Professor Sarah Coupland elected President of Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Professor Sarah Coupland has been elected President of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland following the Annual General Meeting in Sheffield on 20th June 2024.
Professor Coupland is the current and first female ‘George Holt Chair of Pathology’ at the University of Liverpool, and leads the world-renowned ‘Liverpool-Ocular-Oncology-Research-Group’ (www.loorg.org), comprising of 30 clinicians, scientists, and students.
LOORG’s research focusses on ocular melanomas, lymphomas and other eye cancers, and employs high-resolution techniques to better understand the development/progression of these tumours, to improve patient outcome. Sarah is a senior Consultant Histopathologist at the Liverpool University Foundation Hospital Trusts with expertise in Ophthalmic Pathology, Hematopathology, Molecular Pathology, and Biobanking. She leads one of the 4 superregional NHSE Eye path services, receiving ophthalmic samples from a broad geographical patch, and enabling trainees from UK & overseas to experience ocular & molecular pathology.
Professor Coupland said: "It is a great honour and privilege for me to take on this role. PathSoc is the oldest organisation promoting academic pathology - it was established in 1906 and has been instrumental in maintaining advances in medicine and pathological sciences over the last 118 years. Its Journals, which include 'The Journal of Pathology' and 'The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research’ are high impact and full of cutting-edge research."
"I hope to continue the dedicated work of the PathSoc Committee in nurturing academic pathology at all levels of training, from undergraduates through to Trainees and Consultants, utilising the advanced technologies that are coming through.”
For more information about LOORG, please visit: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-and-medical-sciences/about/eye-and-vision-sciences/loorg/