Faculty of Pathology 38th Annual Symposium &

Annual General Meeting

Thursday 6th & Friday 7th February 2020 Approved for up to 8 CPD credits

Thursday 6th February 2020 (5 CPD)

9.30-10:00 Registration / Stand viewing

10:00 -10:15 Dean’s Address

Session 1

10:15 - 13:00 Breakout Sessions

Corrigan Hall Lecture Theatre

HISTOPATHOLOGY

TOPIC: Coroner Autopsy

Session Leads: Prof Aurelie Fabre,

Dr Marie Staunton, Dr Clive Kilgallen

Chair: Dr Marie Cassidy, Dr Marie

Staunton

MICROBIOLOGY/HAEMATOLOGY/

CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY

TOPIC: Fungal infection

Session Leads: Dr Deirbhile Keady, Dr

Ronan Desmond

Chairs: Dr Deirbhile Keady, Dr Ronan

Desmond

Title/ Time Speaker

Title/ Time Speaker

10:15- 10:45

Update on the

coroner’s act

Dr Myra

Cullinane, Dublin

City Coroner

10.15- 10.50

Outbreak of

Candida

auris: an

emerging

pathogen

Dr Meaghan Cotter,

Consultant

Microbiologist, St

George’s Hospital,

London

10.45- 11.15

Forensic

Pathology Ireland:

Current practice,

emerging

challenges and

the future

Dr Linda

Mulligan, Acting

State Pathologist

10.50- 11.25

Fungal

infection in

Bone

Marrow

Transplant

Recipients

Dr Larry Bacon,

Consultant

Haematologist, National

Adult Bone Marrow

Transplant Centre St

James Hospital, Dublin 8

11.15-11.30 Panel Discussion

11.30-11.45 Histopathology

EQA

11:45- 12:00 Coffee Break 11:25- 11:50 Coffee Break

12.00- 12.30

Post Mortem

Radiology

Prof Kim Suvarna,

Consultant

Histopathologist,

Sheffield teaching

Hospitals

11.50- 12.25

Fungal infection in

Primary

Immunodeficiency

Dr Ronan Leahy,

Consultant

Immunologist,

OLHC, Dublin

12.30- 13.00

The Perinatal

Autopsy’

Dr Brendan

Fitzgerald,

Consultant

Histopathologist,

Department of

Pathology, CUH,

Cork

12.25- 13.00

Mass spectrometer

for therapeutic

dose monitoring in

antifungal therapy

Prof Pat Twomey,

Consultant

Chemical

Pathologist, SVUH

13.00- 14.00 Lunch / Poster & Stand viewing

Session 2: General Session Lead : Dr Maeve Doyle Chairs: Dr Maeve Doyle, Dr Cynthia Heffron

Time Title Speaker 14:00-14:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

UEMS, CESMA, European exams

Prof Truls Leegaard,

Clinical Microbiologist

at the Department of

Microbiology and

Infection Control at

Akershus University

Hospital and

Associate Professor at

the University of Oslo

14:30-15:00 Digital Pathology - Role in clinical practice and education

Prof Neil O’ Hare,

Professor of Health

Informatics

15:00- 15:30 Digital Pathology- In education and assessment

Dr John Stowe

Lecturer at University

College Dublin,

School of Medicine

15:30-15:45 Presentation of the George Greene Medal Winner Differential Expression Profiles of Oxidative Stress Levels in Barrett’s Oesophagus compared to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma

Dr Naoimh

O'Farrell

15:45-16:00 Presentation of the John D Kennedy Medal Winner Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Targeted Biopsy in Detection of Prostate Cancer Harboring Adverse Pathological Features of Intraductal Carcinoma and Invasive Cribriform Carcinoma.

Dr Susan

Prendeville

16:00- 17:00 Rapid fire poster session

17:00 Announcement of the Winners of the poster, Rapid Fire poster session and student poster prize. Close out.

