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PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

PLEASE NOTE:

The next official Pulmonary Pathology Society activities will take place at: International Academy of Pathology, Nagoya 2000 Congress, PPS Companion Meeting on October 18, 2000, Nagoya, Japan

United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology, PPS Companion Meeting on March 3, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia

MEMBERS OF THE PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY! PLEASE RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY!

A membership form is attached. You can charge your membership fees on VISA or MasterCard through the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at the National Institutes of Health. You can also pay by check (payable to FAES). Please mail or fax your membership application and payment to the address on the membership application. Regular membership dues are $50 per year and resident membership dues are $20 per year.

Please send notices of upcoming meetings, course information, news items, etc to:

Philip T. Cagle, M.D. Center for Pulmonary Pathology Department of Pathology Baylor College of Medicine One Baylor Plaza Houston, Texas 77030

New contact person at FAES Adrian Martinez One Cloister Court, #230 Bethesda, MD 20814-1460 Tel: 301.496.7975 Fax: 301.402.0174 September 8, 2000 Volume 4

PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SESSIONS AT THE IAP NAGOYA CONGRESS 2000

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Osamu Matsubara, Secretary/Treasurer of The Japanese Division of The International Academy of Pathology and many others who worked with Dr. Shigeo Mori, Chair of the Program Committee for the IAP Nagoya 2000, there will be strong representation of pulmonary pathology at the Nagoya Congress. For those of you able to attend, here are sessions you should be looking for:

Monday, October 16:

SPL-01 International consensus classification of interstitial lung disease William D. Travis and Masanori Kitaichi

SY-08 Mesothelioma: asbestos-related diseases

Victor Roggli and Kouki Inai

Tuesday, October 17:

SL-07 Pulmonary tumors

William D. Travis and Masashi Fukayama

SC-08 Thymic epithelial tumors

Cesar A. Moran, Saul Suster and Yukio Shimosato

Wednesday, October 18:

CM-07 Interstitial lung disease (non-idiopathic) and lung transplantation

Philip T. Cagle and Toshiaki Manabe

SL-13 Thymic and mediastinal tumors

Tseng-Tong Kuo, Hans-Konrad Muller-Hermelink and Tadaaki Eimoto Thursday, October 19:

SY-25 Airway disease: topical issues

Bryan Corrin and Tamiko Takemura

SL-20 Pulmonary vascular diseases

Eugene J. Mark and Osamu Matsubara

Friday, October 20:

SY-21 Preinvasive and invasive cancer of the lung

Wilbur Franklin and Masayuki Noguchi PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY DINNER IN NAGOYA: PLEASE RSVP!

A Dinner Party for the PPS is scheduled during the International Congress of the IAP by Dr. Osamu Matsubara and Dr. Toyoharu Yokoi. The dinner requires that you RSVP and will take place at the restaurant KOYOEN, a large casual style beer house serving Tepanyaki style meals. You can eat and drink as much as you want for 5,000 yen ($50 U.S.) for two hours. For this price, you may select from meat, seafood, sausage and vegetables and, for beverages, from beer and soft drinks. There is an additional charge for other beverages such as wine and whiskey.

When: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Where: KOYOEN 2-16-15 Chigusa, Chigusa-ku, Nagoya, phone: 052-741-0211  15 minutes by taxi from Nagoya Congress Center  Participants can meet at 7 p.m. at reception of SY-08 (mesothelioma session) and move to the restaurant by taxis together

RSVP: Send e-mail or fax-mail confirming your attendance along with your check by October 11, 2000 to Dr. Matsubara’s address below.

Price: 5,000 yen ($50 U.S.) Participants outside Japan should pay $50 U.S. by check or international postal money order. Several participants may be able to register and pay at the reception after SPL-01 (interstitial lung disease session) or SY-08 (mesothelioma session).

RSVP to:

Osamu Matsubara, M.D. National Defense Medical College Department of Pathology 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa 359-8513 JAPAN e-mail: [email protected] fax: +81-42-996-5193 PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY COMPANION MEETING PROGRAM NAGOYA 2000, XXII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY, NAGOYA, JAPAN OCTOBER 18, 2000, 3:00-6:30 P.M.

INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE (OTHER THAN IDIOPATHIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA) AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

Moderators:

Toshiaki Manabe, M.D. Kawasaki Medical School Japan

Philip T. Cagle, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine U.S.A.

PROGRAM:

Sang-Ho Cho, M.D. Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea

Belinda Clarke, M.BBS, Ph.D., FRCPA Prince Charles Hospital, Australia

Armando Fraire, M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center, USA

Koichi Honma, M.D. Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Japan

Soon-Hee Jung, M.D. Yonsei University School of Medicine, Japan

N. Paul Ohori, M.D. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

Henry Tazelaar, M.D. Mayo Clinic, USA PROGRAM FOR THE PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY COMPANION MEETING TO USCAP MEETING

7:00 P.M. MARCH 3, 2001, ATLANTA, GEORGIA

CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY NEOPLASIA

Moderators:

William D. Travis, M.D. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington, D.C.

