Meet our Team

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Panagiota KitsantaMD, MRCPath (Affiliate), MBA (Medical Leadership), PgCert (Healthcare Education)

Clinical Director, Consultant Histopathologist

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Siobhain Cassidy

Directorate Business Manager

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Richard Fleming

Quality and Governance Manager

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Simon TazzymanBSc Biomedical Sciences, PhD Tumour Inflammation

Research Coordinator

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Sarah DoveBSc FD Mortuary Science

Mortuary Manager

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Gillian WaltonBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Sciences. MIBMS

Laboratory Manager for Specialised Blood Sciences

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Godfrey GillettMA (Cambridge), MB ChB (Sheffield), PhD (UCL), FRCPath, FRCP

Consultant in Clinical Chemistry and Inherited Metabolic Disease

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Imran JabbarBSc, MSc, MIBMS, CSci, MB ChB

Laboratory Manager - Blood Sciences (Northern General Hospital)

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Ryan ColwellBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Biomedical Sciences

Laboratory Manager – Blood Sciences (Royal Hallamshire Hospital)

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Steve KitchenBSc, PhD, FIBMS

Scientific Lead - Coagulation

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Rhona MacleanMB ChB, FRCP, FRCPath

Consultant Haematologist with an interest in Haemostasis and Thrombosis

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Richard EyreBSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences MSc Pathological Sciences MIBMS

Biochemistry Scientific Lead and Deputy Laboratory Manager (Royal Hallamshire Hospital)

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Michael SmithBSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences MIBMS

Biochemistry Scientific Lead and Deputy Laboratory Manager (Northern General Hospital)

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Lee BeckettBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Sciences

Routine Coagulation Scientific Lead & Deputy Laboratory Manager - Northern General Hospital

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Kieron Hickey

Thrombophilia Section Lead and Deputy Laboratory Manager - Coagulation

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Kevin HornerBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Sciences

Routine Coagulation Scientific Lead & Deputy Laboratory Manager - Royal Hallamshire Hospital

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Annette BowyerBSc (Hons) Pharmacology, MSc Pathological Science, PhD, FIBMS

Haemophilia & Assays Section Lead - Coagulation

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Rebekah FretwellBSc (Hons) Medicine and Pharmacology, MSc Pathology

Senior Biomedical Scientist and ADAMTS-13 Section Lead - Coagulation

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Theresa BarksBSc (Hons) Biochemistry, MSc Pathological Sciences, CSci, FIBMS

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Haematology (RHH)

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Margaret HuntFIBMS, HNC Biomedical Sciences

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Haematology

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Jason EyreBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, FIBMS

Section Lead - Haemoglobinopathies and Red Cell Investigations

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Rosalie WardBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Science, FIBMS

Section Lead - Cellular Immunology/Cell Markers

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Brian TaylorFIBMS

Blood Bank Manager

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Ruth PrattBSc (Hons) Physiology, FIBMS, IBMS HSD Transfusion Science

Senior Biomedical Scientist and Quality Lead - Blood Transfusion

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Stephanie HibberdBSc (Hons), MSc, CSci, FIBMS

Laboratory Manager - Histopathology

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Rachel LeffBSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences, MSc Pathological Sciences, CSci, MIBMS

Deputy Histopathology Discipline Lead

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Greg ZardinBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSC Haematopathology

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Histopathology

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Karen LesterBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Sciences, MIBMS

Quality Lead and Designated Individual for HTA Human Application Licence (Bone Bank) - Histopathology

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David LeffBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Cellular Pathology

Acting Deputy Laboratory Manager - Histopathology

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Bart WagnerBSc Biology, Fellowship of the Institute of Biomedical Science (FIBMS) (Special Final Histology and Cytology), IBMS Diploma of Expert Practice (DEP) in Ultrastructural Pathology

Head of Electron Microscopy (EM) Section - Histopathology

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Clare Del-DucaBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Pathological Science

Laboratory Manager - Immunology and Protein Reference Unit

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Andy Richardson

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Immunology

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Raza MohammadMBBS, BSc, FRCP, FRCPath

Consultant Virologist & Clinical Lead - Virology

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Leeanne ToveyBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Medical Microbiology

Laboratory Manager - Microbiology & Virology

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Rebecca HallBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Medical Microbiology, MIBMS

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Virology

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Charlotte O'ReillyBSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, MSc Biomedical Sciences

Deputy Laboratory Manager - Bacteriology

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Helena ParsonsMRCP PhD FRCPath

Consultant Microbiologist & Clinical Lead - Microbiology

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Stephanie MartinBSc(Hons), PhD, FRCPath, EuSpLM

Consultant Clinical Scientist and Toxicology Lead

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Edmund RabDClinSci, FRCPath, PhD, MSc, MChem, MRSC

Consultant Clinical Scientist - Toxicology & Clinical Lead - Clinical Chemistry

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Salma SharifBSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pre-Analytics Manager - Northern General Hospital