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Number 2 2003 |
Contents: XXV Congress of The International Academy of Pathology XXIX ASM Companion Club Program Registration Examination for the International Academy of Cytology "Volunteer Pathologists Australia" Sponsorship Donations for Congress 2004
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XXV Congress of The International Academy of Pathology Brisbane |
This International Congress will be hosted by the Australasian Division of the I.A.P. with collaboration from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, and the Australian Society of Cytology. The countdown to Congress 2004 is now on in earnest. Bob Eckstein is busily working to finalise the Scientific Program. Members from the Division who attended the recent USCAP meeting in Washington at the end of March spent a lot of time and energy encouraging people to come to the meeting in Australia, and also talking to people who have agreed to work with us in arranging particular sessions. It was very important that details relating to these sessions should be finalised. Most of this was achieved during the Washington meeting.
Executives of the Organising Committee for IAP Congress
2004 Bob has called a meeting of the Session Convenors (or as many of them as can attend) for Thursday afternoon at 2pm before the AGM begins. This will be an important occasion to share ideas and information. Those who are preparing slide seminars will need to be putting these together very soon. The Organising Committee has decided to encourage the circulation of cases for the slide seminars in a CD Rom format, as an alternative to the traditional glass slide format. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the possibility of making the slide sets available to many more delegates as well as people who are not able to attend the Congress. The Organising Committee hopes that there will be a considerable amount of discussion about the Congress during the AGM in Sydney. To help focus this discussion, copies of the program up to the end of May will be circulated to delegates.
Members of the Board of the Australasian Division of
the I.A.P. at the Board Meeting in June, 2002.
Speakers at the Uropathology Club Session, June 2002 |
| Arrangements for the XXIX ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING |
Friday, May 30 to Sunday, June 1 (Note: There will be no ASM next year because of the International Congress in Brisbane.) Friday will be taken up with meetings of specialist societies and clubs with a bigger than usual component of Gynaecological Pathology. Saturday’s theme will be gynaecological pathology, co-ordinated by Richard Jaworski (Sydney) with the overseas guest speaker Robert Kurman. He is Director of Gynaecological Pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Sunday will be devoted to endocrine pathology, mainly thyroid pathology. This session will be co-ordinated by Robyn Apel (Brisbane). The overseas Invited Speaker is Professor Sylvia Asa, Pathologist in Chief at the University Health Network and Toronto Medical Laboratories. This year marks a major watershed in the way in which the Annual Scientific Meeting is conducted. At the ASMs for the past two years there have been a few presentations with digital projection, but digital projection apparatus was not universally available. Most of the slide seminars were presented in the form of glass slides supplemented by 35mm photographs when the glass slide material ran out. This year (at considerable expense) digital projection will be available in all of the lecture venues. Some slide seminars will be presented in the traditional way using glass microscope slides. Some will be presented as a combination of glass slides and CD Rom. Some will be presented entirely in CD Rom format. Delegates to the meeting may find this array of presentations somewhat bewildering while we are in this transitional phase. However, in the very near future, it is likely that few slide seminars will be presented in the traditional way using glass slides. In order to assist delegates with this changing format, the following is a rundown on the way the various sessions will be conducted. ARRANGEMENTS FOR SLIDE/CD SESSIONS International Society of Gynaecological Pathologists - Slides with Case Histories are being sent by mail to purchasers. Gynaecological Pathology — An Interactive Teaching Workshop Available for viewing on the Mayne Health website www.maynegroup.com under "Health Care