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Please find below the speakers who will present at the study day in 2025. Speaker lineup for 2025 may be subject to change.

Dr Alison Cairns

Dr Alison Cairns is a Consultant Histopathologist, based at St James' Hospital in Leeds with 20 years' experience of reporting gastrointestinal and pancreatic specimens in a large cancer centre. She is a co-author of the RCPath dataset for the histopathological reporting of carcinomas of the pancreas, ampulla of Vater and common bile duct.

Dr Ashish Chandra

Ashish Chandra is the lead uropathologist and cytopathologist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. His key publications relevant to this meeting are -

Guidelines and Datasets:

Article: Dataset for tumours of the urinary collecting system (renal pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder and urethra)

Jonathan Shanks, Ashish Chandra, Lorna McWilliam, Murali Varma

RCPath Standards and Datasets. 04/2013;

Best practice: Gross examination and sampling of surgical specimens from the urinary bladder cancer. J Clin Pathol 2010 63: 475-479

Dr Matthew Clarke

Matthew is a neuropathology trainee (ST3) working at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (London) who is finishing a PhD in the molecular pathology of infant gliomas at the Institute of Cancer Research. He aims to specialise in paediatric neuropathology and molecular pathology. He completed a degree in Zoology at the University of Liverpool before completing his medical training at Keele Medical School.

After completing his foundation training he applied for core surgical training and successfully achieved a post in London where he completed his MRCS examinations. However, although enjoying surgery, his thoroughly enjoyable experiences of a foundation post in histopathology could not be forgotten and so he applied to change specialties and has not looked back since!

Matthew is very passionate about pathology and is very actively involved in the different pathology societies, including being the current Chair of the RCPath Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC), a former trainee councillor of the BDIAP and now the deputy meetings secretary, the trainee communications officer for the ACP and assistant editor of the ACP News. He loves to teach and is very involved with public engagement projects to promote pathology to other healthcare professionals, to schools and the general public.

Dr Paul Craig

Dr Paul Craig is a Dermatopathologist Consultant based at North Bristol NHS Trust, and formerly Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UH Bristol and Fremantle Hospital Western Australia, having trained in Dermatopathology in London with a Fellowship at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, and Barts and The Royal London.

He has been training residents and biomedical scientists in skin cut up for 20 years in the UK and Australia including writing protocols and assessing training programmes.

He is a member of the Test Evaluation Working Group for the National Test Directory for Cancer of the Genomics Medicine Service of NHS England whose role is to evaluate applications to add genomic tests on to the Directory.

He is a member of the Working Group on Cancer Services of the Royal College of Pathologists responsible for cancer datasets, and the Steering Committee of the UK Keratinocyte Collaborative of the British Association of Dermatologists for Keratinocyte Cancer Research, and Chair of the RCPath Dermatopathology Subcommittee and of the Innovation Subcommittee of the BDIAP.

He is also an examiner for the Diploma in Dermatopathology of the RCPath and Past President of the British Society for Dermatopathology.

Dr Antony Darné

Dr Darné is a Consultant Pathologist from Newcastle specialising in GI and HPB pathology. He is originally from South Africa - he trained in Cape Town and then specialised in the UK.

Dr Anna Green

Dr Anna Green is a Consultant Histopathologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Anna trained in London and was a previous BDIAP Trainee Councillor. Anna developed an interest in Haematopathology during her training and was the recipient of funding from the BDIAP to support a secondment to Basel University Hospital to further develop skills and experience in Haematopathology.

Anna specialises in Haematopathology and Autopsy Pathology.

Mary Mc Elroy

Mary Mc Elroy is a recently qualified Consultant Biomedical Scientist who has completed the five year RCPath/IBMS Gastrointestinal reporting programme, based in Altnagelvin Hospital, in Northern Ireland. She is an integral part of the GI pathology reporting team and reports GI benign and malignant biopsies and resections. She presents the pathology at the upper and lower GI MDT meetings and participates in EQA, audit and research. The post is diverse, challenging and rewarding. The course has also afforded her the opportunity to travel to the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast for training in upper GI dissection and reporting, Dublin for training in reporting of peritoneal malignancies (in which I have a personal interest) and London for various RCPath CPD approved GI conferences.

She independently dissects and mentors advanced dissectors in all specimen types with regular teaching and case review using digital pathology and leads a fully scientist led cutup. Previous years working in cancer dissection in Dublin and Australia have added to her experience.

Mary is registered with both HCPC and CORU and is a fellow member of the IBMS. She is eligible for Diplomat membership with the Royal College of Pathologists. Recently she has been elected to the BDIAP council as an allied scientist and plans to be a proactive voice for fellow BMS in histopathology.

Dr Mufaddal Moonim

Dr Mufaddal Moonim is a Consultant Histopathologist working at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He specialises in Hematopathology, Endocrine pathology and Cytology.

Dr Moonim is Secretary of the UK Endocrine pathology society (UKEPS). He is a co-author of the ICCR Thyroid cancer reporting dataset and the RCPath cancer dataset for the histological reporting of adrenal cortical carcinoma and phaeochromocytoma / paraganglioma.

Prof 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 President of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology. 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.

Dr Angela Ralte

Dr Angela Ralte is the lead gynaecological pathologist for the Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre and the lead Cytopathologist for North East and Yorkshire Cervical Screening Centre, both based in Gateshead. Dr Angela Ralte is a regular jobbing coal face pathologist and considers thorough macroscopic examination and cut up to be the most important step for accurate microscopic diagnosis, staging and patient management. She regularly cut up 2 to 3 times a week and find it a fun and rewarding aspect of her job.

James Rosekilly

James Rosekilly graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Biomedical science in 2011 and completed his IBMS trainee log book during his degree whilst at West Suffolk NHS Trust.

A slightly unorthodox career route began in 2012 when he initially joined the KHP Cancer biobank at Guy’s Hospital as a research technician before advancing to eventually become the urology advanced practitioner, the role that he holds currently.

He specialises in the dissection of fresh urology, breast and thoracic specimens whilst being responsible for the day-to-day running of the urology section of the biobank. During the 100,000 genomes project he performed the dissection and sampling of all urology and thoracic specimens done at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trust. On top of his routine biobanking work he continues to carry out fresh tissue dissections for many studies such as the Renal TracerX study as well as providing histology support to researchers all over King’s College London on landmark studies such as the Wellcome LEAP delta tissue project.

Dr Ann Sandison

Dr Ann Sandison is a Consultant Histopathologist at Guys Hospital in London and a recognised specialist in head and neck cancer. She has contributed to chapters in textbooks on head and neck pathology including the most recent WHO blue book on the Classification of Head and Neck Tumours and was part of the editorial committee for that publication.

She co -authored the recently published ICCR minimum dataset for ear and temporal bone tumours. She is regularly invited to teach on courses on head and neck pathology in the UK and internationally.

Dr Elza Tjio

Dr Elza Tjio is a consultant histopathologist based at Harrogate and District Hospitals NHS Trust. She qualified at St Georges' University of London and undertook training posts in Buckinghamshire, Oxford, the South West and completed histopathology training in Yorkshire.

She is a general histopathologist with regular throughput with regards to breast, bowel and gynaecological resection specimen dissection.

She has a strong interest in training and education, and is a current college examiner for the FRCPATH Part 2 Histopathology exam. She is also current supervisor to a biomedical science colleague undertaking the IBMS Diploma of Expert Practice in Histological Dissection.

Her other academic interests include being deputy editor of the Association of Clinical Pathologists quarterly magazine, ACP News.

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