Meet the editor

Professor Ilze Strumfa, MD, Ph.D., is an outstanding medical lecturer, actively involved in research in pathology. She graduated from the Medical Academy of Latvia with distinction in 1998, underwent board certification in pathology in 2001, and received a Ph.D. degree in 2005. Currently, she is a professor and head of the Department of Pathology, at Riga Stradins University (RSU), Riga, Latvia. Her 14 years of teaching ex-

perience culminated in 2018 in the award of the RSU Lecturer of the Year, given to the most distinguished teachers. As the head of the Department of Pathology, she leads a skilled, motivated team of teachers and scientists whose awards have included Best Academic Unit (2011), Best Ph.D. Student (2012), and Best Digital Junior Teacher (2016). Prof. Strumfa is the author/co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 16 chapters in scientific monographs/medical textbooks, as well as the editor of three monographs. She has acted as the leading expert in several European and national research projects devoted to the development of diagnostic technologies, laboratory training in research, cancer pathology and tumour microenvironment. Her main research interests include morphological and molecular diagnostics and prognostic assessment of tumours as well as digital pathology and other innovations in pathology and cytology.
