MTHR - Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research

Press Release

New Chairman for the MTHR Research Programme

Professor Lawrie Challis, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Nottingham University, will succeed Sir William Stewart, FRS, as Chairman of the MTHR Programme Management Committee. Professor Challis is currently Vice-chairman of the Programme Management Committee and was formerly Vice-chairman of the Stewart Inquiry into Mobile Phones and Health.

The present Chairman of the Programme Management Committee of the MTHR, Sir William Stewart, announced today that he was stepping down to devote more time to his new role as Shadow Chairman of the Government’s proposed Health Protection Agency.

Professor Challis said of his new role:

“This is an important and exciting research programme and we are all extremely grateful to Bill Stewart for getting the programme established so effectively. It is a great honour and privilege to follow in his footsteps.”

Sir William Stewart, outgoing Chairman, commented:

“I was recently appointed Shadow Chairman of the proposed Health Protection Agency and I must devote a major part of my time and effort into the setting up of this hugely important new agency. I shall be sorry to step down because the MTHR is a good Committee. However I have worked well with Lawrie Challis for many years and am very pleased that the MTHR will be in his safe and independent hands.”

Downloadable portrait photos of Sir William Stewart and Professor Lawrie Challis, along with other photographs from the MTHR scientific seminar on 11 November, are available to the media at www.mthr.org.uk/_download/

MTHR P3
11 November 2002