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Professor Andrew Nicholson

Prof Nicholson is an expert in thoracic pathology and conducts research into lung cancers, receiving the Mary J Matthews award for Lifetime Scientific Achievement in lung cancer translational research in 2019. He is referred hundreds of cases each year for diagnosis from clinicians and other pathologists.

He is a past chair of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Pathology Committee, as well as a member of the IASLC Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee.

He is immediate past President of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathologists. He has co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, co-authored Pathology of the Lung (2011), the AFIP Atlas, Tumors of the Lower Respiratory Tract (2019), and was a Volume Editor of the 2015 WHO classification of lung, pleura, thymus and heart tumours.

Professor Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts is Professor of Cellular Pathology at the University of Oxford, UK, and Clinical lead of Renal Pathology services for Oxford University Hospitals. He is Organiser of the National Renal Pathology EQA Scheme, and President Elect of the BDIAP; previously Specialty Advisor in Renal Pathology for RCPath, Chair of the ISN Pathology Working Group and European Society of Pathology Nephropathology Working Group, and Past-President of the International Renal Pathology Society.

Dr Nafisa Wilkinson

Dr Nafisa Wilkinson is a recently retired consultant in gynaecological pathology. Her clinical and research interests encompass the pathophysiology of ovarian and endometrial cancers, as well as mesenchymal tumours of the uterus. She is the editor of Pathology of the Ovary, Fallopian tube and Peritoneum (Springer), new edition out early next year. In addition to her extensive clinical and academic experience across Leeds and London, she has been involved in national and international teaching.

Professor Neil Shepherd

Professor Neil Shepherd is Professor of Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology at Gloucestershire Cellular Pathology Laboratory, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK. He is a specialised GI pathologist and has had wide-ranging involvement in national and international GI pathological education, training, research, audit, publishing and service provision.

He has given more than 150 invited lectures at national & international symposia on GI pathology. He is Editor of Morson & Dawson's Gastrointestinal Pathology, the flagship UK textbook of GI pathology and Associate Editor for GI pathology for Histopathology, the leading UK journal for Cellular Pathology. He has written seven other books, 40
chapters & more than 200 original articles & reviews.

He is a past President, former General Secretary and current Councillor of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology.

Dr Jan von der Thüsen

Dr. Jan von der Thüsen is a histopathologist with subspecialist interests in thoracic and cardiovascular pathology.

Thüsen received his medical training at the Universities of Cambridge (UK, Trinity College) and London (UK, Imperial College), and his specialist training at Leiden University Medical Centre (The Netherlands). His Ph.D. was also awarded by Leiden University for research into gene therapeutic approaches to atherosclerosis.

He developed his subspecialist interest in thoracic pathology during appointments as consultant histopathologist and university lecturer at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in London. Thüsen currently works as the lead thoracic pathologist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where his research interests include the pathology of neoplastic diseases of the lung and mediastinum, fibrotic lung disease, as well as the pathology of pulmonary and cardiac transplantation.

Professor Aurelie Fabre

Professor Aurelie Fabre is a Consultant Histopathologist at St Vincent University Hospital Dublin and Full Clinical Professor in Pathology at UCD School of Medicine with a special interest in Thoracic Pathology.

She is the Lead in Pulmonary Pathology at St Vincent University Hospital and runs the weekly lung cancer and monthly interstitial lung diseases and rare/cystic lung diseases multidisciplinary meetings.

She provides expertise in interstitial lung diseases nationally and is the pathologist for the Interstitial Lung Disease Subgroup of the Irish Thoracic Society. She is involved with the European Respirator Society (ERS) as past Secretary and Chair of the Molecular Pathology and Functional Genomics Assembly 3.1, and member of various task forces and editor of the ERS Monograph on COVID19. She also provides national expertise in adult sudden cardiac death, working closely with the Irish Heart Foundation and family screening cardiology clinics. She set up a national biobank in sudden cardiac death where tissue and blood sampled from SADS victims are centrally stored for molecular studies. At the research level, she provides expertise in translational tissue and cell morphology, image analysis, animal models and immunohistochemistry.

She is the founder and director of the Research Immunohistochemistry Laboratory at UCD, assisting researchers in antibody selection and optimization, automated standardized and multiplex immunohistochemical staining of human and animal tissues as well as expert analysis (digitally and semi-quantitative) of these stains. Current collaborations include local and international research groups on lung fibrosis and rare lung diseases (LAM, DIPNECH).

Dr Ann Sandison

Dr Ann Sandison is a consultant histopathologist with a specialist interest in head and neck pathology. She works in a tertiary referral centre for head and neck cancer based at Guys Hospital in London.

Her diagnostic expertise is recognised in the UK and internationally and she is regularly asked to teach Head and Neck Pathology on courses for the British Royal College of Pathologists, the European Society of Pathology and the International Academy of Pathology. She has contributed to chapters in the current WHO blue book on the Classification of Head and Neck Tumours and she has published papers and written chapters for textbooks on head and neck pathology.

Professor Mieke Van Bockstal

Professor Mieke Van Bockstal is a histopathologist with subspecialist interest in breast pathology. She conducts research in ductal carcinoma of the breast. She received her medical training and Ph.D. at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), and her specialist training at Ghent University Hospital (Ghent, Belgium). She performed a fellowship in breast and gynaeco-pathology at the Erasmus Medical Centre (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Van Bockstal currently works as a breast pathologist at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (Brussels, Belgium). She has an appointment as university lecturer at the Université catholique de Louvain (Brussels, Belgium).

She is the Belgian Representative of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology (2023-2025), and she represents the French-speaking part of Belgium in the European Working Group for Breast Screening Pathology. She is the vice-chair of the Belgian Working Group for Breast Pathology, as a part of the Belgian Society of Pathology. She is associate editor of the International Journal of Surgical Pathology.

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