(in alphabetical order)
Andrew Bellizzi
Andrew M Bellizzi, M.D. is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Iowa. Dr. Bellizzi completed undergraduate work in Anthropology and Science Preprofessional Studies at the University of Notre Dame (‘00) and received his medical degree from Northwestern University (‘04). Following combined training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Virginia (‘08), he completed a fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology at The Ohio State University (‘09). After 2 years as a junior faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he moved to Iowa in the Fall of 2011. Dr. Bellizzi is Director of Immunohistochemistry, GI Pathology, and the GI Pathology Fellowship at the University of Iowa. He is an active member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, and the College of American Pathologists, including serving as immediate past Chair of the USCAP Stowell-Orbison Award and the CAP Immunohistochemistry Committees. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology and is an Associate (Reviews), Section (Immunohistochemistry), and Assistant Editor (GI pathology) of Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, respectively. Dr. Bellizzi’s research interests include the diagnosis, classification, and etiopathogenesis of human disease, with an emphasis on gastrointestinal, pancreatic, neuroendocrine, and hereditary tumors. His research program focuses on applications of diagnostic immunohistochemistry. Outside of the office, Andrew enjoys “getting into trouble” with his 14 and 16-year-old boys, Aidan and Darby. In addition to “very special stains,” he also loves hiking, cooking, craft beer, Notre Dame football, the Boston Red Sox, and the Oxford comma.
Gabor Cserni (Hungary)
Ben Davidson (Norway)
Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. He is main interests are cytopathology and gynecological pathology. His research is focused on cancer diagnosis, metastasis, cell survival, and studies of prognosis and chemoresistance mainly in cancers involving the serosal cavities like ovarian carcinoma, breast carcinoma and malignant mesothelioma. He is an author of 280 peer-reviewed scientific publications and several book chapters, as well as the editor of a book on serous effusions. He is also a reviewer and a member of editorial boards for leading international peer-reviewed journals, as well as invited speaker on international and national meetings and conferences.
Pavel Dundr (Czech Republic)
Maria Debiec-Rychter (Belgium)
Is a professor at Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her daily work is focused on diagnostic services (karyotyping and molecular cytogenetic/genetic tests) for the differential diagnosis and predictive selection of solid tumors for standard chemotherapy or targeted therapy with small molecule inhibitors. Her research is concentrated mainly on the development and transfer of the knowledge of molecular biology about sarcomas and brain tumors to the daily medical practice, aiming at improvement of diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tools, identification of new therapeutic targets and promotion of innovative clinical trials in order to evaluate these new targets. She is an author and co-author of 278 publications in peer reviewed journals.
M. Karmal (Poland)
Jan Klos (Norway)
Senior Consultant in the Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway. His professional focus is on diagnostic pathology, particularly hematopathology, pathology of the breast and cytopathology. He has been actively involved in teaching immunohistochemistry since 2000 as co-organizer of national and international meetings and courses as well as invited speaker. Since 2009 he is a member of the core group and assessor in NordiQC organization. He is a co-author of more than 40 publications in the field of pathology.
Konstanty Korski (Germany)
Konstanty Korski is a Senior Expert Pathologist and R&D Lead for Digital Pathology in the Roche pharma personalised healthcare (phc) Data, Analytics & Imaging group in Basel, Switzerland. He graduated from the Poznan University of Medical Sciences (2001) and is board certified in general pathology (2008). Since his graduation, he served as a staff pathologist in the Pathology Department at the Greater Poland Cancer Center in Poznan, Poland, where his main focus was breast and gynecologic pathology, cytopathology, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology. At that time, in one of his roles he coordinated tumor sample collection process in the collaborative international effort – The Cancer Genome Project (TCGA). Konstanty joined Roche in 2014 at the Roche Innovation Centre Munich where he focused on the application of digital pathology to tumor tissue analysis and immune microenvironment characterization in the context of early phase clinical trials. In 2020, Konstanty joined the phc group in Basel where he leads the R&D DP team. The team concentrates on the extraction of information from the digital images of the H&E slides and on translating it to predictive/prognostic algorithms using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. Konstanty co-authored more than 30 peer reviewed publications and three patent applications.
A. Kowalewski (Poland)
Jerzy Lasota (USA)
Staff Scientist at the Surgical Pathology Section of the Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Previously at the Department of Soft Tissue Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., Thomas Jefferson University and Temple University’s Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology in Philadelphia, as a Research Pathologist and in the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. He is an author and co-author of 130 publications, including studies on genotyping gastrointestinal stromal tumours and several book chapters on molecular genetics of soft tissue tumors.
