Michael Osborn, FRCPath is the president of the

Royal College of Pathologists The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) is a professional membership organisation. Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to pr ...

since November 2020 He received his medical degree from Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals in London in 1995. In 2000, he became a member of the

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, and in 2004, he was named a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was hired as a

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in 2004 with a focus on postmortems, gastrointestinal pathology, and instructing undergraduate students. He is the department head at

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in London and a consultant

histopathologist Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ''histos'' "tissue", πάθος ''pathos'' "suffering", and -λογία ''-logia'' "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Spec ...

for North West London Pathology. He contributed to the COVID-19 postmortem site for the college and wrote many guide materials.

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