Register of Interests

Professor Robin Davidson

AERC Chairman

  • Sits on editorial boards of ‘Alcohol and Alcoholism’, ‘Addiction’ and ‘Journal of Substance Use’
  • Member of Expert Panel on Drug Treatment Outcome Consensus
  • Chairmanship of AERC is unpaid. Expenses only are claimed
  • As a previous Member of the AERC, occasional hospitality from the alcohol industry was accepted
  • Receive no clinical, education or research funding from the alcohol, drugs or tobacco industries

Professor Virginia Berridge

  • Professor of History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Editorial boards:  Addiction (Assistant Editor for Addiction History series), Twentieth Century British History, Social History of Medicine, Media History
  • Has received research funding from the AERC, MRC, NICE, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Wellcome Trust and ESRC

Ms Joyce Craig

  • Senior Health Economist, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
  • No personal or non-personal interests to declare

Professor Christopher Day

  • Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
  • Member of the MRC boards, PSMB and Translational Stem Cell Research Committee
  • Received research funding from the MRC, Wellcome Trust and Department of Health
  • Serves on the Medical Advisory Boards of CORE, ERAB and British Liver Trust
  • Chief Editor of J Hepatology
  • Editorial Board Gastroenterology

Mr Ian Ford

  • Full time employee and Company Secretary of The North British Distillery Co Ltd., a major provider of scotch grain whisky to the blended scotch whisky sector. The North British Distillery Co. is 100% owned by Lothian Distillers Ltd., which, in turn, is a joint venture owned 50% by The Edrington Group, an independent Scotch Whisky Group and 50% by Diageo plc, a major international drinks company. The North British Distillery Co. is also a member of the Scotch Whisky Association, the industry’s trade association and of The Scotch Whisky Research Institute, a research company sponsored by a number of major scotch whisky companies.
  • Also arranges for accountancy, payroll and IT services to be provided by himself and North British Distillery Co. colleagues to be supplied, free of charge, to the AERC

Professor David Foxcroft

  • Employee of Oxford Brookes University
  • His Department has received research funding from the AERC and from Diageo.
  • Trustee of the Drinkaware Trust
  • Serves on the editorial boards of: Cochrane Drug & Alcohol Group; and Drugs:  Education, Prevention and Policy

Professor Ian Gilmore

  • Chairman of the Trustees of the Royal College of Physicians and lead spokesman on alcohol issues
  • Member of the Department of Health Clinical Expert Group on alcohol issues
  • Clinical Adviser to Boehringer-Ingelheim on liver toxicity of a new drug in clinical trials (2005 to 2007) and on cases of potential liver damage after exposure to a novel anticoagulant under evaluation

Professor Gerard Hastings

  • Director of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research and the Institute for Social Marketing at Stirling and the Open university.
  • Research interests include the impact of marketing in general and for specific products (most notably tobacco, alcohol and food) on health behaviour and outcomes.
  • Research funding comes from public and charitable sectors

Professor Nick Heather

  • Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies, Northumbria University (unpaid)
  • Sits on Editorial Boards of Alcohol & Alcoholism, Addiction Research & Theory, Adicciones, Drug & Alcohol Review and International Advisory Board of Journal of Substance Use, SMART Recovery ®
  • Member, Programme Development Group, “Alcohol-use Disorders (Prevention)”, National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  • Has received research funding from AERC, MRC, EU, Mental Health Foundation, Tyne & Wear HAZ
  • Paid consultancy work for organisations interested in reducing alcohol-related harm (eg, Primary Health European Project on Alcohol, Scottish Association of Alcohol & Drug Teams, Central Office of Information)
  • No clinical, education or research funding from the alcohol, drugs or tobacco industries

Professor Ray Hodgson

AERC Research Director

  • Part time Research Director of the AERC
  • An Editorial Advisor of the journal “Addiction”
  • Member and past president of the Society for the Study of Addiction
  • Member of the Alcohol Research Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Member of CSAP (The Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, based within the Ministry of Justice)

Professor Eileen Kaner

  • Employee of Newcastle University
  • Editorial Board member, Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Member of the National Clinical Advisory Group on Alcohol
  • Member of the North East Regional Group on Alcohol
  • Research interests are Alcohol and Public Health
  • Research funding comes from a range of public and charitable sources (including the AERC)
  • Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Programme Development Group on the Prevention of Alcohol Use Disorders in Adults and Adolescents.
  • Member of the Science task-group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the EU Clearing House for Research on Alcohol and Young People

Mrs Lesley King-Lewis

  • Director, Man Group Plc Charitable Trust
  • Member of the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Alcohol

Dr Pui-Ling Li

  • Employed as Deputy Regional Director of Public Health for London, NHS London
  • Chair, Chinese National Healthy Living Centre

Mr Aneurin Owen

  • Executive Director, Institute of Alcohol Studies (which receives funding from the Alliance House Foundation and from the European Commission).  IAS is a member of the Alcohol Health Alliance, Eurocare and the Eurolifestyles Network
  • Board member, Eurocare, The European Alcohol Policy Alliance
  • Trustee, Bible Society
  • Trustee, St Kentigern’s Hospice
  • Member of the Advisory Panel on Substance Misuse, National Assembly for Wales (unpaid)

Dr Rachel Seabrook

  • Employee of the Institute of Alcohol Studies (which receives funding from the Alliance House Foundation and from the European Commission) .  IAS is a member of the Alcohol Health Alliance, Eurocare and the Eurolifestyles Network
  • Member of MRC cluster ‘Capacity development for Alcohol Policy Effectiveness Research’

Mr Chris Searle

  • Employee of the Bacardi-Martini Corporation Ltd
  • VP of ISBA
  • Council member of GVA and the Wine and Spirits Benevolent
  • Council member of EFRD
  • Bacardi representative at the European Alcohol and Health Forum
  • ICAP Board alternate
  • GAPG member for Bacardi
  • Business leader of the Marketing Society