Dr Salma Al-Ramadhani
Dr Salma Al-Ramadhani qualified from Queen Mary University, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, in 2006. Her foundation years of training were spent doing rotations in general medicine and surgery, in both London and Essex. She expressed an early interest in Histopathology and chose to do a four month rotation working in the Cellular Pathology department.
On completing her two year foundation training, she embarked on a two year MD degree which involved working with a team to set up and validate an intra-operative test to detect breast cancer in lymph nodes. This resulted in a diagnostic test which has helped hundreds of breast cancer patients. During this time she learnt valuable skills in communication, organisation and management as well as practical laboratory skills which she was able to demonstrate during her training in Histopathology and still applies in her current post as a Consultant in Histopathology.
After her MD, she started her training in Histopathology, rotating to several hospitals from district general hospitals (in Kent and Essex) to three separate University Teaching Hospitals in London. During her training, she has reported over 5000 histology cases and over 1500 non-gynaecological cytology cases. She was responsible for the macroscopic dissection and microscopic reporting of many different sub-specialties including Skin, Gastro-intestinal, Breast, Gynaecological, Head and Neck, Urological and Lung specimens. In her later stages of training, she participated in multidisciplinary team meetings where she communicated with clinicians, taking part in management decisions of patients. It was during her training that she developed a specialist interest in skin pathology. During her last year of training, she worked at a NHS Foundation Trust in London, a leading centre for the diagnosis and management of skin pathology, gaining valuable experience and contacts with other specialist skin Consultants.
She gained her certificate of completion of training in 2018 and took up a Consultant post in Essex where she is the lead pathologist in skin. Her reporting work is predominantly skin pathology and she participates in the weekly skin multidisciplinary meeting. Part of her reporting includes benign skin lesions, inflammatory dermatoses and malignant skin tumours including melanomas. During her time, she has built up good working relationships with the local Dermatologists and with the expert Skin Histopathologists in Cambridge and London. Part of her role as the skin lead is to keep up to date with the latest guidelines and practices in Dermatopathology by attending conferences and courses.
She enjoys training and teaching and is an educational supervisor to two junior doctors and teaches skin pathology to the junior doctors in her department.
Dr Al-Ramadhani demonstrates her hardworking ethic, compassion and dedication in her role as a Histopathologist, evidenced by the feedback provided by her colleagues and trainees.