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Australasian Division of the IAP
28th Annual Scientific Meeting

On Saturday,
Dr Stuart Schnitt from Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center, Boston. He will speak on Breast Pathology.

On Sunday,
Dr Larry Weiss from City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, California. He will speak on Malignant Lymphomas.

The format for this year is slightly changed to try and accommodate an element of the update sessions which used to be held on the Friday morning each year. As part of the process of emphasizing the central and important role that these Specialty Clubs play in our Annual Scientific Meeting, much more feedback is required from attendees.

Historically there has been a very poor response to the completion of questionnaires available at the Club Meetings and at the main weekend sessions. This year I have asked each Club Convenor to be much more aggressive and insistent that as many attendees as possible fill out the questionnaires provided. Someone will be stationed at the exits of the lecture rooms to collect these forms. With the help of the Secretariat, the questionnaire will be revised to make it more relevant to the change in meeting format and emphasis.

I hope that all attendees will assist us by completing the forms.

Dominic V. Spagnolo

8.55 - 10.40 Main Auditorium
Convenor: Dr Richard Jaworski

Lecture: "Mind like parachute! Work best when open!"
Speaker: Professor Peter Russell,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. N.S.W.

This will be followed by a slide seminar of 5 cases of gynaecological surgical pathology.
Presenters: Dr. Richard Jaworski, I.C.P.M.R., Westmead Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W.
Dr. James Kirker, Diagnostic Medlab, New Zealand.
Associate Professor Robert Osborn, I.C.P.M.R., Westmead Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W.
Dr. Nirmila Pathmanathan, I.C.P.M.R., Westmead Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W.

Convenor: Dr Richard Ojeda 1.

1. Welcome and aims
Dr Victor J. Ojeda 2.

2. Guest lecture: "Neurosurgeons and Histopathologists: interactions and expectations"
by Dr Marcus A. Stoodley,
Senior Lecturer in Neurosurgery and Consultant Neurosurgeon, Institute of Neurological Sciences, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW.

3. Slide Seminar:
a. Case 1
Dr. Anthony E.G. Tannenberg, Queensland
b. Case 2
Dr. Renate Kalnins, Victoria
c. Case 3
Dr. Victor J. Ojeda, New South Wales
d. Case 4
Prof. Peter C. Blumbergs, South Australia.

Convenor: Dr Kerry Crotty

9.00:
A/Professor Steven Kossard, Skin and Cancer Foundation
Atypical lentiginous junctional naevi of the elderly and melanoma

9.30:
Dr Kerry Crotty, Royal Newcastle Hospital
An approach to the diagnosis of recurrent melanocytic lesions.

9.50:
Dr Stan McCarthy,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Subungual melanoma

10.10:
Dr Chris Henderson,
Liverpool Hospital
An unusual presentation of Wegeners granulomatosis

10.20:
Dr Bish Dutta, Dutta Pathology
A pigmented nodule on the cheek

10.30:
Dr Richard Scolyer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Rosai-Dorffmann disease.

Convenor: Prof Michael Aldred

Speakers:
Murray Walker, Sheena Chan, Michael Aldred, Anastasia Georgiou and Anna Talacko.

This will include keynote addresses on CJD in dentistry (Sheena Chan) and periapical pathology (Michael Aldred) with case presentations on granular cell lesions of the oral cavity, odontogenic cysts and other oral pathology cases.

Convenor: Dr Richard Jaworski

Lecture:
"An Approach to the Diagnosis of Fatty Tumours"
Speaker: Dr. Phil Allen, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia.

This will be followed by a slide seminar of 6 cases of soft tissue tumours from both adult and paediatric patients.
Presenters:
Dr. Mark Coleman, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park. South Australia. Dr. Caroline Fung, I.C.P.M.R., Westmead Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W. Dr. Richard Jaworski, I.C.P.M.R., Westmead Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W. Dr. Andrew Kedziora, New Childrens Hospital, Westmead. N.S.W. Dr. Penelope McKelvie, St. VincentÕs Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria.

Convenor: Dr David Cohn

11:00 - 11:20am
1. Lecture:
Changes in the Management of Chronic Hepatitis B & C Ð Update
Speaker: Professor Geoff McCaughan, A.W. Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, R.P.A.H., Sydney. (5 minutes question time)

11:25 - 11:50am
2. Lecture:
Pathology of Chronic Hepatitis B & C
Speaker: Dr Andrew Clouston, Dept. of Pathology, P.A.H., Brisbane. (5 minutes question time)

11:55 - 12:10pm
3. Lecture:
Patterns of Drug Induced Liver Injury
Speaker: Dr Andrew Clouston, Dept. of Pathology, P.A.H., Brisbane. (5 minutes question time)

12:15 - 12:40pm
4. Lecture:
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Speaker: Professor Prithi Bhathal, Dept of Pathology, University of Melbourne. (5 minutes question time).

