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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: Rosalind Glasspool, MD (UK)
Vice Chair: Abhishek Shankar, MD (India)
Mukhtasar Alkali (Nigeria)
Geetu Bhandoria, MD (India)
Nicoletta Cerana (Italy)
Michele Collins (USA)
Diane Crawford (USA)
Tash Crosby (New Zealand)
Noriko Fujiwara, MS, RN, CRN-BC, OCNS, CCRP (Japan)
Milicent Kagonga (Kenya)
Karen Livingston (Australia)
Adrienne Moore (USA)
Nefa-Tari Moore (USA)
Maggie Nicholas-Alexander (USA)
Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues, MD, PhD (Brazil)
Sandra Rosati (Italy)
Eva-Maria Strömsholm, MS, RN (Finland)
Chair: Paul Cohen (Australia)
Vice Chair: Michael Pearl (USA)
Immediate Past Chair: Ritu Salani (USA)
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: Peter Grant, MD (Australia)
Vice Chair: Anisa Mburu, MD (Kenya)
Pathology Work Group
Chair: Adrian Suarez (USA)
Radiation Oncology Work Group
Chair: Pearly Khaw (Australia)
Surgical Videos Work Group
Chair: Reitan Ribeiro (Brazil)
Vice Chair: Carrie Langstraat (USA)
Preinvasive Disease Program Work Group
Co-Chair: Maximillian Klar, Germany
Co-Chair: Alan Waxman, USA
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 Work Group
Mila Salcedo (USA)
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)
2025 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)
Vice President: Rhonda Farrell, MD (Australia)
Board Member: David Gaffney, MD (USA)
Board Member: Graziela Zibetti Dal Molin, MD (Brazil)
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)
2025 Annual Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society
Co-Chairs:
Linda Mileshkin, Australia
Saketh Guntupalli, USA
Michael Pearl, Ex-Officio Co-Chair, USA
Advocacy
Tracey Adams, South Africa
Early Career
Biruck Gashawbeza Batu, Ethiopia
Spyridon Mastroyannis, USA
Roberta Mazzeo, Spain
Anisa Mburu, Kenya
Ngoc Phan, Vietnam
Gynecologic Oncology
Glauco Baiocchi, Brazil
Eloise Chapman Davis, USA
Monia Hechiche, Tunisia
Dilayara Kaidarova, Kazakhstan
Jung-Yun Lee, Korea
Domenica Lorusso, Italy
Bongumusa Makhathini, South Africa
Jessica McAlpine, Canada
Linda Rogers, South Africa
Rupinder Sekhon, India
Medical Oncology
Susana Banerjee, UK
Yeh Chen Lee, Australia
Qinglei Gao, China
Alexandra Leary, France
Stephanie Lheureux, Canada
Agnieszka Michael, UK
Isabelle Ray-Coquard, France
David Tan, Singapore
Michelle Wilson, New Zealand
Nursing
Kayla Kafka-Peterson, USA
Biemba Maliti, Zambia
Katarzyna Wydrzynska-Gruner, USA/Poland
Palliative Care
Raimundo Correa, Chile
Nomonde Mbatani, South Africa
Pathology
Natalie Banet, USA
Gustavo Focchi, Brazil
Marsali Newman, Australia
Rachael van der Griend, New Zealand
Radiation Oncology
Sheynaz Bassa, South Africa
Umesh Mahantshetty, India
Hannah Simonds, UK
Advisors
Mansoor Mirza, Denmark
Brian Slomovitz, USA
Sudha Sundar, UK