Just over 1,000 delegates attended this meeting, hosted jointly by the European Society of Pathology, The Latin American Society of Pathology and the Brazilian Society of Pathology.

Raging,boiling water of the Iguassu Falls – the second largest waterfall in the world.

The Congress was designed to co-incide with the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Society of Pathology. It was held in two stages. The first was a 3 day meeting in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro with its world famous Copacabana beach. This was followed by the main Congress in the city of Foz, in close proximity to the Iguassu Falls, one of the specactular wonders of the natural world. Almost half of the just over 1,000 delegates were from 33 different countries outside Brazil.

Above: The three main organizers of the Congress: Luiz Fernando Belggi-Torres (blue) Jose Vassalo (white) and Fernando Soares (orange) in front of the statue of Christ on the top of the mountain overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro

There was a star-studded cast of expert speakers and the meeting was conducted in the best tradition of bubbling Brazilian hospitality.
One of the highlights of the first Intercontinental Congress of Pathology held on the island of Madeira in May 2000 was a diagnostic pathology contest between European Pathologists and Latin American Pathologists.

Above: Luiz Fernando Belggi-Torres addressing the Congress.

Above: Poster display at the Iguassu Congress.

Above: Delegates attending the satellite conference in Rio de Janeiro

Above: Victor Reuter, Memorial Cancer Hospital New York and Antonio Cubilla from Paraguay at the Iguassu Falls Congress.

This contest was continued in Brazil. The captain of the European team was Pierre Bedossa from Paris, France, and the captain of the Latin American team was Ricardo Drut, La Plata, Argentina. The Congress was judged by the attendees to be extremely successful scientifically and socially.
Fernando Soares

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This meeting was supported by a significant grant from the Education Committee of the IAP. The money was spent on providing educational material for the course and for the hire of microscopes. The IAP contribution was co-ordinated by Professor Antonio Llombart-Bosch from Valencia, Spain, a vice-president of the IAP and a member of the Education Committee. Professor Vsevolod Zinserling from St. Petersburg, the current President of the Russian Division of the IAP assisted in the organization. The chief organizer of the workshop was Professor Semyon V. Petrov, the chief of pathology at the Kazan State Medical University.

The meeting was held in the Kazan Cancer Centre which is a 400-bed reference Hospital for Cancer for the whole of the Tatarstan Republic. The head of this centre is Professor Rousten Khasanov.
Thirty-six pathologists from various large cities in Russia, from central Russia to Siberia, attended the workshop. The programme covered theoretical lectures and practical techniques in immunohistochemistry with slide seminars and case discussions. Special attention was paid to the diagnosis of lymphomas, thyroid neoplasms, pancreatic tumours and undifferentiated neoplasms. Professor Antonio Llombart-Bosch gave keynote lectures on “GIST – New diagnostic and prognostic possibilities” and “Molecular Pathology of Solid Tumours” with special emphasis on sarcomas. He also engaged in a number of other presentations and slide sessions during the workshop. Lectures were given by a number of other leading Russian pathologists. Doctors N.T. Raikhlin, Eugenia Kogan, D.E. Tsyplakov, N.N. Tupitsin, A.I. Pavlovskaya, L.E. Gourevich (all from Moscow) and Yu.A. Krivolapov (St. Petersburg) shared the lectures with the organizers.

Above: Meeting with the Rector of Kazan Medical University Academic of RAS, Professor Nail Kh. Amirov. L-R Prof. S. Petrov, the organizer of the workshop, Prof. R. Khasanov, the director of the Kazan Cancer Center, Prof. A. Llombart-Bosch, Prof. N. Amirov, Dozent D. Tsy-plakov, MD, Chief of Dept. of Pathology, Dr. V. Abdulyanov, MD and Dr. R. Sitdikov, MD.

A third, completely revised edition of the book “Manual on Immunohistochemical Diagnostics of Human Tumours” edited by Prof. S.V. Petrov and Prof. N.T. Raikhlin was given free of charge (courtesy of the IAP) to each of the delegates. Professor Llombart-Bosch left 14 copies of CD roms of AFIP Atlases on Tumour Pathology for the organizers of the workshops.
Other sponsors for the workshop were Dako Cytomation, Leica Microsystems, Carl Zeiss, Bioline, Roche and AstraZeneca International.
Kazan is a beautiful city of 1 million inhabitants. It is situated east of Moscow, at the confluence of the Volga and Kazan Rivers. In 2005, Kazan will celebrate 1000 years since its foundation.

Above: Semyon Petrov and Antonio Llombart-Bosch presenting copies of a third, completely revised edition of the Manual on Immunohistochemical Diagnostics of Human Tumours to Professor Rausten Khasanov

Practical course: staining and dicussion of cases

Compiled from information provided by Antonio Llombart-Bosch and Semyon V. Petrov


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Next door to the Town Hall in Stockholm, there is a wall around a group of old buildings that began as a hospital in 1749. The hospital buildings were erected around a central lawn surrounded by a circular driveway. The Town Hall is on the right as you go through the entrance gate. Once inside, the white building on the left was the original hospital building, opened in 1752. The brick building, directly opposite the entrance, was built at the end of the 19th century. In the days before artificial lighting, this building was designed to make the maximum use of natural lighting.

Entrance gate to the oldest hospital in Stockholm, Sweden

The original hospital was staffed by Knights of the Order of the Seraphim. This was a quasi religious order established by the reigning King of Sweden, King Fredrik I. This order was similar to the Knights of Malta and the Knights of St. John. Their main function was to look after the sick.

