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IAC-Committees 2008-2010
Appointments by Alain Verhest, FIAC, President
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
To examine membership applications for eligibility of the applicants, to encourage membership in the IAC and to submit approved applications for ratification to the IAC Executive Council.
Chair:
Volker Schneider, FIAC, Germany
Members:
Roque Wiseman Pinto, MIAC, India
Luiz Martins Collaco, MIAC, Brazil
Canan Ersöz, FIAC, Turkey
Masayuki Baba, MIAC, Japan
Willem B. de Boer, MIAC, Australia
Oralia Barboza, FIAC, Mexico
Josefine Stani, CFIAC, Austria
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF CYTOPATHOLOGY COMMITTEE
To re-examine periodically the validity of the board examination tests, to provide additional test material, update and improve the cytomorphologic and textural bodies of the tests.
Chair:
Thomas Bonfiglio, FIAC, USA
Members:
Robert J. Collins, FIAC, Hong Kong
Javier Cortés, FIAC, Spain
Jaroslava Dusková, FIAC, Czech Republic
Andrew Field, FIAC, Australia
Peter Fitzgerald, FIAC, New Zealand
Torill Sauer, FIAC, Norway
Prabodh K. Gupta, FIAC, USA
Rana Hoda, FIAC, USA
Masamichi Kashimura, FIAC, Japan
Helen Koutselini, FIAC, Greece
Gladwyn Leiman, FIAC, Vermont, U.S.A.
Binnur Önal, FIAC, Turkey
Atsuhiko Sakamoto, FIAC, Japan
Mercedes Santamaria, FIAC, Spain
Marion Saville, FIAC, Australia
Ulrich Schenck, FIAC, Germany
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
NEW TECHNOLOGIES COMMITTEE
To examine evolving technologies as to the usefulness for the goals and principles of the IAC.
Chair:
Lukas Bubendorf, MIAC, Switzerland
Members:
Manon Auger, MIAC, Canada
Chrstine Bergeron, MIAC, France
Henryk Domanski, MIAC, Sweden
Christian Garbar, MIAC, Belgium
Hans Jürgen Grote, MIAC, Germany
Raquel Garza, FIAC, México
Sigurd Lax, MIAC, Austria
Fernando Elias Miziara, MIAC, Brasil
WK Ng, FIAC, Hongkong
Adele Richards CMIAC, Australia
Yoshiyuki Osamura, FIAC, Japan
Giovanni Negri, MIAC Italy
Fernando Schmitt, FIAC, Portugal
Kari Syrjänen, FIAC, Finland
Edneia Tani, MIAC, Sweden
Gary Yeo, FIAC, Hong Kong
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
To recommend to the IAC President upon request temporary appointments for vacancies on the Executive Council and to recommend to the Executive Council the names of officers and council Members for submission to the voting IAC-Membership.
Chair:
Alexander Meisels, FIAC, Quebec, Canada
Members:
Marluce Bibbo, FIAC, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Matias Jimenez-Ayala, FIAC, Spain
Diane Solomon, MIAC, USA
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
CYTOTECHNOLOGY REGISTRY AND RENEWAL COMMITTEE
To provide test material for registry examinations for cytotechnologists, to conduct the examinations, to select the test questions, to undertake the periodic renewals. The Medical Consultants (or their deputies) may also monitor the Cytopathology Board Examinations.
