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Patrons and Advisors
RoadPeace is supported by a number of Patrons. They are:
Professor Danny Dorling
Colin Ettinger
Dr Mayer Hillman
Professor Ian Roberts
Dr Noreen Terani
Professor Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling is a writer and academic. His latest books include Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists and So you think you know about Britain?
Danny is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford. During his time as Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, with a group of colleagues, he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world.
He has been a member of World Health Organization's Scientific Resource Group on Health Equity Analysis and Research and a member of the advisory group of the Equality Trust. He is honorary president of the Society of Cartographers and a patron of RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims.
In 2010 he spoke at the PACTS' 21st Westminster Lecture: 'Roads, Casualties and Public Health: the Open Sewers of the 21st Century'
Danny has been a Patron of RoadPeace since 2011.
>> Read Danny's evidence to the Transport Safety Commission's enquiry, Transport Safety Management: Who is Responsible?
Colin Ettinger
Colin Ettiinger is a Partner at Irwin Mitchell specialising in representing people who have sustained serious injuries.
Colin has been a Patron of RoadPeace since 1998.
Dr Mayer Hillman
Concern about oversight of the crucial links between transport, planning and environmental issues led him to complete a doctoral thesis on this subject in 1970 at the University of Edinburgh. That same year he joined the Policy Studies Institute (formerly PEP – Political and Economic Planning) and was head of its Environment and Quality of Life Research Programme until 1992. He is now is Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute. His studies have been concerned with transport, urban planning, energy conservation, health promotion, road safety and environment policies, and particularly the implications of climate change.
Mayer has been a Patron of RoadPeace since 1997.
Professor Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts is Professor of Epidemiology & Public Heath at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His main research interests are the prevention and treatment of traumatic injury and the links between energy use and health.
He trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then in epidemiology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and at McGill University, Canada. He established and is co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Injuries Group, an international network of individuals that prepares and maintains systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of injury.
He is principal investigator of the CRASH trials, large international randomised controlled trials that seek better ways to treat seriously injured trauma patients. The MRC CRASH trial, which included 10,000 pateints with head injury from around the world, showed that corticosteroids, which were widely used in the management of serious head injury, did not improve patient outcome after head injury and actually increased the risk of death. These results have been incorporated into international treatment guidelines and have improved the safety of medical care world-wide. The CRASH-2 trial has shown that tranexamic acid, an inexpensive and widely practicable treatment, safely reduces mortality in bleeding trauma patients.
He is the author with Phil Edwards of The Energy Glut: the politics of fatness in an overheating world.
Ian has been a Patron of RoadPeace since 1998.
>> The second gasoline war and how we can prevent the third.
>> Is road safety being driven in the wrong direction?
Dr Noreen Terani
Noreen Tehrani is an occupational, health and counselling psychologist specialising in post traumatic stress.
Noreen has been a Patron of RoadPeace since 1998.
Advisors
Nicholas Atkinson QC
Nicholas Atkinson was called to the bar in 1971 and became a QC in 1991. He is now head of Atkinson Bevan Chambers with his practice covering all areas of crime, including fraud and homicide.
Narinder Kapur
Narinder Kapur is a visiting professor of Neuropsychology at UCL and has been a consultant Neuropsychologist since 1980.
John Stewart
John Stewart is a transport advisor and campaigner. He has been heavily involved in campaigns against roadbuilding and the expansion of Heathrow airport.
Harry Trusted
Harry Trusted is a Barrister specialising in the areas of Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Disciplinary & Regulation and Professional Negligence. He was called to the bar in 1985 and is a highly experienced advocate and adviser in the fields of clinical healthcare and risk.
Proffessor John Whitelegg
John Whitelegg is Professor of Sustainable Development at University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute. His research interests include transport and the environment as well as the relationship between sustainability and human health.