19.00 Admissions Ceremony

20.00 Dinner

Friday 7th February 2020 (3 CPD)

Time Title Speaker

9.00-10.30 AGM

General Session

Session Leads: Dr Maeve Doyle, Dr Marie Staunton

Chairs: Prof Hilary Humphreys, Dr Clive Kilgallen

10:30- 11:15 Keynote Speaker: Pathology in Ireland…2020 and beyond

Prof Jo Martin, President of the Royal College of Pathologists, Professor of Pathology at Queen Mary University of London, and Director of Academic Health Sciences and an honorary consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust

11:15-11:30 Coffee

11:30- 12:00 GDPR - Research and Audit Ms Brid Moran, Information

Manager, NOCA

12:00- 12:30 GDPR - consent, ethics, archived

material

Dr Michael Farrell,

Consultant Neuropathologist

at Beamount Hospital, Dublin

12:30- 13:00 Health and wellbeing for

Consultants?

Prof Gaye Cunnane,

RCPI Director of Health &

Wellbeing

13:00- 13:15 General Discussion and Q&A

13.15 – 13.30 Closing Address from Dean Prof Louise Burke,

Department of

Histopathology

Cork University Hospital

Guest Speaker Biographies

Myra Cullinane

Dr. Myra Cullinane FRCPI, MRCPI, BAO, DCH, B.L.

Dr. Myra Cullinane was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the

Honourable Society of the Kings Inns. She is a Medical Doctor and

Barrister at Law. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of

Ireland and a Member of the Faculty of Legal and Forensic Medicine of

the Royal College of Physicians UK.

She holds the position of Dublin District Coroner, the largest coronial

jurisdiction in the State, having transferred from the Cork City District in

2016. This is a busy and varied coronial practice covering an urban

population of 1.4 million. There are major tertiary referral hospitals,

maternity hospitals, psychiatric facilities and prisons in the district.

She is the outgoing President of the Coroners Society of Ireland and is

currently a council member of the Society.

She lectures widely on aspects of medical and coronial law to legal and

healthcare professionals.

Her current research interests include substance abuse related deaths,

deaths in custody and end of life planning for the elderly in long term

care facilities. She contributes to on going projects in conjunction with

the National Research Board and the National Suicide Research

Foundation.

Dr. Linda Mulligan

Dr. Linda Mulligan, (MB BCH, NUI, DMJ (Path), DipFMS, FRCPath)

completed her medical degree at UCD in 2002.

Following three years in clinical medicine in Ireland and Australia, she

began her Histopathology training in Dublin. She obtained her

Certificate of Higher Autopsy Training in 2012 and her Fellowship of the

Royal College of Pathologists (in histopathology) in 2013. She went on

to train as a Forensic Pathologist at the State Pathologist’s Office (OSP).

She holds a diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences and a diploma in

Medical Jurisprudence (Pathology). She is currently the Acting State

Pathologist based at the Office of the State Pathologist in Dublin. Dr.

Mulligan is a board member and Fellow of the Faculty of Pathology,

Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) and is an honorary Senior

Clinical Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI). In

conjunction with her work with the pathology subgroup of the Interpol

Disaster Victim Identification team she is an expert advisor to the

National Mass Fatality Working Group and National Mass Fatality Task

and Finish subgroup in Ireland. Her other affiliations include the British

Association in Forensic Medicine, the American Academy of Forensic

Sciences and the Medico-legal Society of Ireland.

Professor S Kim Suvarna FRCP FRCPath MBBS BSc

Kim Suvarna qualified in medicine in 1984, initially working in clinical

medicine in London and the South East.

He began training in Histopathology in 1988 and moved to Sheffield

shortly afterwards. He was appointed consultant within Sheffield

Teaching Hospitals in 1994, where he has worked up to the present

day.

He had specialised in cardio-thoracic disease with special interests in

complex cardiac disease, post-operative deaths, industrial disease and

general autopsy practice. He is a member of the Court of Examiners for

the Royal College of Surgeons and is Lead Examiner for the Certificate of

Higher Autopsy Practice with the Royal College of Pathologists. He has a

strong interest in training having previously worked up to the level of

Head of School for Yorkshire and Humber.

