Tuesday + Wednesday + Thursday + Friday – Organiser + Chair

Roger Feakins

UCL, London, UK

Roger Feakins is a consultant histopathologist at the Royal Free London NHS Trust and an honorary professor of gastrointestinal pathology at University College London. He contributes widely to service improvement initiatives and holds leadership roles in national and international organisations, e.g., Council member in the European Society of Pathology, GI subspecialty adviser at the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), and lead author or co-author of statements and reviews for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and many other groups. He delivers invited lectures in the UK, Europe and in the US, is the editor of the successful textbook “Non-neoplastic pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract”, is the author of several chapters in high quality textbooks and supports a broad range of research and international consensus projects in the field of digestive disease pathology.

Tuesday – 09.20 + 11.50 + 15.20

Yoh Zen

Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

Dr Yoh Zen received his MD and PhD from Kanazawa University, Japan, where he also completed training in anatomic pathology. After working for a decade in Japan, he was recruited to the Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London, where he has been working as a consultant histopathologist. He also holds the title of Professor of Liver Histopathology.

He contributes to the diagnostic work of complex liver and pancreatobiliary diseases at one of the largest HPB referral centers in Europe. He is also an international expert in IgG4-related disease. He published 360 peer-reviewed articles including reviews in NEJM and Lancet as well as 33 book chapters including chapters in WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumors, WHO Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology, and MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver. He also coauthored the AFIP Fascicle of Liver Tumors. His citation index is over 25,000 with an h-index of 80.

Tuesday – 10.00 + Wednesday – 13.30

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.

Tuesday – 11.10 + 13.30

Valérie Paradis

Hôpital Beaujon, Paris / Pathology Department

Valérie Paradis, MD PhD and Professor in Pathology, is the chairman of Pathology department (Beaujon hospital, APHP.Nord) and Director of the Research center “Centre de Recherche sur l’Inflammation” (INSERM UMR 1149 Paris).

Fields of interest and research include pathological and molecular aspects of liver fibrosis, vascular diseases, and tumorigenesis with a specific interest in tumor heterogeneity and biomechanics.

V Paradis is coordinating a collaborative FHU project MOSAIC aiming to identify imaging signatures “Imagomics” through integration of radiological and histological features and Artificial intelligence, and a SIRIC programme InsiTu “Insights into cancer: from inflammation to tumor” merging research and clinical teams mostly devoted to digestive, lung cancers and hematological proliferations. She is member of the Steering committee and Scientific coordinator of the Institut Universitaire du Cancer Paris Nord. She is a member of International groups of liver pathologists, Scientific commissions Research Institutes (INSERM, ANRS). She is a member of the EASL Ethical committee since 2021.

Tuesday – 14.10 + 16.00 + Wednesday 09.20

Claudio Luchini

University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Claudio Luchini, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of pathology at Verona University and surgical / molecular pathologist at Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy. He was research scholar at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis (2014) and research fellow at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (2014-2015). He co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, mainly about pancreatic tumors. He is also a coauthor of WHO classification bluebooks and serves as the chair of the education committee of the PancreatoBiliary Pathology Society (PBPS-USCAP).

Wednesday – 10.00 + 11.10 + 16.00

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.

Wednesday – 11.50 + Thursday – 11.10 + 16.00

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.

Wednesday – 14.10 + Thursday – 13.30

Maria Westerhoff

University of Michigan, Health, Pathology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Dr Westerhoff is a full professor and the Assistant Chair of Well-being and Culture at the University of Michigan. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she completed her residency and gastrointestinal and liver pathology fellowship at the University of Chicago. She began her academic career at the University of Washington in 2011, where she was recognized twice as Faculty Educator of the Year. She has been a member of the University of Michigan Pathology Department since 2017. Dr. Westerhoff has been heavily involved in USCAP education and is currently a Board member. She has served on the executive boards of multiple pathology societies. She is the Past-President of the Rodger Haggitt GI Pathology Society (GIPS) and Past-Treasurer of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists.  Dr Westerhoff has given numerous lectures nationally and internationally to multidisciplinary audiences regarding both liver and gastrointestinal pathology topics. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications and the Hepatobiliary and Pancreas textbook of the Elsevier Diagnostic Pathology series. 

Wednesday 15.20 + Thursday – 09.20 + 14.10

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.

Dr Hornick is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology and the Editor-in-Chief of the 5th series of the AFIP Atlases of Tumor and Non-tumor Pathology; the Editor of Practical Soft Tissue Pathology and Fletcher’s Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumors; an Associate Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry, and Advances in Anatomic Pathology; and the Consulting Editor for Surgical Pathology Clinics. He has published over 500 original papers, review articles, and book chapters. Dr Hornick received the 2012 Arthur Purdy Stout Society Annual Prize, the 2014 Jack Yardley Investigator Award from the Gastrointestinal Pathology Society, and the 2023 Mostofi Distinguished Service Award from the USCAP. He has 22-year-old twins and sings and plays keyboards for a rock band (the Tear Downs).

Thursday – 10.00 + Friday – 14.10

Francesca Rosini

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.

Her main fields of interest are inflammatory bowel diseases, liver and pancreato-biliary pathology. She has been a member of the Histopathology Committee of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (H-ECCO) from 2018 until 2023. She’s also co-author of position statements and topical reviews for ECCO.
She is also a member of the Digestive Diseases Working Group of the European Society of Pathologist. She delivers lectures as invited speaker in Italy and Europe.

Thursday – 11.50 + 15.20  +  Friday – 16.00

Nicole Panarelli

Albert Einstein College of 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.

Friday – 09.20 + 11.10

Rhonda Yantiss

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, US

Dr. Rhonda Yantiss received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and graduated from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by fellowship training in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  She served as Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College for 17 years, then joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she is the Vice-Chair of Faculty Development and Mentoring.  Dr. Yantiss has chaired the Nominations and Education Committees of the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society and served as President of that society.  She is a past-president of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists and recent Chair of the Education Committee of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.  Dr. Yantiss lectures widely in the United States and abroad. She has received several teaching and professional awards, including the Harvey Goldman Teaching Award and the F. K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Pathology Annual Prize, and the Jack Yardley Investigator Award of the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Dr. Yantiss has published nearly 200 original articles as well as numerous books and book chapters related to gastrointestinal pathology.  She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than fifteen journals and is the Editor-in-Chief of Modern Pathology.

Friday – 11.50 + 13.30

Eric Walk

PathAI, Boston, MA, US

Dr Eric Walk is Chief Medical Officer at PathAI in Boston, MA. He is head of the Medical group,
overseeing the Medical Affairs, Pathology, Clinical Science, Regulatory and Quality functions.

Eric has over 20 years of experience in precision medicine, including oncology drug development,
companion diagnostics development and AI pathology. Prior to joining PathAI, he was Chief Medical
and Scientific Officer at Roche Tissue Diagnostics/Ventana Medical Systems, where he led Medical
& Scientific Affairs, overseeing the validation and FDA clearance/approval of multiple IVD assays,
companion diagnostics and digital pathology algorithms.

Eric began his industry career at Novartis Oncology, where he held positions in Early Clinical
Development and Translational Medicine, working to implement biomarker and precision medicine
strategies for early and late stage targeted oncology therapeutics.

Eric is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and holds a MD degree from the
University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
and is a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (CAP). He is currently a member of the
CAP Digital & Computational Pathology Committee, SITC Pathology Committee, and Digital
Pathology Association (DPA) Board.

Friday – 10.00 + 15.20

Shaun Walsh

Ninewells Hospital and University of Dundee Medical School, Scotland