Master Classes
Saturday Master Class
Professor Dina Tiniakos MD PhD FRCPath Dept of Pathology, Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Translational & Clinical Research Institute Faculty of Medical Sciences Newcastle University, UK
Dina Tiniakos is Professor of Pathology & Director, Dept of Pathology, Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Visiting Professor, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. She is Past President of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) and current Chair, ESP Advisory Board.
Dina’s main research interests are steatotic and autoimmune liver disease and hepatocarcinogenesis. She is leading/co-leading European and international research consortia on liver pathology, including the LITMUS (Liver Investigation: Testing Marker Utility in Steatohepatitis) Histopathology Group and the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Pathology Group, and is central pathologist for international therapeutic clinical trials in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and primary biliary cholangitis.
She is an invited member of the prestigious International Liver Study Group “Gnomes” and the Laennec Liver Pathology Society. Dina has authored/co-authored >230 peer-reviewed scientific articles and chapters in textbooks of liver pathology (H index 67, ~21,000 citations). She is Associate Editor of “Journal of Hepatology” and Editorial Board member of “Liver International” and “Annals of Gastroenterology”.
Sunday Master Class
Dr Kimberley Oliver MB, BS FRCPA
Princes Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Dr Oliver is a senior Anatomical Pathologist at Pathology Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. Graduating in Medicine from the University of Queensland, Dr Oliver undertook Anatomical Pathology training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, moving back to Queensland in 2003 to embark on a career in Anatomical Pathology in Brisbane.
She has a particular interest in renal pathology, working in the largest centre for renal transplant in Queensland, and has collaborated with Banff glomerular working groups, the Centre for Kidney Disease at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Renal Pathology Society/International Kidney and Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Research Group.