Roy Cameron Lecture

Sir Roy Cameron was the Founder President of the College, which soon after its foundation established the Cameron Lecture in his honour. The lecture may be given on any pathology specialty. The lecture was first given in 1965 by Professor C L Oakley.

2024 Lecture

Dr Farrukh Shah worked as a Consultant Haematologist at the Whittington Hospital NHS from 2004 to 2021 when she was appointed as Medical Director for Transfusion at NHS Blood and Transplant. She continued to provide clinical service as an honorary consultant at Whittington Hospital until 2024. She has joined as a consultant haematologist at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi in April 2024. 

Dr Shah has an active research programme and is currently involved in Independent safety monitoring committees for the Mitapivat clinical trials and Pharmacosmos looking at a new iron chelation therapy. Dr Shah has published extensively in peer reviewed Journals as part of her research work. She is currently an associate editor for Hemoglobin.

Dr Shah has helped develop the UK national haemoglobinopathy service delivery framework as part of her role with the Clinical Reference Group of Haemoglobinopathies in the UK (since 2013) and as the Chair of the National Haemoglobinopathy Registry (NHR) since 2017. She has led the redevelopment of the NHR into a single patient record that provides data from multiple sources that impact a patients care pathway.  Dr Shah was the Chair of the UK Forum on haemoglobin Disorders (2019-2023) and prior to this was the treasurer ( 2012-2019) which is a mutliprofessional organisation leading the UK peer review programme for heamoglobinopathies and advocating for improvements in patient care.

She was awarded the Medal of the British Empire (M.B.E) in 2023 for her services to patients

Previous Lectures

2014 - not given