Join us for this free educational webinar, being delivered in partnership with RCPath Corporate Member, PathQA, and find out about end-to-end quality assurance in digital pathology.

This event is being delivered in partnership with PathQA.

As digital pathology momentum continues to grow it has never been more important to measure, report, track and, where possible, correct sources of variable quality across the whole modern workflow, in order to easier facilitate and consistently validate digital adoption. The safety and scalability of the lab of the future, including use of trustworthy AI and imaging technology, is reliant on the robustness of quality and interconnectivity standards in the labs of today. This webinar will explore current methodologies with the potential for creating end-to-end, vendor-agnostic quality assurance environments based on interoperable solutions and standards to support establishing and scaling digital pathology deployments.

The speakers will be Prof David Brettle, Chief Scientific Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Quality Theme Lead for NPIC; Dr John Groth, pathologist at Endeavour Health, Illinois; Dr Soufiane Zakaria, CEO of Algoscope; and Rick Salmon, CEO of PathQA.

This event will take place at 12:30pm and last approximately 1 hour.

CPD

This meeting is worth 1 CPD point (self credited).

Our speakers

John Groth, MD

John Groth, MD, is a pathologist at Endeavor Health, in Illinois, USA, where he is currently a physician informaticist, leading the transition to digital pathology for primary clinical work, using an enterprise imaging strategy.  He currently is the co-chair for the Digital Pathology Association's Regulatory & Standards Task Force, member of the College of American Pathologists Digital & Computational Pathology Committee, member of the American Society of Clinical Pathology's Patient Champions Committee, member of the Endeavor Health Digital Health Committee, vice president of the Illinois Society of Cytotechnology, and treasurer of the Chicago Pathology Society.

Dr Soufiane Azdad

Soufiane Zakaria Azdad, MD, is a practicing anatomical pathologist and the CEO and co-founder of Algoscope, an ISO 13485 certified company. A graduate of EDHEC Business School with a University Diploma in Quality Assurance from Paris Descartes University, he built Algoscope around a single clinical observation: that the pre-analytical phase, from surgical extraction to slide preparation, remains the most error-prone and least standardized part of the pathology workflow.

Algoscope's platform is CE-marked (IVDR 2017/746) since January 2026 and is currently deployed in pathology laboratories in France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

Dr Rick Salmon

Rick Salmon has a PhD in biophysics with publications in protein biochemistry, cell biology, and digital pathology colour standardisation for AI. He holds an Innovate UK FLF Fellowship researching QA methodologies for pathology and AI diagnostic efficacy from validated data. As CEO at PathQA, Rick's focus is on technology partnerships, growth strategy and industry leadership on the topic of digital QA.

Our chair

Sarah Curtis

Sarah Curtis is a consultant clinical scientist in biochemistry at University Hospitals of Liverpool University Trust and Warrington and Halton Hospital Trust, where she is the clinical lead for informatics and a clinical safety officer. 

She is passionate about harnessing technology and data in the pursuit of excellence in the delivery of the clinical scientific service. Her journey as a clinical lead for informatics has been shaped by her understanding of LIMS, middleware, and order communication systems through clinical leadership of system installations and mergers, gaining an appreciation of the systems integration and teams that support the wider healthcare service. A member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and now of the British Computing Society, she has embraced two transformative digital learning opportunities sponsored by NHS England: the Topol Digital Fellowship programme and a PGCert in Clinical Data Science, expanding her clinical informatics and digital transformation skillset. Her commitment to advancing healthcare through innovation and collaboration continues to drive her passion to elevate healthcare delivery. 

Sarah’s current primary focus is within her role as clinical lead for the Cheshire and Merseyside LIMS, an ambitious regional programme for the delivery of a single harmonised LIMS solution across 5 organisations within a collaborative network. She also continues to support innovation in her local organisations through a number of initiatives including continuous quality improvement of the clinical authorisation service and the development of’ intelligent full blood counts’.