Aims of the Committee
Provide ideas and input on projects related to the website and social media.
Responsibilities
- Work with the central office in overseeing and managing social channels to further the academy’s mission
- Explore opportunities to enhance and improve IAC website and other social media platforms
- Develop and implement new and innovative communication strategies
- Assist the academy with social media outreach
- Build and maintain cordial relationship with like-minded social media influencers
- Coordinate and assist the Education and Scientific Program committee, Webinar and e-learning committee and the Foundation committee.
Chair
Dr. Christina Zioga, MD, MIAC (Greece)
Christina Zioga is a medical doctor currently working as a consultant Cytopathologist at the “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is fascinated by new developments in Science Communication, is a certified lifeguard and a passionate first-aid instructor. It was those first-aid training sessions that led to the conception of the idea of the Diagnostic Medicine ABCDE algorithm. (Link to video on YouTube) Her extensive experience working as a Pathology Laboratory Technician (summa cum laude) led her to choose a Cytopathology residency after the completion of her studies in Medicine. She has also acquired a Master of Science Degree in Medical Informatics. She received a travel award from the Digital Pathology Association (2018) and she has also appeared in consecutive Power Lists of “The Pathologist? journal (2019-2022). Her goals include strengthening Cytopathology as a leader in contemporary medicine.
Members
Dr. Mark Chien-Chin Chen, MD, FIAC (Taiwan)
Dr. Mark Chien-Chin Chen is currently a surgical pathologist/cytopathologist at Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital and serves as the President of the Taiwan Society of Clinical Cytology. He is on the editorial boards of most cytology journals, including Cancer Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology, and Cytopathology, with more than 130 primary peer reviews. In cytology, he aims to improve clinical routine application and promote international collaborative works.
Dr. Nathalie Rodrigues (Junior Member) (USA)
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Dr. Tanya Labiano, MD, MIAC (Spain)
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Dr. Jamal Musayev, MD, MIAC (Azerbaijan)
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Communications Officer: Carmen Hillebrand, MA (Germany)
Carmen Hillebrand has been the IAC’s Communication Manager (ext.) for two years. Building on the communication strategy she has developed for the IAC, she is responsible for the IAC’s content and community management on social media, with accounts on X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and a WhatsApp news channel.
Carmen is a freelance social media consultant and university lecturer. She specializes in strategic development of social media for companies and personal brands for CEOs and crisis communication. She has 25 years of experience in communications (coming from a solid PR background), including 19 years in social media.
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).