Farewell to Amsterdam and Congress 2002
Above: Jan van den Tweel and his organising committee
smiling broadly at the Dinner in the stately reception room at the Grand
Hotel. This was the Refectory of a monastery in the 15th century, then
the headquarters of the Dutch Admiralty, the boardroom of the City Council
of Amsterdam and now the centrepiece of the Grand Hotel.
L-R. Monique Sterrenburg (Assistant to the Congress President), Alec Howat
(Treasurer), Jan van den Tweel (President), Hans van der Linden (Social
Committee), Sibrand Poppema (Scientific Committee), Neil Shepherd (Secretary),
Nick Francis (Meetings Secretary).
Above: Michael Koss, William Travis, Tom Colbley – authors of non tumor fascicle No 2 – Non-neoplastic Disorders of the Lower Respiratory Tract.
Above: The new series of Fascicles from the A.F.I.P.
– Atlases of NonTumor Pathology. The second Fascicle in this series
was launched during the Amsterdam Congress.
The “team” from the American Registry of Pathology which produces
the Fascicles. Jonathan Johnstone (Director of Marketing), Naomi Smith
(Secretary), Jose Triava (Marketing), Bill Gardner (Medical Director).
For information on AFIP publications visit www.afip.org and click on Publications.
Above: Ricardo Lloyd, author of non tumor fascicle No 1 – Endocrine Diseases.
A Report from Brazil
In the first week in November 2002, the Editor was invited to attend a two day Forum of Pathology Teaching in Sao Paulo, the biggest city, and the most important commercial centre in Brazil. It was arranged by the Brazilian Society of Pathology, and was attended by representatives from all the University Medical Schools in Brazil. Afterwards, the Editor visited Curitiba in the South, and Recife in the North East. He gave lectures and slide seminars in both of these cities.
Luiz Fernando Bleggi Torres and some of his students in Curitiba.
The Brazilian Society of Pathology, with 1100 members, is the biggest association of pathologists in South America. It has a full time secretariat in Sao Paulo, and conducts an active continuing education and Quality Assurance Programme. It will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first founding by conducting the second Intercontinental Congress of Pathology at the spectacular Iguassu Falls – June 9-13, 2004. The beautiful, colonial style Conference Hotel overlooks the Falls which are 1.6 miles (2.6km) wide. They rival the Victoria Falls in grandeur.
A morning function at the Museum of Medical History of Pernmambuco, in the city of Recife in the North East of Brazil. The function consisted in a keynote lecture by Professor Robin Cooke (Brisbane, Australia), Editor of the News Bulletin of the I.A.P. on Medical History as demonstrated by displays in some of the Medical Museums in Europe. This was accompanied by a lecture by Jose Falcao (Curator of the Museum) and Geraldo Periera, President of the Academy of Medicine and acting Rector of the University of Pernambuco Medical School. Adonis Carvalho, Emeritus Professor and a Past President of the I.A.P. introduced Robin Cooke and made a simultaneous translation of his lecture. To mark the occasion, Adonis donated the first microscope glass slide projector in Recife to the Museum. He bought it as scrap and had it reconditioned. L-R. , Celso Marconi (Director of the Museum of Images and Sounds of Pernambuco), Geraldo Pereira, Maria do Carmo Carvalho, Adonis Carvalho, Jose Falcao.
On the right is Marco Antonio Cardoso de Almeida, Professor of Pathology, Hospital Sao Rafael, Salvador and President of the Brazilian Society of Pathology. He is photographed with a colleague at the Bar B Que Restaurant in Sao Paulo on the Friday evening of the Conference.