Council
The Council assists and supervises the Executive Committee.
Besides its task of general supervision, the Council has the following specific powers:
- Approval of the annual accounts prepared by the Executive Committee before presentation to the General Assembly.
- Preparation and supervision of the election procedures, as well as acceptance or remittance of nominations for officers, Presidency or of any other society representative.
- Long term decisions or decisions of strategic impact, in so far as no change of Statutes is required.
- Preparation of any changes in the Statues or Bylaws, as well as supervision of the procedures involving their adoption.
- Assistance to the actions of the Executive Committee, particularly in decisions of strategic impact for the organization of the annual congress, or any other events organized by the society.
The Council is composed of at least 13 members, namely the Executive Committee and at least eight other society members.
The Council meets as necessary, with a minimum of twice a year.
Members elected in 2021
Prof. Marta Cohen OBE, MD, FRCPath. DMJ (Pathol), Dip Med Ed
Honorary Professor
Department of Bone & Metabolism
University of Sheffield UK
Consultant Paediatric Pathologist. Head of Department.
Clinical Director of Pharmacy, Diagnostics and Genetics
Academic Lead for Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology, Royal College of Pathologists
Sheffield Children’s NHS FT
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prof. Jean-Christophe Benoit Sabourin MD, PhD, DES ACP
Full Professor,
Head of the Patholgy Department & Chair of the Biology Division at Rouen University Hospital
Chair of the Pathology Department at Normandy University
Rouen, France
Members elected in 2019
Prof. Irene Esposito
Institute of Pathology
Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf
Duesseldorf, Germany
Prof. Marina Kos
Institute of Pathology
Medical School University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Ronald de Krijger
Dept. of Pathology
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Carolin Lackner
Institute of Pathology
Graz, Austria
Prof. José Palacios Calvo
Servicio de Anatomia Patologica
Hospital Universitario Ramon y Caja
Madrid, Spain
Prof. Gitta Turowski
Oslo University Hospital – Ulleval
Pathology
Oslo, Norway