Chair:
Catherine M. Keebler, Sc.D.(hon), CFIAC, USA
Members:
M. Loredana M. Alasio, CFIAC, Italy
Karin Bradshaw, CMIAC, New Zealand
Leigh Ann Cahill, CMIAC, USA
Nikolaos Chantziantoniou, CMIAC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Katherine Cordatos, CFIAC, Australia
Noriyuki Furuta, CMIAC, Japan
Jong Yull Kim, CMIAC, South Korea
Kyoko Komatsu, CMIAC, Japan
Jutta Lange, CMIAC, Germany
Betty Leung, CFIAC, Hong Kong
Irene M. LeRoux, CFIAC, South Africa
Juan Abarca Quinones CFIAC, Chile
Angela Ross, CFIAC, Germany
Josefine Stani, CFIAC, Vienna, Austria
Serge Vincent, CFIAC, France
Liaison with CT(IAC-GYN) Registrants:
Nick Dudding, United Kingdom
Special Consultant to the Middle East:
Shirley Greening, CFIAC, USA
Medical Consultants:
Carmen Alvarez, MIAC, Uruguay
Guliz A. Barkan, FIAC, USA
Jaroslava Duskova, FIAC, Czech Republic
Matias Jimenez-Ayala, FIAC, Spain
Leena Krogerus, FIAC, Finland
Sow-Hsong Kuo, FIAC, Taiwan
Gladwyn Leiman, FIAC, U.S.A.
Alexander Meisels, FIAC, Canada
Richard Siderits, FIAC, USA
Kazuhiro Yamauchi, FIAC, Japan
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
INTERNATIONAL CYTOPATHOLOGY AWARD JURY
To solicit and to examine nominations for the awards for medical professionals. The recommendations are to be submitted to the IAC Executive Council for ratification.
Chair:
Alexander Meisels, FIAC, Québec, Canada
Members:
Previous Awardees
INTERNATIONAL CYTOTECHNOLOGY AWARD JURY
To solicit and to examine nominations for the awards for cytotechnologists. The recommendations are to be submitted to the IAC Executive Council for ratification.
Chair:
Shirley Greening, JD, CFIAC, USA
Members:
Previous Awardees
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
To propose to the IAC Executive Council anticipated budget items of the IAC for ratifications by the Council.
Chair:
Marluce Bibbo, FIAC, U.S.A.
Members:
Alexander Meisels, FIAC, Canada
Matias Jimenez-Ayala, FIAC, Spain
Diane Solomon, MIAC, USA
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE
To examine possible requests for changes of the IAC statutes as they relate to existing articles of the Constitution and Bylaws, and to submit the current text and the proposed alterations for consideration to the Executive Council.
Chair:
Robert Y. Osamura , FIAC, Japan
Members:
Carmen Alvarez Santin, MIAC, Uruguay
Gerhard Breitenecker, FIAC, Austria
Anders Hjerpe, MIAC, Sweden
Smaragda Veneti, MIAC, Greece
Mercedes Santamaría, FIAC, Spain
Evelina Mendonca, MIAC, Portugal
Jose Rivera Pomar, MIAC, Spain
Torill Sauer, FIAC, Norway
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
To provide continuing education for IAC professionals and non-Members and to propose recommendations and guidelines for quality assurance.
Chair:
Rana Hoda, FIAC, USA
Members:
Amanda Herbert, MIAC, UK
Lucrecia Illescas, MIAC, Argentina
Bryan K. Knight, FIAC, Canada
Sow-Hsong Kuo, FIAC, Taiwan
Joao Carlos Prolla, FIAC, Brasil
Ulrich Schenck, FIAC, Germany
Terence J.Colgan, MIAC, Canada
Philippe Vielh, MIAC, France
Colleen Wright, FIAC, South Africa
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
SITE SELECTION AND PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR 2016 CONGRESS
To examine possible invitations for holding future congresses in a given country and city, to solicit invitations by national societies and to submit the non-binding recommendations to the IAC Executive Council. To coordinate the preparation of future congresses with the corresponding national society. The deadline for bids by National Societies has been extended to October 31st 2009.
Chair:
Matías Jiménez-Ayala, FIAC, Spain
Members:
Diane Solomon, MIAC, USA
José María Rivera-Pomar, MIAC, Spain
José Schalper, MIAC, Chile
Karin Lindholm, FIAC, Sweden
Sylvia Jamandreu, FIAC, Uruguay
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Freiburg, Germany
GENERAL POLICY & LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
To examine possible recommendations for general policy changes and for long range planning of IAC activities.
