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Committees are developed to carry out the work of the strategic plan and organizational direction as set by the Council. Committee members are appointed by the President with Council approval. The current IGCS Committees are listed below.
Chair: Abhishek Shankar, MD (India)
Vice Chair: Tracey Adams (South Africa)
Geetu Bhandoria (India)
Michele Collins (USA)
Diane Crawford (USA)
Rosalind Glasspool (UK)
Samantha Gonzalez-Russell (USA)
Precious Kaniki (Zambia)
Karen Livingstone (Australia)
Daniela Luvero (Italy)
Anne Mellon (Australia)
Adrienne Moore (USA)
Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues (Brazil)
Achieng Otieno (Nigeria)
Eva-Maria Strömsholm (Finland)
Chair: Michael Pearl (USA)
Vice Chair: Sudha Sundar (UK)
Immediate Past Chair: Paul Cohen (Australia)
Advances & Updates Work Group
Co-Chair: Floor Backes (USA)
Co-Chair: Wendel Naumann (USA)
Nursing Work Group
Co-Chair: Sarah Belton (Ireland)
Co-Chair: Christine Donovan (USA)
Co-Chair: Anne Mellon (Australia)
Palliative Care Work Group
Chair: Anisa Mburu, MD (Kenya)
Vice Chair: Rhett Morton (Australia)
Pathology Work Group
Chair: Adrian Suarez (USA)
Radiation Oncology Work Group
Chair: Kathy Han (Canada)
Surgical Videos Work Group
Chair: Carrie Langstraat (USA)
Vice Chair: Nithya Ratnavelu (UK)
Preinvasive Disease Program Work Group
Co-Chair: Alan Waxman (USA)
Co-Chair: Emma Allanson (Australia)
Greta Dreyer, Expanded Training Steering Committee Lead
Mario Leitao, Minimally Invasive Surgery Program Lead
Heleen van Beekhuizen, Cervical Cancer Surgery Program Lead
Reitan Ribeiro, Surgical Skills – Short Courses Program Lead
Ahmed Al-Niami, Global Observership Program Lead
Samy Ismael, Global Observership Program Lead
Alejandro Rauh-Hain, PRIME Researchship Program Lead
Alexander Melamed, PRIME Researchship Program Lead
Chair: Tom Randall (USA)
Immediate Past Chair: Joseph Soon-Yau Ng, (Singapore)
Chair-Elect: Linus Chuang (USA)
Annual Review of Curriculum Work Group
Co-Chair: Michael Pearl (USA)
Co-Chair: John Coulter (Ireland)
ECHO Work Group
Co-Chair: Linda Van Le (USA)
Co-Chair: Annekathyrn Goodman (USA)
Final Exam Committee
Al Covens (Canada)
Global Mentor Resource Group
Co-Chair: Paula Lee (USA)
Co-Chair: Rene Pareja (Colombia)
Co-Chair: Matthew Schlumbrecht (USA)
Preinvasive Disease Program
Co-Chair: Mila Salcedo (USA/Brazil)
Co-Chair: Ida Ismail-Pratt (Singapore)
Quarterly Reports Work Group
Co-Chair: Mohammed Alsayed (Qatar)
Co-Chair: Ram Eitan (Israel)
Co-Chair: Jonathan Herod (Qatar)
Research Publication and Presentations
Asima Mukhopadhyay (India)
Michael A. Steller (USA)
Site Expansion Work Group
Co-Chair: Tri Dinh (USA)
Co-Chair: Andre Lopes (Brazil)
Co-Chair: Hextan Ngan (Hong Kong)
2026 Nominations & Awards Committee Roster
Our bylaws specify that the Nominating Committee consists of the Past President (chair), current President, Vice President, President-Elect* and two members of the IGCS Board of Directors (appointed by the Chair and approved by the Board).
Chair/Past President: Keiichi Fujiwara, MD, PhD (Japan)
President: Greta Dreyer, MD (South Africa)
Board Member: Dr. Sheynaz Bassa (South Africa)
Board Member: Dr. Christina Fotopoulou (Europe)
Board Member: Dr. Thomas Randall (USA)
President-Elect: Nadeem Abu-Rustum, MD (USA)*
*The President-Elect only sits on the committee to observe the process and will not vote or provide commentary regarding candidates or the final slate.
Co-Chair: Greta Dreyer (South Africa)
Co-Chair: David Atallah (Lebanon)
Waleed Al Jassar (Kuwait)
Adu Appiah-Kubi (Ghana)
Mohamed Aymen Ferjaoui (Tunisia)
Samson Chisele (Zambia)
Bethel Dereje Gulelat (Ethiopia)
Monia Hechiche (Tunisia)
Martin Origa (Uganda)
Muhieddine Seoud (United Arab Emirates)
Alicia Sherriff (South Africa)
2026 Annual Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society
Co-Chairs:
Paul Cohen, Australia
Ana Oaknin, Spain
Sudha Sundar, Ex-Officio Co-Chair, UK
CME Officer
Reitan Riberio, Canada
Early Career
Babita Kataria, India
Oliva Le Saux, France
Lucas Mendez, Canada
Natalie Ngoi, Singapore
Gynecologic Oncology
Sarah Alrubaish, Saudi Arabia
Emma Crosbie, UK
Nadine El Kassis, Lebanon
Ramez Eskander, USA
Kosei Hasegawa, Japan
Elmar Joura, Austria
Jihong Liu, China
Amita Maheshwari, India
Jacob McGee, Canada
Aisha Mustapha, Nigeria
Rene Pareja, Colombia
Bhavana Pothuri, USA
Alexandra Sebastianelli, Canada
Medical Oncology
Mohamed Ashour, Kuwait
George AuYeung, Australia
Gonzalo Giornelli, Argentina
Suma Karanth, India
Joyce Liu, USA
Ainhoa Madariaga, Spain
Iain McNeish, UK
Angelica Nogueira, Brazil
Ronnie Shappira-Frommer, Israel
Stephen Welch, Canada
Nursing
Noriko Fujiwara, Japan
Anne Mellon, Australia
Christa Slatnik, Canada
Palliative Care
Lee May Chen, USA
Florence Joly, France
Thomas Konney, Ghana
Pathology
Bojana Djordjevic, Canada
Ana Felix, Portugal
Martin Koebel, Canada
Radiation Oncology
François Bachand, Canada
Joyti Mayadev, USA
Dina Najjari, Spain
Remi Nout, Netherlands