2014 Pathology Update Agenda

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Friday, November 14, 2014

0715 Registration and Breakfast
0750 Welcome
Dr. Richard Hegele
Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Session 1
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Tanguay
0800 Prostate: Benign mimics of malignancies on cores
Dr. Steven Shen
0830 Head and Neck: Biopsy difficulties with squamous lesions
Dr. Ilan Weinreb
0910 Panel Discussion
0930 Break
Session 2
Moderator: Dr. Hala Faragalla
1000 Lung: Diagnostic difficulties in small lung biopsies
Dr. Jeffrey Tanguay
1030 Diagnostic approach to mediastinal lesions
Dr. Sindy Chang
1100 Panel Discussion
1130 Lunch
Session 3
Moderator: Dr. Brendan Dickson
1230 Kidney: subtyping tumours on core biopsies
Dr. Steven Shen
1300 Immunohistochemistry to resolve common diagnostic dilemmas in Gyne pathology
Dr. Matthew Cesari
1330 Skin lesions you can manage yourself
Dr. Victor Tron
1400 Panel Discussion
1430 Break
Session 4
Moderator: Dr. Sindy Chang
1500 Retroperitoneum: spindle cell lesions
Dr. Brendan Dickson
1530 Breast: difficulties in core biopsies
Dr. AnnaMarie Mulligan
1600 Breast: post-neo-adjuvant therapy issues in interpretation
Dr. Hala Faragalla
1630 Panel Discussion
1700 Interesting Cases
Dr. Steven Shen and other speakers

Saturday, November 15, 2014

0715 Registration and Breakfast
Session 1: Frozen section issues
Moderator: Dr. Scott Boerner
0800 Neuropathology frozen sections for non-neuropathologists
Dr. Julia Keith
0830 Classification of fallopian tube lesions
Dr. Patricia Shaw
0900 Panel Discussion
0930 Break
Session 2: Frozen sections and on-site diagnosis
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Shaw
1000 Frozen sections in Whipple’s resections
Dr. John Wong
1030 Issues in Cytology on-site diagnoses
Dr. Scott Boerner
1100 Panel Discussion
1130 Evaluation and Adjournment