ISUP Global Engagement and Outreach Committee
Connecting Genitourinary Pathologists Across the Globe
Activities:
1. Coordinate educational activities and scientific collaborations with regional and national pathology societies around the globe.
2. Provide guidance regarding the best practice of genitourinary pathology, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
3. Appoint and maintain ISUP ambassadorship program in participating countries.
Upcoming Events
SEAUPS–ISUP Global Engagement & Outreach Webinar Practical Diagnosis of Genitourinary Cancers
Date: August 25, 2026
Time: 20:00 (UTC+7) | 06:00 (UTC−7)
Platform: Zoom
Register : https://bit.ly/SEAUPS-ISUP-NEW
Featured Presentations
Jerasit Surintrspnonont (Thailand) and Holger Moch (Switzerland) How Will You Handle These Uncommon Kidney Tumor Cases?
G.J.L.H. (Arno) van Leenders (Netherlands) Contemporary Prostate Biopsy Reporting
Mahul B. Amin (USA) Grading Bladder Cancer Based on the WHO/ISUP 1998 Classification Schema: A 2026 Perspective
Moderators
Dilek Ertoy Baydar (Turkey) and Sasimars “Meiji” Saengsawangchai (Thailand)
Committee Members
Chair
Gladell P. Paner, MD, FCAP
Professor / Department of Pathology and Surgery (Urology)
Director of Genitourinary Pathology Service
University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA
Co-chair for Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Africa
Dilek Ertoy Baydar, MD
Professor / Department of Pathology and Research Center for Translational Medicine
Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Treasurer, Executive Committee of Turkish IAP Division
Chair, Uropathology Working Group of European Society of Pathology
Co-Chair for Eastern, Southern and Central Asia
Jeffrey S. So, MD, FPSP
Associate Professor III / St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine – WHQM, Philippines
President, Southeast Asian Urological Pathology Society (SEAUPS)
President, Philippines Society of Pathologists Inc.
Co-Chair for Latin America and the Caribbean
Isabel Alvarado-Cabrero, MD, PhD
Chief / Oncology Reference Center and Department of Pathology, Star Medica Center and Tlalnepantla Hospitals, Mexico
Coordinator of International Affairs of the Latin American Society of Pathology
(Sociedad Latinoamericana de Patología
Members
Milagros Abad-Licham, MD, MsC
Oncologist Pathologist / Head of Pathology Department
Instituto Regional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas – Norte (IREN Norte)
Assistant Professor Medicine School Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego
President, Latin American Society of Cytopathology (SLAC)
Trujillo, Perú
Turki Al Hussain, MD
Urologic Pathologist and Nephropathologist / Department of Anatomic Pathology
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Daniel Athanazio MD, PhD
Professor / Department of Pathology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Pathologist, Head of Urologic Pathology, Oncoclinicas Precision Medicine, Brazil
Coordinator of the Scientific Department, Brazilian Society of Pathology
Busra Yaprak Bayrak, MD
Associate Professor / Department of Pathology
School of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
Huiying He, MD, PhD
Chief Physician, Associate Professor and Vice Director / Department of Pathology
Peking University Health Science Center/Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
Seema Kaushal, MD
Professor and Lead Genitourinary Pathology / Department of Pathology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Olufemi J. Ogunbiyi, MBBS, FWAC
Professor / Department of Pathology
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan/ University College Hospital
Ibadan, Nigeria
Jerasit Surintrspanont, MD
Attending Pathologist / Department of Pathology, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand
Secretary, Southeast Asian Urological Pathology Society (SEAUPS)
Anglita Yantisetiasti, MD
Head of Anatomical Pathology Residency Training Program
Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, and Anatomical Pathology Department, Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung, Indonesia
Vice President, Southeast Asian Urological Pathology Society (SEAUPS)
Ambassadors
Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Africa
Algeria
Asma Loucif, MD
Assist. Prof. of Pathology
Department of Pathology, EHS Constantine – Specialized Hospital for Uro-Nephrology
Faculty of Medicine, Constantine University
Constantine, Algeria
Khadidja Mokeddem, MD
Professor and Head of Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Blida
University Hospital Center of Douera, Algiers, Algeria
Egypt
Laila M. Farid, MD, IFCAP, DipRCpath
Assoc. Prof. of Pathology
Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University
Deputy Director of The Pathology Unit – Human Tissue Biobank – MASRI Laboratories & Research Centre –ASU
Cairo, Egypt
Iran
Diana Taheri, MD
Professor of Urologic and Renal Pathology
Urology Research Center, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Isfahan Kidney Diseases Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Director of Nephropathology and Uropathology, Pathology Laboratory, Moheb Mehr Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Ivory Coast
Mohenou Isidore Jean-Marie Diomande
Professor of Anatomic Pathology
Laboratoire Cerbapath Africa Cocody-Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
Kuwait
Sundus Hussein, MD
Chair of the Pathology Program and Head of Office of Quality and Accreditation, Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Histopathology Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital
Jabriya, Kuwait
Libya
Yousef M Ali Hasen, MD, FRCPATH
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Medical University of Zawia
General Manager, Saray Salam Centre (SSC)
Saray Salam Centre (SSC), Tripoli, Libya
Morocco
Hicham El Attar, MD
Assist. Prof. of Pathology
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic in Benguerir
Morocco
Russia
Larisa V. Tsoy, PhD
Pathologist, Assistant Prof.
Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)
Trubetskaya st. 8-2, Moscow 119991, Russia
Eastern, Southern and Central Asia
China
Linni Fan, MD, PhD
Deputy Director of Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University
Xian, China
Qifeng Wang, MD, PhD
Leader of Genitourinary Pathology Group, and Department of Pathology
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Shanghai, China
Philippines
Wilfred Bryan A. Labadnoy, MD, DPSP
Medical Officer IV, Department of Pathology, Rizal Medical Center
Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Assistant Professor – Pathology, University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery España, Manila
Lecturer I – Pathology, Centro Escolar University
Mendiola, Manila
David Jerome P. Ong, MD-MBA, MMDPath
Active Consultant
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
The Medical City-Ortigas
Pasig City, Philippines
Thailand
Sasimars Saengsawangchai, MD
Department of Pathology, Siriraj Hospital
Mahidol University, Thailand
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
Laura Jufe, MD
Head of the Division of Pathology, Hospital J.M. Ramos Mejia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Past-president of Argentine Society of Pathology and Latin American Society of Pathology
Bolivia
Alejandro España, MD
Associate Pathologist
Department of Pathology
Private Cancer Center, “ONCOS”
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Brazil
LStephania Martins Bezerra, MD
Uropathology Coordinator
Department of Pathology
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
São Paulo, Brazil
Columbia
Yuly Ramírez, MD
Assistant Pathologist
Cancer Treatment and Research Center. Genitourinary Tumors Program. “Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo”
Bogota, Colombia
Costa Rica
Pablo Goyenaga, MD
Assistant Pathologist
Department of Pathology
Hospital “San Juan de Dios” de la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social
Costa Rica
Chile
Iván Gallegos Méndez, MD
Assistant Pathologists
Department of Pathology
Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile
CITOLAB
Santiago, Chile
Dominican Republic
Rafael Arturo Estevez-Castro, MD
Assistant Pathologists
Hospital Regional Universitario, “José María Cabral y Báez”
Dominican Republic
Denisse Elena Fernández Pichardo, MD
Assistant Pathologists
Cases-Laboratory of Pathology
Dominican Republic
Mariela Peralta Bernal, MD
Assistant Pathologist
Pathology Laboratory “Contreras Robledo”
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guadalupe Vela Jiménez, MD
Head of the Pathology Department
Hospital de Oncología y Hospital General ISS
San Salvador, El Salvador
Guatemala
Roberto Orozco, MD
Assistant Pathology
Department of Pathology
Hospital General San Juan de Dios
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Mexico
Ana María Gómez-Ramirez, MD
Professor of Pathology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico City, Mexico
Delia Pérez Montiel, MD
Pathologist
National Institute of Cancerology
Mexico City, Mexico
Panama
Rolando Milord, MD
Pathologist
Hospital San José
Panama University
Panama
Peru
Lourdes Susana Huanca Amesquita, MD
Associate Pathologist
National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN)
Lima, Peru
Luis Taxa Rojas, MD
Head of the Department of Pathology
National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN)
Lima, Peru
Uruguay
Maria Luisa Musto, MD
Head of the Department of Pathology
Diagnostico SRL
Montevideo, Uruguay