CURRENT POSITION

• Scheme Manager, UK NEQAS for Cellular Pathology Technique (CPT) since 2011
• UK NEQAS Board Divisional Representative Cellular Pathology Technique Division
• UK NEQAS Vice-President for Communications

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• Worked within the NHS for 25 years, qualifying as a Biomedical Scientist in Histopathology while working at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle in 1992.
• Moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead in 1999 where I ran the Immunocytochemistry service as a senior member of staff and held the role of training officer for cellular pathology.
• In 2011 took up role of full time Scheme Manager for UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique (CPT), which is the post currently held.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ROLES INCLUDE

• Part time lecturer for Northumbria University
• IBMS Registration and Specialist Portfolio Assessor
• Member of the IBMS Cellular Pathology Advisory Committee