Professor Catriona McKenzie

MBBS (Hons 1), FRCPA

Professor Catriona McKenzie graduated with first class Honours from the University of Sydney and trained at Concord, Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals. She is currently a senior staff specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Camperdown and Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney. Her subspecialty and research interests include gastrointestinal and liver pathology including transplantation pathology, non-melanoma skin cancers and pathology education. She has contributed to two editions of the WHO Skin Tumour books in addition to multiple peer reviewed publications. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Pathology.

She is current chair of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasian Academic committee, chairs the gastric structured reporting protocol and is a member of the non melanoma skin cancer structured reporting protocol. She is a long standing member of the Australasian Division of the IAP as well as past convenor of the liver companion club.  She both founded and convened the Education in Pathology companion club in the Australasian division. She enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students and trainees and is committed to raising the profile of pathology.

Associate Professor Caroline Cooper

BMed Sci, MB, BS (Hons), FRCPA, GCertHE, MPhil

A/Prof Caroline Cooper is Co-Acting Medical Director and Senior Staff Specialist at Pathology Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland with special interests in Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary, Head and Neck and Pulmonary Pathology. A/Prof Cooper is a medical graduate of the University of Tasmania and undertook specialty Anatomical Pathology training in NSW at Westmead and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals, where she commenced her career as an Anatomical Pathologist, moving to Queensland to continue her career. She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland. She has multiple peer reviewed publications and achieved a Master of Philosophy from The University of Queensland in 2024. She has been the co-convenor of the Gastrointestinal companion club in the Australasian Division.

Associate Professor Joo-Shik Shin
MBBS PhD FRCPA

Joo-Shik Shin (Joo) is a Senior Staff Specialist at the Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and a Clinical Associate Professor at the Central Clinical Medical School, University of Sydney.

He migrated from South Korea near the end of primary school with his family, finishing high school in Brisbane and then Medicine at the University of Queensland. After residency, he moved to Sydney to begin his Pathology training at Royal Prince Alfred. He combined this with part-time research into biomarkers in rectal cancer and obtained his FRCPA in 2009, followed by his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2011.

He worked in the combined Specialist/Academic position at Liverpool Hospital and Western Sydney University Medical School up to 2017, where he was involved in developing the then new Pathology curriculum alongside many Conjoint and other Academic Pathologists/Clinicians.He moved back to Royal Prince Alfred in 2017, and has enjoyed focusing most of his time again into the diagnostic side of Pathology, and subspeS PhD FRCPAcializes in Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary, as well as Breast Pathology.

He is involved in various research projects in collaboration with diverse Clinical Units at Royal Prince Alfred. He has also served a number of years as the Treasurer for the Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Joo feels indebted to the many Senior colleagues before him that invested their time and energy into the IAP, especially to ensure the success of the yearly scientific meetings, from which he has learnt and benefited since his early training. To repay this, he has accepted the nomination of being the Honorary Secretary.

Assoc Professor Andrew James Dettrick
MBBS, FRCP

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.

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.