Nottingham & Singapore Breast Pathology Online Masterclass
Advances in Breast Pathology Diagnosis and Classification – Part IICourse Directors
The Nottingham and Singapore Breast Pathology Masterclass is organised by Professor Emad Rakha and Professor Puay Hoon Tan.
Professor
Emad Rakha
Professor Emad Rakha is Honorary Clinical Professor of Breast Pathology at the University of Nottingham and Consultant Anatomic Pathologist at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD) and the National Reference Laboratory (NRL), Abu Dhabi.
In collaboration with Professor Ian Ellis, he established the internationally recognised breast pathology referral and consultation service in Nottingham, which receives more than 350 specialist referral cases annually. He is Co-Chair ofthe UK Breast Pathology External Quality Assurance (EQA) Scheme and serves on numerous national and international committees in breast pathology, breast screening, cancer reporting, and tumour classification.
Professor Rakha has led internationally recognised research in breast pathology, with particular emphasis on breast tumour classification, prognostic and predictive biomarkers, translational breast cancer research, digital pathology, and artificial intelligence. He has published more than 610 peer-reviewed scientific papers, which have attracted over 46,800 citations, with an h-index of 99 and an i10-index of 474.
He is the lead author of the UK national HER2 testing guidelines and has made major contributions to numerous national and international guidelines and reference texts, including the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) Breast Datasets, the WHO Classification of Breast Tumours (Blue Book), and the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). Together with Professor Ian Ellis, he is co-editor of the forthcoming Breast Pathology textbook to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Rakha is an internationally recognised educator who co-directs with Professor Puay Hoon Tan the annual Nottingham & Singapore Breast Pathology Masterclass and is a frequent invited speaker at major international scientific meetings, educational courses, and consensus conferences worldwide.
Professor
Puay Hoon Tan
Being a passionate researcher, Prof Tan has published widely with over 500 peer reviewed scientific papers. She was a Standing Editorial Board Member for the 5th series of the WHO Classification of Tumours, IARC, Lyon, and was also an expert member for the Breast (2019) and Genitourinary (2022) volumes in this latest series.
Her research interests in breast pathology centre around the classification of breast fibroepithelial lesions and their molecular pathogenesis, triple negative breast cancers, and ductal carcinoma in situ. In urologic pathology, she is engaged in prostate and renal cancer studies.
Prof Tan has held several international and regional leadership positions and is internationally recognised. She is a Past President of the International Society of Breast Pathology (ISBP), the immediate Past Convenor of the Assembly of the Asia-Pacific International Academies of Pathology, the immediate Past President of the Asian Breast Diseases Association and was a previous Councillor for Asia of the International Society of Urological Pathology. She was conferred the Norton-ISBP award in 2020 for excellence in breast pathology.
CPD/CME
Each masterclass is approved by the Royal College of Pathologists (8 CPD points) plus from the Singapore Medical Council (4 CME points).
• ALL registered attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation
• The Certificate enables you to claim CPD/CME points
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Course Directors
Prof Emad Rakha and
Prof Puay Hoon Tan
Course Moderators
Dr Areeg Abbas
Course Contact
Geoff Cross