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.

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Hwajeong (Jenny) Lee

Albany Medical College and Chief of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology at Albany Medical Center – New York, US

Hwajeong (Jenny) Lee, MD, is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Albany Medical College and Chief of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology at Albany Medical Center. She also serves as Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Chair of the Departmental Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee.

Dr. Lee completed her pathology training at Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan, followed by fellowship training in oncologic surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and pancreatic pathology at the Cleveland Clinic.

She serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is actively involved in national and international pathology organizations, including USCAP, the Laennec Hepatopathology Society, and the Korean Pathologists Association of North America, where she currently serves as Vice President.

Dr. Lee’s academic work includes numerous peer-reviewed publications, review articles, and book chapters in gastrointestinal and liver pathology. Her research focuses on diagnostic gastrointestinal and liver pathology, with an emphasis on clinicopathologic correlation and biomarker development.

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Matteo Fassan

Pathology Unit at the Ca’ Foncello Hospital, ULSS2 Marca Trevigiana – Treviso, Italy

Matteo Fassan is Professor of Pathology at Padua University (Padua, Italy) and Director of the Pathology Unit at the Ca’ Foncello Hospital, ULSS2 Marca Trevigiana (Treviso, Italy). His research is mainly focused on the histological and molecular characterization of pre-neoplastic and neoplastic gastrointestinal pathology, with a particular emphasis on biomarker testing. On these topics he is actively involved in clinical and translational research projects and has authored and co-authored more than 700 peer-reviewed publications.

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John Hart

University of Chicago Department of Pathology – Chicago, US

Dr. John Hart joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Department of Pathology as an assistant professor in 1991, rose to the rank of full professor in 2004, and became Vice Chair for Anatomic Pathology in 2023. He was the first chief of the Section of GI & Hepatic Pathology, and initiated the GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellowship, which to date has graduated 35 GI & Hepatic pathologists who are now working in leading academic pathology departments throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Hart has published more than 250 articles in the fields of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. He is a past President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and also of the Rodger Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. He was Co-Director of the USCAP Liver Long Course in 2024.

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Lysandra Voltaggio

Joint Pathology Center in Silver Spring – Maryland, US

Lysandra Voltaggio is a Senior Staff Pathologist at the Joint Pathology Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her subspecialty focus is gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology, with particular expertise in HPV-related anal neoplasia and other neoplastic and inflammatory disorders of the GI tract. She is an active contributor to international pathology education, delivering CME lectures to audiences in North America, Latin America, and Europe in both English and Spanish. Her scholarly work includes peer-reviewed publications, textbook contributions, and participation in WHO and ICCR guideline development.

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Lindsay Alpert

University of Chicago – Chicago, US

Lindsay Alpert is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago. She earned her medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her residency in anatomic pathology and her fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology at the University of Chicago. Her research spans a wide range of topics in gastrointestinal pathology and includes several large multi-institutional collaborations on mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, inflammatory bowel disease-associated neoplasia, and drug-induced gastrointestinal tract injury. She lectures frequently on these topics in the United States and internationally and serves as a committee member for the Roger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society.

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Nick West

Division of Pathology & Data Analytics at the University of Leeds – 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 14 colorectal cancer clinical trials and runs a translational research laboratory focussing on specimen quality, tumour morphology, genomic biomarkers and digital pathology/AI.

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Sanjay Kakar

University of California San Francisco (UCSF) – San Francisco, US

Dr. Kakar is a Professor of Pathology and Chief of GI-Hepatobiliary Pathology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He has been the president of both the US Gastrointestinal Pathology Society (2012) and the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society (2018-2020). He has served on the AJCC 8th and 9th Edition panels for staging of GI and Hepatobiliary cancers, where he was the Vice Chair of the Appendix Panel and the first author of the Pancreas staging chapter. He has served on the CAP Surgical Pathology Committee, CAP Cancer Committee, has been part of the international Committee for Cancer Reporting (ICCR) for colorectal, pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and is chair of the ICCR panel on HCC and Cholangiocarcinoma datasets. He was also part of the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group consensus meeting organized by the European Society of Pathology that has proposed updated histologic criteria for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis.

