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PRESIDENT
David Ellis
SECRETARY
Stephen Fairy
TREASURER Australasian Division Jan Kencian of the International EDITORIAL GROUP Academy of Pathology
Robin Cooke
neWe cannot expandws the program unless we Jan McLean Message from the President have concurrent sessions, or extend the full IAP WEBSITE program into the preceding weekdays. ext year will Our solution for now is to have a third inter- www.iaphomepage.org national speaker nominated by a companion Nmark the 40th club convenor. The speaker becomes integrated anniversary of our Australasian Division into, and lectures at the Friday Companion Annual Scientific Club program as well as providing a plenary WEBSITE Meeting. lecture on Friday evening and contributing Since the inaugu- to the Saturday morning Masterclass. By this www.iap-aus.org.au ral meeting held in method, we can support international speakers 1973, at the Royal in more specialised areas such as renal pathol- DESIGNED BY Prince Alfred Hospital under the Presidency of ogy and paediatrics without affecting the main- Prof Vincent McGovern, the June meeting has stream program for the weekend. In some cases the companion clubs or societies may also Luke remained at the heart of educational activity for choose to run a concurrent symposium on the PERKINS Australian and New Zealand anatomical pathol- GRAPHICS Saturday – as will be the case in 2013. ogists, and an important yearly opportunity www.lukeperkins.net For 2012, A/Prof Wendy Cooper has suc- to catch up with one other – embodied in the cessfully nominated Prof Keith Kerr from the well-used phrase “See you at the IAP”. Secretariat: University of Aberdeen. Prof Kerr will give a A president who meddles with this success- plenary lecture entitled “Lung Cancer – where 205 Albion Street ful formula does so at their own peril – yet we are we now?” on Friday at 4pm, as well as a face a number of challenges and opportunities, lecture on Pulmonary Neuroendocrine tumours Surry Hills, NSW 2010 and the Australasian Division needs to embrace to the Companion Club on Friday evening and change where it benefits the members and is in actively participating in the Saturday morning Ph: (02) 8356 5898 Masterclass. line with our charter: http://www.iap-aus.org. From this year, we are also asking all our au/about_us.html. Fax: (02) 8356 5899 invited speakers to present at, and to be active- The first of these is our new resolve to ly involved in their respective companion club Email: [email protected] expand the ASM program and invite three program. internationally renowned pathologists each As a result, the three companion clubs for ABN: 73009593815 year rather than two. It is clear from our recent which there is an international guest will survey that people want to be able to leave become “featured” events, and take place in the the meeting by late Sunday afternoon and that main auditorium. The companion clubs them- there is little enthusiasm for events after this. selves have expanded dramatically in the last On the other hand, many pathologists have dif- 20 years, many coupling with their respective international society and some with their own ficulty getting away from their microscope until sponsored international speakers. late on Friday, a day traditionally reserved for companion meetings. Message from the President continued page 3 been extremely active, having published over 37th ASM 500 articles in peer reviewed journals. She has also been the author of numerous book Invited chapters and books. She has organized innu- merable workshops, courses and other educa- Speakers tional activities. Two books should be mentioned in particular Elaine was an Editor for both the 2001 and 2008 editions of the “WHO Classification of Tumors of the Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues.” She is currently one of four series editors developing the 4th Edition Series of monographs for the classification of human tumors, under the auspices of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organization. She is the leading author for the book
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Elaine S. Jaffe Keith M. Kerr
laine studied for her first University eith graduated BSc with First class Edegree at Cornell University, New York KHonours in Pathology, University of and spent another 2 years at the Cornell Edinburgh, in 1978 and MB ChB in1981. University Medical College. She obtained MRCPath, Royal College of Pathologists, 1988; her MD from the University of Pennsylvania FRCPath 1998; FRCP(Ed) 2006. School of Medicine, the first medical school to Present appointments: be founded in the United States in 1765. 1989 – present; Consultant Pathologist, She then moved to Washington and joined the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland. staff of the Laboratory of Pathology, National 1996 – present; Honorary Professor of Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Pulmonary Pathology, Aberdeen University Health, Bethesda, Maryland in 1970. The NIH Medical School. was given its present charter in 1930 and it is Keith has had a career long interest in lung the best funded and most prestigious Medical cancer and has research interests in pul- Research Centre in the world. As a result it monary pre-neoplasia and carcinogenesis, is an extremely stimulating environment in lung tumour diagnosis and classification, and which to work, but the corollary of that is the identification of predictors of therapy that it is extremely competitive. Elaine has response. spent her whole professional life in the NIH, He has been a lecturer in numerous National