LONG COURSE Wednesday, February 15, 2006   —  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Centennial Ballroom III - IV PATHOLOGY OF LIVER and PANCREAS COURSE DIRECTORS: Linda Ferrell, MD University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California N. Volkan Adsay, MD The Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan The aim of this long course is to provide the practicing pathologist a comprehensive update on current topics dealing with medical and neoplastic diseases of the liver and pancreas through a series of lectures given by experts on these subjects. The first half of the course will deal with medical liver disease with topics on acute and chronic hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, iron overload syndromes, and fatty liver disease. The second half will first cover benign and malignant neoplasms of the liver with a focus on hepatocellular carcinoma and its differential diagnosis. This will be followed by discussions of pancreatic neoplasms including pancreatic adenocarcinoma and precursor lesions such as PanINS, mucinous tumors, and other non-ductal neoplasia. The final topic will be non-neoplastic problems and tumor-like lesions of the pancreas. The objectives of the individual lectures are listed in the syllabus. AGENDA 8:00 Welcome, Introduction Linda Ferrell, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 8:10 Problem Diagnoses of Acute/chronic Hepatitis, Grading and Staging for Chronic Hepatitis Neil Theise, MD Beth Israel Hospital, New York, NY 8:45 Autoimmune Disorders M. Kay Washington, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 9:30 Recess, Exhibits, Poster Session V 10:45 Questions 10:50 Iron Overload Syndromes Kenneth Batts, MD Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN 11:20 Fatty Liver Disease Elizabeth Brunt, MD St Louis University Hospital, St Louis, MO 12:00 Lunch Break 1:00 Questions 1:05 Neoplasms of the Liver Zachary Goodman, MD Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 1:45 Introduction to Pancreas N. Volkan Adsay, MD Wayne State University and The Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 1:50 Pancreatic Adenocarcinomas. An Update on the Surgical Pathology of Carcinomas of Pancreatic Ductal Origin and Panins Ralph Hruban, MD Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 2:30 Recess, Exhibits, Poster Session VI 3:45 Questions 3:50 Cystic neoplasia of the pancreas N. Volkan Adsay, MD Wayne State University and The Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 4:25 Non-ductal Neoplasia of the Pancreas David S. Klimstra, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 5:00 Chronic Pancreatitis, Pseudotumors and Other Tumor-like Lesions Günter Klöppel, MD University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany 5:25 Questions and Closing Remarks Linda Ferrell, MD University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA