Dan Payne

James Cook University Hospital

Dan is currently a consultant clinical scientist working at Haematological Diagnostic Service (HMDS), Leeds. This multidisciplinary service receives a diverse range of molecular, histology and flow cytometry requests, the latter accounts for around 10,000 tests per year making this one of the largest clinical flow cytometry services in Europe. The HMDS clinical flow cytometry service assesses both routine/diagnostic and follow-up/MRD samples and operates as a national service for PNH and a number of clinical trials including CLL, myeloma and leukaemia.

Dan is the co-author of national and international guidelines for PNH testing and is a member UK PNH diagnostics and multi-colour immunophenotyping (MIG) consensus working groups. He lectures both nationally and internationally and is has co-run courses for the National Academy for Clinical Flow Cytometry, as well as teaching at Manchester and Leeds university. Outside of the lab, Dan has worked with NHS England to review and update the Scientist Training Programme (STP) curriculum and is an STP and Royal College of Pathologist’s FRCPath examiner.