IBMS Congress 2025

Dr Amanda Heslegrave

Principal Research Fellow, UK DRI Fluid Biomarker Laboratory, University College London

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Sheri Scott CSci FIBMS SFHEA

Principal Lecturer in Biomedical Science and IBMS Council Member, Nottingham Trent University

Sheri is a Principal Lecturer in Biomedical Science at Nottingham Trent University.

After a career covering 22 years working in Clinical Biochemistry in NHS laboratories, Sheri joined Nottingham Trent University in 2018, where she is a Principal Lecturer in Biomedical Science.

Sheri was the IBMS HSD Chief Examiner 2020-2024 for the Clinical Chemistry discipline and she continues to support clinical laboratory training through her IBMS Clinical Chemistry Specialist advisory panel and Council roles. Sheri is an active fellow and council member of the Institute of Biomedical Science.

Dr Agata Sobczyńska- Malefora

Consultant Clinical Scientist, Synnovis, St Thomas’ Hospital

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Dr Charlotte Hall

Consultant Embryologist, Laboratory Manager, Lister Fertility Clinic at The Portland Hospital, HCA Healthcare UK

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Professor Tim James

Head Biomedical Scientist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Tim is laboratory manager and head biomedical scientist in Clinical Biochemistry at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a post he has held for the last 20 years. Within this role he manages three laboratory sites including a large teaching hospital service. Working with clinical departments to better understand testing and to ensure optimal utilisation are key aims of the service. He has worked with many clinical teams to evaluate current testing and where possible introduce new testing and change where there are clear benefits for patients.

In 2018, Oxford introduced testing for angiogenic markers into routine practice following an outcome-based study of benefit – the INSPIRE study. He has on-going collaboration with the Oxford Obstetric team which has led to a series of publications encompassing diagnosis of pre-eclampsia, developing pregnancy specific reference intervals and identifying newer markers of obstetric disease.

Timothy Woolley

Chief Scientific Officer, Inuvi

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Dr Sally Benton

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

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Professor Timothy McDonald

Clinical Director, Pathology Services, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Dr Manisha Sharma

Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Manisha Sharma is a consultant chemical pathologist, Bariatric & Lipid specialist , working at Homerton University Hospital and East and South East London Pathology partnership with Bart's Health and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts.

Manisha is a key member of Bariatric surgery multidisciplinary team, providing chemical pathology diagnostic and clinical service for preoperative optimization and post operative management of bariatric surgery patients.

Professor Sudha Sundar

Professor of Gynaecological Cancer, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

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Victoria Moyes

Training & Organisational Development Manager , HCA Healthcare

Vikki is currently Training and Organisational Development Manager for HCA Healthcare UK Laboratories.

She has experience of managing laboratories and laboratory training in a variety of service settings, ISO 15189 compliance with regard to training and competence, and successfully implementing programs to support professional qualifications for laboratory staff.

Vikki is involved in delivering university-led training courses on how to successfully complete and support IBMS portfolios, and training for laboratory training officers.

She is passionate about laboratory management and training in biomedical science, and has recently undertaken a research project looking at post-registration training for biomedical scientists across the UK.

Martin McFadden

Diagnostic Programme Manager, South Tyneside and Sunderalnd NHS Foundation Trust

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Lee Peters MSc CSci FIBMS

Blood Science Service Manager, Hywel Dda University Health Board

Lee has been a Biomedical scientist since 2004, working in both Biochemistry and POCT. His current role is the service manager in blood sciences in Hywel Dda University Health Board, managing the chemistry, haematology/BT and POCT service.

Lee is a chartered scientist and fellow of the IBMS. He is part of both the Clinical chemistry and POCT IBMS advisory panels and has been a portfolio verifier since 2010. His research focuses on Biomedical scientist education and POCT training and education.

Andrew Turner

Managing Director, GP Liaison Services Limited, UK

Andrew is the founder of GP Liaison Services, he has over 25 years experience supporting the NHS and Healthcare organisations improve systems workflows.  

Tracking NHS patient samples is often tricky - with disparate datasets and legacy routing tools.

Andrew has developed bespoke real-time routing solutions that integrate seamlessly into new and existing NHS dashboards to make insights into cost and turnaround times simple.

The solution has a track record of delivering net cost reductions and improved patient outcomes and has been deployed in several NHS Trusts.

His wider consulting services support NHS teams across a range of problems: from strategic options assessments to building best-in-class data intelligence practices.

Jessica Merrils

Senior Biomedical Scientist, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

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Nathan Timbrell

Synnovis, St Thomas Hospital

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Dr Lorna Jones

Higher Toxicologist, UK Health Security Agency

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Gareth Davies

Deputy Director, Principal Biochemist, R and D Manager , WEQAS

Gareth Davies is the Deputy Director, Principal Biochemist and Research and Development Manager at Weqas with over 15 years’ experience in Laboratory Medicine. Gareth is responsible for R&D and new programme development, and provides EQA interpretation, support and troubleshooting. He is a current member of the National Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group (NCBAG), the All Wales Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group (AWCBAG), and the ACB Pre-Analytical Phase Special Interest Group (ACB PA SIG).

Dr Rachel Marrington

Consultant EQA Scientist & Deputy Director, Birmingham Quality (UK NEQAS)

Dr Rachel is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and the Deputy Director of Birmingham Quality (UK NEQAS). Birmingham Quality is a department at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to working at Birmingham Quality she worked for 12 years as a Clinical Biochemist at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (now part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust) working my way up to a Principal Clinical Scientist and gaining a lot of experience about the routine running of a laboratory! She gained her FRCPath in 2010.

Dr Rachel is the UK NEQAS Scheme Organiser for a number of EQA Schemes including the UK NEQAS for Serum Indices, UK NEQAS for Vitamin D and UK NEQAS for Antibiotics to name a few. Her main areas of interest lie with Pre- and Post-Analytical Quality, where she is on the EFLM HIL Task & Finish Group and the EFLM Working Group Post Analytical. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees for UK NEQAS and for EQALM, which is the European Association of EQA providers in Laboratory Medicine.

Susan Troup

Principal Clinical Scientist, South of Tyne & Wear Clinical Pathology Services

Susan is a Principal Clinical Scientist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead (part of South of Tyne and Wear Pathology Services). After 2 years working as an assistant forensic scientist, Susan undertook her initial training as a Clinical Scientist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. On competition she moved to Gateshead where she has worked as a Senior then Principal Clinical Scientist for the past 17 years.

Susan's key areas of interest include LCMS, IT, and training. She is actively involved with professional bodies and is a Regional Tutor for the Association for Laboratory Medicine, an examiner with the Royal College of Pathologists, and an Assessor for the UKNEQAS Interpretative Comments scheme.

Dr Amro Maarouf

Senior Biomedical Scientist, Black Country Pathology Services

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Dr Lewis Couchman

Analytical Services International Ltd

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Dr Barry Toole

Freeman Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dr Joanne Rogers

Consultant Clinical Scientist, University Hospital Llandough

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Dr Gwen Wark

Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services

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Dr Nigel Brown

Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nigel Brown started work as a Junior B MLSO in 1982, after obtaining his special examination in 1986 moved into research culminating in a PhD. He moved back into the NHS in 1999 as a clinical scientist to measure immunosuppressant drugs at Kings College Hospital before moving back to NE England to lead the toxicology service at Wansbeck Hospital. He obtained his FRCPath in Analytical toxicology in 2014. He is a member of the IBMS Clinical Chemistry SAP and past chair of the RCPath Toxicology SAP.