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Scientific committee

Professor Anne Greenough MD FRCP FRCPCH DCH (Chair) is Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology and Head of King's College London School of Medicine, also Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King's College Hospital. Her research areas include the prevention and treatment of chronic respiratory abnormalities in infants.  She is particularly interested in the effects of sleeping position and maternal smoking on respiratory control of prematurely born infants.

Professor George Haycock MB BChir FRCP FRCPCH DCH (Scientific Advisor) is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust, specialising in Nephrology.  He has been FSID’s Scientific Advisor since April 2003.

Information & Support committee

Reverend Ron Robinson SSC (Chair) is an FSID Trustee and chairman of the FSID’s Information and Support Committee.  He has had a long involvement with FSID and in supporting cot death families.

Dr Richard Wilson MB FRCP FRCPCH DCH (Vice-chair) is an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Kingston and an FSID trustee.  He became active in FSID in the late 1970s when he made a video to inform professionals about cot death and set up a clinic for parents having a subsequent child.  He became interested in children’s grief and the care of bereaved families and has published and lectured widely on the subject.

Dr Kerry Bluglass MD MB ChB DPM FRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.  Her interests include bereavement, child abuse and fabricated illness.  She is the psychiatric adviser to FSID and past chair of the Psychosocial Working Group of the European Society for the Prevention of Infant Death (ESPID).  Dr Bluglass is the author of ‘Hidden from the Holocaust: stories of resilient hidden children who survived and thrived’.

Professor Robert Carpenter MA PhD FSS is Honorary Professor in the Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  He was involved with the earliest epidemiological studies of cot death and co-ordinated the European Concerted Action on SIDS (ECAS).  He is currently a member of the steering committee of the CONI programme which made it possible to establish that 90% of repeat cot deaths are natural.

Dr Paul Davis MD MB BCh MRCP FRCPCH DCH DRCOG is a community paediatrician at the Children's Hospital for Wales. He represents the British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH). He is CONI paediatrician for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and has an active interest in sudden infant deaths including research and bereavement support.  He is FSID lead in Child Protection.

Dr Linda Dowdney is a consultant clinical psychologist. She was Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the doctoral training course in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey.  She has worked with families troubled by a variety of difficulties, including trauma and bereavement and has worked both as a member of multi-disciplinary teams and as head of NHS psychology services.

Mrs Joyce Epstein is FSID’s Director.  She has been involved for many years in services, planning and research on health issues.

Dr Stephen Gould FRCPath is a Consultant Paediatric Pathologist.  One of his main areas of work involves the post mortem examination of Sudden Infant Deaths, in which he has been involved for over 20 years.  He is currently the Royal College of Pathologists representative on the board of the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Child  Health (CEMACH).

Professor George Haycock MB BChir FRCP FRCPCH DCH (Scientific Advisor) is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust, specialising in Nephrology.  He has been FSID’s Scientific Advisor since April 2003.

Ms Sally Inch RN RM is a midwife and the infant feeding specialist at the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust and represents the Royal College of Midwives on FSID’s Information and Support Committee.  She runs a twice weekly drop-in breastfeeding clinic at the John Radcliffe Maternity hospital and assisted the three midwife-led units in the Trust to obtain the Global Baby Friendly award in 2000.  She has written widely on aspects of birth and breastfeeding and is now the South East Regional Coordinator for the Dept. of Health’s National Network of breastfeeding Coordinators.

Ms Clare Jolly RGN RHV is a health visitor and Children’s Centre Manager for the Eastcotts Children’s Centre in Bedfordshire. Her son Charlie died in 1997, leading her to become a befriender for FSID and undertake health visitor training.   She is also a CONI health visitor and has recently completed a master’s degree in public health practice.

Sylvia Countess of Limerick CBE chaired the 1970 UK Symposium on Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy which led to the formation of FSID in 1971, of which she has been Vice-Chair ever since. She was Executive Chairman of the Welfare & Information Committee from 1971-85, responsible for publishing and circulating FSID information and leaflets. She chaired the Chief Medical Officer's Expert Group to investigate cot death theories from 1994-98.

Mr Edward Thomas has been a solicitor since 1972, specialising in Mental Health law and acting for and in children's cases.  He is also a Mental Health Review Tribunal President.  A practising coroner since 1993, he has been Coroner for Hertfordshire since April 2004.

Mrs Alison Waite BN RGN RM RHV is a midwife and health visitor and the National Co-ordinator for FSID’s Care of Next Infant (CONI) programme.  She has been involved in a number of research studies looking at ways for improving support for bereaved families and is currently setting up a study to enable discussion between parents on CONI using internet bulletin boards.

Finance & Legal committee

Mrs Joyce Epstein is FSID’s director.  She has been involved for many years in services, planning and research on health issues.

Mr Terry Hebden is a non-executive director of two separate Insurance businesses in the City and S.E. England. Terry also works as a business consultant and is retained by a City firm of Corporate Advisors who specialise in financial services. Previously he spent over 30 years as a corporate banker with Barclays

Ms Sue Hunt is a Chartered Accountant and CFO of a proprietary trading and investing business within Goldman Sachs. She joined Goldman Sachs in 1987 to set up the international consultancy and audit practice and then became European Controller. She led her firm's preparation for the introduction of the Euro and was International Treasurer for Goldman Sachs as well as co-head of European Operations and Finance.

Mr Roger Melody FCCA is a chartered certified accountant.  He runs a publishing consultancy with very good contacts in the world of magazine publishing.   His expertise in this field has been of great use to FSID, for instance during 2005’s Baby Safety Week promotion, Pick a Bear for Baby.  He is a bereaved parent with five surviving children.

Mr Harry Trusted is a barrister with an MA from Cambridge in English and Law and has practised at the Bar for 20 years.  His areas of professional interest include aspects of health law and he represented one of the family groups at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry in 1999 and 2000.

Mr Mike Wingfield has been FSID’s Chairman since Spring 2005.  He became involved with FSID after the death of his son Christopher in 1984.  He, and his wife Jackie, are trained befrienders and he previously chaired FSID’s Finance and Legal Committee.