Maria Rosaria Raspollini graduated from the University of Florence School of Medicine, Florence, Italy in 1994 and was trained in Pathology at the same University’s Institute of Pathology until 1998. She received her PhD in Human Oncological Pathology from the University of Verona Medical School, Italy in 2005. Since 2004, Dr. Raspollini has been a consultant pathologist at the Department of Histopathology and Molecular Diagnostics at the University Hospital Careggi of Florence, Italy. She is also a professor and tutor in Uropathology at the post-graduate School of Urology, University of Florence Medical School. From 2011 to 2013, she was Secretary/elected Chair of the Gynaecological Pathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology, and since 2013 she has been Chair of the Gynaecological Pathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology (ESP). Dr. Raspollini actively worked to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) and the ESP and is the official delegate of the ESP to the ESGO. Since 2013, she has served on the Scientific Committee of the European Congresses of Pathology, helping to plan all gynaecopathology sessions and courses. She serves as a reviewer for 25 peer-reviewed journals, and has published more than 150 scientific papers and chapters in textbooks in the field of gynaecological and genitourinary pathology. In addition she is co-editor of the following textbooks: “Gynecologic and Urologic Pathology. Similarities, Differences and Challenges” with Antonio Lopez-Beltran for Cambridge University Press, UK (2017) and “Pathology of the Prostate: An algorithmic approach” with Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Liang Cheng, and Rodolfo Montironi for Cambridge University Press, UK (2017). Antonio Lopez-Beltran is a Professor of Anatomic Pathology and Director of the Service of Anatomic Pathology at the Champalimaud Clinical Center, in Lisbon, Portugal and a FullProfessor of Anatomic Pathology at Cordoba University Medical School, Cordoba, Spain (since 2007). Prior to this, he was Director of Anatomic Pathology for Althia Health in Barcelona and Full Professor of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He spent 27 years at the University of Cordoba, Spain creating The Uro-Onclogy Research Lab. Professor Lopez-Beltran has authored or co-authored nearly 500 scientific papers (mostly on Uropathology and Urooncology) and contributed to several books on the WHO classification of urologic tumors (2004 WHO classification; 2016 WHO classification).
