This year's annual International Pathology Day will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Pathology.
We will have speakers to discuss a variety of topics including the upcoming launch of the book Faculty of Pathology 1981-2021: A History of the Faculty and Pathologists in Ireland.
Prof Louise Burke, Dean of the Faculty of Pathology, will chair the webinar
Prof Katy Keohane - An editor’s view on Faculty of Pathology 1981-2021: A History of the Faculty and Pathologists in Ireland
Prof Sean O’Briain - Pathologists and Histopathologists in Dublin 1750s–2021
Harriet Wheelock – RCPI's lost pathology museum
Prof Hilary Humphreys – Perspectives from Pathology during a Pandemic
Dr Maeve Doyle - Teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic
This is a free event for all attendees.
International Pathology Day was established in 2014 by the Royal College of Pathologists in the UK to celebrate the important role played by pathology and laboratory medicine services in addressing global health challenges and improving health outcomes.
First, you must book your place at the webinar on this web page. On the day, you must sign into our virtual learning environment RCPI Brightspace.
On the day of the event, the steps are:
Note, the webinar will only become available to watch at 10:30am on the day, but we recommend logging in ten minutes ahead of time.
To join this webinar on Zoom you will need a computer (Windows or Apple) or mobile device with internet access and speakers.
If you're joining the webinar on a computer you can use the Zoom desktop website. You do not need to download the Zoom app - if you see a pop up message about the app, you can dismiss this.
The Zoom website functions best on Google Chrome.
When you click on the link for "Join the Live Webinar" you will see a message asking you to open Zoom. Click on “Open Zoom”.
You will then be asked for your name and email address. Once you’ve entered these details, click on “Join Webinar”.
If you're watching the webinar on a mobile device you will need to download the Zoom app. To save time on the day, we recommend downloading the app in advance:
Click here for the iOS Zoom app
Click here for the Android Zoom app
When you open the Zoom app click on “Join a Meeting”. You will need to enter the meeting ID number. The ID number for this week's event will be sent to you via email beforehand.
You can find additional help with joining Zoom webinars here.
If you have any questions for our panel please email them to conferences@rcpi.ie and we will endeavour to have these answered as part of the event. Alternatively, you can submit questions via Twitter @RCPI_news.
We are now using Zoom to broadcast our live webinars. When you open Zoom to watch the live webinar you will be able to submit questions to the panel during the event.
To submit questions to the panel:
It may not be possible to answer all questions we receive.
There are limited places available for the live webinar. If you are unable to book a place, you will be able to watch videos of all of the talks on Panopto, our video sharing platform.
Prof Louise Burke graduated in medicine from NUIG in 1987 and received her MD from the same institution in 2005. She trained in histopathology at Cork University Hospital. She completed a Fellowship in the Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology department at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC, USA, incorporating research on Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the laboratory of Dr. Curt Harris and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. Following further pathology training at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, she worked in France with Professor Francoise Galateau- Salle, Chairperson of the French and International Mesothelioma Panel. She is Consultant Histopathologist at CUH (1999-present), leading the thoracic histopathology service, and became Professor of Pathology in 2020. She is a Faculty board member (2012-present), served as Honorary Secretary (2016-2018), Dean-Elect (2018-19) and chaired the Histopathology Working Group (2012-2015). Her term of office as Dean is 2019-2022.
Harriet Wheelock is Keeper of Collections at Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, with responsibility for the management and development of RCPI’s collections. These comprise a unique library, archive and object collection relating to RCPI and the history of medicine and medical education in Ireland. In 2018 RCPI’s Heritage Centre received Full Accreditation under the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland.
Harriet holds a 1st Class BA (Hons) in History from Trinity College, Dublin (2005), a Masters in Historical Research from Lancaster University (2007) and an MA in Archives and Records Management from University College Dublin (2009). In September 2020 she commenced a PhD in the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts looking at the history and development of the collections in RCPI.