I. Ługowska (Poland)
Anais Malpica (USA)
Dr. Anais Malpica is a Professor of Pathology at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She received her M.D. degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, and completed both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residencies at Boston University and Baylor College of Medicine. This was followed by a fellowship in Surgical Pathology at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She was the former Director of the Gynecologic Pathology Section (2006-2014) and Director of the Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program (2003-2013)at MD Anderson. Dr. Malpica has authored and co- authored 275 scientific articles, 184 abstracts, numerous book chapters and 1 book on biopsy interpretation of the uterine cervix and corpus (2 editions). She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Gynecological Pathology and a former member of the editorial board of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Gynecologic Oncology. She is currently a reviewer for Histopathology, Cancer, Advances of Anatomic Pathology, Modern Pathology, Gynecologic Oncology and other journals. She was an author and editor of the 2020 WHO Classification of Female Genital Tract Tumours. She is a former Co-chair of the Educational Committee of the International Society of Gynecologic Pathology (2014-2016), and a former member of the Endometrial Cancer Task Force (2017-2018) and the Endocervical Cancer Task Force (2019-2020) of the International Society of Gynecologic Pathology. She has been involved in multiple funded research projects as a Co-investigator or collaborator. Dr. Malpica has organized numerous seminars and conferences about gynecologic pathology throughout the world and has given over 400 lectures in local, national and international meetings, including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the CAP, the ASCP, the European Congress of Pathology, the International Academy of Pathology, the Latin American Congress of Pathology, the German Congress of Pathology, the Canadian Association of Pathologists, etc. She has been an invited lecturer at numerous universities in the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Markku Miettinen (USA)
Professor and Head of Surgical Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, previously at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. His main interest is pathology of soft tissues. His contribution to definition, biology and diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors is well recognized. He is a member of editorial boards in several top ranked pathology journals and reviewer in a number of most recognized pathology journals. His list of publications has more than 350 positions including two handbooks on Pathology of Soft Tissues and contributions to WHO Classification of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone. In recognition of his work honored with Totten Lecture and Award, University of Pittsburgh in 2005.
Søren Nielsen (Denmark)
Søren Nielsen is Director of Nordic immunohistochemical Quality Control (NordiQC) being an international external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for diagnostic pathology laboratories. In addition to the EQA scheme NordiQC offers technical and educational service to laboratories and IHC stakeholders globally and have entered collaboration with the main IHC industry companies for consultancy services. In NordiQC, he also functions as scientific lead, assessor and data analyst in the NordiQC general module, breast module, companion diagnostic module and HER-2 ISH module. He is a regular lecturer and organizer of national and international immunohistochemical workshops, particularly in the field of protocol optimization and standardization. He is author and co-author of more than 60 scientific papers and several book chapters based on immunohistochemical studies. Member of the editorial board of international journals and the NordiQC representative in IQN Path, being a global network for external quality schemes in pathology. Søren Nielsen is educated as biomedical scientist.
Andrew Nicholson (Great Britain)
K. Tałasiewicz (Poland)
Tibor Tot (Sweden)
Is an associate professor of pathology at the University of Uppsala, former head of Laboratory Medicine Dalarna and of the Department of Pathology and Clinical Cytology at the Central Hospital in Falun, Sweden. The last years he was one of the faculty members in the breast pathology arm of the European School of Pathology, invited faculty member in European School of Radiology and one of the scientific directors in the European School of Oncology Certificate of Competence in Breast Cancer program. In addition to more than 100 journal articles and 20 book chapters, he published the book Practical Breast Pathology, an official teaching material of the European School of Pathology. He is also co-author of the Thieme Series on Art and Science of Mammography. With radiological – pathological correlation of breast diseases as the main field of interest, he is repeatedly invited lecturer at the European Congress of Radiology, European Congress of Pathology, and other international and national congresses, symposia, and teaching courses all over the world. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Virchows Archiv, Vojnosanitetski pregled (Belgrade), the Journal of OncoPathology, and the Journal of Solid Tumors, one of the editors of Case Reports in Pathology, member of the European Working Groups for Breast Cancer Screening Pathology and the past chair of the Working Group for Breast Pathology of the European Society of Pathology.
Janusz Rys (Poland)
Graduated from Medical Faculty Jagiellonian University (1984), board certified pathologist (1991). Since 2002 is Head of Department of Tumor Pathology, Centre of Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute and Centre of Oncology, Kraków, Poland. Since Februar 2021, he is also the director of the M. Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Cracow Branch. Author and co-author of over 195 articles published, most of them concerning breast and soft tissue pathology. Editor in chief of the Polish Journal of Pathology.