He has been the editor of books on Cardiac Pathology, Autopsy

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He has published widely in peer-

reviewed journals.

Dr Brendan Fitzgerald

Dr. Fitzgerald is a medical school graduate of University College Cork.

Training as a histopathologist in the Irish National Histopathology

Training Program he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of

Pathologists UK (FRCPath) in 2007 and his certificate of completion of

specialist training in histopathology in 2009. From 2008 to 2011 he was

a clinical fellow in perinatal pathology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

and the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2011 he was appointed as a

consultant histopathologist with a special interest in perinatal pathology

at Cork University Hospital.

Dr Meaghan Cotter (MB BChBAO AFRCSI FRCPath) graduated from

UCD in 2000 and completed Basic Surgical Training (BST) before

undertaking training in clinical microbiology. She was awarded FRCPath

medical microbiology and virology in 2007 and completed specialist

training in 2011. After spending one year as locum consultant in the

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin she was appointed

consultant microbiologist and honorary senior lecturer in St George’s

University Hopsitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. In the past 8 years

there she has been clinical lead for the OPAT service (2012-2017),

clinical lead/transition group for medical microbiology during planning

and implementation phase of SWLP laboratory network (2013-2014)

and infection prevention and control microbiologist for the Trust (2018-

present).

Dr Larry Bacon BSc. PhD, LRCPSI, MRCPI, FRCPath.

Dr Bacon graduated form RCSI in 2001with Bachelor of Medicine. He

had previously obatined a BSc (1988) and PhD (1992) from National

University of Ireland Galway and worked in UCD as a potdoctoral

research fellow in the department of Pharmacology studying the effect

of teratogens on cell cycles progression. Since graduation from

Medicine he completed Basic Medical training in 2004 and higher

specialist training in Haematology in 2010. Following a fellowship in

Leukaemia and Bone marrow transplantation in Vancouver General

Hospital, he took up a consultant haematology role in 2011 at the

Mater Hospital and transferred to the National Allogeneic Bone

marrow transplant unit at St James Hospital in 2013. His specialis

interest include Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia , Lymphoma and Bone

MarrowTransplantation

Dr Ronan Leahy

Dr Ronan Leahy is a Consultant in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious

Diseases based in CHI at Crumlin, Dublin. He is a graduate of the

National University of Ireland, Galway. Having undertaken basic and

higher specialist training in Paediatrics in Ireland, he completed a

fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in the Hospital for Sick

Children Toronto and subsequently a fellowship in Paediatric

Immunology/BMT in the Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle

upon Tyne, UK. He has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

of Ireland since 2015 and was awarded a PhD in the University of

Dublin, Trinity College in 2016 on the topic of “Molecular predictors of

disease severity in viral bronchiolitis”. He is the National Specialty

Director for Paediatric Immunology and a member of ESID, ESPID and

IAAI.

Professor Patrick Twomey

Professor Patrick Twomey is consultant chemical pathologist in St.

Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, the Laboratory Director for Clinical

Chemistry within the St Vincent’s Hospital Group and Clinical Professor

in the School of Medicine, University College Dublin. He obtained an

Intercalated BSc in Biochemistry from University College Cork before

being awarded his Medical degree. He is a Fellow of both the Faculty of

Pathology at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and of the Royal

College of Pathologists where he also is an examiner. He is the Vice

Chair of the UK Joint Working Group on Quality Assessment in

Pathology and past Chair of the Chemical Pathology National Quality

Assurance Advisory Panel within the Royal College of Pathologists. He is

the Honorary Treasurer of the Faculty of Pathology, Royal College of

Physicians of Ireland and Honorary Treasurer of the Association of

Clinical Pathologists. Since May 2019, he is the President of the Board of

the Laboratory Medicine Section of UEMS (European Union Medical

Specialists). He has co-authored one text book, several book chapters

and over 100 original publications in the fields of clinical biochemistry,

metabolic medicine, lipids and nutrition. He is a member of the editorial

boards of the Journal of Clinical Pathology, the British Medical Journal

Case Reports and the Clinical Biochemistry journal.

