Qualifications

• 2001 BSc (Hons) Microbial and Cellular Biology (First class)- University of Plymouth
• 2005 MB ChB- Leicester Warwick Medical School
• 2009 FRCPath (Part 1)
• 2009 PGCert Clin.Ed- Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry

Memberships

• General Medical Council
• Trainee member of the Royal College of Pathologists
• Fellow of the Higher education academy
• The British Association in Forensic Medicine
• The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association of Clinical Pathologists

Research

• Ph.D The use of injected contrast agents in cadaveric CT. September 2009-to present

Publications

• Saunders SL, Morgan B, Raj V, Rutty G. ‘Targeted Post-mortem Computed Tomography Cardiac Angiography; Proof of concept’. International Journal of  Legal Medicine.  2011 Jul;125(4):609-16.
• Saunders SL, Rutty GN.  ‘The role of post-mortem computed tomography in coronial autopsy practice; the Leicester experience’ RAD Magazine August 2011 37, 435.
• Rutty GN, Raj V, Saunders SL, Morgan B, ‘Post Mortem Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography: A Leicester Perspective’. Clinical Radiology. 2011 Jun 29. [Epub ahead of print]
• Saunders SL, Morgan B, Raj V, Rutty G. ‘Post-mortem Computed Tomography Angiography: Past, Present and Future’. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. 2010 Dec 12 [Epub ahead of print]
• Saunders S, Kotecha D, Morgan B, Raj V , Rutty G. Demonstrating the Origin of Cardiac Air Embolism Using Post-Mortem Computed Tomography; an Illustrated Case. Journal  of Legal Medicine. 2011 Mar;13(2):79-82.
• Saunders S, Rutty G.  ‘Is post-mortem imaging a threat to the traditional invasive autopsy?’ ACP news, Autumn 2010.
• Saunders S, Jeffery AJ, Hew R. ‘Unusual skin lesions mimicking bruises, cause by pseudomonas septicaemia secondary to undiagnosed Peripheral T cell Lymphoma in a young woman’. American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 2010 Oct 27. [Epub ahead of print]
• Harmse D, Saunders S, Evans, A . ‘Non-pigmented Intradermal Malignant Melanoma with Cribiform, Myxoid and Spindle Cell Growth Patterns.’ American Journal of Dermatopathology. 2010 29 Sept [Epub ahead of print]
• Saunders S, Harmse D, Sheppard M. ‘Undiagnosed coarctation of the aorta as a cause of aortic dissection in the young." BMJ case reports July 2009
• Saunders S, Martin JA, Harmse D.   ‘Scrotal carcinoma: a reminder of a disappearing occupational disease’. BMJ case reports March 2009.
• Saunders S, Igbokwe U, Harmse D. ‘Warthin tumour of the buccal mucosa’ British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 46 (2008) 332–333

In press:

• Rutty GN, Saunders SL, Morgan B, Raj V. ‘Targeted Cardiac Post-mortem Computed Tomography Angiography; a pictorial review’. Forensic Medicine Science and Pathology. July 2011
• Raj V, Saunders SL, Morgan B, Rutty GN. ‘Air as a Contrast Medium for Targeted Post-mortem Computed Tomography Cardiac Angiography’. Academic Forensic Pathology May 2011
• Hamilton S, Saunders SL. ‘Death in the South Atlantic: A tale of two pathologists’. ACP news autumn 2011.

Press releases

http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2011-archive/march/post-mortems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12616550