Esther Rossi MD, PhD, MIAC

Dr. Esther Rossi received an MD, followed by a residency in Anatomic Pathology and a PhD from the Catholic University in Rome, Italy. She was an international observer in surgical pathology and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University (both in Philadelphia), Gustave Roussy (Paris), and the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP).

Prof. Rossi is currently the Director of Cytopathology and Endocrine Pathology at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Catholic University, also with the title of Full Professor. She has published more than 300 original articles, reviews, and book chapters on endocrine pathology, cytology, and head and neck pathology. Dr. Rossi has co-edited 6 books and served as co-editor of the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology, as well as for the new second edition. She also served as one of the three lead authors for the revisions to the Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification System, second edition, and is the lead author for the ATC chapter of the Bethesda III edition.

Prof. Rossi contributed chapters to the WHO Classifications of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors, Head and Neck Tumors, Pediatric Tumors, and Tumors of Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. She has delivered numerous lectures, workshops, and short courses at national and international meetings, including USCAP, ASC, ASCP, CAP, ECC, ICC, ESP, IAP, and SIAPEC. Prof. Rossi has been in the Scientific Committee of the European Congress of Cytology since 2015 and the European leading editor of the World Tumor Registry. She is the SIAPEC vice president of the upcoming 2025 ICC/World Congress of Cytology, which will be held in Florence in May 2025. Dr Rossi has been invited as a leading speaker for the American Thyroid Association 2023 and the College of American Pathology since 2018, every year.