UCAP 2015 Speakers



António M F Araújo


António M F Araújo, MD PhD, Centro Hospitalar do Porto
Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Portugal

António M. F. Araújo is the Head of the Service of Medical Oncology at Centro Hospitalar do Porto, and is Assistant Professor at Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar – Porto University, since Mars 2014. He was the Head of the Lung Cancer Clinic at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology – Porto Centre, Porto, from 2006 to 2012, and Head of the Service of Medical Oncology at Centro Hospitalar de Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, from 2008 to 2014. He is member of the Portuguese National Council for Oncology, since 2013, and member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Health Regulatory Authority, since February 2015. Professor António Araújo obtained his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Porto, and he completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowship in medical oncology at V. N. Famalicão Hospital, V. N. Famalicão, Braga, Portugal. He gained his PhD in Medical Sciences at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar of University of Porto, in 2010. In 2011, he completed the AESE High Management Program of Health Institutions (XIV PADIS). His main research interests include developmental therapeutics, clinical and translational research, and molecular mechanisms of tumour resistance and progression in lung cancer. He is also involved in research on pharmaco-economy and costs of cancer treatment. He is coordinator and co-supervisor of several Master and PhD dissertation thesis from the University of Porto. Professor Araújo has authored or contributed to more than 70 scientific papers. He is a full member of ESMO, ASCO, IASLC, Portuguese Society of Oncology and Portuguese Society of Pulmonology. He was member of the Executive Board, from 2006 to 2012, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Lung Cancer Study Group, since 2012. He is vice-president of the Executive Board of the Northern Regional Council of the Portuguese Medical Association and he was member of the board management of the Centro Editor Livreiro da Ordem dos Médicos. Since the foundation, in 2010, he is the President of the Pulmonale – Portuguese Association Against Lung Cancer.





Andrew Folpe


Andrew L. Folpe, MD is Professor and Consultant at Division of Anatomic Pathology Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Dr. Folpe attended Amherst College (Amherst, MA) as an undergraduate, the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) as a medical student, and performed his residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle, WA). Dr. Folpe received additional fellowship training in Immunohistochemistry, under the direction of Dr. Allen Gown, and in Soft Tissue Pathology, under the direction of Dr. Sharon Weiss. Dr. Folpe is the author of over 170 medical publications, principally in the areas of soft tissue pathology and diagnostic immunohistochemistry, the co-author of the 6th edition of Enzinger and Weiss’ Soft Tissue Tumors and the most recent Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Fascicle on Soft Tissue Tumors, the co-author of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology: A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series, and a member of the consensus conferences for the 3rd and 4th editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone. Dr. Folpe also serves on the editorial boards of numerous pathology and dermatopathology journals. Dr. Folpe has lectured widely on various aspects of soft tissue pathology and diagnostic immunohistochemistry.
 In his spare time, Dr. Folpe enjoys spending time with his family, and is an avid cyclist, hiker of Australian Shepherds, and chef.



Andrew Rosenberg

Andrew E. Rosenberg, MD, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
Surgical pathologist with expertise in the pathobiology of diseases and neoplasms of the musculoskeletal system. Began training in Anatomic Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was Chief Resident, and subsequently a faculty member for a period of 30 years. During that time period, held a variety of administrative positions related to the oversight of Anatomic Pathology, the division of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology and Quality Assurance. Concurrently, he was a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and achieved the rank of Professor. In 2011, joined the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami where he is Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Director of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology.
His daily work focuses on the surgical pathology of the bone and soft tissue pathology – the in-house volume of tumors is very large and I also handle a significantly sized and challenging consultation practice. This experience has provided the materials for me to be able to teach pathologists, orthopedic surgeons, radiologists, and medical oncologists, and to publish over 250 articles and 50 chapters, and a book focusing on bone tumors.





Alena Skalova


Alena Skalova MD PhD, Professor of Pathology at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Czech Republic. 
Co-Author of Histopathology of the Salivary Glands, Springer.



Henrik Hellquist


Henrik Hellquist, MD, PhD, SAP (Stockholm), FRCPath (London), Professor of Pathology
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, University of Algarve
Co-Author of Histopathology of the Salivary Glands, Springer








Ian Ellis


Ian Ellis, MD PhD, Professor of Cancer Pathology, University of Nottingham; Medical Director.
Pathologist with thirty years of practice and an international reputation in clinical and translational research in breast disease, particularly classification of breast cancer and evaluation of prognostic factors. Author of over 500 peer reviewed scientific publications, chapters in medical textbooks and specialist textbooks in pathology and an experienced lecturer being a founder member of the faculty of the Nottingham International Breast Education Centre. Chairman of the UK National Co-ordinating Committee for Breast Pathology. Specialty Advisor of The Royal College of Pathologists and acted as an advisor to the DoH, UICC, WHO and IARC. Founder of PathLore and Medical Director of Source Bioscience plc. Has been Meetings Secretary of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is currently President.





