Professor Wendy Erber

Professor Wendy Erber is a Consultant Haematologist at PathWest in Perth, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia and Chair of the Board of the ICSH. She is a passionate teacher and for many years has taught haematology trainees in Hematology Short Courses (in Cambridge and Perth) and delivers weekly morphology sessions to local trainees.

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Dr Ben Hedley

Dr Ben Hedley is a Clinical laboratory scientist in a large tertiary health centre in Ontario, Canada where he oversees the hematology, coagulation and flow cytometry laboratories. He is a member of the College of American Pathologists Diagnostic Immunology and Flow Cytometry Committee, actively involved with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and on the Board of the International Council on Standardization of Hematology. His interests are in furthering standardization of laboratory testing to elevate knowledge and testing proficiency for all and the development of relevant artificial intelligence software. 

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Dr Katharine Lowndes

Dr Katharine Lowndes is a Consultant Haematologist in Hampshire, United Kingdom where she practices clinical haematology and is clinical lead for the haematology laboratory. She has an interest in trainee education and is a volunteer with “Health Volunteers Overseas”. This has taken her to Tanzania, Zambia and Cambodia where she teaches haematological laboratory techniques and morphology.

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Professor Anna Schuh

Professor Anna Schuh (University of Oxford) is an internationally-renowned clinician-scientist haematologist with vast expertise in the biology and treatment of chronic lymphoid malignancies and molecular genetics. She led the Oxford haematology laboratories including establishing a state-of-the-art molecular diagnostics service for patients with blood diseases or cancer. Professor Schuh also holds a Faculty position at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es salaam, Tanzania where she contributes to haematology teaching and supervision of research students. She also founded Serenox, a social enterprise to improve access to DNA-based diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dr Matthew Wright

Dr Matthew Wright is a Consultant Haematologist in Perth, Western Australia. He practices clinical haematology at Fiona Stanley Hospital where is also Head of Laboratory Haematology at PathWest. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. Matt loves teaching laboratory haematology, and for more than 10 years has run a Laboratory Haematology Short Course for new haematology trainees. He is passionate about using structured teaching of the skills of haematological morphology. He has utilised this approach during outreach teaching in Australia and Indonesia and for online teaching (Coursera).

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Dr Razan Zulkeflee

Dr Razan Zulkeflee is an early-career Haematologist working in Malaysia. She is a lifetime member of the Malaysian Laboratory Haematology Society. In 2024 Dr Zulkeflee was awarded the ICSH “Sam Machin Scholarship” in 2024 for her studies on iron deficiency in pregnancy. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Case Reports. She is passionate about haematology education.