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The Bupa Foundation board

The Bupa Foundation is run by a board, which meets quarterly to consider applications.

Dame Deirdre Hine became chairman of the Bupa Foundation in 2004. The chair and the majority of the governors are from external bodies. They provide expertise across a range of research and clinical areas. They are:

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  • Dr Judy Evans - consultant plastic surgeon, the Nuffield Hospital, Plymouth
  • Mr Chris Hasluck - principal research fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
  • Professor Tony Kendrick - professor of primary medical care and director of Community Clinical Sciences Division, Aldermoor Health Centre
  • Professor Parveen Kumar - professor of clinical medical education, Queen Mary College, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London; Hon consultant physician and gastroenterologist, Barts and the London NHS Trust and the Homerton University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust
  • Professor Philip Poole-Wilson - head of Cardiac Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London
  • Professor Jennie Popay - professor of sociology and public health, Institute for Health Research, University of Lancaster
  • Professor Mary Watkins - deputy vice chancellor, University of Plymouth
  • Professor Gordon Wilcock - professor of clinical geratology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

The following four governors are employed by Bupa and sit on the board because of their expertise in the Bupa Foundation's areas of focus. They are:

  • Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen - deputy chairman of the Bupa Foundation and the Bupa's group medical director
  • Dr Virginia Warren - consultant in public health medicine
  • Mr Peter Jones - Bupa's group communications director
  • Mr Edward Todd - from Bupa's finance department. Provides financial and accountancy expertise

Officers of the Foundation are:


Related links

National Research Register site
www.update-software.com/national

Bandolier homepage - The Evidence Based Medicine Site, which has received Bupa Foundation funding
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier

The Cochrane Library
www.update-software.com/cochrane

The Wellcome Trust research site
www.wellcome.ac.uk

EORTC (European Organisation for research and treatment of cancer)
www.eortc.be

Clinical Trials (tip-limit search to UK)
www.clinicaltrials.gov

Association of Medical Research Charities
www.amrc.org.uk

The James Lind Alliance
www.lindalliance.org

The James Lind Library
www.jameslindlibrary.org

 

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