Speakers
IAP 2022 Sydney Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Prof. Tan Puay Hoon
Senior Consultant Pathologist, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Prof. Tan Puay Hoon
Refining the classification of breast phyllodes tumours
In-person program
Sat, Oct 15, 2022
12:15pm-1:00pm
Room: Parkside 1
ICC Sydney
Prof Puay Hoon Tan is a Senior Consultant Pathologist at the Singapore General Hospital. She was a Volume Editor of the 4th edition of the WHO Classification of Breast Tumours 2012 and contributed to the latest volume of the WHO Breast Tumour Classification 2019 as a Standing Editorial Board Member.
She was a Past President of the International Society of Breast Pathology (ISBP) and received the ISBP-Norton award for excellence in breast pathology in 2020. She was part of the research team that discovered the role of the MED12 gene in breast fibroepithelial lesions and continues to actively pursue discoveries in this fascinating group of tumours with her collaborators.
Prof. Jason Hornick
Director of Surgical Pathology, and Director of the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, USA
Prof. Jason Hornick
Beyond Lineage: Diagnostic and Predictive Molecular Immunohistochemistry
In-person Program
Friday, October, 14, 2022
12:15pm-1:00pm
Room: Parkside 1
ICC Sydney
Prof. Jason Hornick trained as a resident in Anatomic Pathology and pursued subspecialty fellowships in soft tissue pathology and gastrointestinal pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is now the Director of Surgical Pathology and Director of Immunohistochemistry. He is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a consultant at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Prof. Hornick is currently on the Board of Directors of the USCAP; he was previously Chair of the USCAP Education Committee and Chair of the Immunohistochemistry Committee for the CAP.
Prof. Elizabeth Murchison
Group Leader, Reader in Comparative Oncology and Genetics, Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Cambridge, Department of Veterinary Medicine, United Kingdom
Prof. Elizabeth Murchison
Virtual Program
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Prof. Elizabeth Murchison is Reader in Comparative Oncology and Genetics at the University of Cambridge, Department of Veterinary Medicine. Her research group works on transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils.
Prof. Murchison grew up in Tasmania and performed her undergraduate studies in genetics and biochemistry at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, she was awarded an NHMRC Overseas Biomedical Fellowship to travel to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, where she was involved in sequencing the Tasmanian devil genome as well as genetic analysis of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) and CTVT. Prof. Murchison moved to the University of Cambridge, Department of Veterinary Medicine in 2013.
Prof Martin Hale
University of the Witwatersrand
President: South African and British Divisions of the International Academy of Pathology
Prof Martin Hale
In-person program
Thursday 13 October 2022
12.15-13.00
Room: Parkside 1
ICC Sydney
Prof Martin Hale is a specialist anatomical pathologist who has spent his entire career working in the public sector both in Zimbabwe and South Africa. He has extensive experience in diseases that are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly infectious disease and malignancy, inclusive of HIV. In particular he has an interest in HIV related malignancy, and the interplay between co-infection with HIV and other infections. Other interests include the changing epidemiology of disease as the local lifestyle of the population changes over time.
Prof Hale is fully committed to undergraduate and postgraduate training, recognising that good undergraduate education is a prerequisite to developing good postgraduate programmes. His educational initiatives have included improvement of postgraduate training in sub-Saharan Africa developed through the International Academy of Pathology. A significant milestone was his successful bid preparation and subsequent hosting of the international Congress of the international Academy of pathology in Cape Town, South Africa in 2012, a first for the African continent. The objective of this meeting was to enhance pathology education on the African continent. This was an overwhelming success with over 330 delegates from Africa attending, 150 of them being supported by bursaries sourced through the IAP.
Prof Hale has been involved with a number of collaborative research projects over the years including projects that have been funded by prestigious funding agencies. He recognises that postgraduate training cannot be complete without a research component.
Prof. Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS
Vice-Chancellor and President, The Australian National University
2011 Nobel Laureate Physics
Prof. Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS
Lessons from Astronomy
Virtual Program
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Professor Brian P. Schmidt was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of The Australian National University (ANU) in January 2016.
Professor Schmidt is the 12th Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Schmidt was an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his Astronomy Master's degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. Under his leadership, in 1998, the High-Z Supernova Search team made the startling discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013.