moving steadily up the ranks until she became and International Conferences. Head of the Haematopathology Section in He is a member of numerous lung cancer 1980, a position she still holds. clinical advisory and research groups in the During this time Elaine has contributed very UK and served on panels for the 2004 WHO significantly to the understanding of tumours lung cancer classification. of the Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues, He was a member of the NELSON describing some new entities in the process. International expert pathology review panel She will be sharing some of this knowledge for European Lung Cancer screening trials. with us during the meeting. He was a core Member of the International For a Researcher, publications are an integral Association for the Study of Lung Cancer part of their work. In this regard, Elaine has (IASLC) that recently published a Lung 2 Adenocarcinoma classification. Message from the President continued with the guest speakers. At the recent USCAP Since 2006 he has been Pathology Chair for This year we are privileged to have some meeting in Vancouver Robin was honoured the European Organisation for Research and of the world’s most distinguished patholo- with the President’s Award. The announcement treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Lung Group. gists speaking. Prof Stacey Mills on Saturday was made by the President, Greg Fuller of the Since 2010 he has been Pathology lead on the will lecture on “Avoiding Pitfalls in Bone MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Lungscape Translational research project Pathology” as well as “Viral and Molecular The President’s Award was established in 2001 “to recognize an indi- and is a member of the International insights in Head and Neck vidual for outstanding service Mesothelioma Pathology panel. Pathology”. to the field of pathology.” At He is a member of the Pulmonary Pathology On Sunday, Prof the presentation Dr Fuller Society Council and is involved in a number of Elaine Jaffe will be talk- ing on “Overview of New stated “You were chosen based UK, European and North American initiatives Concepts in the 2008 upon my recommendation looking at the introduction, operation and WHO Classification as President, with the full quality assurance of guidelines for manage- and Beyond”, as well as and enthusiastic approval ment and molecular pathology testing in lung “Borderlands Between of all five members the cancer. He has published over 100 papers in Hodgkin Lymphoma and USCAP 2011-12 Executive scientific journals and has contributed to a Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Committee, based on the truly number of books. Biological and Clinical unique contribution to the Implications”. USCAP that you have made Stacey E. Mills Prof Jaffe has been at through your photojournal- the very leading edge of istic documentation of the lymphoma pathology for meetings, and your Editorship decades and yet those who have heard Elaine of the IAP News Bulletin spanning two dec- speak will know that she has that rare abil- ades.” ity to make complexity appear simple and Congratulations Robin, the first non resident elegant. of the USA and Canada to receive this Award. On Sunday morning the inimitable Phil We are fortunate in the Australasian Division Allen will present a soft tissue Masterclass that Robin assists the guest speakers in produc- subtitled “All consultants are occasionally ing colour slide seminar handouts of outstand- wrong.” ing quality and every registrant would benefit Phil has prepared a DVD of his lecture and from a having copy on their shelves for future reference. tacey had his undergraduate training in the this can be purchased from the Secretariat in The 2012 ASM promises to be as good as it historic city of Williamsburg, Virginia at the Sydney for $50. S gets - “see you at the IAP”. William and Mary College that was founded by Robin Cooke has prepared colour hand- King William 111 and Queen Mary 11 of England outs for the slide seminars in conjunction David Ellis, April 2012 in 1693. It was the second institution of higher education after Harvard and it has become famous Above: Robin Cooke received the President’s award from Greg Fuller at the USCAP meeting in Vancouver 2012. particularly for its Liberal Arts courses. Below: Members of the Australasian Division attending the USCAP meeting in Vancouver in March 2012. Anthony Gill, Betty Lin, Bastiaan de Boer, Robin Cooke, Ben Haagsma, Debra Jensen, Paul McKenzie, Warick Delprado. For his medical training he moved to another his- toric city in Virginia, Charlottesville. He graduated MD in 1977 and has remained in that city in the University of Virginia ever since. He became Professor of Pathology in 1990 and Director of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in 1997. He is a prolific author, editor and reviewer and he covers a wide range of topics. I cannot count the exact number of his publications, and perhaps he can’t either. Some of the cases he is presenting at this meeting feature in these publications. He edited Modern Pathology from 1995 to 2000. He took over as Editor of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology in 2000 and continues in that position. He has been a co author and main author of many books. He is currently the chief author and editor of two famous pathology textbooks. ‘Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology.’ Mills continued page 5 3 th The Australasian Division of the IAP offers 37 ASM pathologists and trainee pathologists attendance scholarships for the Annual Scholarships Scientific Meeting of the Division.
