The roundtable discussion - the global pathology workforce: addressing emerging challenges and opportunities together

Roundtable discussion: ‘The global pathology workforce: addressing emerging challenges and opportunities together’.

This panel discussion explores the multifaceted challenges facing the global pathology workforce, the current workforce situation and why we are here, and the future and what we can do. The discussion will focus on the similarities, differences and difficulties experienced by low- and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries.

• Chair Professor Marta Cohen was joined by panel members:

• Chair – Professor Marta Cohen, Vice President for Learning, the Royal College of Pathologists, UK

• Panellist – Ms Elisabetta Zanon, CEO, European Cancer Organisation

• Panellist - Dr Jan von der Thüsen, Deputy Head of department, Associate professor, Department of Pathology and Clinical Bioinformatics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• Panellist – Professor Priyani Amarathunga, Professor in Pathology, Consultant Histopathologist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Panellist – Mr Russell Dacombe, Senior Research Associate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

• Professor Xavier Matias-Guiu, Professor and Chairman of Pathology, Hospital U Arnau de Vilanova, University of Lleida, Spain; President of the European Society of Pathology