D Snead

David Snead is currently a Consultant Pathologist with the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) and a Professor in pathology practice with The University of Warwick. He has been in post at Coventry for 20 years. He is also the Founding Director of PathLAKE, one of the five Innovate U.K. funded centers of excellence for the development of artificial intelligence in digital pathology and radiology. He is an international expert in the use of digital pathology having led Coventry to be one of the first hospitals in Europe, to switch to digital pathology for routine diagnosis. His team has published the world’s largest validation study on the use of digital pathology, and which was awarded the 2016 Roger Cotton Prize for best paper in Histopathology. Prior to leading PathLAKE, he was with UHCW, for many years to the clinical lead for cellular pathology. This experience has given him a unique understanding of how innovative AI-based solutions can be deployed to address the major challenges facing cellular pathology department across the NHS.