Category: Presidential Perspective

Dear Colleagues, The IGCS Council recently met in New Orleans and I wanted to share with you the following items of discussion that may be of interest to IGCS members. Committee Reports The Council received updates from the Education, Publications, Industry Relations, and GO Global Network Committees. The Education Committee is now chaired by Dr. Ritu Salani, with Dr. Ane Gerda Eriksson as Vice Chair. There are seven steering committee members and four work-groups with five leaders covering the ..

Dear Colleague, Members of IGCS may remember the platform on which I was elected was to internationalise the society as widely as possible. At that time, the countries present at the conception of IGCS remained the dominant membership groups, working hard and very effectively to unite this new society. But it was clear that IGCS was ready and mature enough to extend its global reach. Happily, times have changed. We continue to engage the membership from high resource settings and recently receiv..

Dear Colleague, Members of IGCS may remember the platform on which I was elected was to internationalise the society as widely as possible. At that time, the countries present at the conception of IGCS remained the dominant membership groups, working hard and very effectively to unite this new society. But it was clear that IGCS was ready and mature enough to extend its global reach. Happily, times have changed. We continue to engage the membership from high resource settings and recently receiv..

Dear Colleagues, Two months ago, I was privileged to speak at the 2017 meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ (RCOG) in Cape Town about our global curriculum and training programme. At the same meeting, our former President, Lynnette Denny gave a wonderful plenary lecture highlighting the huge health care inequalities between the first and third worlds and emphasised that a diagnosis of cervical cancer, the leading cause of death of women from cancer in emerging coun..

Dear Colleagues, One of the many outstanding benefits of being a member of our Society is access to our professional journal the International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer (IJGC) which is jointly published by IGCS and ESGO.  IJGC has allowed us to build a collective knowledge base and play a vital role in the archive of knowledge, and in forming a comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative body of information. The journal has provided a unique repository for researchers and clinicians in the..

Dear Colleagues, I am extremely honored to have been elected President of IGCS and look forward to working hard for the membership over the next two years. The Council is strategically engaged, continuing to evolve and grow the society and our outreach to ensure we make a difference in the education and training of providers of gynecologic oncology care in an international context. IGCS has been part of my life since I became a founding member in the mid-1980s. The formation of the society came ..