It is with regret that WASPaLM and the World Pathology Foundation announce that Dr. Tadashi Kawai passed away on June 27, 2025.
He served as WASPaLM president from 1991 to 1993 and World Pathology Foundation president from 1984 to 1987.
He was a prominent and most respected clinical pathologist and will be greatly missed.
WASPaLM is the World Association of societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine founded in Parisin September 1947. Soon alter the end of World War Il, the possibility of founding a World Federation of Constituent Societies of Pathology was considered by a group of pathologists in London. The new Society, which had as members national societies of clinical pathology, (initially from France, the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium), was governed by a House of Delegates representing its Constituent Societies, with a Bureau to serve as the Executive Committee of the House, a pattern of government which persists today.
XXXIV World Congress of the World Association of Societies of Pathology and Medicine of Laboratory (WASPaLM), together with the 51st National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI) and the 4th International Meeting of Medical Residents in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, to be held from October 14th to 17th, 2025, at The Westin Koregaon Park, Pune, India.
The theme of the Congress is “Laboratory Medicine at the Frontier of Patient-Centered Care”.
WHO open calls:
1. The open consultation of the definition of Diagnostics has been posted until 23rd May 2025.
2. Call for experts: Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD) is open until 11th May 2025.
3. Call for Experts – Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Medical Devices (STAG MEDEV) is open until 8th June 2025.
WHA78
1. WHA agenda https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha78.html
2. sessions related to medical devices:
13.1 On Non communicable diseases ( including resolutions WHA74.4 on diabetes and WHA73.2 on cervical cancer).
13.3 Primary Health Care which includes EB156(17) on diagnostic imaging for approval
13.6 Medical devices nomenclature
13.7 On health workforce
3. Side events:
WHA Official side event, taking place in person, in the Palais des Nations: https://apps.who.int/gb/Side-Events/WHA78/pdf_files/List_of_side_events_WHA78.pdf
Particularly you are all welcome on 21 May 27. 19:30- 20:50 Moving towards Action: Strengthening Diagnostics Capacity Through Global Collaboration, co-organized by: Gates Foundation, GMTA, WFNMB, ISR.
WHA78 events including Official and non official: https://unfoundation.org/wha-78-calendar-side-events-more/
Particularly 21 May 18:30- 21:30 Strengthening medical imaging capacity: The time is now | Addressing NCDs in low-resource settings, co-organized with ISR, WFNMB
There are multiple events!!
5th Global Forum on Medical devices
The 5th WHO Global Forum on Medical Devices which will take place as a virtual event 2 to 4th June 2025,
Registration is open, which includes options for virtual exhibits, and side events panel sessions that can be organized by Member States, NGOs, WHO collaborating centers.
Please share with your colleagues.
This event is open to all interested.
For more information please contact global-forum-med-dev [email protected]
GORDON SIGNY FELLOWSHIP. The World Pathology Foundation was originally chartered in 1972, in Berne, Switzerland. At that time the World Association of Societies in Pathology or WASP, as it was then known, decided that a body, completely separate and independent of the WASP was required. The purpose of this new body was stated thus: ” The objectives of the Foundation are scientific, educational and charitable; to promote public safety and public health by fostering the development of good standards in anatomic and clinical pathology, especially in the developing countries.” To further these aims, the World Pathology Foundation will, among others, foster research, education and application of these medical sciences by organizing conferences, encouraging interchange of pathology information among nations and initiating and prompting publications in pathology. There is no record of why Switzerland was chosen as its initial home; the reason for the interval of two years before the WPF was accepted as a charity by the Swiss Authorities remains undocumented.
