Dr Julia Woolgar FRCPath, FDS RCS (Eng), PhD

Dr Julia Woolgar, FRCPath, FDS RCS Eng, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Oral Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK, and Honorary Consultant, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, and Aintree Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool. She is the author of over 85 articles, mainly on histological and prognostic features of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. She co-authors the Royal College of Pathologist’s “Minimum Dataset for Histopathology Reports on Head and Neck Carcinomas and Salivary Neoplasms” (2005, 2011).
Histopathological studies on the local and regional lymphatic spread of oral cancer and their prognostic importance earned her The International Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons Prize for The Best Published Article in the Year 1997 and the Royal College of Surgeons of England John Tomes Prize Medal in 2002. An article on histological changes in skin-flaps was awarded the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society Prize in 2009. Recent articles have been aimed mainly at reporting pathologists and include several detailed guides on practical aspects of assessing surgical resection specimens and neck dissections. She has given keynote presentations at several National, European and International meetings.
She is a member of the International Head & Neck Scientific Group and the Board of Advisors of the European Head and Neck Society (EHNS) and was Chairperson of the Pathology Sub-committee of the Head & Neck Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) from 2000-2003. From 1996-2010, she played a key role in the development of Quality Assurance Schemes for Histopathologists and was the Organiser of the UK National Head and Neck Histopathology External Quality Assurance Scheme since its introduction in 2000 until 2008 and served on the Royal College of Pathologists Steering Committee for EQA from 2007-10. Currently, she is a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee (Other Specialities), the Royal College of Surgeons of London; the Council of the British Society for Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, and is an examiner for Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists. As a guest Faculty Member of the Eurasian Federation of Oncology, she regularly co-chairs meetings and seminars for head and neck pathologists in the Russian Federation and countries of the former USSR. Her Editorial Board experience includes Oral Oncology (since 2001), The Asian Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (since 2001), The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (since 2002), The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (since 2003) and Head and Neck Oncology (since 2008).