MPhil, MD, FCAP
Scientific Committee Chairperson of Emirates Pathology Society,
Group Head of Pathology and Laboratory Services,
VPS Healthcare,
UAE

Anil Parwani, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Informatics
Director, Digital Pathology Shared Resources
Principle Investigator, Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) Midwestern Division
Wexner Medical Center - Department of Pathology
USA

Dr. Anil Parwani is a Professor of Pathology at The Ohio State University. He serves as the Vice Chair and Director of Anatomical Pathology. Dr. Parwani is also the Director of Pathology Informatics and Director of the Digital Pathology Shared Resource at The James Cancer Hospital. His research is focused on diagnostic and prognostic markers in bladder and prostate cancer, and molecular classification of renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Parwani has expertise in the area of surgical pathology, viral vaccines and immunology, and pathology informatics including designing quality assurance tools, bio banking informatics, clinical and research data integration, applications of whole slide imaging, digital imaging, telepathology, image analysis and lab automation. Dr. Parwani has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals and several books and book chapters. Dr. Parwani is the Editor-in-chief of Diagnostic Pathology and one of the Editors of the Journal of Pathology Informatics.

Mayo Clinic
USA

Chair Translational Nephropathology (Heisenberg Professor)
Head of Electron Microscopy Facility
Senior Physician, RWTH Lecturer
University Hospital, RWTH Aachen
Germany

Professor Peter Boor received his medical and scientific training at the Medical Schools of Bratislava in Slovakia and Aachen Germany. Peter Boor is a senior consultant pathologist, Heisenberg Professor and chair of Translational Nephropathology, Electron Microscopy Facility and Digital Pathology at the University Clinic Aachen. He is the RWTH Lecturer and received prizes for excellent teaching of medical students. He is a member of several national and international societies of pathology, renal pathology and nephrology and he received several prestigious awards from these societies. His group, the LaBooratory of Nephropathology, focuses on diagnostic biomarkers with particular focus on imaging, digital pathology and AI, as well as in vivo animal modeling, and understanding of pathological processes in CKD, fibrosis and vasculature. His scientific work encompasses about 200 original papers, reviews and editorials, and several book chapters.

Head and Senior Consultant
Department of Anatomical Pathology
Singapore General Hospital
Singapore

Prof Tony Lim leads the Department of Anatomical Pathology in Singapore General Hospital. His research interests include molecular genetics, personalised medicine and the study of lung, liver and gastrointestinal diseases. As the Head of Section of Translational Pathology Centre and the Clinical Director of Personalised OMIC Lattice for Advanced Research and Improving Stratification (POLARIS@GIS), Prof Lim collaborates with many industry and non-industry partners, contributing his clinical expertise to numerous research projects leading to new developments and findings published in many peer-reviewed journals. Prof Lim is currently the Academic Vice-chair (Strategic Programmes) in the Pathology Academic Clinical Programme, and directs many research initiatives which are instrumental in translating discovery into diagnostics.

Cultural Committee Chairperson of Emirates Pathology Society
Consultant Anatomic Pathologist, H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital
UAE

Associate Professor of Pathology
Consultant Histopathologist
Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine
University of Sharjah
UAE

Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt, with a MSc and PhD in Basic Medical Sciences in Pathology. Joined the Pathology Department, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine in 1999, and maintains a faculty appointment as Full Professor of Pathology since 2018. Appointed as an Associate Professor in Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, UAE since 2016. A consultant histopathologist with a primary interest in general surgical pathology and a special interest in breast, GIT and renal pathology. Her research work in the field of cancer, focusing mainly on breast, colorectal, prostate and renal cancer. She has a good experience in immunohistochemistry (IHC), in-situ hybridization (ISH) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). She has publications in different national and international peer reviewed journals. She is also the PI and co-PI of different internal and external grants awarded for cancer research.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Saudi Arabia

Department of Pathology & Translational Genomics
Samsung Medical Center
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Seoul, Korea

Consultant Pathologist
Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital (SKSH)
UAE

Hyo Jin Park, M.D., Ph.D. is a consultant pathologist at Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital (SKSH). She is affiliated at Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital in Korea as a clinical assistant professor. Dr. Park received M.D. degree from SNU, College of Medicine in 1998 and her Ph.D. from SNU, College of Medicine in 2010 with the thesis of “T cell development in genetically engineered mouse”. After undertaking an internship at SNU Hospital, she did her residency in pathology at the same hospital. From 2011, as a clinical assistant professor in Pathology Department of SNU Bundang Hospital, her research and clinical activity focused on endocrine, bone/soft tissue pathology, immunology and molecular pathology. She has worked at SKSH, Pathology department from 2015 in which genetic test on solid tumor using next generation sequencing was implemented successfully under supervision of her. She has published many articles in SCI journals.