Past President

Clinical Associate Professor Fiona Maclean
MBBS (Hons I), BAppSc, FRCPA, GAICD

Clinical Associate Professor Fiona Maclean is Deputy Director of Histopathology at Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, with special interests in urogenital and musculoskeletal pathology in particular. Assoc. Prof. Maclean graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours. She initially worked as a resident medical officer at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, where she was awarded Intern of the Year. Assoc. Prof. Maclean holds positions as Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University and Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame.

She has authored two chapters in the current edition of Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, and one chapter in the current edition of Histology for Pathologists,both of which are premier textbooks in the fields of pathology and histology.

She is passionate about teaching pathology and enjoys presenting lectures to people from all walks of life. 

Honorary Secretary

Professor Alfred K. Lam AM
MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPA, FRCPA (FFOP), FRCPA (Faculty of Science) FRCPath (UK), FIAC, FHKCPath, FHKAM (Pathology).

Professor Lam is the Foundation Chair Professor of Pathology in Griffith University with 30 years’ experience in diagnostic and molecular pathology. His research focuses are on diagnostic and molecular pathology of cancers of gastrointestinal tract, endocrine, oral and head/neck. He has produced over 450 referred journal articles with the citation index (Scopus H index) for his publication at 63 in 2022. His research contributions made him awarded the best senior researcher by Griffith University’s Vice Chancellor and the winner of Australian society of medical research Queensland health and medical research award.

Professor Lam has contributed to 3 editions of World Health Organization on classification of tumour since 2003. He is an expert editor of the Fifth edition of World Health Organization book on classification of Digestive tract tumour pathology. He also edited 3 books on oesophageal and thyroid cancers, as well as involved in more than 70 book chapters.

Professor Lam chairs the development of a dataset for the reporting of oesophageal cancer by International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). He has also contributed to multiple structured cancer protocols in Australia and ICCR.  At present, he is Co-editor of Cancer Medicine and on editorial board of multiple international peer-review journals such as Pathology, Human Pathology, Endocrine Pathology, Endocrine-related cancer, International Journal of Molecular Sciences etc.

In 2022 Australia day, Professor Lam was awarded a Member of Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to tertiary education, to research, and to pathology.

Honorary Treasurer

Assoc Professor Andrew James Dettrick
MBBS, FRCPA

Assoc Professor Andrew Dettrick is an Anatomical Pathologist, senior staff specialist and former Director of Pathology at Sunshine Coast University Hospital in Queensland.  His special interests include heart and lung pathology, head and neck pathology and skin cancer.  He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology at University of the Sunshine Coast.  His current research is focused on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. 

Director (IAP Central Executive Council Representative)

Professor Gelareh Farshid
MBBS, MD, MPH, GAICD, FRCPA, FFSc (RCPA), FACP

Professor Gelareh Farshid is a fulltime senior Consultant Pathologist at SA Pathology, Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Professor Farshid enjoys long standing research interests and clinical expertise in diseases of the breast, population based screening and in soft tissue pathology. She contributes to multiple national and international professional bodies.

Gelareh has extensive experience in Clinical Governance and Executive Management, having served as the Clinical Director of BreastScreen South Australia for a decade, being a pathologist on the BreastScreen Australia National Quality Management Committee and serving as the Secretary of the International Society of Breast Pathology. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has a Doctorate in Medicine and a Masters Degree in Public Health.

Professor Farshid joined the Board of the IAP as Treasurer in 2017. From 14th October 2022, she has moved to the role of the Director (IAP Central Executive Council Representative).

New South Wales/ACT

Associate Professor Ruta Gupta
MBBS, MD, FRCPA, Grad Cert in Higher Education.

Dr Gupta is a full time staff specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, a member of the Sydney Head and Neck Cancer Institute (SHNCI) and a Visiting Scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Her primary interests include head and neck pathology, genitourinary pathology and molecular pathology. Ruta serves on the Cancer Institute of NSW (CINSW) Head and Neck Cancer Surgery Clinical Advisory Group. She is also a member of the NSW Statewide BioBank Stakeholders Network and has developed the head and neck tumour biobank at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. Ruta is a member of the RCPA Structured Pathology Reporting Committee for head and neck cancers and chairs the protocol development for larynx, neck node dissection and ear resection specimens.She is a member of the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) for head and neck and of Training residents in Genomics (TRIG).