His research interests are focused on hepatocellular tumors, appendiceal neoplasms, colorectal cancer, staging of GI/hepatobiliary cancers and diagnostic challenges in medical liver disease including autoimmune hepatitis, steatohepatitis and transplant pathology. He has published several books (two on liver pathology, one in GI pathology), book chapters in seminal textbooks (Macsween’s Liver Pathology, Fletcher’s textbook, Sternberg’s textbook, Odze/Goldblum textbook, Robbins), and is one of the editors of the Macsween’s Liver Pathology. His important publications are focused on pathology and genetics of hepatocellular adenoma/hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, appendiceal tumors and autoimmune hepatitis.

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Mark Arends

Division of Pathology / Edinburgh Pathology and Centre for Comparative Pathology – Edinburgh, UK

Prof. Mark Arends trained in Medicine and Pathology (BSc(Hons), MBChB(Hons), PhD) at University of Edinburgh and became Senior Lecturer in Pathology there in 1995 (MRCPath & FRCPath). He moved to University of Cambridge in 1999, becoming Reader in Pathology. He specialised in and was lead for gastrointestinal pathology, gynaecological pathology, and genetic tumour syndromes pathology. In 2013 he moved to University of Edinburgh as Professor of Pathology, Head of the Division of Pathology / Edinburgh Pathology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Pathology. He is currently the General Secretary and was recently the President of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Volkan Adsay

Istanbul, Türkiye

Dr. Adsay is an internationally recognized pathologist in the field of gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary cancers. He has published over 390 articles, authored several chapters in the WHO’s “classification of tumours” series. He authored chapters in quintessential textbooks of not only Pathology but also Oncology, Surgery and Gastroenterology. 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 pancreas and biliary tract 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 350 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.

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Viktor H. Koelzer

Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology at the University Hospital of Basel – Basel, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. med. Viktor H. Koelzer is a board-certified pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal pathology, Professor of Experimental Pathology, and Medical Co-Director of the Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology at the University Hospital of Basel. He is a clinician-scientist specializing in digital and computational pathology, artificial intelligence in medicine, and translational cancer research. His work focuses on the development and implementation of data-driven diagnostic approaches to improve patient care, with particular expertise in gastrointestinal pathology, tumor immunology, and precision oncology. Prof. Koelzer leads several national and international research initiatives, including the Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative, and collaborates extensively with academic and clinical partners across Europe. His research has been recognized through national and international awards and has contributed to advancing the clinical integration of digital pathology and AI technologies.

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Nicole Panarelli

Weill Cornell Medicine in New York – New York, US

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 Board of Directors. 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.

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Stefano La Rosa

University Hospital of Varese and the University of Insubria of Varese – Varese, Italy

Dr Stefano La Rosa, MD, is currently Director of the Anatomic Pathology Service at the University Hospital of Varese, and Professor of Pathology at the University of Insubria of Varese, Italy. At the University of Insubria he is also Director of the Anatomic Pathology Residency Training Program and Director of the Hereditary Cancer Research Centre. Between 2016 and 2021 he was Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. La Rosa is Past President of the Endocrine Pathology Society (Companion Society of USCAP) and was co-chair of the Endocrine Pathology working group of the European Society of Pathology and member of the Education Committee of the Pancreatobiliary Pathology Society (Companion Society of USCAP). He is Co-chair of the ICCR Dataset for neuroendocrine tumors and responsible author or co-author of several chapters of the 5th and 6th editions of the WHO Classification of Digestive, Pediatric, and Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors. His diagnostic and research interest lies in neuroendocrine pathology, with special reference to neuroendocrine neoplasms of the digestive system.