Living Autopsy

Join award-winning pathologist Dame Suzy Lishman DBE FRCPath to learn what an autopsy (post-mortem-examination) involves and how modern lifestyles can affect our health. With the help of a live model and a set of autopsy instruments, Suzy will describe how pathologists examine the body to find the cause of death and how autopsies have changed over the last 500 years.

Although there won't be a dead body, any real body parts or blood, the descriptions are quite vivid so this event is not recommended for the squeamish or under 14s.

About Suzy

Dame Suzy Lishman is a consultant histopathologist and medical examiner at Peterborough City Hospital with an interest in colon cancer and patient safety. She is past president of the Royal College of Pathologists and Association of Clinical Pathologists, and is currently chair of the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) and Senior Adviser on Medical Examiners at the Royal College of Pathologists.

Suzy has a lifelong interest in art history and the history of medicine and has been giving talks to the public for many years to debunk myths about pathology. Her most popular event, the Living Autopsy, has been seen by thousands of people in person, and over 3.5 million online. Suzy held her first Living Autopsy at the Hunterian Museum in 2008.