alliance, Partnership Chair
- Michele Acton – Chief Executive, Fight for Sight
- Karen Bonstein – Manager of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology
- Michael Bowen – Director of Research, College of Optometrists
- Carol Bronze – Patient representative
- Dr Dolores Conroy – Director of Research, Fight for Sight
- Kathy Evans – Chief Executive, Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- Mark Fenton – Editor, UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (UK DUETs)
- Dr Heather Giles – Patient representative
- Dr Robert Harper – Consultant Optometrist, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
- Anita Lightstone – Programme Director, UK Vision Strategy
- Dr Fiona Rowe – Senior Lecturer in Orthoptics, University of Liverpool. Research Lead, British and Irish Orthoptic Society
- Professor Alan Stitt – Director of the Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, Queen’s University Belfast
- Professor Heather Waterman – Professor of Nursing and Ophthalmology, University of Manchester
- Professor Marcela Votruba – Professor of Ophthalmology and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cardiff University
- Mr Richard Wormald – Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital and Co-ordinating Editor, Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group
Data Assessment Group
The Steering Committee set up a Data Assessment Group (DAG) to analyse to data. The DAG comprised:
- Dr Catey Bunce – Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Louise Halfhide – Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Iris Gordon – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Antra Zekite – Moorfields Eye Hospital