HC Deb 24 October 1985 vol 84 cc225-6W
Mr. Viggers

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, further to the reply given by his right hon. Friend on 25 July, Official Report, column 771, he is now in a position to give details of the chairman and members of the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment.

Mr. Hayhoe

The Government's Chief Medical Officer has appointed Professor Martin Bobrow as chairman of the committee. He is the Prince Philip Professor of Paediatric Research at Guys hospital medical school.

The 17 members are:

  • Professor Eva Alberman — Department of Clinical Epidemiology, The London Hospital Medical College.
  • Dr. Valerie Beral — Epidemiological Monitoring Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • Professor R. J. Berry — Department of Oncology, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
  • Professor K. M. Clayton — School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
  • Professor A. D. Dayan — Professor of Toxicology and Director DHSS Department of Toxicology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College.
  • Dr. G. J. Draper— Childhood Cancer Research Group, Department of Paediatrics.
  • Professor H. J. Evans — MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
  • Professor M. J. Gardner—Professor of Medical Statistics, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton.
  • Dr. D. T. Goodhead—MRC Radiobiology Unit, Harwell. Professor D. G. Hamden—Director, Paterson Laboratories, Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester.
  • Professor W. Jarrett—The Veterinary School, University of Glasgow.
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  • Professor E. G. Knox—Health Services Research Centre, Department of Social Medicine, The Medical School, University of Birmingham.
  • Dr. Jillian R. Mann— Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, The Childrens Hospital, Ladywood, Birmingham.
  • Professor J. S. Orr—Professor and Director of Medical Physics, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London.
  • Professor J. Peto—Cancer Research Campaign Chair of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Cancer Hospital, Sutton.
  • Dr. T. E. Wheldon — Glasgow Institute of Radiotherapeutics and Oncology, Belvidere Hospital, Glasgow.
  • Professor D. R. Williams — Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology.

The chairman and members have been appointed to serve until April 1989. The committee will hold its first meeting in November.