In our final episodes for 2022, podcast host Natasha Cutmore speaks with Sheffield-based Professor and Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Professor Ali Khurram. He has had an unusual and interesting career which started with studying Dentistry in Pakistan, before moving to the UK for his academic and clinical training in Pathology, culminating in a FRCPath in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology in 2016. 

The discipline of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology is a clinical specialty, undertaken by laboratory-based dentists, is concerned with the diagnosis and assessment of diseases of the oral and maxillofacial region (that is, relating to the jaws and face, as well as head and neck). It is a branch of histopathology and, in common with medical histopathologists, oral and maxillofacial pathologists provide reports based on interpretation of tissue biopsies of varying types and of surgical resection material.

December 2022 (Part One): Professor Ali Khurrum's Life and Career

Interview with Dr Jacqueline McDermott, winner of the Furness Prize for Science Communication 2014.

Originally released in 2014


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Making Sense of Screening

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Mothers and Babies Pathology a science beyond test tubes

Originally uploaded 27 July 2015

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What happens during a post-mortem? Dr Suzy Lishman, Consultant Histopathologist at Peterborough City Hospital, explains how histopathologists work through the different sections and organs of the body to determine the cause of death.
Watch the lecture on YouTube at: youtu.be/kSDZZ0czZ3U

Find out about a career in histopathology: www.rcpath.org/discover-patholog…opathologist.html

Originally released on 25 February 2019

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Disease Outbreak

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Autopsy the ultimate surgical operation

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The Royal College of Pathologists promotes excellence in the practice of pathology. Members work across 17 specialties in healthcare, universities & industry. Find out more at www.rcpath.org

December 2022 (Part One): Professor Ali Khurrum's Life and Career

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