FIGO staging for uterine sarcomas

Dr Jaime Prat received an MD from the University of Madrid and trained in anatomic pathology at The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical College, USA. After a postdoctoral fellowship in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he became a faculty member of the Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time, he was a Junior Faculty Clinical Fellow of the American Cancer Society. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology in anatomic pathology, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Great Britain, and has been on faculty at the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology since 1977. Dr Prat has served as Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Professor of Pathology at Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1986. His research has focused on clincopathologic features and molecular genetics of gynecological malignancies; he is the author of over 250 publications and serves on several editorial boards. Dr Prat is a past President of the European Board of Pathology (1999–2004), and is President of the International Society of Gynecologic Pathologists (2007–2009). He is also a member of the World Health Organization Committee for Classification of Tumours of the Female Genital Tract (IARC, Lyon France).