Professor of Pathology and Radiology.
Director of Cytopathology.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, USA

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 in New York with fellowships in Surgical Pathology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Cytopathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Known globally as an innovative educator, Dr. Ali has well 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 300 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” has been translated in 7 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 committee and the educational development committee of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC). He is a past-President of the ASC, and presently serves as the Vice 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, the “President’s Award” in 2012, “Excellence in Education Award” in 2015 and the IAC’s “Maurice Goldblatt Award” in 2019.

Division of Cytopathology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Dr. Peter Bela Illei is an associate professor of Pathology and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the Division of Cytopathology. His areas of clinical expertise include cytopathology, pulmonary pathology, transplant pathology, and lung cancer biomarkers.

Dr. Illei earned his medical degree from The University of Pécs School of Medicine in Hungary. He completed a pathology residency at New York University Medical Center followed by fellowships in oncologic surgical pathology and cytopathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Following his fellowship he was a visiting investigator in the Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then joined the Department of Pathology of NYU School of Medicine and subsequently Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also served as the director of the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Currently, Dr. Illei leads the Thoracic Pathology consult service of the Department.

Dr. Illei’s research interests include development of novel immunohistochemical and molecular markers for the diagnosis of solid tissue tumors, pathology of lung cancer and mesothelioma, as well as lung transplantation.

Dr. Illei served on several institutional committees, and as expert or review panel member of national organizations (CAP, USCAP, ASC, ACCP). He is currently serving as editorial board member of the journals and reviewers of over a dozen pyblications. He was invited speaker and workshop faculty at both national and international pathology/cytopathology conferences, and has authored 136 peer reviewed publication and two book chapters.

Professor of pathology. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
James Cancer Hospital And Solove Reaearch Institute. Columbus, Ohio. USA

Dr. Paul Wakely, Jr. is a tenured Professor in the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology.

He subspecializes in head and neck, soft tissue/bone surgical pathology and cytopathology. A graduate of St. Louis University School of Medicine, he began his pathology training at the U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. after completing a residency in clinical pediatrics. Further training consisted of a fellowship in pediatric pathology in Cincinnati, OH, and laboratory medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. After 11 years at the Medical College of Virginia, and brief tenures in private practice, he has been at the OSU Wexner Medical Center since 1998.

He has over 220 peer-reviewed publications, has authored or co-authored 17 book chapters and monographs, and is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 6 texts in pathology. He previously served as Associate Editor for Journal of American Society of Cytopathology (JASC), and Cancer Cytopathology. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the journals Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, JASC, and Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. Dr. Wakely has lectured at multiple venues in the U.S., and abroad.

President of the Spanish society of cytopathology
Director of Pathology & Cytopathology.
Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona
Associate professor of pathology.
Medical Faculty of University of Navarra. Pamplona

Dr. Lozano graduated and obtained PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra. She specialized in Pathology at the University Clinic of Navarra (CUN). Dr. Lozano completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology (March 1993-April 1995). Currently, Dr. Lozano is director of the Department of Pathology of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, and Head of cytopathology and molecular pathology in cytology. Dr. Lozano is Associate Professor of Pathology at Medical School of the University of Navarra. She is the President of Spanish Society of Cytopathology.
Active member of SEAP (Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica), SEC (Sociedad Española de Citología), ESP (European Society of Pathology and Member of the Cytopathology Working group), ASC American Society of Cytopathology , IAC (International Academy of Cytology).
Member of the expert panel for biomarker guidelines of the Spanish Societies of Pathology and Medical Oncology (SEOM).
Member of Editorial boards of Several journals
As researcher, Dr. Lozano is part of multidisciplinary teams within the university itself, as well as national and international levels. She has special dedication to lung and pancreas cytopathology as well as great interest and extensive experience in new approaches of FNAB and the development and application of molecular techniques in cytological samples and small samples by obtaining material using minimally invasive methods. She is deeply involved in the study of tumor microenvironment in lung and pancreatic tumors. She dedicates also to surgical pathology of Lung and Mediastinum.
Dr. Lozano has written more than 190 articles in national and international scientific journals. She has presented more than 400 communications to meetings, more than 200 lectures given, as well as several courses on FNA and molecular biology applied to cytopathology.