Dr Esther Youd is an autopsy pathologist at the University of Glasgow, with particular interest in sudden cardiac death, maternal death and medical education. She is Chair of the RCPath Death Investigation Committee, Chair of the UK Cardiac Pathology Network, and reviews maternal deaths for MBRRACE-UK. She is the RCPath Clinical Director for Digital Pathology Education, a role which encompasses oversight of the Pathology Portal. She is external examiner at Queen Mary University of London and an examiner for the RCPath CHAT exam.

Professor Lucas was involved in HIV/AIDS pathology from its first appearance in UK (1978), worked in West Africa with the CDC on HIV clinical pathology in the 1990s, continued learning from biopsies and autopsies in UK, through the arrival of combination therapy (1996), and up to his retirement in 2022.