Volume 4: The Southwood Working Party, 1988-89
Who's who

For fuller descriptions of many of the following people, see the main Who's who in vol. 16: Reference Material (or via an electronic link in the website and CD-ROM versions).

Sir Donald Acheson	Chief Medical Officer
Mr Derek Andrews	Permanent Secretary (Grade 1, later Sir Derek), MAFF
Professor Sir William Asscher	Chair, Committee on Safety of Medicines
Mr Raymond Bradley	BSE research coordinator at the CVL
Dr Muriel Brown	Civil Service Occupational Health Service
Mr Charles Cockbill	Assistant Secretary (Grade 5), Food Standards Division, MAFF
Professor Gerald Collee	Chair, BSE Working Group of the Committee on Safety of Medicines
Mr Alistair Cruickshank	Under Secretary (Grade 3), Animal Health Group, MAFF
Dr David Doyle	Consultant Neuropathologist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
Professor Sir Anthony Epstein	Member of the Southwood Working Party
Dr Hugh Fraser	Pathologist, Neuropathogenesis Unit
Dr David Gompertz	Medical Officer, Health and Safety Executive
Mr J Granger	Veterinary surgeon
Dr Helen Grant	Neuropathologist, Middlesex and Charing Cross hospitals
Dr Ed Harris	Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Dr Timothy Holt	Hospital doctor
Dr James Hope	Principal Scientific Officer, Neuropathogenesis Unit
Dr Gerald Jones	Grade 3, Head of Medicines Division, DH
Mr Alastair Kidd	Director of Licensing, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, CVL
Dr Richard Kimberlin	TSE research scientist and consultant
Mr Alan Lawrence	Grade 7, Animal Health Division, MAFF; joint secretary, Southwood Working Party
Mr Peter Lister	Principal Scientific Officer, DH
Dr Thomas Little	Deputy Director, CVL; Chair, Biologicals Subcommittee of the VPC
Mr John MacGregor MP	Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Mr David Maclean MP	Minster for Food Safety, MAFF
Dr Kenneth MacOwan	Chief Scientists Group, MAFF
Dr William B Martin	Member of the Southwood Working Party
Professor Walter Bryan Matthews	Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford
Mr Keith Meldrum	Chief Veterinary Officer (from June 1988)
Mr Tony Newton MP	Minister of Health
Ms Julie Phillips	Dietician
Dr Hilary Pickles	Principal Medical Officer, DH; joint secretary, Southwood Working Party
Dr E Poole	Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Mr William Howard Rees	Chief Veterinary Officer (to May 1988)
Mr Frank Scollen	Assistant Secretary (Grade 5), Animal Medicines Division, MAFF
Dr David Shannon	Chief Scientists Group, MAFF
Mr John Sloggem	Medicines Division, DH
Professor Sir Richard Southwood	Chair, Southwood Working Party
Mr Frank Strang	Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, MAFF
Mr John Suich	Assistant Secretary (Grade 5), Animal Health Division, MAFF
Dr David Taylor	Principal Research Scientist, NPU
Mr Kevin Taylor	Veterinary Head of Notifiable Diseases Section, MAFF
Mr Donald Thompson MP	Parliamentary Secretary (Commons), MAFF
Dr David Tyrrell	Chair, Consultative Committee on Research into Spongiform Encephalopathies (Tyrrell Committee)
Lord Walton of Detchant	Member of the Southwood Working Party
Dr William Watson	Director of the Central Veterinary Laboratory
Mr Laurie Weir	Senior Principal (Grade 6), Health and Personal Social Services Group, DH
Mr John Wilesmith	Head of Epidemiology Department, CVL
Dr Robert Will	Consultant neurologist; Director of the CJD Surveillance Unit