Nottingham 2027 - Virtual National Breast Pathology Update Course

Friday 16 April 2027  –  09.30 to 16.30 UK Time

2027

Virtual National Breast Pathology Update Course

The Faculty

Meet Our Faculty

Our World Class Faculty are looking forward to you joining us in May 2025 for the Nottingham 2026 – Virtual National Breast Pathology Update Course

Professor Ian Ellis

Professor Ellis has been involved in the practice of pathology for over thirty years and has an international reputation in clinical and translational research in breast disease.

Dr Elena Provenzano

Dr Elena Provenzano is Lead Breast Histopathologist for the Cambridge Breast Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Professor Emad Rakha

Professor Rakha is Professor and Honorary Consultant Pathologist, University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor Abeer Shaaban

Professor Shaaban is a specialist breast pathologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.

Dr Rahul Deb

Dr Rahul Deb is a lead breast and gastrointestinal pathologist at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. He is the Specialty Advisor (Breast) at RCPath, deputy chair of National Coordinating Committee for Breast Pathology and regional clinical advisor for NHS Breast Screening.

Professor Sarah Pinder

Professor of breast pathology and honorary consultant breast pathologist
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Rebecca Millican-Slater

Dr Rebecca Millican-Slater, a specialist breast cancer pathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust uses the latest digital pathology techniques in her work and research.

Dr Preethi Gopinath

Consultant Histopathologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, Essex UK. Director of Medical Education

Dr Shauna Casey

Dr Shauna Casey works as a consultant histopathologist in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust reporting breast pathology and uropathology.  She is currently the professional and clinical advisor for pathology in the breast screening programme in Northern Ireland.

Dr Sue Pritchard

Consultant histopathologist working at Blackrock Health, Blackrock Clinic, Dublin where she is the lead breast pathologist. Sue is also one of the breast screening Professional Clinical Advisors for the North of England and a member of the Manchester Breast Centre and lobular moonshot project team researching in the field of stromal interactions in breast cancer, breast cancer prevention and lobular breast cancer.

2027 Programme - At A Glance

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EQA outlier cases - what pathologists find difficult

Professor Emad Rakha

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EQA: digital versus glass – insights from Breast EQA

Professor Ian Ellis

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NHS BSP Pathology review data

Dr Rahul Deb

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ICCR datasets; what’s new

Professor Cecily Quinn

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Prosigna testing; what has changed since Optima

Dr Silvana DiPalma

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Special types of TNBC

Professor Sarah Pinder

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TNBC biomarkers and neoadjuvant response

Dr Elena Provenzano

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Update on oncological management of TNBC including immunotherapy and BRCA

Professor Jean Abraham

Slide Seminar 1 - Fibroepithelial Lesions - 5 Cases

Chair: Cecily Quinn
Puay Hoon Tan, Rebecca Millican-Slater, Cecily Quinn, Philip Schouten

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Update on surgical management of Phyllodes tumours

Dr Lisa Whisker (to be confirmed)

Slide Seminar 2 – Papillary Lesions and Mimics - 6 Cases

Chair:: Professor Abeer Shaaban
Abeer Shaaban, Mieke von Bockstal, Preethi Gopinath, Shauna Casey, Sue Pritchard

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Q&A/Ask the Experts

Course Faculty

CPD Approval

The Course has been approved for CPD points for the course from the Royal College of Pathologists. ALL registered attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation as a PDF within a week of the course.

Course - 5 CPD Points
Slide Case Submission - 2 CPD Points

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