Prof Prendiville has retired from clinical practice and is currently a Senior Visiting Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, WHO) in Lyon. He is a past President of the BSCCP and is the immediate past President of the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy (IFCPC). He introduced LLETZ (aka LEEP) to clinical practice in the early 1980s. He is the director of the IFCPC/IARC training programme in Colposcopy. He has worked in Dublin, London, Bristol and W.A.