13:00   Registration

13:15   Welcome and introduction
Dr Emma Short, Chair of the RCPath Wales Regional Council
Ms Victoria Heath, Chief Healthcare Science Officer

13:30   RCPath update: past, present, future
Dr Bernie Croal, RCPath President
Professor Sarah Coupland, RCPath President-Elect

14:00   Introduction to All Wales Medical Genomics Service
Sian Corrin, All Wales Medical Genomics Service

14:25   Molecular Pathology
TBC

14:50   Creating more doctors for Wales – North Wales Medical School update
Professor Angharad Davies, North Wales Medical School/Public Health Wales

15:15   Break

15:30   Haematology (including possible haemophilia/gene therapy)
TBC

15:55   Chilled for the Challenge: Cold Stored Platelets to Treat Traumatic Bleeding
Dr Chloe George, Welsh Blood Service

16:20   Where are we and why/ how should we care about our Wellbeing?
Dr Umakant Dave, Morriston Hospital & Swansea University

3 Award winning poster presentations

16:45   Poster 1
TBC

16:55   Poster 2 
TBC

17:05   Poster 3

TBC

17:15 Summary and close

Dr Emma Short, Chair of the RCPath Wales Regional Council

Event to be held at the Seminar Room, Wales Genomic Health Centre, Centre, Cardiff Edge Life Sciences Park, Longwood Drive, Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 7YU 

Enter a poster into this year’s RCPath Wales Symposium Poster Competition

We are inviting professionals from various fields of pathology to submit their abstracts for poster presentations at our upcoming RCPath Wales Symposium on 8 September 2026.

Posters are an excellent way to showcase research, projects, best practice, service improvement projects, audits, interesting cases or ideas in a visually engaging and informative way. This is your opportunity to showcase what you have been working on individually, or as part of a team.

We would love a range of research ideas across all specialties. Your ideas might come from the event’s theme, or more generally the pathology related work you are particularly proud of and want to put in the limelight.

Winner of the first prize will be awarded £100. Winners of the second and third prizes will receive £50 each.

Winners will present their posters at the RCPath Wales Symposium on Tuesday 8 September 2026 at the Seminar Room, Wales Genomic Health Centre, Centre, Cardiff Edge Life Sciences Park, Longwood Drive, Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 7YU.