Global Engage Announces Their Inaugural Digital Pathology Congress – December 4-5 in London
Global Engage is pleased to announce their inaugural Digital Pathology Congress which will be held on December 4-5 in London, UK. The conference is part of their successful Drug Discovery series which includes events on precision medicine, orphan drugs, synthetic biology, the human microbiome and digital PCR.
The continuing growth and advances in digital pathology solutions is transforming the industry. With wide ranging applications and benefits including reduction in lab costs, increased workflow efficiency, greater interconnectivity, effective training / education methods, improved decision making is enabling enhanced patient care. The result is that Digital Pathology is rapidly gaining momentum worldwide.
Attracting over 150 industry & academic experts working in all areas of Pathology this two day interactive meeting will provide the opportunity to take home cutting edge strategies, analysis techniques, case study examples and methods to allow you to fully understand both the technology and accompanying informatics and image analysis tools and utilize digital pathology to its greatest potential.
This will be achieved through a vibrant exhibition room full of technology providers showcasing their technologies and other solutions, networking breaks allowing interaction with your peers, poster presentation sessions, expert led case study presentations and incisive Q&A panel discussions during three separate tracks which will examine the topics below:
| Stream 1 – | Digital Pathology – Strategy and Technology |
| Stream 2 – | Digital Pathology Applications and Research Case Studies |
| Stream 3 – | Pathology Informatics |
| Stream 4 – | Digital Image Analysis |
The full 2014 speaker panel will be announced soon. Already confirmed are:
- Klaus Kayser, Professor, Institute of Pathology, Humboldt University, Germany
- Mogens Vyberg, Professor of Clinical Pathology, University of Aalborg, Sweden
- Jeroen van der Laak, Assistant Professor Pathology, Radbound University, Netherlands
- Tania Roskams, The Translational Cell and Tissue Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Sebastian Brandner, Professor and Chair of Neuropathology, Division of Neuropathology and Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, UK
- Arvydas Laurinavičius, National Pathology Center, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskes Clinics
- Will Howat, Head of Histopathology/ISH, Cancer Research UK
- Paul van Diest, Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Marcial Garcia Rojo, Pathology Department / UGC Anatomía Patológica Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- Toby Cornish, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
- Yukako Yagi, Director of Pathology Imaging and Communication Technology Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Marielle Odin, Director of Pathology, Roche, Germany
- David Snead, Consultant Histopathologist and Clinical Service Lead, Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services, UK
- Gloria Bueno, Lecturer and Principal Research at School of Engineering, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
