Suzy Lishman

Suzannah Claire "Suzy" Lishman[1] CBE (born 1967 or 1968)[2] was the President of the Royal College of Pathologists 2014–2017.

[3] Lishman was educated at Wakefield Girls’ High School, The King’s School, Ely, the Neale Wade Community College,[4] and Girton College, Cambridge, and after qualifying in medicine specialised in histopathology, being appointed a consultant in 1999.

[6] Lishman was elected President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists in 2022 and was appointed Chair of National Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) in 2024.

Lishman is a consultant cellular pathologist and medical examiner at Peterborough City Hospital.

In addition to her election as President of the Royal College of Pathologists, she was named one of the fifty most inspirational women in healthcare in 2013 by the Health Service Journal which described her as the 'public face of pathology' and 'the most outward facing person from that specialism'.