Suzannah Claire "Suzy" Lishman

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(born ) was the President of the

Royal College of Pathologists The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) is a professional membership organisation. Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to p ...

2014–2017.

Career

Lishman was educated at Wakefield Girls’ High School, The King’s School, Ely, the Neale Wade Community College, and

Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the un ...

, and after qualifying in medicine specialised in histopathology, being appointed a consultant in 1999. She was an officer of the

from 2005 and raised the profile of the specialty by introducing public engagement initiatives such as National Pathology Week and International Pathology Day. She has collaborated with the

Science Museum A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, Industry (manufacturing), industry and Outline of industrial ...

Royal Institution The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, inc ...

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

and

Cheltenham Science Festival Cheltenham Science Festival is one of the UK's leading science festivals, and is part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for the Jazz, Music and Literature Festivals that run every year. The 2018 Cheltenham Science Festival (6–11 June) ...

. She was elected President of the

in 2014 and was the College's second female president. Lishman was elected President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists in 2022 and was appointed Chair of National Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) in 2024.

Clinical practice

Lishman is a consultant cellular pathologist and medical examiner at Peterborough City Hospital. She is lead pathologist for colorectal cancer.

Achievements

In addition to her election as President of the Royal College of Pathologists, she was named one of the fifty most inspirational women in healthcare in 2013 by the ''

Health Service Journal ''Health Service Journal'' (''HSJ'') is a news service that covers policy and management in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. History The '' Poor Law Officers' Journal'' was established in 1892. In 1930, it changed its name after ...

'' which described her as the 'public face of pathology' and 'the most outward facing person from that specialism'. Lishman was awarded a CBE for services to pathology in 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lishman, Suzy 1960s births British pathologists Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Living people Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College People educated at King's Ely Year of birth missing (living people)