Prof.Sarah Coupland United Kingdom

Prof. Sarah Coupland is a senior Consultant Histopathologist at the Liverpool University Foundation Hospital Trusts, UK, with expertise in Ophthalmic Pathology, Haematopathology, Molecular and Digital Pathology, and Biobanking. In 2006, Prof. Coupland established the ‘Liverpool-Ocular-Oncology-Research-Group’ (www.loorg.org), a multidisciplinary team, focussing on ocular melanomas, lymphomas, and other eye cancers. She is the ‘George Holt Chair of Pathology’ at the University of Liverpool (UoL) (>2013). She leads Digital Pathology at the UoL, and has been involved in several multicentre DiPath and AI-related projects, particularly in eye cancers. Prof. Coupland is the current Registrar of the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath). She was also the new President of the “Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland” (PathSoc) (> June 2024). Previous roles have included being Director of the “North West Cancer Research (NWCR) Centre @UoL”, May 2013 – Dec. 2019; and “ARVO” Vice President in 2017-18. Prof. Coupland has published ~350 scientific articles (H-index:66/Scopus; citations= ~20,000), has written ~150 Chapters, including some within the UICC/TNM Staging system for Ophthalmic Tumours, as well as the WHO ‘Blue’ Tumour Volumes (Eye, Haematopathology, Skin and Paediatric cancers). She has won several awards for research and teaching, including the International Council of Ophthalmology's ‘Eye Pathology Award’ & the 2019 RCPath Excellence Award. She was included in the “Pathologist Power Lists” of 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023, and was also listed in the “Top 100 Influential Women in Ophthalmology” in 2021 and 2024. Prof Coupland received a prestigious Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) in 2023, for her significant contributions to Ophthalmic Pathology – research and teaching.