Dr Tristan Rutland FRCPA and Lecturer at Western Sydney University wins the 2022 CAP Resident Advocate Award. award for ongoing digital pathology education programs delivered with Pathomation’s hybrid cloud solution.
Sydney, Australia; Antwerp, Belgium – Western Sydney University announces that Dr Tristan Rutland won the prestigious 2022 CAP Resident Advocate Award for education in pathology at the New Orleans CAP congress.
Dr Rutland also won the RCPA 2020 Outstanding Teaching Award for his online Pathology teaching to local and international Pathology residents.
Dr Rutland currently uses Pathomation for several distance teaching programs across the Australasia region. The CAP award was in recognition of a range of online teaching and Twitter posts developed rapidly during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The fast deployment and upscaling of the initiative ensured that resident Pathology education remained available without interruption under strict lock-down conditions.
“We were already using the My Pathomation SaaS solution to organize our distance learning program for a while”, says Dr. Tristan Rutland, Lecturer in pathology. “Due to the success with this original solution, we ended up spending a lot of time shuttling back and forth large volumes of slides between our on-premise servers and the My Pathomation cloud. At one point, it just totally made sense to organize slide storage locally and on-premise via PMA.core. And we can keep using the excellent My Pathomation front-end on top of this.”
“My Pathomation, is a SaaS cloud-platform built by the company originally for easy sharing of whole slide images. But obviously it scales, and enthusiastic users were discovering all possible applications in teaching”, adds Rudy Hovelinck, Pathomation’s CEO. “We’re very excited to be able to deliver this combination of SaaS and on-premise solution to Western Sydney University”.
The solution is a true hybrid approach in the sense that slide content delivery is now handled on-premise at the university, while the front-end user interface remains in the cloud. “This validates our approach to offer a comprehensive digital pathology software portfolio to end-users and professional organizations (like Western Sydney University) alike”, chimes in Yves Sucaet, Pathomation’s co-founder and CTO.
About Pathomation:
Pathomation was founded in Belgium in 2012. Its free software, PMA.start, has global adaptation and is used at 450+ sites each month. Its online My Pathomation cloud platform hosts a community of over a 1000 users and offers free 10 GB accounts. PMA.core is a clinical diagnostic use CE-IVD certified tile server targeted at any organization that interacts with digital pathology and virtual microscopy data. Pathomation software supports over 35 different proprietary file formats. Visit the company’s website at https://www.pathomation.com/
About Western Sydney University:
Western Sydney University is one of Australia’s leading institutions, ranked in the top 250 universities globally. It is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, and a provider of undergraduate, postgraduate, and higher research degrees. Visit the school’s website at https://www.westernsydney.edu.au