Dr Rachael Liebmann OBE graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1991 and is a past vice President of the Royal College of Pathologists, a specialist breast pathologist at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Chief Medical Officer at The Doctors Laboratory and Health Services Laboratories.

As well as holding many senior regional and national roles in the recent past, Dr Liebmann has held roles at the Royal College of Pathologists, and has over 20 years’ experience as an NHS consultant.  She has been shortlisted for the National Patient Safety Awards and Health Service Journal Clinical Leader of the Year, and was awarded the College Medal for Distinguished Service.

Dr Liebmann was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020 in recognition of her services to pathology.