IAC Pre-Congress Tutorial within the framework of ECC Leipzig 2024

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/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, Dr. Ali has over 350 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.

Dr. Ali has published extensively with over 320 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 has served as member of the executive board and chair of the scientific program and several other committees of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC). He is a past-President of the ASC, President-elect 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 and Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology’s “LC Tao Educator of the Year Award” in 2022.

Dr. Baloch received his medical degree from Liaquat Medical University in Sind, Pakistan. After receiving his PhD in 1991 he joined the pathology residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. This was followed by fellowships in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia. Dr. Baloch began his career as an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UPENN medical center in1997 and is currently a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine there. He has authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications in leading pathology journals on the subject of endocrine and head and neck pathology; and book chapters and monographs. Dr. Baloch has delivered numerous lectures, workshops and short courses both at the national and international meetings including ASC, USCAP, ASCP, CAP, ECC and IAP. Dr. Baloch has co-authored 3 books and has served as co-editor of the most recent Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology. Dr. Baloch has also served as the chair of the terminology and morphologic criteria committee of the 2007 NCI sponsored thyroid FNA initiative which led to the development of ?Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification Scheme?. Dr. Baloch also served on the international panel which recommended the renaming of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma to non-invasive follicular tumor with papillary like nuclear features (NIFTP). Dr. Baloch is executive editor of Diagnostic Cytopathology and member of the editorial board of Cancer Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Endocrine Pathology and Journal of American Society of Cytopathology.

Dr. Baloch has served as the chair of ASCP and ASC annual meeting scientific program committee, member of USCAP education committee, ASC executive board, ASCP committee for continuing professional development, Papanicolaou Society scientific program committee, American Association of Endocrinologist thyroid nodule guideline task force and American Thyroid Association laboratory test committee.

Prof. Lukas Bubendorf is a surgical pathologist and head of cytopathology at the Institute for Pathology of the University Hospital Basel. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institutes at the NIH, Bethesda, from 1998-2000.

He is a member of numerous national and international scientific societies, the Steering Committee of the ETOP Lungscape project, the IASLC Pathology Committee and the editorial boards of several journals including Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Lung Cancer, Pathobiology, Cancer Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology, and Acta Cytologica.

Professor Bubendorf is the author of more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. His major interests and diagnostic expertise lie within lung pathology and uropathology, and in the general field of cytopathology. His research group currently investigates the role of genomic evolution and heterogeneity in solid tumors, including lung cancer and prostate cancer. In cytology, he aims at translating molecular techniques and assays to clinical routine application.

Dr Ashish Chandra MD FRCPath DipRCPath (Cytol), MIAC, Vice-President IAC, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. He is a co-editor of the International system for reporting serous fluid cytopathology and is a contributor to other terminology systems and clinical guidelines. His interests include FNA, ROSE and genito-urinary histopathology.

Professor Andrew Field received his medical degree from the University of New South Wales in 1978. He completed his anatomical pathology training in 1985 and gained the FIAC in 1990. He obtained the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Diploma of Cytopathology in 1996.

He is the Director of the Department of Anatomical Pathology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, and Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney St Vincent’s Hospital Medical School, and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University Medical School, Sydney.

He is a dedicated teacher of cytopathology in his Department, at national meetings and at IAC Tutorials and tutorials in low and middle income countries.

He is committed to fostering the development of cytopathology in the developing world, and since 2007 has helped organize and taught at some 26 tutorials in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia with Drs William Geddie from Toronto, Matthew Zarka from the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Martha Pitman from Massuchusets General Hospital and other local and international speakers. He has also been a regular invited speaker at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology annual companion meetings, the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) Congresses, Asian Pacific Assembly of the IAP Congresses, the International Cytology Congresses, the International Academy of Cytology Tutorials and the European Congress of Cytology.

He has been on the IAC Board since 2013, President 2019 to 2022, and is currently the immediate past President.

He has been a Council member and president of the Australian Society of Cytology, a Board member of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology for several periods since 2006 and a foundation member of the African Strategies for Advancing Pathology organization, which advocates for and co-ordinates improvements in pathology services in Africa.

He has had a long interest in the establishment of international standardized reporting systems in FNAB cytopathology to assist patient care and research, and was a contributing author to the Papanicolaou Society System for Reporting Pancreaticobiliary Cytology and the ‘Milan’ system for Salivary Glands, and co-editor and lead author of the IAC Yokohama System for Reporting Breast Cytopathology.

In May 2020 he was appointed as a Member and in 2021 Co-Chair of the inaugural WHO IAC IARC Cytopathology Joint Standing Editorial Board responsible for the four new WHO reporting systems on Lung, Lymph Nodes, Pancreatico-Biliary and Soft Tissue cytopathology. He is also on the Standing Editorial Board for the WHO Classification of Tumours.

He has authored or co-authored more than 73 articles and published three textbooks and eighteen book chapters, including in 2014, Lymph Node and Spleen Cytohistology, co-authored with Dr William Geddie from Toronto, then Practical Cytopathology: A Diagnostic Approach to Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy, co- written and edited with Dr Matthew Zarka, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale in 2017, and in 2020, The IAC Yokohama System for Reporting Breast FNAB Cytopathology, co-edited with Wendy Raymond and Fernando Schmitt.

He is on the Editorial Boards and reviews articles for Acta Cytologica, Cancer Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology, the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology and other journals.

He has received a number of national and international awards including the American Society of Cytopathology Award in 2022 and the IAC Goldblatt Award of 2022.

Dr. Pitman is an internationally recognized expert in the field of cytopathology and fine needle aspiration cytopathology in general, and pancreaticobiliary cytopathology, in particular. She is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and practicing pathologist in cytopathology and gastrointestinal surgical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she obtained her residency and fellowship training. She is past president of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology and past President of the American Society of Cytopathology. 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. Her clinical research is devoted to the investigation of the early detection of pancreatic cancer, especially in association with mucinous pancreatic cysts.

Donna Russell is a graduate of the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY and has been an employee at the University of Rochester Medical Center for over 35 years. She received her Master?s in Education from the University of Rochester Graduate School of Education and currently is the Education Coordinator of the Cytopathology Resident/Fellow Training program at the University of Rochester. She also is the Program Director of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center/Daemen College School of Cytotechnology. She currently is educating the eighth class from this Master’s level program in cytology.

Donna is an active member of numerous cytology organizations. Her special interests are in gynecologic, cell block preparation, ROSE and telecytology. She has published book chapters and many manuscripts in all areas of cytology. Donna has played an active role in teaching within the IAC, ECC, ASC, ASCP, ASCT and CAP. She has presenting numerous workshops, panel luncheons, and teleconferences in diagnostic cytopathology and related topics.

Danijela Vrdoljak-Mozetič graduated from The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka, Croatia in 1991. In 1996 she became a Specialist in Clinical Cytology. She is working in Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, currently at the position of the Head of Department of Pathology and Cytology. As assistant professor she participates in teaching pathology and cytology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka. She is a member of the Working groups for specialist training in pathology and cytology, national programme for cervical screening and guidelines. From 2014-2021 she was the president of Croatian Society for Clinical Cytology of Croatian Medical Association. Since 2018 she was the chair of Educational Committee of the European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS), and in 2021 she became EFCS Secretary General. She has published more than forty papers and participated in many conferences. Special fields of interest: gynaecological cytology, cervical screening, HPV testing, endometrial cytology, vulvar and anal cytology, ovarian cytology, head and neck, effusion, pulmonary and urinary cytology, education in cytopathology.