Chair:
Terence Colgan, MIAC, Canada
Members:
Patricia Alonso de Ruiz, FIAC, Mexico
Christine Bergeron, MIAC, France
Jaroslava Duskova, FIAC, Czech Republic
Annabelle Farnsworth, FIAC, Australia
Pamela Michelow, MIAC, South Africa
Mercedes Santamaria, MIAC, Spain
Diane Solomon, MIAC, USA
Ex-Officio: Alain Verhest, FIAC, Belgium
Ex-Officio: Volker Schneider, FIAC, Germany
CYTOTECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
To represent the interests and concerns of the cytotechnologist Members of the IAC.
Chair:
Theresa Somrak CFIAC, Chicago, USA
Members:
Suzanne Hintermann, CFIAC, Switzerland
Abed Abdul Kader, CMIAC, New Zealand
Anna Marìa Domanski, CMIAC, Sweden
Barbara Mahoney, CMIAC, Canada
Yueh-Jung Liu, CFIAC; Taiwan
Nobuzo Iwa, CFIAC Osaka, Japan
Lilia M. Osorio Meija, CFIAC, Santa Fe de Bogota
Eva Müller-Leibenger, CFIAC, Germany
Mark Stevens, CFIAC, Adelaide, Australia
Barbara Sayer, CMIAC, Nottingham, England
Besina J. M. van de Weijer, CMIAC, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Hiromitsu Yasumatsu, CMIAC Hiroshima, Japan
Serge Vincent, CFIAC, France
2010 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
To prepare the program for the 17th International Cytology Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Chair:
John Smith MIAC, UK
Co-Chair:
Alain Verhest, FIAC, Belgium
Members:
As proposed by Chair and Co-Chair
IAC/JSCC LIAISON COMMITTEE
To maintain liaison between the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology and the International Academy of Cytology.
Chair:
Kazuhiro Yamauchi, FIAC, Tokyo, Japan
IAC/EFCS-SEP LIAISON COMMITTEE
To maintain liaison between the European Federation of Cytology Societies, the Society of European Pathology and the International Academy of Cytology.
Co-Chairs:
Fernando Schmitt, FIAC, Portugal
Philippe Vielh, MIAC, France
Members:
Beatriz Jiménez-Ayala, MIAC, Madrid, Spain
Isabel Amendoira, MIAC, Porto, Portugal
Ulrik Baandrup, FIAC, Denmark
Christian Garbar, MIAC, Belgium
Ricardo González-Campora, FIAC, Sevilla, Spain
Pinat Firat, MIAC,Turkey
Leena Krogerus, FIAC, Finland
Ana María Puig, MIAC, Ciudad Real, Spain
Edneia Tani, MIAC, Sweden
Terttu Toivonen, FIAC, Finland
IAC/SLAC LIAISON COMMITTEE
To maintain liaison between the Latinamerican Society of Cytology and the International Academy of Cytology.
Chair:
Carmen Alvarez Santin, FIAC, Uruguay
Members:
Elias F. Miziara, MIAC, Brasil
Lucrecia Illescas, FIAC, Argentina
Conceicao Queiroz, FIAC, Brasil
Fabio Valeri, FIAC, Brasil
Rodrigo Prado, FIAC, Chile
IAC/ASC LIAISON COMMITTEE
To maintain liaison between the American Society of Cytopathology and the International Academy of Cytology.
Chair:
Hormoz Ehya, MIAC, USA
Members:
Prabodh Gupta, FIAC, USA
Ritu Nayar, MIAC, USA
Shirley Greening, CFIAC, USA
Ruth Katz, MIAC, USA
Ex-Officio: Amatias Jimenez-Ayala, FIAC, Spain
Ex-Officio: Diane Solomon, MIAC, USA