Biography
Honorary Professor at Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Senior Consultant Pathologist at Hospital Sant Pau
Dr. Prat is an internationally recognized expert on Gynecological Pathology. He graduated from Madrid Medical School (MD) and trained initially at Fundación Jimenez Diaz (1971-72). After almost 10 years of training and practice in the US (The New York Hospital – Cornell Medical College (1972-75), Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (1975-76), and Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital (1976-81), he became Director of Pathology at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (1981-83) and, later, Chair of Pathology at University of Alicante (1982-86). Dr. Prat served as Director of Pathology at Hospital Sant Pau and Professor at UAB from 1986 to 2014. He has authored 300 publications and serves on multiple editorial boards (Am J Surg Pathol, Human Pathol,Int J Gynecol Pathol, Int J Gynecol Cancer, and others). His research focused on clincopathologic and molecular genetics features of gynecological cancers. Dr. Prat was a fellow of the American Cancer Society. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of GB, and faculty at the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology (1977-2004). President of the Spanish Society of Pathology (1993-95), the European Board of Pathology (1999-2004), and the International Society of Gynecologic Pathologists (2007-2009). He is also member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Committee for Classification of Tumours of the Female Genital Tract, (IARC; 2003 and 2014), and The International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FIGO), Committee on Gynecologic Oncology (2008-), and American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) (2014-). Dr. Prat has been responsible of the new FIGO guidelines for uterine sarcomas (2009) and for staging cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube and peritoneum (2014) on behalf of the FIGO Committee on Gynecologic Oncology. He is a contributor of the World Cancer Report 2014.
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