Tony Henwood

MSc, BAppSc, GradDipSysAnalys, CT(ASC), FFSc(RCPA)
Laboratory Manager & Senior Scientist, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Adjunct Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Bio:
Tony Henwood has nearly 40 years’ experience in histopathology. He has been Laboratory Manager and Senior Scientist at the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney as well as the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide. He is also a consultant scientist to the Pathology Research Support Unit at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He has over 50 publications in local and international journals as well as being referenced in several textbooks including Conn’s Biological Stains, Bancroft & Stevens “Theory and Practice of Histological techniques”, Ramos-Vara & Saettele, “Immunohistochemical Methods. Making and Using Antibodies: A Practical Handbook” and Kiernan’s “Histological and Histochemical Methods: Theory and Practice”. He has recently completed a chapter on Immunofluorescence in Cox’s “Fundamentals of Fluorescence Imaging”. For eight years he was the editor of Histograph, the journal of the Histotechnology Society of NSW. In 2010, Tony was awarded an inaugural Fellow of the new Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia.

Tony’s scientific interests include Histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, molecular histotechnology and paediatric cytology. He is committed to the continuing development of quality scientific histopathology.