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Your Nominees: IPOS Board Nominations for 2025 – 2027 Term

6 Jun 2025 11:54 AM | John Chagnon (Administrator)

Thank you to all that submitted a board nomination by the June 2, 2025 deadline. Nominations are now closed.

As for next steps:

  1. Ballots to be issued to all voting members on June 19, 2025. Only individuals with a current Active or ECP membership by June 17, 2025 will be issued a ballet by email (to the email address in individual member record files)
  2. Voting will close end of day July 7, 2025

We encourage all to click here and read about your 2025-2027 Board Candidates. Details on all have been provided below.

  • The following positions were open for nomination followed by nominations received for each:

    1. One Vice President position
      • Tania Estapé, Ph.D., FEFOC Fundació (Spain)
      • Melissa Henry, Ph.D, Gerald Bronfman Oncology Department, McGill University (Canada)
    2. One Secretary position
      • Cristiane Bergerot, Ph.D., Oncoclinicas&Co (Brazil)
      • Patricia A. Parker, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
    3. One Treasurer position
      • Jayita Deodhar, MD, MRCPsych, Diploma in Palliative Medicine (Cardiff University), Tata Memorial Hospital, Tata Memorial Centre (India)
    4. REGION 1: One Director from the targeted regions of Africa, Middle East, India or Russia.
      • Gil Goldzweig, The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo (Israel)
      • Zahra Riaz Haji, The Aga Khan University (Kenya)
      • Edgar Laleti Simiyu, KITALE county referral hospital (Kenya)
      • Margaret Mogaka, Ministry of Health Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (Kenya)
      • Surendran Veeraiah, M.Phil., Ph.D., Cancer Institute (WIA) (India)
5.     REGION 2: One Director from Asia/Pacific.
  • Daisuke Fujisawa, MD, CPsy, Ph.D, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control (Japan)
  • Lemeng Zhang, MD, Hunan Cancer Hospital (China)

6.     REGION 3: One Director from Canada and one Director from the USA.
  • Annett Körner, Ph.D., McGill University (Canada)
  • Sophie Lebel, Ph.D, C.Psych, University of Ottawa (Canada)
  • Carmen G. Loiselle, Ph.D., McGill University (Canada)
  • Amanda Balakirsky, PsyD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
  • Girish Lad, Ph.D., Texas School of Mental Health (USA)
  • Olimpia Petzold, Lone Star College (USA)
  • Kevin Stein, Ph.D., FAPOS, MaineHealth Institute for Research (USA)

7.     REGION 4: One Director from Europe/UK.
  • Ozan Bahcivan, Ph.D. (Clinical and Health Psych.), MPsych (Health), BPsych (Hons), Oz Psychological Consultancy (Portugal)

8.     REGION 5: One Director from Latin and Central America.
  • Rodbin Campos Lobo, MA., Costa Rican Social Security System (CCSS) (Costa Rica)
  • Isabel María Centeno Sánchez, Ph.D. Candidate, Hospital Zambrano Hellion (Mexico)
  • Leticia Ascencio Huertas, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute of Mexico (Mexico)

9.     One Early Career Director
  • Laura Charlesworth, Ph.D., Society and College of Radiographers and York St John University (UK)
  • Tihana Gašpert, RN, BSc, MSc, PhD (c), University Hospital Rijeka (Croatia)

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