Gastrointestinal (Upper) Pathology
Professor Gregory Y. Lauwers
Senior Member in Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Centre
Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology,
Professor of Oncologic Sciences,
Pathology and Cell Biology at the
University of South Florida, USA
Dr. Gregory Lauwers is a Senior Member in Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Professor in the Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Pathology and Cell Biology at the University of South Florida
Dr. Lauwers received his MD from the University of Paris, France. He completed a Surgical Pathology Residency at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY and a Fellowship in Oncologic Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he also served as Chief Fellow. Following his Fellowship, Dr. Lauwers served successively in the Department of Pathology at the University of Florida; in the Department of Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School) and in the Department of Pathology at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Lauwers has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, and book chapters, and is coauthor of several textbooks, including the 5th and 6th editions of Morson and Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology; “Advances in Surgical Pathology: Gastric Cancer” and recently “Gastrointestinal Pathology: Correlative Endoscopic and Histologic Assessment”
Dr. Lauwers serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He also contributed to the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Digestive System, 4th and 5th edition (2010 and 2019) and currently serves on the Expert Members Committee for the forthcoming 6th edition.
Dr. Lauwers’ areas of clinical focus include luminal malignancies of the gut (particularly esophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma)
Cytopathology & Pathology Education
A/Professor Min En Nga
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology,
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology,
National University Hospital, Singapore
A/Prof Nga obtained Histopathology Fellowships from both the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the United Kingdom. Her area of subspecialty interest is Cytopathology. She is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Cytology, and completed her Cytology Fellowship at QEII Hospital in Western Australia, under the generous mentorship of Drs Felicity Frost and Gregory Sterrett.
A/Prof Nga is a council member of the Singapore Society of Cytology, and co-editor of their biannual newsletter, CytoPage. She is also a frequent speaker in local and international pathology conferences, and has been an invited keynote speaker conferences in Australia and India. Her particular areas of interest are in thyroid, lymph node and pancreatic cytology. She has authored a cytopathology book entitled Practical Diagnostic Approaches In Non-Gynaecologic Cytology, which is published by Springer (2022). Also amongst her writing credits are co-authorship of a chapter in the WHO Classification of Tumours: Paediatric Tumours (Papillary thyroid carcinoma). In 2024, A/Prof Nga delivered a Short Course in the USCAP Annual Scientific Meeting in Baltimore, on the topic of lymph node cytology.
A/Prof Nga is a keen driver of innovation in education. She has created several online teaching resources including Pathweb, a comprehensive online learning resource with several thousand registrants from over 130 countries. She is also the creator of the Pathweb Teacher YouTube channel which has more than 20000 subscribers. In addition, her Cytopathology website, Cytoweb, is featured in the International Academy of Cytology website as an educational resource. In 2019, she was the recipient of the National University of Singapore Outstanding Educator Award.
Outside the clinical realm, A/Prof Nga has also been an elected fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy, in which she has helmed the Teachers Who Inspire team, producing videos of inspiring teachers from various faculties. Since 2023, she has also been a member of the University Teaching Excellence Committee (UTEC), which determines the recipients of the highest teaching honours in NUS.
In addition to her work in undergraduate teaching, A/Prof Nga is also keenly interested in the mentoring and training pathology residents. She has served as Core Faculty in the NUHS Pathology Residency programme since its inception.
Digital & Salivary Gland Pathology
Professor Joaquín J. García, MD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology,
Chair of Anatomic Pathology,
Mayo Clinic Rochester,
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Dr. Joaquín J. García pursued undergraduate studies in Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley and attended medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. García trained in Anatomic Pathology at University of California San Francisco, Oncologic and Molecular Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Head & Neck Pathology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. García is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Anatomy at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Dr. García has over 10 years of experience as Medical Director of the Histology Laboratory, Histology Technician Program, and School of Medicine Histology Course. Dr. García possesses expertise in head and neck, frozen section, and molecular pathology; he has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts and authored several book chapters and books. Dr. García is currently the Chair of Anatomic Pathology and the Digital Pathology Program at Mayo Clinic Rochester.