DIFFICULT THYROID LESIONS
Esther Dina Rossi, MD, PhD, MIAC
Fondazione Policlinic Gemelli Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Thursday, 26 June 2025 1:00PM Central European Summer Time (Amsterdam/Berlin)
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Thursday, 26th June 2025 1:00PM Central European Summer Time. Please use the link below to register in advance for this meeting.
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The evaluation of thyroid lesions is easily performed with FNAC. However some entities are likely to be difficult or impossibly diagnosed on FNAC. The webinar offers an evaluation of all the possible difficult and impossible diagnoses on thyroid cytology
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Prof. Rossi received an MD followed by a residency in Anatomic Pathology and a PhD from the Catholic University in Rome, Italy. She was an international observer in surgical pathology and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University (both in Philadelphia), Gustave Roussy (Paris), and the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP). Prof. Rossi is currently the Director of Cytopathology and Endocrine Pathology at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Catholic University, also with the title of Full Professor.
She has published more than 300 original articles, reviews, and book chapters on endocrine pathology, cytology, and head and neck pathology. Dr. Rossi has co-edited 6 books and served as co-editor of the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology, as well as for the new second edition. She also served as one of the three lead authors for the revisions to the Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification System second edition and is the lead author for the ATC chapter of Bethesda III ed. Prof. Rossi contributed chapters to the WHO Classifications of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors, Head and Neck Tumors, Pediatric Tumors, and Tumors of Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. She has delivered numerous lectures, workshops, and short courses at national and international meetings including USCAP, ASC, ASCP, CAP, ECC, ICC, ESP, IAP, and SIAPEC. Prof. Rossi is in the Scientific Committee of the European congress of cytology since 2015 and the European leading editor of the World tumor registry.
She was the SIAPEC vice president of the 2025 ICC/World congress of cytology, held in Florence May 2025. Dr Rossi was invited as a leading speaker for the American Thyroid Association 2023 and the College of American Pathology since 2018, every year. Dr. Rossi is Associate Editor of Cancer Cytopathology and a member of the editorial boards of Virchow Archives, Diagnostic Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Acta Cytologica, PLOS One, Endocrine Pathology, and the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology. She is member of the Cancer committee for the European thyroid association.
She serves on the executive board of the Papanicolaou Society, the Scientific Committee of the EFCS, USCAP membership committee and the abstract review board for the USCAP. Leader of upcoming courses for the USCAP annual meetings 2025 and 2026. Dr. Rossi has received awards from the Italian Society of Pathology, the American Society of Cytopathology, the Italian Cancer Program-AIRC and the international achievement award from the American society of cytopathology. Dr Rossi was awarded in November 2022 as the best international cytopathologist with the ASC international achievement award from the American society. In April 2024, she was elected as president-Elect of the Papanicolaou society of cytopathology. Prof Rossi will be the keynote lecture for the Korena society of pathology 2025, and the Keynote lecture for the IAP ASIAN Pathology in 2025.
Head of the perineural invasion working group for HN-CLEAR.