Prof Truls Leegaard

Prof Truls Leegaard is a consultant medical microbiologist at Akershus

University Hospital, situated just outside Norway’s capital Oslo. He is

also an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. After studying

medicine at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he did a PhD on

surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Oslo. Since 2008 he has been

representing Norway in the UEMS (Union Européenne des Médicins

Spésialistes/European Union of Medical Specialists) were he has been

chair of the working group for a new curriculum in Medical

Microbiology, and then, as the curriculum was ready, the working group

for a European Exam in Medical Microbiology.

Prof Neil O’ Hare

Neil is Prof of Health Informatics (University College Dublin) and Group

Chief Information Officer for the Ireland East Hospital Group.

A Physicist by background, and previously was Chief Physicist in St.

James’s Hospital, he has had a strong emphasis on health informatics

throughout his career including heading up many large implementation

projects around clinical information systems, acting as advisor to the

Department of Health and project management of a range of medical

equipping projects. In 2007 took up the role as Programme Lead on the

National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Project for the

Health Services Executive, Ireland. This is one of the largest single PACS

/ RIS solution implementations in the world. He is a member of the

Project Board of the HSE’s Acute EHR project and was recently

appointed to the Irish Government’s Open Data Governance Board.

Previously Neil has previously held academic appointments in Dublin

City University and Trinity College Dublin with research interests in

health informatics, imaging and UV phototherapy dosimetry. He is the

current Chair of the Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) and in

2019 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiology,

RCSI.

Prof John Stowe

John Stowe joined the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science in

January 2007. This followed from 20 years of experience in the

Diagnostic Imaging industry. The years from 1986 to 1999 were spent in

Siemens Ireland as a service engineer specialising in Computerised

Tomography (CT), Nuclear Medicine & Picture Archiving and

Communications Systems (PACS). John was also an Advanced Clinical

Applications Specialist for Siemens workstations and software. By 1999

John had become Service Manager for these imaging specialities. During

this time John successfully undertook a Higher Diploma in Physical

Sciences in Medicine.

In late 1999, John took up a position with GE Healthcare (Ireland) as

Medical Systems Product Specialist. Shortly afterwards, he became the

Diagnostic Imaging Service Manager for Ireland. In 2003, John took up

the role of PACS Business Manager for Ireland. In this role he grew GE's

market share from its fledgling position to the dominant supplier of this

product in the Irish marketplace by January 2007.

For 17 years prior to joining UCD in a full time capacity, John had also

been a guest lecturer at under & post graduate level for UCD in the

areas of CT Technology, Image Quality, Healthcare IT and Medical

Standards.John now lectures on topics such as CT, Healthcare

Information Technology (HCIT) including PACS and Radiology

Information Systems (RIS), Physics, Quality Assurance & supports both

under graduate and post graduate research. In 2014, John was a

awarded a PhD for his CT research entitled "A study of the efficacy of a

predictive correction technique for the metallic beam hardening streak

artifact in Computed Tomography of the head".

Current active research projects include medical display longevity,

image based CT artifact correction software, CT simulation for

Radiographic educational purposes and advanced technology based

teaching and assessment.

Dr Naoimh O’Farrell is an SpR in histopathology and is currently

working at Temple Street Hospital. The lab where the work for her

winning medal submission was performed is the Trinity Translational

Medicine Institute in St. James’ Hospital and it was published in the

International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Dr Susan Prendiville is a Consultant Histopathologist at Cork

University Hospital and her winning submission for the John D. Kennedy

Medal , ‘Variant Histology and Clinicopathological Features of Prostate

Cancer in Men Younger than 50 Years Treated with Radical

Prostatectomy’ was published in the Journal of Urology in July 2017.

Professor Jo Martin MA MB BS PhD MA FRCPath Professor Martin Qualified Cambridge University and London Hospital

Medical College 1984, MRC Training Fellowship 1988, MRC Fellowship

1990, Wellcome Trust Advanced Research Training Fellowship 1991.

