The Maurice Goldblatt Cytology Award | The International Academy of Cytology

The GOLDBLATT AWARD was inaugurated in 1960 by the late Maurice Goldblatt, the founder and Honorary Chairman of the Cancer Research Foundation in Chicago.

The jury of the Goldblatt Awards consists of The Chair of the Awards Committee and the previous awardees. The Awards have been given yearly since 1961. Recipients have been 53 cytologists from 21 countries. Recipients receive a gold medal and an honorarium.

The Maurice Goldblatt Awards 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be presented at the 21st International Congress of Cytology, Baltimore, USA, November 2022.

Past-President

Andrew Field

Australia

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 IAC Goldblatt Award of 2022.

Maurice Goldblatt Award

Ashish Chandra

United Kingdom

Maurice Goldblatt Award

Marianne Engels

Germany

Previous Winners from 1961 to present day

2022	Andrew S. Field, MB BS, FRCPA, FIAC, Australia
2021	Marianne Engels, MD, FIAC, Germany
2020	Ashish Chandra, MD, MIAC, UK
2019	Syed Z. Ali, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
2018	Ritu Nayar, MD, MIAC, U.S.A.
2017	John H. F. Smith, FRCPath, MIAC, United Kingdom
2016	David Kaminsky, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
2015	Lukas Bubendorf, MD, MIAC, Switzerland
2014	Philippe Vielh, MD, FIAC, France
2013	Fernando C. Schmitt, MD, FIAC, Portugal
2012	Gladwyn Leiman, MB, FIAC, U.S.A.
2011	Prabodh Kumar Gupta, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
2010	Kari J. Syrjänen, MD, FIAC, Finland
2009	Patricia Alonso de Ruiz, MD, FIAC, Mexico
2008	Hiroyuki Kuramoto, MD, FIAC, Japan
2007	Yener S. Erozan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
2006	Svante R. Orell, MD, FIAC, Australia
2005	Marija Us-Krasovec, MD, FIAC, Slovenia
2004	Volker Schneider, MD, FIAC, Germany
2003	Marluce Bibbo, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
2002	Alfredo Dabancens-Opazo, MD, MIAC, Chile
2001	Jose Rivera-Pomar, MD, MIAC, Spain
2000	Alain Verhest, MD, FIAC, Belgium
1999	Diane Solomon, MD, MIAC, U.S.A.
1998	Harubumi Kato, MD, FIAC, Japan
1997	Manuel Hilgarth, MD, FIAC, Germany
1996	Dorothy L.Rosenthal, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1995	Kiichiro Noda, MD, FIAC, Japan
1994	William W. Johnston, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1993	Matias Jimenez Ayala, MD, FIAC, Spain
1992	Franco Rilke, MD, FIAC(em), Italy
1991	Masayoshi Takahashi, MD, FIAC, Japan
1990	Michael Drake, M.B., FIAC(hon), Australia
1989	Bernard Naylor, M.B., FIAC(em), U.S.A.
1988	G. Peter Vooijs, MD, FIAC, Netherlands
1987	Marcos Peluffo, MD, FIAC, Argentina
1986	Myron R. Melamed, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1985	Junji Mizuno, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan
1985	Noboru Tanaka, MD, DDS, FIAC, Japan
1984	Claude Gompel, MD, FIAC, Belgium
1983	Shigemitsu Shida, MD,FIAC, Japan
1982	O.A.N. Husain, MD, FIAC, United Kingdom
1981	Jean A. de Brux, MD, FIAC(em), France
1980	Walter Sandritter, MD, FIAC, Germany
1979	John K. Frost, MD FIAC(em), U.S.A.
1978	Magnus L. Nasiell, MD, FIAC, Sweden
1977	Kazumasa Masubuchi, MD, FIAC(hon), Japan
1976	Alexander Meisels, MD, FRCPC, FIAC, Canada
1975	Peter Stoll, MD, FIAC, Germany
1974	Gustave Riotton, MD,FIAC(em), Switzerland
1973	Hans-Juergen Soost, MD, FIAC, Germany
1972	Torbjörn O. Caspersson, M.D, FIAC(hon), Sweden
1971	Stanley F. Patten, MD, PhD, FIAC, U.S.A
1970	Arthur I.Spriggs, MD, FIAC(em), United Kingdom
1969	Paul Lopes-Cardozo, MD, FIAC(em), Netherlands
1969	Josef Zajicek, MD, FIAC, Sweden
1968	Murray L. Baar, MD, Canada
1968	Ewart G. Bertram, PhD, Canada
1967	Emmerich von Haam, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1966	Gunter F. Bahr, MD, FIAC(hon), U.S.A.
1965	James W. Reagan, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1964	Hanns-Werner Boschann, MD, FIAC(hon), Germany
1964	Carlo Sirtori, MD, FIAC(hon), Italy
1963	Leopold G. Koss, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.
1962	J.Paul Pundel, MD, FIAC(hon), Luxembourg
1961	George L. Wied, MD, FIAC, U.S.A.