Mark joined NICE in 2022 as interim director for medical technology and digital evaluation. This includes diagnostics, digital and medtech that can be implantable or assistive. Mark has 30 years of experience in the medtech arena. He initially trained as a clinical physiologist, and worked for ten years in NHS tertiary cardiac care, with a specialist interest in complex cardiac devices.
Mark moved into industry in 2001, holding various clinical and commercial roles including committee member on NICE’s technology appraisal programme. He is a past member of the External Advisory Board, University of Leeds EPSRC Centre for innovative Manufacturing of Medical Devices. Mark has also undertaken secondment within the UK Government, Office for Life Sciences and Department of Business as MedTech Policy Advisor. Previously and immediately prior to joining NICE Mark was the Director of Health Economics and Commissioning for UK & Ireland at Medtronic.
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