Meet the IAP 

Officers of the IAP

President

Professor Emeritus Martin Hale from the South African Division is based at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg. 

For his biography, click here

Secretary

Professor Ray McMahon from the British Division is the Secretary of the IAP since December 2014. He is based in Manchester, UK and has previous experience with the British Division, as Councillor, Treasurer and President-elect. He has been Chair of the IAP Finance Committee. 

Treasurer

Dr. Hattab is the AJ Miller endowed Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Louisville. 

For his biography, click here

President-Elect

Dr. Henry Tazelaar from the US and Canadian Division ,and former IAP past Treasurer, is based at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. 

Past President

Professor Robert (Bob) Osamura from the Japanese Division was President of the IAP from Jan 2021 to Dec 2022. He is based at Nippon Koukan Hospital, Kawasaki and is a Visiting Professor at Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Chair of the Education Committee

Dr. Ghazi Zaatari, Chair of the Education Committee of the IAP, is a member of the Arab Division and is based at the American  University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Deputy Chair of the Education Committee

Prof. Dr. Annette Schmidt-Graeff, Deputy Chair of the Education Committee of the IAP, is based at Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany. 

For her biography,  click here.

Chair of the Finance Committee

Sigurd Lax is Chair of the Finance  Committee of the IAP and has been the president of the German IAP Division and the Austrian IAP Division/Austrian Society of Pathology.  He is based at the University of Graz. 

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