Ruta was the inaugural convenor of the Head and Neck Pathology Companion Club at the Australasian IAP.
Ruta’s primary research interests include mechanisms of development and spread of cutaneous and mucosal squamous cell carcinoma and molecular pathology of salivary gland tumours. Her research interests focus on improving diagnostic methods and survival outcomes. She has mentored several medical students, pathology and surgical trainees present their work on national and international platforms as well as publish in scientific peer reviewed journals. She also serves on the editorial board of Head and Neck Pathology and Advances in Anatomic Pathology.

New South Wales/ACT

Dr Mahtab Farzin
MD, FRCPA

Dr Mahtab Farzin, MD, FRCPA, is an anatomical pathologist in the tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology department at Liverpool/Campbelltown Hospital.
After practicing in clinical medicine at Gosford Hospital; she predominantly trained at Royal North Shore Hospital in histopathology.
She completed her Anatomical Pathology training 2015 with many achievements including several publications and obtaining Jeanette Philips Award.
After obtaining her fellowship she worked as a consultant at Orange Base Hospital for the first few years of her career.
Dr Farzin has a keen interest in research and is passionate about pathology-base medical education.

Victoria

Queensland

Adjunct Associate Professor Duncan Lambie
BDSc, MBBS (Hons I), FRCPA

Duncan Lambie is Medical Director of Anatomical Pathology at Princess Alexandra Hospital and Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute. His main interest is dermatopathology with research interests in melanocytic pathology, keratinocyte pathology and perineural invasion.

South Australia

Dr Yanling Yang
MBBS, FRACP

Dr Yang is a graduate of University of New South Wales (2008). She was trained in Anatomical pathology in Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, then at various sites of SA Pathology in Adelaide. She gained her Fellowship in 2017 and had been working for both Clinpath and SA pathology for a number of years. She is working for SA Pathology at its Flinders Medical Centre lab. She is interested in Head and Neck pathology and Gynaecological pathology. She is also keen on registrar teaching and mentoring.

Tasmania

Dr Nada Dickinson
B Pharm, GradDipHospPharm, B Med, FRCPA

Dr Dickinson is a graduate of University of Newcastle Medical School (2000).   She gained her Fellowship in Anatomical Pathology in 2017, spending her final year at Launceston General Hospital and joined Launceston Pathology at the beginning of 2018. 

New Zealand

Interim Dr Emily Carr-Boyd
BMedSci (hons), MBBS, FRCPA

Dr Emily Carr-Boyd graduated from The University of Sydney and trained at Royal Prince Alfred and Concord Hospitals in Sydney before completing her training at Auckland City Hospital where she now is a Senior Medical Officer. Her special interests include hepatopancreatobiliary pathology including liver transplant pathology, as well as neuroendocrine pathology.

Emily has a keen interest in teaching. She regularly presents at local and international meetings and is a supervisor of training. She recently joined the RCPAQAP Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Advisory Committee.

Western Australia

Dr Connull Leslie
MBBS (Hons), FRCPA

Connull is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, completing his degree in 2004, and is a Consultant Pathologist in the Department of Anatomical Pathology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, QEII Medical Centre, Perth. He has an interest in Gastrointestinal, Head and Neck, Endocrine and Haematolymphoid pathology as well as non-cervical Cytology and application of Molecular Pathology in diagnosis. Since first attending the IAP as a Registrar he has been a speaker at several companion clubs.

Regional Australia & New Zealand Representative

Regional Australia & New Zealand Represetative

Dr Anita Mani 
MBBS, MD(Path), DNB(Path), FRCPA

Dr Mani is an Anatomical Pathologist, senior staff specialist and Director of Anatomic Pathology New England region for NSWHP at Tamworth, NSW. She has worked as a regional pathologist in Australia for the last 18 years. She is passionate about contributing to equitable care for regional patients and help create enjoyable and fruitful working experiences for regional AP consultants and registrars.  She has special interest in breast, gastrointestinal and liver pathology. She is also keen on registrar teaching and mentoring.

Trainee Representative

Interim – Trainee Reprsentative

Dr Thomas Kovacs

Dr Tom Kovacs is a third-year Anatomical Pathology Registrar based in Brisbane. Tom graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2019 with a medical degree and an honours degree in medical science. He undertook his clinical training as a junior doctor in the Hunter New England region in New South Wales before moving to southeast Queensland to begin his pathology training in 2022. Tom has a keen interest in education and mentoring. Through his role as trainee representative, Tom aims to foster connections among peers and mentors and to voice the interests of pathologists-in-training.

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