I graduated in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1993 and subsequently completed a DPhil in Oxford studying the neuropathology of Schizophrenia from which I completed in 1997.

I then trained in medicine at the University of Birmingham from 1997-2002. Following this, I moved to Sheffield, to train in neuropathology, gaining the European Fellowship of Neuropathology in 2008 and FRCPath in 2009.

On completing this training in 2009, I took up an MRC/Motor Neurone Disease Association Lady Edith Wolfson Fellowship to study Motor neurone disease. I became a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuropathology in 2012.

I also work as a Consultant Neuropathologist for the South and East Yorkshire Neuropathology Network, which provides diagnostic neuropathology services to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust. I am also a Royal College Examiner.

Dr Preethi Gopinath is a Consultant in Cellular/Autopsy Pathology and Director of Medical Education at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, Essex U.K.

Preethi has a strong interest in medical education and blended/technology enhanced learning, motivated to improve global access to pathology education and pathways to address differential attainment.  She has been part of the organising team for several international hybrid and virtual pathology education courses, including the British Association of Urological Pathologists webinar series and is a member of the National Coordinating Committee for Breast Pathology Education sub-committee, RCPath Death Investigation Committee and Editorial Board member for the Pathology Portal.  Preethi is also involved in improving standards of Autopsy pathology as an author for the RCPath Autopsy guideline series team.