Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
March 11 - 13, 2009

The educational objectives for the short course program are: 1) to sharpen existing expertise, 2) to enhance the participants spectrum of professional competence, 3) to stimulate interest, understanding and preparation for future responsibilities, 4) to update basic science concepts for procedures and precepts used in practice and 5) to provide, when needed, an understanding of current standards, techniques, criteria, classifications, etc. The courses will be presented on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 11 - 13th. The Wednesday courses will be scheduled from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 N and 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.( with an hour break to allow viewing of the posters). The Thursday and Friday courses will be scheduled from 8:00 - 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Information on study material is included in each course description. Study sets, where available, will be mailed to registrants beginning early in January. Loan sets of glass slides will be issued on a first come, first served basis since the number available is limited. Because of customs regulations, glass slides will not be mailed outside the U.S. and are only mailed prior to the Annual Meeting. Loan sets of glass slides are not mailed to Junior Members using the reduced registration fees. LOAN SETS OF GLASS SLIDES ARE TO BE RETURNED TO THE MEETING REGISTRATION DESK AT THE CONVENTION CENTER PRIOR TO THE COURSE. NO TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED WITHOUT THE RETURN OF YOUR LOAN SETS, UNLESS A $100.00 DEPOSIT FOR EACH SET IS MADE. Some courses have virtual slides, or still images, for study prior to the course. No study materials except glass slides will be mailed in advance. Instead, registrants will be mailed a link to a website where they can view both still images and virtual slides online. After the meeting, all registrants for courses which have glass slides, still images, or virtual slides will be mailed a CD-ROM of representative materials to keep for their future reference. If a short course has glass slides, they will be available for viewing in the microscope room at the Convention Center from Sunday, March 8 through Friday noon, March 13. THE COURSE OFFERINGS ARE DESCRIBED ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES AND ARE PRESENTED IN THEIR DESIGNATED TIME SLOTS WHICH CORRESPOND TO THE ONLINE REGISTRATION INFORMATION. Announcing - Some short courses may be used as Self-Assessment Module (SAMs) credits which can be used toward satisfying the American Board of Pathology requirements for SAMs for maintenance of certification with successful completion of a post-test. Courses which may be used as SAMs will be identified at the end of the course description. PRE-REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED NOTE: In keeping with the short course rotation policy, certain courses will not be offered after the 2009 meeting. This information is noted at the end of the course description of those courses. Courses which are new for 2009 and courses which can be used as SAMs credits are also identified. SHORT COURSE FACULTY Name Course Name Course     Susan C. Abraham 08     Sanjay Kakar 03     Geza Acs 52     Anna-Luise A. Katzenstein 17     Mahul B. Amin 15     Scott E. Kilpatrick 19     Sylvia L. Asa 05     Grace E. Kim 03     Marie-Christine Aubry 04     Marsha C. Kinney 26     Sunil Badve 44     Michael J. Klein 10     Adam Bagg 29     Alyssa M. Krasinskas 08     Ulysses G.J. Balis 32     Robert J. Kurman 48     Zubair W. Baloch 05     Paul J. Kurtin 54     E. Leon Barnes 25     Wendy A. Lavezzi 16     Todd Barry 30     Thomas J. Lawton 52     Charles N. Bernstein 12     Laurence de Leval 34     Steven D. Billings 27     David Lewin 60     Christine Booth 39     Megan S. Lim 02     Theonia K. Boyd 62     Virginia A. LiVolsi 05     Jennifer A. Brainard 56     Ricardo V. Lloyd 51     Daniel J. Brat 37     Teri A. Longacre 21     Elizabeth M. Brunt 20     William R. Macon 54     Longwen Chen 39     Alberto Marchevsky 35     Arul Chinnaiyan 02     Barbara J. McKenna 53     Andrew Churg 36     Helen Michael 49     Arthur H. Cohen 68     Elizabeth Montgomery 53     J. Douglas Miles 38     Cesar A. Moran 40     Laura C. Collins 31     Michael Morgan 55     James R. Cook 26     Jeffrey L. Myers 17     Jenny Cotton 27     Cynthia C. Nast 68     Christopher P. Crum 18     Volker Nickeleit 33, 45     Sanja Dacic 43     Amy Noffsinger 22     Rita D’Angelo 14     Marisa R. Nucci 18     Ahmet Dogan 54     Esther Oliva 21     John Eble 07     Robert Padera 62     William D. Edwards 04     Arie Perry 37     David E. Elder 42     Richard A. Prayson 38     Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson 02     Bradley Quade 18     Tarik M. Elsheikh 46     Raymond W. Redline 28     Lori A. Erickson 51     Carol Reynolds 52     Linda D. Ferrell 03     Marie E. Robert 12     Milton J. Finegold 50     Brigitte M. Ronnett 48     Thomas J. Flotte 32     Omar P. Sangueza 19     Craig B. Fowler 23     Stuart J. Schnitt 31     William J. Frable 67     Rajal B. Shah 13     Mostafa Fraig 60     Jan F. Silverman 46, 67     William K. Funkhouser 59     Harsharan K. Singh 45     Stephen A. Geller 50     M. Timothy Smith 61     Jeffrey D. Goldsmith 08     Robert A. Soslow 21, 41     Neal Goldstein 30     John R. Srigley 49     David Grignon 07     J. Thomas Stocker 28     Margaret L. Gulley 59     Saul Suster 40     Meera R. Hameed 10     Steven H. Swerdlow 26     Elizabeth Hammond 33     Henry D. Tazelaar 04, 47     Donna E. Hansel 15     Carmen Tornos 41     Nancy Lee Harris 34     Russell Vang 48     John Hart 22     Jo-Anne Vergilio 29     Robert P. Hasserjian 34     Donald L. Weaver 24     Jonathan L. Hecht 62     Cynthia T. Welsh 61     Kim Hiatt 55     Mark R. Wick 35     David Hicks 44     Eva M. Wojcik 39     Michelle S. Hirsch 18     Barbara C. Wolf 16     Eric D. Hsi 56     Xiaowei (George) Xu 42     Jennifer L. Hunt 25, 47     Matthew M. Yeh 20     Aliya N. Husain 28     Lisa Yerian 22     Timothy W. Jacobs 24     Richard J. Zarbo 14     Michael A. Kahn 23     Ming Zhou 13