Australian Society of Cytology

37th Annual Scientific Meeting

Guest Speakers - International

	Professor Jack Cuzick
Professor Jack Cuzick is an epidemiologist at the Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology in the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. He has given over one hundred invited lectures at international scientific meetings. His most recent awards include “Thomson’s Hottest Research of 2005- 2006” and the EUROGIN award for Distinguished Service to Cervix Cancer, Paris 2006. He currently is the President of the International Society of Cancer Prevention and the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Queen Mary University of London.
	Dr Alastair Deery
Dr Alastair Deery B.Sc., MB.BS., FRCPath., is a Consultant Cellular Pathologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St Georges Hospital NHS Trust and St Georges Medical School, London. He is Lead Diagnostic Cytopathologist, Lead Haematopathologist, Lead Endocrine Pathologist and Lead Cervical Pathologist at St Georges, with extensive experience in both gynaecological and non-gynaecological cytopathology. In addition to a busy clinical workload he has a very strong commitment to teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and has published widely in papers and texts.
	Dr William Geddie
Dr. Geddie obtained his medical degree for the University of Toronto in 1978 and trained in anatomic pathology, obtaining the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1983. He then trained in London and at the Karolinska Institute and from 1986 he worked as a general pathologist in Toronto. During this time he supervised the cytopathology laboratory and provided an active fine needle aspiration service for a large regional oncology clinic. In 2003 he returned to an academic position at the University of Toronto as a dedicated cytopathologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. Dr. Geddie is particularly interested in fine needle aspiration of lymph nodes, optimization of their diagnostic potential through ancillary techniques such as laser scanning cytometry and fluorescent in-situ hybridization, and pushing the boundaries of FNA into the field of personalized predictive medicine.
	Associate Professor David Wilbur
David Wilbur, M.D is the Director of Cytopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Cancer Cytopathology, Acta Cytologica and the International Journal of Gynaecological Pathology. Associate Professor Wilbur is an internationally highly regarded cytopathologist who has both lectured and published widely. He has extensive experience in cervical glandular lesions and liquid-based cytology.
	Dr Matthew Zarka
Dr. Matthew A. Zarka is a Consultant and Director of Cytopathology at Mayo Clinic Arizona in Scottsdale, Arizona. Previously he was the Director of Cytopathology and Anatomic Pathology at the University of Vermont School of Medicine, and had studied fine needle aspiration biopsy at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. He has given numerous invited presentations nationally and internationally on interpretation of fine needle aspiration and GYN cytology. He has served as the Medical Director of Grounds for Health, a non-profit organization promoting cervical cancer screening in rural coffee growing areas of Mexico and Central America, and he is a proponent of traditional cytologic screening for cervical cancer in developing countries. He is currently a contributor and editor to a new, soon to be published, textbook on practical architectural pattern-based approach to fine needle aspiration biopsy interpretation.