Lina Carvalho


Lina Carvalho, MD PhD, Professor of Pathology na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra









Alberto Marchevsky


Alberto Marchevsky, MD is the Director of Pathology and Mediastinal Pathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, previously serving as Director of Anatomic Pathology. Dr. Marchevsky is also Clinical Professor of Pathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Dr. Marchevsky is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. A nationally recognized authority on the pathology of the lung and mediastinum, he is an expert in image analysis technology, telepathology and evidence-based pathology.
A member of numerous professional societies, Dr. Marchevsky is a fellow of the California Society of Pathologists and the College of American Pathologists and a former president of the Los Angeles Society of Pathologists. He is on the editorial board of Human Pathology, and Annals of Diagnostic Pathology.  Author of over 162 scientific articles, multiple book chapters and four books, including Surgical Pathology of the Mediastinum.
Dr. Marchevsky received his bachelor's degree from Colegio A. Alvarez and his medical degree from Cuyo University Medical School in Mendoza, Argentina. He completed an internship in the Pathology Department at Children's Hospital Boston and a fellowship in pathology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Marchevsky also completed a pathology residency and a fellowship in pulmonary pathology at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where he served as Chief Resident.


José Cabeçadas


José Cabeçadas, MD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa is a senior consultant pathologist (Chefe de Serviço), Head of the Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Instituto Português de Oncologia, Lisboa. Throughout his career pursued an interest in haemathopathology, with an emphasis in extranodal lymphomas and clonality assessment. Spent one year with Peter Isaacson in London working in lymphoma diagnosis and research. Served as officer in the ExCo of the European Association for Haematopathology and organized the EAHP meeting in Lisboa in 2012. Past President, Portuguese College of Pathologists, Member of the board of Euroclonality (http://euroclonality.org/), Member of the external scientific board of the Portuguese tissue bank network.





German Ott

German Ott, MD PhD
Head, Department of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Chief, Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Robert-Bosch Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany










Bostjan Luzar


Bostjan Luzar, MD PhD graduated at the Medical Faculty University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1993. After completing his residency in pathology, he became a consultant pathologist at the Institute of Pathology University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1998. Dr Luzar received his PhD degree in the field of Pathology in 2001 at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was elected Head of the Dermatopathology Department at the Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty University of Ljubljana in 2006 and holds this position up to present. Following his residency, he has further advanced his knowledge in Dermatopathology at several international renowned institutions. He completed a Dermatopathology fellowship with Dr Eduardo Calonje at the Department of Dermatopathology, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’s Hospital in London. He has published in excess of 70 SCI-indexed scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He has co-authored three chapters for the book McKee’s Pathology of the skin, 4th edition, has contributed one chapter for the forthcoming edition of the book Pathology of the head and neck, 2nd edition and has co-authored the forthcoming Atlas of Soft Tissue Tumours of the Skin. He is currently serving as the editor of the Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica and Adriatica journal and has reviewed for several international journals mainly devoted to Dermatopathology and Pathology.

Dr Luzar has been a member of the European Society of Pathology, the Dermatopathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology, the Slovenian Association for Pathology and Forensic Medicine and the Chair of Pathology at the Institute of Pathology, medical faculty in Ljubljana, where he also serves as a senior lecturer in Pathology. He has been the Chief Examiner for the Diploma in Pathology in Slovenia.
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Wolter J. Mooi


W.J. (Wolter) Mooi, MD PhD was born in Groningen, 1956. After studying medicine at the University of Leiden, and pathology at the Universities of Amsterdam and London, Wolter obtained his registration as consultant pathologist and his PhD degree (University of Amsterdam) in 1986. He joined the Netherlands Cancer Institute as research fellow, consultant pathologist and head of the Department of Pathology. Professorships at the VU University  Amsterdam (1991) and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (1996) followed. After a period of four years as head of department at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Wolter went back to Amsterdam, where is was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Amsterdam and, for the second time, at the VU University of Amsterdam, where he is now stationed and divides his time between surgical pathology, undergraduate teaching and research.
Wolter is (co-) author of 171 peer-reviewed articles, 3 monographs and numerous chapters on various topics of melanocytic and pulmonary pathology. He is laureate of various pathological societies, and in 2011 he was chosen, among 2000 competitors, as teacher of the year of VU University Amsterdam.
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