PhD London University 1997. Kings Fund programme MA in Leadership

in 2005.

Jo has over 130 published papers including Nature group and Science

journals and is Professor of Pathology at Queen Mary University

London. She is a founding Director of Biomoti, a drug delivery platform

technology company, and app creator, including an elearning platform,

eCPD, with over 46,000 modules completed by health staff.

She has very broad experience in healthcare management ranging from

running clinical departments and divisions to acting as Medical Director,

and subsequently Chief Medical Officer at Barts Health NHS Trust. As

Director of Academic Health Sciences she is responsible for CRN North

Thames, hosted by Barts, and has led research across the Trust and the

training and education of 16,000 staff across Barts Health. Her clinical

specialist expertise is in the pathology of gastrointestinal motility

disorders.

National Clinical Director of Pathology for NHS England April 2013-16, Jo

has worked across a broad range of programmes and projects in all the

pathology disciplines including genetics, transfusion, digital pathology,

data, networks and working with the diagnostic professional bodies,

including the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

She is involved in a range of bodies as a board member, including

chairing the Research Advisory Board of the Motor Neuron Disease

Association and chairing the Strategic Clinical Reference Group of the

National Information Board.

Jo became President of the Royal College of Pathologists in November

2017.

Brid Moran, Information manager, NOCA

Ms Brid Moran, Information Manager at the National Office of Clinical

Audit. With over 20 years’ experience working in Healthcare IT (adults

and paediatrics), bringing IT security, web experience design,

information governance and data protection knowledge to Data

management, system design and integration projects across NOCA.

Qualified with a BA in Economics and Sociology UCD, Higher Diploma in

Computer Science and Internet Systems UCD/DCU. Practitioner in GDPR

(data protection) and currently studying an Advanced Diploma in Data

Protection Law with the Kings Inn Ireland.

Dr Michael Farrell

Dr Farrell graduated from medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons

in Ireland and interned at the Richmond Hospital. Following completion

of the MRCPI, Dr Farrell began his training in Pathology at St Vincent’s

Hospital, Dublin and later at the Westminster Hospital in London.

Following completion of the MRCPath, Dr Farrell began a career in

Neuropathology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada where he

also undertook a fellowship in Neuroimmunology. Later, Dr Farrell

succeeded Dr. John Dinn and Professor Paddy Bofin as Neuropathologist

to the Richmond Hospital, moving to the new Beaumont Hospital in

1987. Dr Farrell was appointed as the first Professor of Clinical

Neurological Sciences at RCSI in 1996. Later, he became Dean of the

Institute of Irish Clinical Neuroscience and was also Chairman of the

Neuroscience Cogwheel at Beaumont Hospital. His interests include all

aspects of clinical neuroscience but with particular interest in epilepsy

and mitochondrial disease. He is a member of the American Association

of Neuropathologists and the British Neuropathological Society as well

as the International Society of Neuropathology.

Gaye Cunnane

Gaye Cunnane, PhD, MB, FRCPI, is a Clinical Professor of Rheumatology,

and a Consultant Rheumatologist at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and St

James’s Hospital.

After graduation from medical school in TCD, she completed her basic

clinical training in Medicine and then undertook PhD studies at

University College Dublin and St Vincent’s University Hospital, where

she investigated serological and tissue prognostic markers in early

inflammatory arthritis, in collaboration with universities in Switzerland,

(Zurich), The Netherlands (Leiden), the UK (Cambridge) and Sweden

(Karolinska, Stockholm). She then completed a 3 year clinical and

research Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, USA –

the focus of her research there was on new treatments for lupus.

In 2001, she moved to the UK as a Senior Lecturer at the University of

Leeds, and in 2003 returned to Ireland to take up her current post.

She was the National Specialty Director for Rheumatology training in

Ireland from 2005 – 2012, Programme Director for Basic Specialist

Training with RCPI from 2009 – 2017 and is a past President of the Irish

Society for Rheumatology.

Her recent research interests have focused on lifestyle risks in the

rheumatic diseases.

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