Faculty

Ian S. Brown, MBBS, FRCPA received his medical degree from the University of Queensland, Australia and trained in anatomical pathology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, obtaining his fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 1999. He subsequently subspecialised in gastrointestinal pathology and currently works at Envoi Pathology, a specialist gastrointestinal pathology practice based in Brisbane. Since 2004, Dr Brown has also been a Visiting Pathologist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and holds an academic appointment at the University of Queensland.

He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and meeting abstracts. Dr Brown has also written 14 book chapters related to gastrointestinal tract pathology, including those in Morson and Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology, Odze and Goldblum: Surgical Pathology of the GI Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas, as well as the 5^th edition of the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours. He further co-edited the textbook ‘Endoscopic Biopsy Interpretation’ with Prof. Kumarasinghe.

Dr Brown serves on the editorial board of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Histopathology, is an Associate Editor for Pathology and was a founder of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. His research interests focus on inflammatory conditions of the luminal gastrointestinal tract and early neoplasia of the large intestine. To this end, Dr Brown has presented many invited lectures at both national and international levels.

Fátima Carneiro, MD, PhD was born in southern Angola, and attributes the influence of her African childhood and adolescence to her life trajectory. She obtained her MD and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto, Portugal and completed her pathology residency training at Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João. Currently, Prof. Carneiro is Director of the Pathology Service at the same institution, Professor of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, and is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute Ipatimup/i3S in Porto.

She is a Past President of the European Society of Pathology (2011-2013) and Portuguese Academy of Medicine (2018-2020). Prof. Carneiro’s honours include the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology’s award “for an outstanding curriculum vitae” (2005) and the Order of “Infante D. Henrique” (Grand Officer) for outstanding services to science (2006), awarded by the President of the Republic. She was also nominated as “The Most Influential Pathologist in the World” in 2018 by “The Pathologist” publication.

Prof. Carneiro has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications (Scopus h-index: 83) and 26 book chapters, including books issued by the IARC and the UICC. She was co-editor of the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours (4th edition) and a standing member of the Editorial Board of the WHO Classification of Tumours series (5th edition) (2018–2020). Prof. Carneiro’s research is focused on the etiopathogenesis and molecular pathology of gastric cancer.

Anthony J. Gill, MD, FRCPA, AM is Professor of Surgical Pathology at the University of Sydney, Australia and Chairman of the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative (APGI).  He graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1997, being awarded numerous Memorial Prizes for his achievements in Medicine and Surgery, as well as receiving the Royal North Shore Hospital Medal.

Prof. Gill completed his training in surgical pathology (FRCPA) in 2005 and has since divided his time between diagnostic pathology as a senior staff specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital and medical research. His research has concentrated on translating advances made in the understanding of cancer at the basic science or molecular level into diagnostic tests, which can be applied in the routine surgical pathology laboratory on patient biopsy specimens.

Prof. Gill has received numerous prestigious awards during his career, including the Benjamin Castleman Award from USCAP, the John Loewenthal Medal and a higher doctorate by publication (MD) from the University of Sydney in 2011, the NSW Premier’s Award for Excellence in Translational Cancer Research in 2013, the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Prize for discovery in Medical Research in 2014, the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award from USCAP, the Distinguished Pathologist Award from the Australasian division of the IAP in 2021, and the NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year in 2023.

He has co-authored over 500 highly cited original research publications, numerous invited review articles and book chapters. Prof. Gill was a standing editorial board member of the WHO/IARC Classification of Tumours series from 2017 to 2023. In 2018, he was appointed a member of the order of Australia (AM) in the Queens Birthday honours list “for significant service to medical research in the field of surgical pathology as an academic, author, adviser, and mentor”.

Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, MBBS, MD, Dip Cytopath (RCPA), FRCPA is a Senior Consultant Pathologist at PathWest (Public Pathology service in Western Australia) and Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University Medical School, Australia.

She is the current President of the IAP-Australasian Division and served as the immediate past Chair of Structured Pathology Reporting of Cancer project for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), as well as the Past President of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Prof. Kumarasinghe’s research and service focus primarily on gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and endocrine pathology. Within her specialized research interests, she has made significant contributions to the understanding of Barrett’s disease, HER-2, and biomarker testing for upper GI cancers. Prof. Kumarasinghe’s expertise extends to the pathology of early-stage GI cancers.

