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 lesion
 Uses and limitations of immunohistochemistry in breast pathology
 Current status of HER2 testing
 Columnar cell lesions and flat epithelial atypia
 

Dermatopathology - A. Neil Crowson, M.D., University of Oklahoma and Regional Medical Laboratories, Tulsa
 Unusual variants of melanoma
 Neutrophilic dermatoses
 

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
  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
  The differential diagnosis of various other forms of colitis
 

Genitourinary - Victor E. Reuter, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 Morphologic assessment of the prostate and its clinical impact
 Problematic cases in GU pathology
 

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 & 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 - Jeffrey L. Myers, M.D., Mayo Clinic
 Review of common diagnostic challenges in biopsy diagnosis of non-neoplastic lung diseases
 Update on tumor diagnosis using current WHO terminology, including problems in diagnosis of lung carcinoma as well as selected uncommon but distinctive lung neoplasns.
 

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