Jason Hornick – Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Dr Jason L Hornick is the Director of Anatomic Pathology and Immunohistochemistry and Chief of Soft Tissue and Bone Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, the Mass General Brigham Endowed Cancer Chair, and a consultant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Hornick is the President of the USCAP, Vice Chair of the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Expert Panel for the AJCC, and Past-President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society. He was Chair of the ICCR Dataset for GIST and a member of the expert editorial boards for the 4th, 5th and 6th editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone and the Sarcoma Analysis Working Group for TCGA. Dr. Hornick serves on the Bone Cancer Panel for the NCCN and the CAP Personalized Health Care Committee; he previously chaired the USCAP Education Committee and the CAP Immunohistochemistry Committee.

Rupert Langer - Institute of Clinical Pathology,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Rupert Langer is professor for clinical and molecular pathology serves as director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology of the Johannes Kepler University and the Kepler University Hospital in Linz, Austria. Before, he worked in the Institutes of Pathology of the Technical University Munich, Germany and Bern, Switzerland. His diagnostic and research interest lies on gastrointestinal pathology, in particular the study on morphological features and molecular alterations linked with response to chemotherapy or targeted therapy. This includes studies about the assessment of tumor regression, the tumor microenvironment and biomarkers with a technical focus on in-situ methods and digital pathology.

Dr Nicole Panarelli
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York

Nicole C. Panarelli, MD, is Chief of GI and Liver Pathology and Vice Chair of Education and Faculty Development at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY.  Dr. Panarelli completed her residency in anatomic pathology followed by a fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is an Associate Editor for Modern Pathology and a Section Editor for Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Panarelli is Past-President of the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society, Treasurer of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, and a member of the USCAP Education Committee. She was an author of the AFIP Fascicle on Non-neoplastic Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract and has contributed chapters to Odze and Goldblum Surgical Pathology of the GI Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas, Histology for Pathologists, and Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology in the Foundations in Pathology series. Dr. Panarelli’s research focuses on practice improvement in diagnostic GI pathology.

Adrian Bateman - Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK

Professor Adrian Bateman has been a Consultant Histopathologist in Southampton since 1997. He specialises almost entirely in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary-pancreatic pathology and also has an interest in IgG4-related disease. He has a particular interest in colorectal neoplasia. He is the Lead Pathologist for the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) and the coordinator of the English BCSP Pathology Expert Board. He is the Lead Editor for the 6th edition of Morson and Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology and the Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostic Histopathology. He is the Chair of the Royal College of Pathologists Cellular Pathology Specialty Advisory Committee.

IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna,
Policlinico di Sant’Orsola

Dr Francesca Rosini, based in Bologna (IT) is a GI histopathologist consultant at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico di Sant’Orsola.

She also completed her residency and surgical pathology fellowship training in Bologna. Currently, she is an adjunct Professor for the pathology residency training program at the University of Bologna. Francesca Rosini brings experience from previous roles in London at Imperial College London, at Barts Health NHS Trust and at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Nick West - Faculty of Medicine and Health,
School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

Nick West is Professor of Gastrointestinal Pathology and Head of the Division of Pathology & Data Analytics at the University of Leeds. He is also Consultant Histopathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and clinical lead for pathology at the North East and Yorkshire Genomic Laboratory Hub. He is the lead pathologist for 13 colorectal cancer clinical trials and runs a translational research laboratory focussing on specimen quality, tumour morphology, genomic biomarkers and digital pathology/AI.