Convenor: Dr Jenny MaWyatt

1. Cystic fibrohistiocytic tumour of lung
Presented by Dr Belinda Clarke

2. Amiodarone lung with nodular lesions
Presented by Dr Jeanette Philips

3. Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour (Extraosseous EwingÕs sarcoma).
Presented by Dr Tony Dare

4. Pulmonary hypertension in childhood (2 cases)
Presented by Dr Susan Arbuckle

5. An unusual pleural sarcoma
Presented by Dr Richard Scolyer

Lecture:
ÒOld and New Problems in Pleural Pathology Part 2Ó
By Professor Doug Henderson

Convenor: Dr Robert Eckstein

1. Lecture:
Cytomegalovirus infection (15 minutes)
Speaker : Dr Anthony Gill, PaLMS, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

2. Lecture:
Gastrointestinal infection in immunosuppressed patients (60 minutes)
Speaker: Dr Andrew Field, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney

3. Lecture:
Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli infection (15 minutes)
Speaker: Prof Prithi Bhathal, Dept of Pathology, University of Melbourne; Melbourne Pathology, Collingwood

4. Lecture:
Helicobacter pylori infection (15 minutes)
Speaker: Dr Robert Eckstein, PaLMS, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

Convenors: Dr Ann Finney and Dr Judy Bligh

Lecture:
FNA of Head and Neck, an Anatomical Approach.
Speaker: Dr Bridget Cooke, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney.

Case 1 - Dr Kerry James, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide

Case 2 - Dr Huw Llewellyn, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Melbourne

Case 3 - Dr Daniel James, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Brisbane.

Slides from the case presentations will be available for review at morning tea and lunchtime.

Convenor: Dr Yee Khong

Convenor: Dr Gelareh Farshid

1. Lecture:
The Pathology of Familial Breast Cancer
Speaker: Dr Jane Armes

2. Lecture:
New Biopsy Techniques in the Investigation of Breast Disease - Potential Problems for the Pathologist.
Speaker: Dr Michael Billous

3. Lecture:
Sentinel Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer.
Speaker: Gelareh Farshid

Convenor: Dr Colin Ades

Lecture:
"T-cell and NK-Cell Lymphomas"
Speaker: Dr Dominic Spagnolo

Presentations:
1. Dr A S-Y Leong, Hunter Area Pathology Services 15 mins including questions

2. Dr Debbie Norris, Mater Hospital, Brisbane

3. Dr Stehen Braye, Hunter Area Pathology Services

4. Dr Colin Ades, Queensland Medical Laboratories, Brisbane

Convenor: Dr Geoffrey Watson

Presentations:
1. Renal Mass
Dr Ronald Cohen, QE II Medical Centre, WA

2. Prostatic Core
by Dr Victor Lee, RPAH, NSW.

3. Nephrectomy Specimen
Dr Warrick Delprado, DHM, NSW

4. Partial cystectomy
Dr Wendy Cooper, RPAH, NSW

5. Renal Mass
Dr Veli Marjoniemi, St George Hosp, NSW

6. Nephrectomy specimen
Dr Geoff Watson, RPAH, NSW

7. Nephrectomy specimen
Dr Geoff Watson, RPAH, NSW

8. Extrarenal mass
Dr Geoff Watson, RPAH, NSW

Expert panel discussion on "Hot Issues in Uropathology".
Panelists include Dr Ronald Cohen (Uropath WA), Dr Warrick Delprado (Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, NSW) and Dr John Rogers (Urologist VMO, RPAH, NSW). The panel will discuss ÒhotÓ issues in uropathology, and there will be opportunity for questions from the floor.

Convenor: Dr John Dowling

1. Lecture:
Minimal change lesion and differential diagnosis of the ÒnormalÓ biopsy
Speaker: Claire Cooke-Yarborough, Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney.

2. Lecture:
Mesangial immune complex nephropathy - features and differential diagnosis
Speaker: Moira Finlay, Anatomical Pathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

3. Lecture:
The thrombotic microangiopathies
Speaker: Duncan MacGregor, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre.

4. Lecture:
Myeloma kidney and other proteinopathies
Speaker: Prue Hill, St Vincents Pathology, Melbourne.

5. Lecture:
Crescentic GN and its differential diagnosis including renal vasculitis
Speaker: Roy Axelsen, Princess Alexandra Hospital

Emphasis will be on basic pathological features and differential diagnosis. A set of 35mm slides relating to the subjects (approximately 45-50 slides) will be available at cost for order at the meeting.

7th Asia-Pacific Association of Societies of Pathologists Conference
18 - 23 November, 2001
Singapore

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Fax: (65) 775 1757
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