David Ricketts

Head of Laboratory Process Improvement 

Dr David Ricketts DBMS

David currently works as head of process improvement for Health Service Laboratories in central London, which is part of the wider Sonic Healthcare group and is the managing director of his own Consultancy firm.

David chairs the TC212 mirror committee and is head of delegation for the UK on the international TC212 committee. David has experience in writing standards and was the project lead on ISO22870, on the drafting team of the new ISO15189 as well as being involved in many other standards including ISO22367. David has written many expert commentaries for British Standards. The commentaries are designed to explain the changes in new version of ISO standards and explain how to use them in the laboratory setting, ISO22367 and ISO15190 (safety) are two recent commentaries.

David has a strong background in laboratory process improvement and links this to the needs of compliance with ISO requirements.

David has spoken nationally and internationally on a wide range of subjects including quality and compliance and is speaking on risk and safety as well as the new version of ISO15189 at the IBMS congress.

Rachael Liebmann

Dr Rachael Liebmann is Group Medical Director of Sonic Healthcare UK and is a past vice president of the Royal College of Pathologists and a consultant breast histopathologist at Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex, with 20 years’ experience as an NHS consultant. She has held a number of senior roles in the recent past, including membership of the South East Coast Clinical Senate Council, the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, and the Council of the Medical Women’s Federation.

As well as chairing the London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Speciality Training Committee, Rachael chaired the multidisciplinary Kent and Medway Cancer Network Breast Group for several years, before being appointed Clinical Director of the Kent and Medway Pathology Network - with leadership of all pathology services for a population of 1.7 million. In 2011, she helped to establish RCPath Consulting, a provider of independent authoritative advice on pathology service and commissioning issues nationally.

Previously shortlisted for Clinical Leader of the Year by HSJ and several times voted one of the world’s 100 most influential pathologists in The Pathologist magazine’s Power Lists, Rachael was also awarded the Royal College of Pathologists’ Medal for distinguished service, the highest accolade the College can bestow on one of its Fellows. In the Birthday Honours of 2020 Dr Liebmann was awarded an OBE for her contribution to Pathology.

Stuart Jones