Michael N. Koss, M.D. University of Southern California

Elisabeth Brambilla, M.D. Laboratoire de Pathologie Cellulaire, CHRU Grenoble, France

PROGRAM:

7:00 P.M. Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinomas: Carcinosarcoma/Pleomorphic/ Sarcomatoid Carcinomas

Mark Wick, M.D. University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA

7:40 P.M. Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia

Armando E. Fraire, M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center Worcester, MA

8:20 Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma: Current Concepts and Issues

N. Paul Ohori University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY

New Officers and Trustees of the Pulmonary Pathology Society were elected at the PPS Companion Meeting of the USCAP in March 2000, in New Orleans.

Current Officers of the Pulmonary Pathology Society

President: Victor Roggli, M.D.

Vice-President: William D. Travis, M.D.

Treasurer: Henry Tazelaar, M.D.

Secretary: Philip T. Cagle, M.D.

Past Presidents: Samuel P. Hammar, M.D. Thomas V. Colby, M.D.

New Committee Chairs

Program Committee Chair: Dr. Donald Guinee

Awards Committee Chair: Dr. N. Paul Ohori

New North American Trustees

Dr. Claire Langston

Dr. Tom Stocker IN MEMORIUM: PHILIP C. PRATT, M.D.

Dr. Philip C. Pratt, Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center and world authority in occupational pulmonary pathology, died on August 9, 2000. Dr. Pratt was born in Farmingham, Maine. He was a graduate of Bowdain College in 1941 and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1944. He worked at Saranac Laboratories and Ohio State Medical College before joining the Duke University Medical Center faculty in 1966 where he remained until his retirement in 1990 when he became Professor Emeritus. He was Chief of Laboratory Services at the Veterans Administration Hospital and the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books in the field of pulmonary pathology and, particularly, in occupational pulmonary pathology.

BEST PRESENTATION IN PULMONARY PATHOLOGY

Each year the Awards Committee of the Pulmonary Pathology Society selects the best presentation in the field of lung pathology by a trainee at the United States andCanadian Academy of Pathology meeting. The recipient receives a commemorative plaque and a check from the PPS. The recipient for the best presentation at the March 2000 USCAP meeting in New Orleans is Gordana Verstovsek, M.D., of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, for her presentation Vitamin D Receptor Expression in Emphysema: Potential for Role in Tissue Remodeling.

SUMMER MEETING OF THE PULMONARY PATHOLOGY SOCIETY

The biannual Summer Meeting of the Pulmonary Pathology Society is planned for Seattle in August 2001. Dr. Samuel P. Hammar, immediate past president of the PPS, is organizing this meeting with the help of other local pulmonary pathologists, including Dr. David Dail, for more information contact at: Tel: 206.223.6861 Fax: 206.341.0525

PATHOLOGIST-IN-TRAINNG STIPEND WINNER

Each year the recipient of the Pathologist-In-Training Stipend is selected by the Awards Committee of the Pulmonary Pathology Society from applications submitted by residents and fellows in Pathology. The recipient applies this stipend toward travel and/or living expenses for one month of study in lung pathology with a member of the Pulmonary Pathology Society.

The winner of the 2000-2001 academic year pathologist-in-training stipend is Shuji Ogino, M.D., a Molecular Pathology Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Dr. Ogino will be studying pulmonary pathology with Dr. William Travis, Chair of the Department of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

Those trainees in pathology wishing to apply for the PPS Stipend should contact Dr. N. Paul Ohori, Chair of the Awards Committee, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

PULMONARY PATHOLOGY COURSE: THORACIC PATHOLOGY WITH CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGIC CORRELATIONS

Where: Holiday Inn, Bethesda, MD

When: April 19-22, 2001

Course Directors: Teri J. Franks and William D. Travis

Guest Speakers: Thomas V. Colby, Gary Hunninghake, Thomas Stocker, Victor Roggli

Contact: Tammie Winters Phone: 202-782-1780 [email protected]

TEXAS SOCIETY OF PATHOLOGISTS SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR ON PULMONARY PATHOLOGY TO HONOR DR. S. DONALD GREENBERG

Pulmonary Pathology will be the topic of the Scientific Seminar on January 27, 2001, at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Pathologists at the San Luis Hotel in Galveston, Texas, January 26-27, 2001. The late Dr. S. Donald Greenberg, a native Texan and a pioneer of modern lung pathology, will be honored by lectures from several former Houstonians and protégés of Dr. Greenberg who have achieved recognition in pulmonary pathology, including:

Dr. David Dail of The Virginia Mason Clinic Dr. Victor Roggli of Duke University Medical Center Dr. Armando Fraire of University of Massachusetts Dr. Carlos Bedrossian of Northwestern University

Moderators: Dr. Abida Haque, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Dr. Philip T. Cagle, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

For more information, contact Dr. Richard Brown, at 713-776-5264 or [email protected]

S. DONALD GREENBERG MEMORIAL LECTURES AT BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

The Department of Pathology at Baylor College of Medicine will sponsor a day of lectures on January 25, 2001, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, in honor of Dr. S. Donald Greenberg, former Professor of Pathology at Baylor. These lectures on lung pathology will be given by several of Dr. Greenberg’s former protégés who worked with him in Houston including:

Dr. David Dail of The Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle Dr. Victor Roggli of Duke University Medical Center, Durham Dr. Armando Fraire of The University of Massachusetts, Worchester Dr. Carlos Bedrossian of Northwestern University, Chicago Dr. Toshiaki Kawai of the National Defense College, Japan

For more information contact Dr. Philip T. Cagle at 713-798-3671 or [email protected]