Meet the speakers
Duncan McPherson
Dr Duncan McPherson, MB BS FRCA, is internal clinician at LNE-GMED UK and consultant anaesthetist at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. He holds degrees in neuroscience and medicine from University College London and is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is a member of the WHO STAG MEDEV advisory group and an honorary clinical research fellow at the University of Birmingham where he researches regulatory science topics including how the regulatory system can contribute to improved medical device safety and effectiveness. He regularly assesses a range of medical devices for certification under both EU and UK medical device regulations.
Erman Melikyan
Erman studied medicine at Istanbul University. He undertook specialist training in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery and Hand Surgery including visiting fellowships in Austria and Switzerland. He also spent time in Public Health. Erman developed expertise in orthopaedic materials and implants during his PG Diploma in Orthopaedic Engineering studies at Cardiff University. He published the first RCT into ESWT for tendinopathies and co-authored books. Erman became a senior lecturer in 2012 and associate professor in 2014.
Since joining a IMNB as Principal Clinician, Erman has set up the clinical team. He has been working with the Core-MD group whilst also continuing to practice as an orthopaedic hand surgeon.
Tom Melvin
Tom Melvin is Associate Professor of Medical Device Regulatory Affairs in Trinity College Dublin. Prior to this, Tom worked as a senior medical officer in medical devices at the Health Products Regulatory Authority, where he served for 7 years. Tom Co-chaired the Clinical Investigation and Evaluation Working Group of the European Commission for 5 years. Tom has led various taskforces, work packages and projects at national and international level on regulatory and scientific topics related to medical device regulation. Tom is a member of the International Rare Disease Research Consortium (IRDiRC) working group on MedTech for rare diseases, and a member of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices in Ireland. Before working in medical devices, Tom worked as a medical doctor for a number of years.
Muireann Quigley
Muireann is Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Birmingham and is Principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project. She has an interdisciplinary background which crosses medicine, ethics, and law. Her current research as part of the Everyday Cyborgs project focuses on the legal and philosophical challenges arising from the joining of persons and bodies with attached and implanted medical devices. She is also PI on a Research England funded project Beyond Algorithms which looks at the use of innovative technologies such as open-source automated insulin delivery systems and 3-d printed insulin pumps in diabetes care. Most recently, she has begun a small cross-disciplinary project looking at the legal, ethical, and other challenges of research on and use of psychedelic drugs. Muireann is the author of Self-ownership, Property Rights, and the Human Body: A Legal and Philosophical Analysis, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Drawing together often disparate strands of property discourse from law and philosophy, the book examines how the law ought to deal with novel challenges regarding the use and control of human biomaterials.
Bruno Rosen
Bruno Rosen, MD, FFPM, studied medicine in Cologne (Germany) and holds a doctorate in Neurophysiology. He has worked in big Pharma (Bayer AG), generic firms and was co-founder of a medical imaging company providing analysis tools for MRI data. He also worked in the diagnostics industry, set up renal care centres in the Netherlands and is currently CEO of a small private equity boutique whose major asset is a company which currently works on a medical device license in the EU & USA. He has work experience Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Netherlands.
Tom Clutton-Brock
Professor Tom Clutton-Brock MBE, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM is Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Birmingham, with interests in patient safety and device usability testing. He is Chair of NICE Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee and Chair of the Interim Devices Working Group at the MHRA. Since 2013 he has been the Clinical Director of the NIHR Trauma HTC/MIC and from April 2024 the Director of the NIHR HRC in Devices, Digital and Robotics. In 2016 he became Director of the Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre (MD-TEC). MD-TEC is a unique facility with hi-fidelity simulation settings for the testing of novel medical devices.
