Professor Robert Odze

Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr Odze is currently professor of pathology and consultant pathologist at Tufts medical center and medical school, and president of Dr Robert Odze Pathology LLC, a medical/pathology consulting company (odzepathology.com). Dr Odze has a long history of research in GI diseases, most notably in the science related to cancer development in chronic inflammatory diseases such as Barrett’s esophagus and IBD. In this capacity, Dr Odze has published more than 450 articles, including original research, reviews, book chapter and books. He is editor of the largest and most comprehensive textbook of GI pathology worldwide, titled “Surgical pathology of the GI tract, Liver, Biliary tract, and Pancreas”, which is currently in its 4th edition (released Nov 2022) and is also editor of several major pathology and clinical journals. Dr Odze has a long history of education and teaching, and has given more than 300 lectures over the course of his career.

Dr Daniela Allende

Pathology Department at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Dr Daniela Allende serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for the Pathology Department at Cleveland Clinic. She previously spent almost 10 year as GI/HPB subspecialty director at the same institution. She has published over 90 peer reviewed articles, over 100 abstract presented at international meetings, several book chapters and co-edited the book “Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology: Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology”. She is highly involved in mentoring and education within Cleveland Clinic, at national and international levels, acting as course director and speaker. She is currently the Secretary/Treasurer for Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, and Journal Watch Editor for Pancreatobiliary Pathology Society. Her research focus is on steatohepatitis (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), and supports sponsored- studies and NIH-grants such as The Clinical Research Network in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH-CRN).

Professor Neil Shepherd

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

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, 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.