The lead Investigators for NASH3 are Professor Tony Marson and
Professor Mike Pearson of the University of Liverpool.
Professor Marson has been a consultant neurologist at The Walton Centre
since 2003 and has a specialist interest in epilepsy. He leads the
Liverpool Epilepsy Research Group and is also Director of the UK
Epilepsy Research Network; Deputy Director of the MRC North West Hub for
Trials Methodology Research; Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane
Epilepsy Group; board member of the European Academy of Neurology;
Liverpool Health Partners Director of Research Programmes; Chief
Investigator of the SANAD II trial, as well as leading NASH.
Mike Pearson is a professor of clinical evaluation and set up (and was
Director of) The Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit (CEEu) of
the Royal College of Physicians. Over a decade the CEEu had an
established track record instituting a series of national audits
including myocardial infarction, stroke, carotid endarterectomy,
evidence based prescribing, COPD, lung cancer, continence, inflammatory
bowel disease, blood transfusion, and palliative care. Each of these has
been successful and has achieved national coverage in excess of most
other audits in the UK and beyond.
Other members of the NASH3 steering committee are:
Adam Noble (Health Services Research, University of Liverpool)
Adrian Williams (Professor of Clinical Neurology, University Hospitals
Birmingham, Senior Clinical Advisor to GIRFT)
Angie Pullen (Epilepsy Services Manager, Epilepsy Action)
Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool) (Study Coordinator)
Julie Riley (Divisional Director Neurology, Walton Centre)
Ley Sanders (Medical Director, Epilepsy Society)
Mark Buccanan (Cionsultant in Emergency Medicine, Wirral
University Teaching Hospitals, and Royal College of Emergency
Medicine)
Pete Dixon (Biostatistics, University of Liverpool)
Rob Konstant-Hambling (Analytical team, GIRFT)
Simon Wigglesworth (Epilepsy Action)