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Annual Symposium

Speakers

Please find below confirmed speakers for the Symposium on Urological Pathology 2025 

 

Dr Roshina Ahmed

I am a consultant histopathologist working in Addenbrookes Hospital reporting Urological pathology and Gynae pathology. 

 
 

Dr Lisa Browning

Speaker bio coming soon.

 

Dr Pascale Capleton

Consultant histopathologist based at Barts Health NHS Trust in London, specialising in uropathology and gastrointestinal pathology.

 

Dr Ashish Chandra

Dr Ashish Chandra is based at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London and has hosted many of the annual BAUP courses. He has been Chair of BAUP and departmental lead consultant for Uropathology. His special interests include urothelial carcinoma and also cytopathology.

 
 

Dr Preethi Gopinath

Speaker bio coming soon.

 

Dr Aiman Haider

Dr Aiman Haider is a consultant histopathologist (Urological Pathology) in the Department of Cellular Pathology, UCLH, London. She is a Honorary Lecturer; Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, Department of Targeted Intervention, UCL, London. She is the Education Secretary of the British Association of Urological Pathologists. 

 
 

Professor Rohit Mehra

Dr. Rohit Mehra is a Clinical Professor of Pathology at University of Michigan and Faculty Member of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (MCTP). As a genitourinary pathologist, Dr. Mehra serves as a regional and national consultant and regularly reviews extramural consultations. As Genitourinary service line director for MLabs, Michigan Medicine's reference laboratory division, and Director, MCTP Esoteric Clinical Laboratory Services where he oversees the development of novel assays in Genitourinary Oncology, Dr. Mehra works to solve diagnostic problems, both common and rare. He has helped launch clinically significant molecular oncology results into assays for diagnostic, prognostic, and/or therapeutic use (PMIDs: 37499055, 36581128, 36264673, 33854184, others).

Focusing on the discovery of gene aberrations in genitourinary tumors and development of related biomarkers, Dr. Mehra played an important role early on in discovery of recurrent fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS transcription factor genes (PMIDs: 16254181, 17334343, others). These genes are now recognized as an important driver mutation in prostate cancer. His more recent work has helped characterize uncommon and common renal tumors at the clinicopathologic and molecular level; such tumors include entities like Mucinous Tubular Spindle cell carcinoma, MiTF-altered RCC, ESC RCC, and others (PMID: 35941720, 32299640, 29941307, others). Over the last decades, he has served as the author of more than 300 publications in the peer-reviewed literature, several book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Mehra has delivered numerous invited national and international presentations.

Participating in projects with, and providing peer-review services to, organizations like the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS), International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP), United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Dr. Mehra has contributed to several multidisciplinary NIH-funded and non-NIH-funded projects investigating clinical and translational aspects of genitourinary malignancies. For the USCAP specifically, Dr. Mehra has previously served as a member of the abstract review committee, given several genitourinary talks in diverse settings (including the prestigious Arthur Purdy Society lecture in 2021), and presented a renal short course at the 2022-23 international meeting. Currently, Dr. Mehra serves as a member of GUPS Executive Committee and is Chair of GUPS Education Committee. Additionally, Dr. Mehra directs the Michigan Legacy Tissue Program (MLTP, a rapid autopsy-based program) at University of Michigan, which helps patients, and their families make a lasting impact in the lives of future patients, giving others a better chance at life by participating in clinical cancer research.

 
 
 

Dr Anna Silvanto

Dr Silvanto is a Consultant Histopathologist at UCLH. Since obtaining her CCT in 2013, following postgraduate training in London, she has subspecialised in uropathology, with a specific interest in prostate cancer. 

 

Professor Steven Smith

 

Professor Clare Verrill

Clare Verrill is Professor of Cellular Pathology and Artificial Intelligence with the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cellular Pathologist with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her sub speciality is urological pathology and has her own research group focussing on digital pathology and AI. The NHS Cellular Pathology Laboratory in Oxford has achieved the milestone of scanning 100% of surgical histology workload under her oversight. She was previously Oxford Principal Investigator for Oxford PathLAKE (one of the UK Government’s AI Centres of Excellence) and has worked with computer science partners to develop AI. She is the Principal Investigator of a phase 4 AI in Healthcare study to evaluate Paige Prostate AI in NHS settings. She is a previous Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute.

 
 

Dr Anne Warren

Speaker bio coming soon.