Consultant histopathologist and medical examiner Suzy Lishman has been made a Dame in the King's New Year's Honours, for her work on the implementation of the national medical examiner service.
Dr Suzy Lishman CBE, who works at Peterborough City Hospital alongside holding national roles, has worked on the implementation of medical examiners for over a decade as well as training over 2,000 medical examiners from all specialties.
Dr Lishman, who was awarded a CBE for services to pathology in 2018, has just completed a three-year term as President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and is the current Chair of the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) - a role she took up last year after working closely with the organisation for the past 20 years. She is the first pathologist to hold the position of Chair of NCEPOD in its 35-year history.
A past president of The Royal College of Pathologists, Dr Lishman also chairs the Ethics and Welfare Committee of the Royal Veterinary College and the Scientific Advisory Board of Bowel Cancer UK. She is also a trustee of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, which combines her interests in medical history, art and public engagement.