Above: Building on the left purchased in 1749 and opened as a hospital by the Knights of the Order of the Seraphim in 1752

Above: This modern clinic was built at the end of the 19th century. It is situated on the opposite side of the circular garden as you enter through the gate.

In those days, herbal medicines were important in the treatment of disease. The staff doctors planted a herbal garden in the grounds of the hospital. The remains of this can be seen on the right hand side as you pass through the entrance gates.
From its earliest days, the hospital was a centre of research and teaching. The main teaching hospital in Stockholm is now the Karolinska Institute which enjoys an international reputation in teaching and research.

Entrance to the Karolinska Institute

Robin Cooke and Roy Pugh, Brisbane.

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Bob Stowell with recipients of the Stowell-Orbison Award at New Orleans in 2000.

The letter reproduced below was written by Robert E. Stowell, one of the last surviving founders of the International Academy of Pathology, the organization that grew from the International Association of Medical Museums. The IAMM represented the practice of pathology in the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the IAP fulfilled this role in the second 50 years.
The letter was passed to me by Fred Silva, Secretary of the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology, in April, 2004. It reads:
“Dear Fred,
Thank you for your note and copy of the programme for the Vancouver meeting of the USCAP. Sorry I could not attend.
While shuffling through papers, I encountered a write-up of some of my recollections and experiences with the Academy. I was asked to submit something for publication several years ago, but never sent it. Please feel free to discard or modify it as you may choose.
With personal wishes,
Sincerely,
Bob.”

Comment: Dr. Stowell does not differentiate the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology from the IAP. The two bodies only became separate entities at the International Congress in 1976. As the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology prepares to host the 26th International Congress of the IAP in Montreal in 2006 in celebration of the 100 years since the establishment of the International Association of Medical Museums, it is appropriate that the News Bulletin publishes this reminisence of Bob Stowell, one of the last living contacts with the first 50 years of the IAP.
Robin Cooke, Editor.

Reminiscences:

One of the good benefits of my longevity has been the opportunity to witness the evolution of our Academy from what had become a moribund International Association of Medical Museums to the world renowned Society of Pathologists that it is today. The assocation formerly met as a minor appendix to the then prominent American Society of Pathologists which has since merged with the American Society for Experimental Pathology and become the American Society for Investigative Pathology meeting in conjunction with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. One of the first meetings of the Museum Association I attended at Harvard drew an attendance of twenty-five at its plenary session.

My experience with the former publication – Bulletin of the National Association of Museums and Journal of Technical Methods - began in 1945 when the editor, my departmental chairman, Robert A. Moore, deposited a stack of manuscripts on my desk and said ‘You are now assistant editor. You can make any change you want in a manuscript but you cannot reject any of them’. The following year, the new editor, Sidney Farber passed the new manuscripts to Tom Kinney, as his assistant editor.
Harold Stewart answered the challenge to have the Society transcend museum specimens by recruiting the inspired leadship of Kash Mostofi to become secretary/treasurer and Tom Kinney, with his assistant Nathan Kaufmann, to be the editor of Laboratory Investigation. Kash obtained the competent assistance of many, including Chapman Binford who for years assembled the micro-slide sets for the meeting on the kitchen table in his home. Many of us realized that the Society should change its name to reflect its new mission, and I recall the Council haggling until 2am at our Houston meeting before agreeing on the title ‘International Academy of Pathology’. Our British colleagues joined us as our first foreign division and I presided at our first International Congress held in London in 1960. The Academy Divisions in other countries proliferated as we became the largest and most successful International Pathology organization.

It has been my greatest privilege to serve the Academy as Councillor/ President 1959 to 1960 and editor of Laboratory Investigation 1967 to 1971. I was deeply honoured by the Council’s establishment of the Stowell-Orbison award for young investigators in training in 1982.

May the Academy continue its important mission with exceptional leadership and good membership participation.”

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Above: Pathologists attending the meeting at Rurrenabaque on the shores of the Rio Beni. From left to right: Sajith Casablanca, Malet Curcuy, Sonya Montano, Carmen Gutierrez, Jaime Rios Dalenz, Philipe Desjeux (co-ordinator in Leishmaniasis of the TDR of WHO) and Ruth Fernandez.

The Education Committee of the IAP supported the visit to this annual meeting of the paediatric pathologist, Carmen Gutierrez from Uruguay. She gave a short course on perinatal pathology.
Every two years the Bolivian Division holds its annual meeting in small cities in different regions of Bolivia, so as to help the pathologists in these regions. This year, the meeting was held in the town of Rurrenabaque. This town is in the Amazonian area of Bolivia where the eastern foothills of the Andes meet the rainforest. It was an unforgettable experience to travel by boat in the impressive Beni River in the Dadini National Park and to walk along the jungle paths in the sometimes steep hills.
Jaime Rios Dalenz

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The Tutorial, sponsored by The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will be held under the direction of Dr. Daniel M. Knowles, Professor and Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The program will consist of lectures and case presentations. The Tutorial faculty will prepare an extensive notebook comprised of lecture notes and reference citations covering all of the topics presented at the Tutorial. The registration fee is $1,200, after December 31, 2004 $1,300.

For further information please contact:
Mrs. Cynthia Cameron, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, WMC Room-302, 1300 York Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10021. Telephone (212) 746-6464 Fax: (212) 746-8192 E-mail: cel2001@med.cornell.edu

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Seminar By The California Tumour Tissue Registry and The California Society Of Pathologists
December 2004
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Email: cttr@linkline.com

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