Professionals". Click on International Academy of Pathology then Test and Teach 1. There are up to 4 inages per case. A CD will be distributed to purchasers at the meeting. Soft Tissue Companion Club - Slides being sent by mail with Case Histories to purchasers. Urology Companion Club - Slides being sent by mail with Case Histories to purchasers. Lung Companion Club - Slides being sent by mail with Case Histories to purchasers. Lymphoma Companion Club - Slides being sent by mail with Case Histories to purchasers. Neuropathology Companion Club - CD being sent by mail to purchasers prior to meeting if completed. Otherwise available at the meeting. Paediatric Companion Club - Slides being sent by mail with Case Histories to purchasers. Renal Club - A CD is being sent by mail to purchasers. Faculty of Oral Pathology Companion Meeting - This will be a series of lectures. Liver Companion Meeting - This will be a series of lectures. Gynaecological Pathology - (SATURDAY Slide Seminar). Endocrine Pathology - (SUNDAY Slide Seminar), CD Rom plus a book to purchasers. The slide seminar will be presented in the form of a CD Rom which has microscopic images from each case, including the immunoperoxidase stains. These are presented in an interactive format which simulates a microscope. The CD contains a clinical history, and the microscopic images for each case, together with a template on which a participant may record his/her diagnosis. This can be taken to the meeting for reference during the lectures, and can serve as a record of a Continuing Education activity. At the meeting, those who have paid for slide seminars will receive a professionally presented book, with a packet on the inner cover to store the CD Rom disc. This enables the disc and commentaries to be stored together. The book contains the history and diagnosis for each case, together with black and white pictures of each of the images shown at the seminar. Each picture has a caption. The commentary for each case is included after the case. There is a list of diagnoses on the front page of the book. There is plenty of room for taking notes during the lectures. Delegates who did not purchase "slides" will receive copies of the two lectures, and a sheet with clinical histories and diagnoses of the seminar cases, to help them during the seminar. In Summary: Participants will receive a CD with colour images of the original slides, and a book with black and white pictures, plus the commentaries, which would have been the "Handouts" in previous years. The organisers hope that delegates will like this method of presentation. It is a major departure from the traditional method of presenting slide seminars, but it does have some advantages. For example, all of the information can now be easily filed on a bookshelf. It is then readily available for future reference. The "slides" and handout are now filed together in an easily accessible form. The colours of the "slides" will not fade. In the past, it has not been possible to produce enough glass slides so that every participant may have his/her own copy. With the CD format it is possible for everyone to have an individual copy of their own, and to examine the "slides" either at home or at work. For those who do not purchase the complete "slide seminar" before the meeting, copies may be purchased from the Registration Desk at the time of the meeting. People who will not be attending the weekend meeting will be able to buy the book and CD Rom, so they, too, will be able to have their own educational material. |
| COMPANION CLUB Programs FRIDAY, MAY 30
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Combined Gynaecological Pathology Symposium 8.00 — 9.00: Registration 9.00 — 10.40 Main Auditorium 8.55 — 9.40 9.40 — 10.40 - Dr. Christopher Henderson 10:40 — 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 — 12:45 Main Auditorium Chairman. Dr. R. Scolyer 12 Cases: 11.25 — 11.50: Cases 4-6 11.50 — 12.15: Cases 7-9 12.15 — 12.40: Cases 10-12 12:45 — 2:00 Lunch 2:00 — 3:45 Meeting Room 4 2:00 — 2:45 2:45 — 3:05 3:05 — 3:25 3:25 — 3:45: VIN NEUROPATHOLOGY 9:00 — 10.40 pm Meeting Room 2 Convenors: Dr Peter Robbins and Dr Victor Ojeda 9:00 9:05 9:25 9:55 Dr Michael Gonzales, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Vic Dr Peter Robbins, PathCentre, Nedlands, WA DERMATOPATHOLOGY 9:00 — 10:40 am Meeting Room 4 Convenor: Dominic Wood CASE PRESENTATIONS - Richard Scolyer Geoffrey Strutton Stephen Mann Wade Barrett Fergus Whitehead Nick Mellick Anna Simpson Bish Dutta Bish Dutta FACULTY OF ORAL PATHOLOGY 9:00 — 10:40 am Meeting Room 5 Convenor: Michael Aldred 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 LIVER COMPANION MEETING 11:00am — 12:45 pm Meeting Room 2 Convenor: Dr David Cohn Update on HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA 11:20 — 12:00 12:05 — 12:15 12:20 — 12:45 LUNG COMPANION SESSION 11am — 12:45pm Meeting Room 4 Convenor: Dr Jenny Ma Wyatt, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Case Presentations: 1. Lymphangiomatosis 2. "Hot Tub Pneumonitis" 3. Intravascular Lymphomatosis diagnosed on Transbronchial
Biopsy of the Lung. 4. Polymorphous Low-Grade Adenocarcinoma 5. Two Cases of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Lecture: "Acquired Cystic Lung Disease" RENAL 11:00 — 12:45 Meeting Room 5 Convenor: Dr John Dowling 1. Complement in Glomerular Diseases 2. Case Presentation: 3. Case Presentation: 4. Case Presentation: SOFT TISSUE COMPANION CLUB 2:00 — 3:45 pm Meeting Room 2 Convenor: Dr Caroline Fung Main Lecture: Case Presentations: BREAST 2:00 — 3:45 pm Main Auditorium Convenor: Dr Gelareh Farshid Microarray Technology and Breast Cancer — Implications
for Pathology DCIS Update Updated Staging System for Breast Cancer QA Survey Data for Immunohistochemical Assessment
of HER2 Expression QA Survey Data for Immunohistochemical Assessment
of ER/PR PAEDIATRIC 2:00 pm — 3:45 pm Meeting Room 5 Convenor: Dr Yee Khong 2:00 - 2:45 2:45 — 3:00 3:00 — 3:15 3:15 — 3:30 3:30 — 3:45 GASTROENTEROLOGYMain Auditorium 5:15 — 7:00 pm Convenor: Dr John Pedersen Speakers: Dr B de Boer Dr A Clouston Dr A Charlton Dr C Campbell Dr P Crowley UROPATHOLOGY5:15 — 7:00 pmMeeting Room 4 Convenor: Dr Geoffrey Watson Lecture: Slide Presentations of 8 Interesting Renal Tumours: ORELL FNA 5:15 — 7:00pm Meeting Room 2 Convenors: Dr Judy Bligh and Dr Ann Finney Lecture: Lecture: Case Presentations: Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Salisbury, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Sydney. Dr Dugald McCallum, Capital Pathology, Canberra Dr Fenella Devereux, Southern Community Laboratories, New Zealand. Images from the three case presentations can be viewed prior to the meeting on the Australasian IAP web site www.iap-aus.org.au LYMPHOMA 5:15 — 7:00 pm Meeting Room 5 Convenor: Dr Stephen Braye Lecture: Slide Seminar:
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Registration Examination for the International Academy of Cytology Hong Kong, October 10, 2003
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This will be preceded by the 23rd International Tutorial on Clinical Cytology and Biomarkers. Contact: Miss Louisa Chiu, Conference Secretariat Email: louisa@hkam.org.hk Phone: (852) 2871 8815 Website: Tutorial@HongKong2003.org
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| USCAP Notice |
The Companion Society Meeting Handouts (at the annual USCAP meeting, held in Washington DC) are now available, for free, on the USCAP website - www.uscap.org Just go to the USCAP home page - USCAP Bulletin on the right hand side, and click on "2003 Annual Meeting: Companion Society Handouts". They are there for your use, courtesy of the USCAP and our great faculty. Fred Silva, Executive Officer, USCAP.
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"Volunteer Pathologists Australia" |
East Timor, with a population of approx 800,000 people has no surgical pathology service at the present time. Various pathologists have already reported (voluntarily) on specimens coming to their laboratory in Australia. A new service where volunteer pathologists went to East Timor for a week at a time is being established in co-operation with the RACS surgical program at the Dili National Hospital. Training of local staff will eventually lead to a histopathology facility at the Dili National Hospital. A poster presentation with information about the project will be at this years IAP meeting in Sydney. If you are interested in:- • Being informed on developments • Contributing to pathology by reporting on specimens delivered to you laboratory in Australia • Visiting East Timor Please contact - Dr Stephen Weinstein at QHPS Gold Coast Hospital, 108 Nerang
Street, Southport Qld 4215. Phone: 07 5571 8319 Fax: 07 5571 8496.
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| Sponsorship Donations for Congress 2004 |
Government: QEII Hospital, Brisbane Queensland Health Brisbane City Council Office of Economic Development The Lord Mayor of Brisbane Companies: Individuals: |
