Professor Fernando Schmitt is currently Professor of Pathology and Medical Faculty of Porto University and Head of Molecular Pathology Unit at IPATIMUP, Porto. After finishing Medical School in Brazil in 1983, he was Assistant Professor of Anatomic Pathology at the Medical Faculty of Santa Maria and Associate Professor of Anatomic Pathology at the University of São Paulo. In 2004, he started working at the Medical Faculty at the University of Porto where he was Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Molecular Pathology Unit at IPATIMUP. From 2013-2014, Professor Schmitt was full professor of pathology at the University of Toronto and from 2014-2016 was Director of the Department of Pathology at Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg.Professor Schmitt currently is the General Secretary of the International Academy of Cytology and President of the Portuguese Society of Cytology. He also been President of the European Federation of Cytology Societies and Chairman of the Working Group of Cytopathology of the European Society of Pathology. Professor Schmitt is a member of many journal editorial boards, including Acta Cytologica, Diagnostic Cytopathology, Cancer Cytopathology, Cytopathology, BMC Cancer and the Journal of Clinical Pathology. Professor Schmitt has published more than 400 scientific papers and is an experienced international lecturer. Together with Gary Tse and Puay Hoon Tan, he has published the book Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of the Breast with Springer in 2013.