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
 Intraductal proliferative lesions
 Lobular carcinoma in situ
 Prognostic factors
 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
 Practical issues in endocrine pathology including discussion of the value of cytology and frozen sections, the significance of oncocytic change, definitions of capsular and vascular invasion, and the role of adjuvant techniques including immunohistochemistry in endocrine lesions
 

Gastrointestinal - Donald A. Antonioli, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
 Updates on selected inflammatory and premalignant conditions of the GI tract, including esophagitis, Barrett’s esophagus and its complications, carditis, inflammatory bowel disease and dysplasia, and the differential diagnosis of various other forms of colitis.
 

Genitourinary - David J. Grignon, M.D., Wayne State University Medical School and Harper Hospital
 Prostate: Minimal diagnostic criteria for adenocarcinoma and important differential diagnoses.
 Biopsy Gleason grading - a practical approach.
 Kidney: 2003 WHO/AFIP Classification of epithelial tumors of the kidney - what’s new and what’s not with an emphasis on differential diagnosis.
 

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 the UADT. Is there anything new?
 Advances in non-squamous tumors of the Head and Neck.
 Developments and controversies in salivary gland tumor pathology.
 

Hematopathology - Steven H. Swerdlow, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 Using the WHO classification of non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas with selected examples
 Unraveling some of the mysteries of extranodal lymphomas
 

Liver - Linda D. Ferrell, M.D., University of California at San Francisco
 Update on acute and chronic hepatitis, including grading/staging
 Differential diagnostic problems of fibrosis/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!
 

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