Professor David Snead

Professor Snead is a consultant cellular pathologist at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW). He has been in post at Coventry for 27 years.He is the founding director of PathLAKE. He is an international expert in the use of digital pathology, having led Coventry to be one of the first hospitals in the world to switch to digital pathology for routine diagnosis.

He has served as clinical service lead for over 10 years at UHCW and as an expert assessor for UKAS for DP. This experience has given him a unique understanding of how innovative AI based solutions can be deployed to address the major challenges facing cellular pathology departments globally. In 2023 he co-founded Histofy a company producing AI solutions for digital pathology. After boot-strapped investment of £1m the company is nearing completion of its seed round funding and is launching its first products on to the market in 2024.

There are no shortcuts to achieving excellent results with AI solutions, but a career’s experience in diagnostic cellular pathology gives an invaluable understanding of where these innovations can be best deployed for the benefits of patients and pathologists.