Updated on: 6 April 2021

Roles in: Z_INACTIVE_Neuromuscular Group

1. In the past 36 months have you accepted the following from a commercial organisation with a financial interest in the broad topic area of the Group/Unit?

a) Support for attending meetings, including sabbaticals and study tours (this covers travel, accommodation and/or hospitality)?
Yes - CSL Behring unrestricted economy travel sponsorship to PNS Italy 2019. Nil since

b) Payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speaker bureaus, manuscript writing, or educational events?
Yes - Unrestricted and uninfluenced educational lecture on peripheral neuropathy to CSL Behring 2018 educational day. Nil since.

c) Fees for organising education?
No

d) Grants and contracts?
No

e) Funds for a member of staff?
No

f) Fees for consulting?
No

g) Royalty or licences payments?
No

h) Payment for expert testimony?
No

i) Payment for a fellowship?
No

j) Payment for participation on a Data Safety Monitoring Board, Advisory Board, or Guideline Panel?
Yes - Drug safety monitoring board for ProCID study (Octapharma) - 2018-19 Independent Vaccine Safety Advisory Panel - AstraXZenenca Pharmaceuticals 2020-21 CSL Behring (2016 and 2017) one off Advisory Boards. UK Guideline on SCIG being written as a result of discussions at this meeting by others. Trial design advisory Board UCB pharma (2019) Trial design advisory Board Roche Pharmaceuticals (2021)

k) Payment for a leadership or other fiduciary role in other board, society, committee, or advocacy group?
No

2. In the past 36 months have you, your spouse/partner or an immediate family member been employed by or do you or they own a commercial organization with a financial interest in the broad topic area of the Group/Unit?
No

3. Do you own stocks or shares in a commercial organization with a financial interest in the broad topic area of the Group/Unit?
No

4. Do you hold any patents (planned, issued or pending) for products relevant to the broad topic area of the Group/Unit?
No

5. Do you have any other competing interests (financial or non-financial)?
Yes - I am an employee of the National Health Service and treat patients in the NHS and privately on a daily basis with neurological diseases who may be treated with therapies and interventions that are the subject of Cochrane Systematic Reviews. I have been a local or national PI on trials of treatment for inflammatory neuropathies from CSL Behring, Novartis, UCB Pharma, as well as a PI on investigator led studies of IVIG and steroids in CIDP (OPTIC and IoC trial).