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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 based at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cheltenham, UK, and formerly 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 is currently a member of the Cellular Pathology Genomics Focus Group of RCPath tasked with coordinating genomics work for UK Cellular Pathology with NHSE/I and the devolved nations including implementing the National Test Directory for Cancer (or, more accurately, belatedly picking up the pieces!).

He is a Member of the Working Group on Cancer Services of the Royal College of Pathologists, the National Cancer Research Institute skin group and the Steering Committee of the UK Keratinocyte Collaborative of the British Association of Dermatologists for Keratinocyte Cancer Research, the Get Data Out Skin Group of Public Health England and the Educational 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 and has an NHS expert referral dermatopathology practice.

Dr Antony Darne

Dr Darne 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.

Marta Jamroziak

Marta Jamroziak is an Advanced Specialist Dissector and Trainee Reporting BMS at Manchester University NHS Trust at Manchester Royal Infirmary with 15 years' experience of working in histopathology laboratories. She completed a Diploma of Expert Practice in Histological Dissection (2018) and Advanced Specialist Diploma in Histological Dissection in Lower GI (2021) at St. Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She is currently working towards an Advanced Diploma in Histopathology Reporting- Gastrointestinal Pathology.

Mary Mc Elroy

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Prof Ray McMahon

Ray McMahon is a Consultant Gastrointestinal Pathologist at Manchester Universities NHS Trust at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

He is Past President of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and Secretary of the IAP, the overarching worldwide organisation. He has previously been Treasurer of the BDIAP for 11 years. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester, having been Hospital Dean at MRI. He is the pathology lead for Colorectal Cancer at MRI and is the lead pathologist for Bowel Cancer Screening for South Manchester.

His main research interest is in inherited cancer syndromes especially Lynch Syndrome, which also includes involvement in gynaecological cancer screening. He is regularly invited to teach on courses on gastrointestinal pathology in the UK and internationally.

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 Marie O'Riordan

Dr O'Riordan is Consultant Histopathologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary. She undertook her specialty training in the East of England and East Midlands regions and now specialises in skin, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology. She enjoys teaching and since becoming a consultant in 2020 has taught histopathology registrars, biomedical scientists and dermatologists.

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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