THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DERMATOPATHOLOGY

Dr Elsheikh graduated from School of Medicine, Menoufyia University, Egypt in 1997 (MB BCh) (Hons). She started her Histopathology career in 2000 and completed a master degree in molecular pathology. Dr Elsheikh obtained her Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) for studies investigating novel biomarkers in breast cancer from University of Nottingham under the supervisor of Professor Ian Ellis. She joined the Histopathology training programme in 2009 and completed her training in three tertiary University Hospitals in Edinburgh, Leeds and Nottingham. Dr Elsheikh appointed as a consultant Dermatopathologist in 2015 when she started working on translational research in melanoma to establish "Nottingham Melanoma Research group". Nottingham Melanoma Research group is a tissue-based, translational research group focusing on identifying risk stratifying and treatment response predictors for melanoma patients using melanoma tissue and histology imaging. Nottingham Melanoma Research group has one of the largest well-characterised annotated malignant melanoma tissue microarray (TMA) in the UK with detailed clinical, pathological, survival and treatment response database (Nottingham melanoma database).

Dr Elsheikh has established collaborations with a large number of melanoma interested research groups in the UK and abroad. She is PI and Co-PI for a number of melanoma and skin cancer related research projects.

Dr Elsheikh has been the principle supervisor of many University of Nottingham funded research projects for PhD, MD, MSc and BMedSci research students. She is currently the training programme director (TPD) for the Histopathology training of the East midland north region (Health Education England).

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