About the programme

Management team

The programme team are based at Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit in the Queens' Medical Centre.

• Professor Lelia Duley - Programme Director
• Sarah Somerset - Research Fellow

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Steering Group

The programme has a Steering Group that meets two/three times per year. The members are clinicians and researchers involved in the research programme.

• Zoe Chivers , Head of Services, Bliss
• Susan Ayers, Lead, Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, City University London
• Jon Dorling, Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
• Lelia Duley (Chair), Director, Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Nottingham
• David Field, Professor of Neonatal Medicine and surgery, University of Leicester
• Gill Gyte, Research Associate, National Childbirth Trust
• William McGuire, Professor of Child Health, University of York
• Christopher Megone, Professor of Inter-Disciplinary Applied Ethics, Director, IDEA CETL, University of Leeds
• Sam Oddie, Consultant Neonatologist, Clinical Lead, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Sandy Oliver, Professor of Public Policy, Deputy Director, SSRU, University of London
• John Simes, Director, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney
• Jim Thornton, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nottingham
• Andrew Weeks, Professor of International Maternal Health, University of Liverpool
• Bill Yoxall, Clinical Director of Neonatology and Pharmacy, Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Women's Hospital Foundation Trust