EDRIC Experts


To support the work of EDRIC an international advisory panel of academic, clinical, scientific and technical experts has been created.

Professor Janet McCredie
Radiologist Adjunct
Associate Professor of Surgery
Central Clinical School
University of Sydney
Author: "Beyond Thalidomide - Birth Defects Explained" pub Royal Society of Medicine - London 2007
Sydney, New South Wales

Dr Jürgen Graf
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (Congenital Limb Damage Specialist)
High Tech-Center
Nord Nüremburg

Prof.  Dr.  Klaus M.  Peters
Chefarzt Orthopädie
Rhein-Sieg-Klinik
Nümbrecht

Professor Olaf Rieß
Geneticist Department of Medical Genetics
University of Tübingen

Thomas Haensgen
CEO
Stiftung Barrierefrei Kommunizieren
Berlin

Professor Anna Latos-Bielenska
Geneticist
Polish Registry of Congenital Malformations
Department of Medical Genetics
Poznan University

Romauld Schmidt
President
START Sports Association for the Disabled in Poland
Poznan

Dr Peter Kohler
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (Congenital Limb Damage Specialist)
The EX-Center: Roda Korset Hospital
Stockholm

Professor Helen Dolk
EUROCAT (European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of congenital anomalies)
University of Ulster

Professor Oleg Eremin
Special Professor - Department of Surgery (Medical & Surgical Sciences)
University of Nottingham
Editor: "the Surgeon" - the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland

Professor Caroline Glendinnng
Professor of Social Policy
Specialist Researcher into policy relating to disability, ageing and care
Social Policy Research Unit
University of York

Professor Rajiv Hanspal
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust
London

Dr Martin Johnson
Director The Thalidomide Trust

Professor Bryan Manning
Visiting Professor of Compunetics
Business Psychology Centre
University of Westminster

Dr Claus Newman
Consultant Clinician
Medical Adviser to The Thalidomide Trust

Professor Michael Rigby
Professor of Health Information Strategy
School of Public Policy and Professional Practice
Keele University

Dr Carl Shakespeare
Consultant Cardiologist
Director, Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Institute
Chair, Telemedicine & eHealth Section, Royal Society of Medicine
London

Dr Richard Sills
Clinician-Specialist in Health Information Systems Medical Advisor to The Thalidomide Trust

Dr Allen Wenner
Family Physician
Leading expert in the development and implementation of electronic clinical questionnaires and patient oriented history taking Vice President, Primetime Medical Software, developers of "Instant Medical History"
Lexington, South Carolina