FACULTY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COURSE

  Course Directors: Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D.
Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Breast - Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
 Update on core needle biopsies
 Benign breast disease and breast cancer risk
 Prognostic factors, pathologic features and clinical significance of ductal and lobular carcinoma in situ
 Use and limitations of immunohistochemistry in breast pathology
 

Dermatopathology - Bruce R. Smoller, M.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
 An approach to pigmented lesions of the skin
 Superficial and deep perivascular dermatitis
 

Endocrine - Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D., University Health Network, University of Toronto
 A practical approach to the thyroid nodule
 Parathyroid hyperplasia vs neoplasia
 Pituitary, adrenal nodule, endocrine pancreas
 

Gastrointestinal - Robert E. Petras, M.D., AmeriPath, Inc.
 Biopsy interpretation of inflammatory bowel disease
 Nomenclature/management of early colorectal carcinoma
 Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis
 Dysplasia and cancer in inflammatory bowel disease
 Gastroesophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s esophagus
 Ulcerative colitis vs. Crohn's Disease vs. Indeterminate colitis
 

Genitourinary - David J. Grignon, M.D., Wayne State University Medical School and Harper Hospital
 Prostate: ASAP - is it cancer or not? Biopsy Gleason grading - a practical approach
 Bladder: WHO/ISUP classification of urothelial tumors
 

GYN Cervix and Vulva - Christopher P. Crum, M.D., Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 Discussion of new entities and concepts in the diagnosis of vulvar and cervical neoplasia
 

GYN Ovaries and Uterus - Debra A. Bell, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
 Update on ovarian epithelial tumors
 Differential diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma
 Differential diagnosis of uterine mesenchymal neoplasms
 

Head and Neck - Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, M.D., Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto
 Squamous cell carcinoma of UADT: Practical considerations and morphologic variants
 A practical approach to the diagnosis of salivary gland neoplasms
 

Hematopathology - Steven H. Swerdlow, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 Distinguishing benign from malignant lymphoid proliferations
 Moving beyond the Working Formulation: Lymphoma classification
 Dealing with extranodal lymphoid infiltrates
 

Liver - Linda D. Ferrell, M.D., University of California at San Francisco
 Hepatitis - the alphabet soup
 Update on cirrhosis
 

Neuropathology - Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
 The 10 most common pitfalls in surgical neuropathology and how to avoid them
 The diagnostic approach to primitive neuroectodermal tumors, embryonal tumors, and other small cell and poorly differentiated neoplasms of the central nervous system
 Newly recognized and newly discredited brain tumors: the WHO 2000 classification and beyond
 Practical classification and grading of meningiomas
 

Pulmonary - Andrew Churg, M.D., University of British Columbia
 Diagnosis of mesotheliomas
 Classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
 

Renal Pathology - Fred G. Silva, M.D., USCAP
 A practical (algorithmic) approach to classification and review of renal diagnosis
 Problems in differential diagnosis
 Update on pathogenesis of renal diseases
 

Soft Tissue - John R. Goldblum, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation
 Approach to common morphologic patterns in soft tissue tumors including myxoid, spindle cell, round cell and pleomorphic tumors
 Update on lipomatous and fibrohistiocytic tumors