She is a contributing author to the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Digestive System, Genetic Tumour Syndromes and IAC-IRAC Cytopathology Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology. Prof. Kumarasinghe is also the co-editor of the upcoming second edition of the text “Endoscopic Biopsy Interpretation: A Practical Guide”. She received the inaugural award from the official journal of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, Pathology, in 2017 for her work on HER2 testing of gastric and gastroesophageal junctional cancers in Australia.

Throughout her career, Prof. Kumarasinghe has earned numerous academic awards from various professional societies and governing bodies. She continues to contribute to multiple structured cancer protocols for the RCPA and International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR).

Cord Langner, MD graduated from the University of Bonn, Germany and completed a pathology residency program at Klinikum Kassel, Germany. He has worked as a board-certified pathologist at the Medical University of Graz, Austria since 2000.

Dr Langner has published over 250 well-cited original peer-reviewed papers, with a Hirsch Index of 52 (ISI Web of Knowledge) and has presented some 400 invited lectures at both national and international meetings. 

He has served as board member on the Austrian, German and European Societies of Pathology and chaired the Working Group of Digestive Disease of the European Society of Pathology (ESP). He is also currently the Director of the Advanced Training Center of Gastrointestinal Pathology of the ESP.

Dr Langner has served as Associate Editor for Virchows Archiv and Histopathology. Additionally, he is the founder of the European Network of Gastrointestinal Pathology (ENGIP) and the Pannonian Working Group of Pathology, which includes six European countries. Dr Langner is actively involved in promoting GI pathology in this region and a regular organizer of educational academic meetings in the region.

Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD is Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Cell Biology and Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida and Senior Member in Anatomic Pathology and Chief of the Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology service at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, USA. He completed his undergraduate studies in France, and anatomical pathology residency and fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr Lauwers has also held Professorships at Harvard Medical School, and Saitama Medical University in Japan.

Dr Lauwers’ research has focused mainly on oncologic surgical pathology in the areas of gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic pathology. To this end, he has published over 450 peer reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, book chapters and books. He also has trained numerous GI pathology fellows from the US and abroad, and has regularly hosted international visitors in his department.

He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Histopathology, Human Pathology, as well as Modern Pathology, and is Deputy Editor-­in­-Chief of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr Lauwers is also co­author of the 4th edition of the AFIP/ARP Press Tumors of the Esophagus and Stomach fascicle (with Prof. Carneiro), and a co­editor of the 5^th and upcoming 6^th edition (with Profs. Shepherd and Sheahan) of Morson and Dawson’s textbook on Gastrointestinal Pathology.

Dr Lauwers has lectured extensively at a national and international level, and has been involved as a faculty member and organizer at numerous academic meetings, including those of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and International Academy of Pathology (IAP).

Rish K. Pai, MD, PhD received his BA from Pomona College and obtained his MD and PhD from Case Western University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He completed his anatomic pathology residency and fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Dr Pai worked at Cleveland Clinic for 5 years, prior to joining the Mayo Clinic Arizona faculty in 2015. He is currently Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and serves as director of the GI/Liver pathology service and fellowship. Dr Pai has published over 190 articles and written multiple book chapters in the fields of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology. He is also on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology and Modern Pathology. 

He has lectured nationally and internationally on many topics in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology and has directed multiple GI and Liver pathology CME courses. Dr Pai received the 2019 Jack Yardley Investigator Award from the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society and was president of this society in 2020.

Kieran Sheahan, MB BCh, BAO., B.Sc., FRCPI, FFPath, FCAP, FFRCPath is a Consultant Histopathologist at St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH), Dublin and Full Clinical Professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine, Ireland. He is also Adjuvant Professor of Pathology at Boston University Medical School and Director of the Centre for Colorectal Disease, SVUH.

He initiated the involvement of the Faculty of Pathology (RCPI) as a sustaining member of the ICCR in 2018 and is a Board Director (ICCR) & currently Vice-President. Prof. Sheahan was a lead in developing the National Histopathology Quality Improvement Programme in Ireland in 2009, which included standardisation of cancer reporting. He was on the ICCR authoring committee for the colorectal cancer and colorectal polyp cancer datasets.

Prof. Sheahan has authored over 200 original publications in peer-reviewed biomedical journals, numerous reviews and book chapters. He is also a co-editor of the 6^th edition of Morson & Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology textbook.  His research interests include prognostic & predictive markers in colorectal cancer, familial colorectal cancer (in particular Lynch Syndrome), the pathology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), as well as the application of molecular genetic techniques and AI in colorectal pathology.

Neil A. Shepherd, DM, FRCPath is Professor of Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology and Consultant Histopathologist at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals, Gloucestershire, UK, and also holds an Honorary Clinical Professorship at the University of Exeter. He qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1979 and trained in pathology at St Bartholomew’s and St Mark’s Hospitals, London, becoming Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in the ICRF Colorectal Cancer Unit at both hospitals from 1986-8.

Prof. Shepherd has clinical and research interests in GI pathology and is lead editor and co-author of Morson & Dawson’s text on Gastrointestinal Pathology (5^th and upcoming 6^th editions). He is also an author of six other books, 40 chapters and over 200 original articles and reviews, mainly on GI pathology. Prof. Shepherd’s current research interests are in the influence of pathology on the treatment of colorectal cancer, the clinical & molecular pathology of Barrett’s oesophagus and bowel cancer screening pathology. He has authored national and international guidelines on the reporting of the pathology of oesophageal and gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening polyps, Barrett’s oesophagus, serrated pathology, pre-neoplastic lesions of the stomach and chronic inflammatory bowel disease.

Prof. Shepherd is a past president (2010-2) of the British Division of the IAP (BDIAP) and a past general secretary (2000-9) of the BDIAP. He has been the Royal College of Pathologists’ (RCPath) representative for GI pathology, Regional Specialty Advisor for Histopathology, Regional Director of Training, Chairman and Secretary of the Pathology Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology, as well as chairman of the South West Gastroenterology Society. He is also an examiner for the RCPath, specialist editor for Histopathology and a member of the editorial boards of four other international medical journals. He has wide involvement in education at local, regional, national and international levels, having presented more than 150 invited lectures at national & international symposia (in 31 countries). 

Tomas Slavik, MB ChB, MMed, FCPath(SA) is an Anatomical Pathologist and Partner at Ampath Pathology Laboratories, and Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Anatomical Pathology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his medical and anatomical pathology speciality degrees from the University of Pretoria, and subsequently worked in the Pathology Department at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA in 1996/7.

Dr Slavik has authored / co-authored many peer-reviewed publications, including those in his fields of interest – gastrointestinal and infectious diseases pathology. He has served as reviewer for Histopathology, Virchows Archiv, Pathology and The Journal of Gastroenterology, and on the Editorial Board of Virchows Archiv. Dr Slavik has co-authored two textbook chapters, including one in the upcoming 6th Edition of Morson and Dawson’s textbook of Gastrointestinal Pathology. He is also on the American Registry of Pathology (ARP) Editorial Advisory Board and is a co-author and editor of the upcoming 5th Series ARP / AFIP Infectious Diseases fascicle. Dr Slavik is also co-editor of the upcoming new International Survival Guide on GI pathology. He has lectured locally and abroad, having delivered invited presentations at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and International Academy of Pathology (IAP) meetings. He is also member of numerous professional and academic organisations, including the College of American Pathologists (CAP), European Network of Gastrointestinal Pathology (ENGIP), and both British and South African Divisions of the IAP.

Amitabh Srivastava, MD completed his undergraduate medical studies at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India, and his anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Tufts-New England Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This was followed by gastrointestinal pathology fellowships at Brigham and Women’s hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Dr Srivastava joined the clinical faculty at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon New Hampshire, and was Assistant Professor of pathology at Dartmouth Medical School from 2006-11. He then became Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and worked at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston from 2011 – 22. In 2022, Dr Srivastava moved to New York, where he is currently an Attending (Professor) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Member of the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Sciences.

He serves as the pathologist on the population-based New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry that has provided data for guiding serrated polyp surveillance recommendations of the US Multisociety Task Force on colonoscopy. Dr Srivastava is a past President of the Rodger Haggitt US gastrointestinal pathology society and has published numerous original articles, reviews and book chapters. He has also edited books in gastrointestinal pathology, most recently the Foundation Series, Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology. His research interests are primarily focused on precursor lesions of the GI tract, including sporadic colon polyps, and neoplastic lesions in Barrett’s esophagus and inflammatory bowel disease.