Aims of the Committee
The Nomination committee is charged with proposing a slate of names from the IAC membership for the BoD for the upcoming three- year term. The committee can seek strictly confidential counsel from other members of the BoD as well as other members of the Academy to arrive at a suitable slate that will best serve the interests of the IAC and its initiatives and programs.
Members
- Members: Fernando Schmitt, Syed Ali
- Member ex-officio: Massimo Bongiovanni
CHAIR: Dr. Fernando Schmitt, FIAC,
PAST President of the IAC
Professor Fernando Schmitt is a Professor of Pathology at the Medical Faculty of University of Porto, Senior Researcher and Head of Molecular Pathology Unit at IPATIMUP, Director of RISE (Clinical and Translational Research Network of the Medical Faculty), Past-President of the International Society of Breast Pathology and President of the International Academy of Cytology (IAC).
dr. Syed Z. Ali, MD, FRCPath, FIAC
Dr. 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 in New York with fellowships in Surgical Pathology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and Cytopathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
dr. Syed Z. Ali, MD, FRCPath, FIAC
Dr. Bongiovanni is Director of Cytopathology at Unilabs in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He was a Member (MIAC) and then Fellow (FIAC) of the International Academy of Cytology since 2016.
Dr Bongiovanni completed his medical studies in 1997 and his residency in Pathology in 2002 at the University of Turin in Italy. In 2003, he joined the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), where he began his scientific and clinical work in the field of pathology and cytopathology. After gaining experience in Ticino as deputy director of the Cantonal Institute of Pathology (2010-2014), he was appointed as associate professor and head of the Department of Cytopathology at the Institute of Pathology of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV, 2014).
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 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).