COMPANION MEETINGS Pulmonary Pathology Society   Saturday, February 26, 2011 — 7:00 p.m., CC 007 A/B   Hot Topics in Pulmonary Pathology   Moderators: Jaishree Jagirdar, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX and Philip T. Cagle, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX   Disclosure: In accordance with ACCME guidelines regarding disclosure, the USCAP policy requires that faculty members who have a significant financial or other relationship with a commercial company, entity, or service (which will be discussed in this Symposium) must disclose this to attendees. The Academy also requires that speakers disclose any products that are not labeled for the use under discussion. The speakers listed below have indicated they have nothing to disclose. Click the button above to add this event to your Itinerary Planner... 7:00 Proposed Revisions to the Classification of Pulmonary Carcinomas - Bill Travis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 7:40 Update on the Classification of Interstitial Lung Disease - Andrew G. Nicholson, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, England 8:20 Pulmonary Pathology of Collagen Vascular Disease - Kevin O. Leslie, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ The topic for the 2011 PPS Companion Meeting was decided upon by the PPS Program Committee after soliciting input from the PPS membership and the PPS Program Committee. The purpose of the companion meeting is to inform the audience of the most recent advances in the understanding of pulmonary pathology. Proposed revisions to the classification of lung carcinomas, issues regarding the classification of interstitial lung diseases, and current understanding of the pulmonary pathology of collagen vascular diseases all have diagnostic and therapeutic applications that are presently applicable to the practice of pulmonary pathology. The objective of the 2011 PPS Companion Meeting is to advance the understanding of the current issues in pulmonary pathologists as well as general pathologists.