The ICCR welcomes Professor Kieran Sheahan as the new incoming President.

Professor Sheahan has made significant contributions to the work of the ICCR as both a Councillor and Board member since 2018. He was also a member of the ICCR Dataset Authoring Committees for the colorectal cancer and colorectal polyp cancer datasets. He is currently the ICCR representative on the new ICCR Digestive tract datasets and a member of the ICCR Liver metastases resection Dataset Authoring Committee.

Professor Sheahan was a lead in developing the National Histopathology Quality Improvement Programme in Ireland in 2009 which included standardisation of cancer reporting. He has numerous collaborations internationally and over 200 original publications in peer-reviewed biomedical journals and has authored multiple reviews and book chapters. His research interests include prognostic and predictive markers in colorectal cancer, familial colorectal cancer, in particular Lynch Syndrome, the pathology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and the application of molecular genetic techniques and AI in colorectal pathology.

Professor Sheahan’s expertise and knowledge in cancer reporting and research will be invaluable in his role as ICCR President. We are very grateful for Professor Sheahan’s continued support of the work of the ICCR.