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, including Chair of the Digestive Diseases Pathology Working Group of 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). 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.

Friday – 13.50

Elizabeth Montgomery

University of Miami, Florida, USA

Dr Montgomery is a Professor and Vice Chair at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida in the US. She is an author of numerous articles and textbooks concerning both gastrointestinal and soft tissue pathology and lectures globally on these topics

Thursday – 10.40 + 12.20 + 13.50

John Hart

University of Chicago Department of Pathology, Chicago, USA

Dr John Hart graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School in 1986. He did his pathology residency at U.C.L.A. Medical Center, followed by a Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology fellowship at the same institution. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Department of Pathology as an assistant professor. In 2004 he rose to the rank of full professor, and in 2023 assumed the role of  Vice Chair for Anatomic Pathology. He is the director of the GI and Hepatic Pathology fellowship program, which has graduated more than 25 pathologists who are now working in leading academic pathology departments throughout the United States and Canada. Dr Hart has published more than 200 articles in the fields of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology and has also authored numerous book chapters. He is a member of the USCAP Board of Directors and currently serves as President of the organization. He is also a past president of the Rodger Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. 

Friday – 10.15 + 14.55

Fátima Carneiro

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal

Fátima Carneiro is Professor of Pathology (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto), Head of the Service of Anatomic Pathology (Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João) and Senior Researcher at Ipatimup/i3S. She was President of the European Society of Pathology (2011-2013) and President of the Portuguese Academy of Medicine (2018-2020). She was awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology “for an outstanding curriculum vitae” (2005) and received the Order of “Infante D. Henrique” (Grand Officer) awarded by the President of Republic “for outstanding services to science” (2006). She was nominated as “The most influential pathologist in the world” in 2018 (by “The Pathologist”). She is (co)author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications (h index: 78) and 26 book chapters, including books issued by the IARC and the UICC. She was co-editor of the WHO Blue Book on “Tumours of the Digestive System” (4th edition) and standing member of the Editorial Board of the WHO Classification of Tumours series (5th edition) (2018–2020). Her research is focused on the etiopathogenesis and molecular pathology of gastric cancer.

Friday – 11.50

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.

Friday – 15.50

Namrata Setia

University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Namrata Setia, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Her areas of clinical focus and expertise are gastrointestinal pathology, particularly gastric non-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases, and molecular pathology. She has published 85 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, and book chapters. She currently serves as a member of the USCAP Stowell-Orbison Awards Committee, Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society Case of the Month Committee, and the ASCP CheckPath Committee. Dr. Setia is especially interested in the translation application of molecular techniques to inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver.

Friday – 16.20

Stefano La Rosa

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Lombardia, Italy

Stefano La Rosa, MD, is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Insubria of Varese (Italy) and senior consultant of pathology at the University Hospital of Varese.

He is Director of the Hereditary Cancer Research Centre and Director of the Residency School in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Insubria.

Prof. La Rosa has an expertise in endocrine pathology, with special reference to digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms. He is (co)author of about 200 papers on peer-reviewed journals and of about 50 chapters in different books, including the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Endocrine Organs 4thEdition, the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Digestive System 5th Edition, the WHO Classification of Paediatric Tumours 5th Edition, and the WHO Classification of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumours 5th Edition.

He is an active member of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), the Endocrine Pathology Society, the Swiss Society of Pathology (SGPath), the Pancreatobiliary Pathology Society, and the Italian Society of Pathology (SIAPEC).

Thursday – 10.10 + 15.35    –    Friday – 12.20

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 years as GI/HPB subspecialty director at the same institution. She has published over 90 peer reviewed articles, over 100 abstracts presented at international meetings and 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).

Thursday – 9.45 + 11.50

Yoh Zen

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

Professor Yoh Zen is a Consultant Histopathologist at Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London, contributing to the diagnostic work of complex liver and pancreatobiliary diseases at this tertiary referral centre. He is also an international expert in IgG4-related disease. Alongside busy clinical work, he has engaged in scientific research and published 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 33 chapters in 3 books, including review articles in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet, and contributions to MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver, the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours and the AFIP Fascicle of Liver Tumours.

Friday – 10.45

Robert Odze

Consultant Pathologist, Tufts Medical Center

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.

Thursday – 14.25 + 16.05

Volkan Adsay

Koc University,Turkey

Dr Volkan Adsay, Chair of Surgical Sciences and Chair of Pathology at Koc University, is an internationally-recognized pathologist in the field of gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary cancers. He has published over 330 articles, authored several chapters in the WHO’s “classification of tumors” series. He was instrumental in the pathologic characterization of various tumor types and was also the member of an international group that put forth the definition and criteria for the early cancerous lesions of these organs and prognostication of their tumors. He served as President for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, as well as the first President of Pancreatobiliary Pathology Society (PBPS) in addition to committee membership in several major organizations. He has given over 330 international lectures and courses, and served in the editorial board of 8 medical journals. He is also the recipient of multiple teaching and science awards including AACR team science award.

Friday – 9.45

Shaun Walsh

Ninewells Hospital and University of Dundee Medical School, Scotland

Professor Shaun Walsh is a Consultant GI pathologist at Ninewells Hospital and University of Dundee Medical School. He has expertise in both Upper and Lower GI tract Pathology including oesophagogastric tumours and inflammatory bowel disease. He is co-author of the RCPath guidelines for reporting GISTs . He research interests include upper GI tract malignant tumours and tumour microenviroment.

Friday – 14.25

Maurice Loughrey

Royal Victoria Hospital/Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Maurice is a Consultant Gl Pathologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and affiliated to Queen’s University Belfast. His primary interests are in colorectal cancer, screening and precursor polyps. He is lead author of the Royal College of Pathologists and ICCR datasets and guidelines for reporting colorectal cancer and associate GI editor of the journal Histopathology.

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).