Aims of the Committee
Manage the annual budget and financial plans for the IAC. Propose anticipated budgetary items for ratification by the Board of Directors.
Responsibilities
- Review and update (as needed), the annual dues for each Proposed Membership category.
- Review the year-end financial/audit report and recommend adjustments.
- Consider requests for budget allocation from the Foundation and other committees and make recommendations to the Board.
Chair
Yukitoshi Satoh, MD, PhD, FIAC (Japan)
Dr. Yukitoshi Satoh, MD, PhD, FIAC is the Professor and Chairman of Thoracic Surgery at the Kitasato University School of Medicine and the Director of the Kitasato University Medical Center Hospital, Japan. Currently, he serves as the President of the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology (JSCC), the largest national society of cytology worldwide with over 12,000 members. Previously, in 2020, he served as the Congress President of the JSCC.
Members
Dr. Claire Bourgain, MIAC (Belgium)
Dr. Bourgain is Head of the Department of Pathology at Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Danijela Vrdoljak Mozetic, MD, PhD, MIAC (Croatia)
Dr. Danijela Vrdoljak-Mozetič is Head of the Depatment of Pathology and Cytology at the Clinical Hospital Centre in Rijeka. She is a member of the Working groups for specialist training in pathology and cytology, national programme for cervical screening and guidelines. In 2021 she became EFCS Secretary General and currently serves in that position.
Dr. Zhanar Yeleubayeva, MD, MIAC (Kazakhstan)
Dr. Zhanar Yeleubayeva’s scientific work forms the basis for new diagnostic methods and early detection programs for oncological diseases. She ctively participates in international projects, including the Kazakh – Japanese JICA project for early cancer diagnosis in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site region.
She regularly presents at international conferences and organizes events for cytologists in Kazakhstan. Thanks to her efforts, the Cytological Association of Kazakhstan became a member of the Asian Federation of Cytopathology Societies (AFCS), strengthening international collaboration.
Dr. Sonsoles Aso Manso, MD, MIAC (Spain)
Dr. Sonsoles Aso Manso, MD was Head of Cytopathology and Associate Professor of Pathology in Universitary Hospital Toledo. She currently works at the University Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid in Cytopathology, Molecular and Lung Pathology.
Dr. Guido Fadda, MD, MIAC (Italy)
Dr. Guido Fadda, MD is Professor of Pathology and Chief of the Speciality Residency Program in Anatomic of the Pathology Dept. of Human Pathology of Adulthood and of Developing Age, at the University of Messina in Italy, He is also the Deputy-Chair of the Department of Hospital Laboratory of “Gaetano Martino” University Hospital of Messina
Guido Fadda is also on the Editorial Boards of “Cancer Cytopathology” “Endocrines” and “Journal of Molecular Pathology”. He was chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the International Congress of Cytology in Florence, 2025.
Ex-Officio Members
dr. Syed Z. Ali, MD, FRCPath, FIAC (USA)
Prof. Ali serves as Professor of Pathology and Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as the Director of the Division of Cytopathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his Pathology residency training at North Shore University Hospital/Cornell University in New York with fellowships in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Cytopathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Known globally as an innovative educator, Prof. Ali has well over 375 invited lectures, keynote speeches and visiting professorships all over the world. In collaboration with international societies and universities, he directs or co-directs several annual major cytopathology tutorials.
Prof. Ali has published extensively with over 335 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals, over 35 books, book chapters and electronic media. Known for his expertise in “Thyroid” and “Pancreatic” cytopathology, his monograph on “The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology” (now in its 3rd edition) has been translated in 8 languages and is extensively used in medical practice all over the world. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology (JASC) and a past-President of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC). Presently, he serves as the President of the International Academy of Cytology (IAC) and Chair of the International Board of Cytopathology of the IAC. He is a fellow of both the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) and the IAC. He is recipient of the ASC’s “Warren R. Lang Award” in 1996, “President’s Award” in 2012, “Excellence in Education Award” in 2015, the IAC’s “Maurice Goldblatt Award” in 2019, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology’s “LC Tao Educator of the Year Award” in 2022 and the ASC’s “Papanicolaou Award” in 2023.
Massimo Bongiovanni, MD, FIAC (Switzerland)
Dr. Bongiovanni is head of Cytopathology at SYNLAB Pathology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is member of the Pathology Expert Group, at SYNLAB International, Member (MIAC) and then Fellow (FIAC) of the International Academy of Cytology since 2016. He is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and 15 book chapters. He was Vice President of the Swiss Cytology Society (2015-2021) and a member of the Endocrine Tumor Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). He is associate editor of the journal Acta Cytologica and participates in the editorial board of the journal Diagnostic Cytopathology. He is currently co-chair of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS).