University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Locum Consultant in Haematopathology for 4 months. The service covers the local population and regional referrals from Wessex.

You will contribute to the established and experienced Haematopathology subspecialist reporting team, including reporting of lymphoma specimens and attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings.

The Southampton Haematopathology team consists of six consultants, three of whom report lymphoma and bone marrow pathology and three report lymphoma pathology. Three also report other specialities.

Southampton is a major regional centre for lymphoma and bone marrow treatment and CAR-T cell therapy is provided with increasing numbers of eligible patients. Southampton Haematopathologists provide diagnostic services and MDT provision for over 3 million patients from Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, IOW and the Channel Islands and review cases from a wider area prior to CAR-T cell therapy. The laboratory has an extensive repertoire of antibodies which is regularly added to and the team work in close collaboration with the Wessex Genomics Laboratory Service.

Current team:
Dr Hadil Abu Arqoub (bone marrow and lymphoma)
Dr Meg Ashton-Key Haematopathology (lymphoma)
Dr Vipul Foria Hematopathology (lymphoma)
Dr Sanjay Jogai Haematopathology (lymphoma)
 Dr Harriet Nitch-Smith Haematopathology (lymphoma and bone marrow)
Dr Emily Shaw Haematopathology (lymphoma, bone marrow)