Aims of the Committee
Provides financial support to further the IAC’s mission of education, training and research.
Responsibilities
- Explore creative and innovative ways to launch fundraising campaigns to bring in new sources of financial support.
- Set up 3-yearly fundraising goals (with yearly sub-goals) and present them to the board.
- Establish 3-yearly “major theme” to enhance awareness among membership.
- Identify “key donors” and solicit industry support and send yearly reminders along with a note of thanks.
- Coordinate and liaise with other related committees to better promote, advertise and increase foundation’s visibility (communication committee and the committee on continuing education and quality assurance).
- Closely work with the “Budget and Finance Committee” for all financial and investment matters.
Chair
Dr. Martha Pitman, MIAC (USA)
Dr. Pitman is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and practicing pathologist in Cytopathology and gastrointestinal surgical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She has been Associate Editor of Cancer Cytopathology and The Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology and is currently active on the editorial boards of several journals. She is the lead author of the PSC Pancreaticobiliary Terminology System for reporting pancreaticobiliary cytology as well as the new WHO Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytology. She is also on the Standing Committee (one of 5 series editors) for all WHO Reporting Systems.
Dr. Pamela Michlow, MIAC (South Africa)
Dr Pamela Michelow currently has a joint post at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa. She has continuing interests in visual literacy, the roles of exfoliative and aspiration biopsy cytology in under-resourced communities and in quality standards in cytopathology.
Members
Dr Claire Bourgain, MIAC (Belgium)
Dr. Bourgain is Head of the Department of Pathology at Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Ashish Chandra, MIAC (united Kingdom)
Dr. Ashish Chandra is the lead uropathologist and cytopathologist at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals, London where he has been based since 2001. He is a member of the Cytopathology Specialist Advisory Committee at RCPath, is an active member of the British Association of Cytopathology (BAC) and Deputy editor of the journal, Cytopathology.
Dr. Momin T. Siddiqui, FIAC (USA)
Dr. Momin T. Siddiqui is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill-Cornell in New York. He currently, also serves as the Medical Director of the Papanicolaou Cytopathology Laboratory at Cornell and also directing the cytopathology fellowship program. Dr. Siddiqui is also a Past-President of the American Society of Cytopathology. He has also served on numerous national and international pathology organizational executive boards and committees in the last two decades.
Dr. Robert Y. Osamura, FIAC (Japan)
Dr. Robert Y. Osamura has been an active member and Fellow (FIAC) for many years. He served as President of IAC from 2016 to 2019. During his Presidency, he emphasized the importance of “on-site” education of cytology and represented IAC leadership in seven international tutorials in various countries across the globe. These tutorials were very well received within the IAC and in the world of cytopathology in general.
Dr. Angel Fomperoza Torres, FIAC (México)
Dr Angel Fomperoza Torres is a Professor of Pathology and Director of Cytopathology at Veracruzana University School of Medicine in Veracruz, Mexico.Director of Anatomical Pathology and Cytopathology department at Petroleos Mexicanos Minatitlan Regional Hospital, in Veracruz México. Past President of the Mexican Academy of Cytopathology (AMCP), Fellowship of the International Academy of Cytology (FIAC), President of the XXXI Congress of the Latin American Society of Cytology, and Supervisor of the screening program of Cervical Cancer in México.
Dr. Mauro Saieg, FIAC (Canada)
Dr. Saieg holds a position as Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University. He also serves currently as Associate Editor of Cytopathology, the British Association for Cytopathology Journal. He has served as President of the Brazilian Society of Cytopathology, as Scientific Director of the Latin American Society of Cytopathology and as member of several editorial boards, such as Cancer Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology and the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology.
Andrew Field, MB BS (Hons), FRCPA, FIAC (Australia)
Dr. Field is head of the Department of Anatomical Pathology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales and Notre Dame University Medical Schools. He is currently the President of the International Academy of Cytology and a foundation member of African Strategies for Advancing Pathology, an organization that aims to advocate for and coordinate improvements in pathology services throughout Africa.
Dr. Hatim al-Maghraby (Saudi Arabia)
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Amber Donnelly (U.S.A)
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Dr. Sule Canberk (Portugal)
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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).