Member Advisory Board

 Dr. Ehsan Ullah is a physician with training in histopathology from Pakistan. Ehsan was working was working as Assistant Professor of Pathology at a medical college affiliated with University of Health Sciences Lahore and doing his private practice at his diagnostic laboratory when he moved to New Zealand in 2014.  

Ehsan has been working for Health New Zealand (previously District Health Boards) for over a decade in significant leadership role with regional and national responsibilities e.g., executing national pilot and implementing national communication strategy for early detection and treatment of sepsis – a condition known as blood poisoning; implementing molecular HPV testing as primary screening for cervical cancer in Auckland region, managing MIQ for Taranaki region during COVID pandemic; and running regional anatomical pathology services for Auckland and national perinatal pathology service across the motu from 2021 to 2024.  

Ehsan is a registered medical scientist in New Zealand. Ehsan is also devoted part-time academic with over 65 publications; numerous conference papers and invited lectures and chapter contributions in a few books. Ehsan regularly edits and reviews submissions to several peer reviewed journals. Ehsan completed his PhD from in Biomedical Informatics from AUT in 2022. Ehsan is also a member of the International Standards Organisation (ISO)’s technical committee (TC) on medical laboratories and in vitro diagnostic systems (ISO/TC212) and part of the working work developing new standard on use of artificial intelligence in laboratory medicine and computational pathology.  

Ehsan has recently joined The Ohio State University, College of Medicine as visiting Assistant Professor of Pathology with a mission to advance of field of computational pathology to enable precision medicine promise. He is currently leading development of a comprehensive educational resource for this emerging field – this resource will be available between late 2026 to early 2027 in the form of two books published by SpingerNature and a free online course available on multiple platforms for pathologists, medical lab scientists, computer vision researchers and informaticians.