cholarships have been offered by The IAP invited Scholars for Papua New Guinea Medical School. the Australasian Division of the They are all in their fourth year of S 2012 are: IAP since 2006. The aim of these is to the five year training programme for encourage attendance by pathologists Dr Rico P Lasaca the Master of Medicine Diploma in from our region who would otherwise Consultant and Head Pathologist Pathology which is the specialist quali- Our Lady of Porziuncola Hospital be unable to attend the meeting. Each fication in PNG. Calbayog City, W Samar, Philippines year the membership of our Division and Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, They work at the Port Moresby is encouraged to nominate candi- University of the Philippines, School of Health General Hospital and the University dates, and the scholarships are also Sciences, Palo, Tacloban City, Leyte. of Papua New Guinea Medical School advertised on our website. Preference He is 37 years of age, and a board Papua New Guinea. is given to pathologists and trainees certified Anatomic Pathologist, by the In the first half of last year they spent from the South Pacific and other Philippine Society of Pathologists. three months in Newcastle attached immediately neighbouring areas. A Some of his early pathology train- to the Hunter Area Pathology Service. subcommittee of the executive of the ing was undertaken in the Philippine During this time they attended the Division makes offers after considera- Heart Center. RCPA revision and mock exams, spent tion of the merits of the candidates. He has worked as an Anatomic 2 weeks at the Nepean Hospital In the past there have been generally Pathologist for five years in Leyte and attended the ‘Viruses in May’ 2 scholarships each year. Scholarships and Samar. He is the only Anatomic Conference in Katoomba. have gone to pathologists from New Pathologist in the island of Samar They are Dr Seluia Mabone, Dr Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Palau, Malaysia which is the second largest island of Josephine Chanoan and Dr Jacklyn and the Philippines. The patholo- the Philippines. Here he set up the Joseph. gists receive support for airfares and first histopathology laboratory in this I encourage you to get to know accommodation, as well as free reg- hospital and the first Fine Needle our invited scholars in the course of istration for the meeting. Most have Aspiration Biopsy Clinic. the scientific sessions and the social also spent a week as an observer in a Every week he crosses to the island events. laboratory in Sydney before or after of Leyte, to teach Pathology and the meeting. Histology in two Medical Schools in Bob Eckstein, This year there are five recipients of Leyte. Asia Pacific Vice President, IAP the 2012 Scholarships. Dr Virisila Ciri After the weekend IAP meeting all of A 29 year old Registrar in the the awardees will attend an Advanced Colonial War Memorial Fine Needle Biopsy Cytology Tutorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji. that will be conducted by Dr. Andrew In 2012 Virisila joined Field at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney the Post Graduate from Monday June 4 to Friday June Pathology Diploma 8. The IAP acknowledges Dr Field for Programme (PGPTH) his generosity in making these places at the Fiji National available. Andrew and his team of University in Suva. International Cytopathologists have This programme is been conducting such courses in many being sponsored by underfunded countries, particularly the RCPA, and in the in Africa, for some years now. This second week in April this year Dr. Stephen is the first time one of these courses Weinstein from the has been conducted in Sydney. The Gold Coast and Prof. Faculty includes Dr William Geddie, Konrad Muller from UHN, Toronto, Dr Matthew Zarka, Tasmania visited Suva Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Dr Martha to help launch it. Pittman, Harvard, Boston, Dr Andrew Field, St Vincent’s, Sydney, Dr Elizabeth The three patholo- Salisbury, Prince of Wales Hospital, gists from Papua New Sydney, Dr Syed Ali, Johns Hopkins, Guinea are graduates Baltimore. of the University of 4 Mills continued Jaffe continued and specially named orations. At the meet- ing of the USCAP in 2011 she delivered the He was a co author in the first edition in 1989 and prestigious Maude Abbott Lecture. At our he became the chief author and Editor of the fourth meeting she will be delivering the Vincent edition in 2004. A fifth edition appeared in 2010. McGovern Lecture that commemorates the He was Editor of the third edition of New Zealand born pathologist who founded ‘Histology for Pathologists’ in 2007 and he the Australasian Division of the IAP. has just completed reviewing the proofs of In spite of this very busy professional life the next edition. Elaine has made time to share it with a hus- He has played an active role in many socie- band and two children and to help to advance ties but particularly in the American Society the status of women. An interesting aspect of of Clinical Pathologists, the USCAP and the College of American Pathologists. His main the latter was her admission in 1988 to a very interests in these associations have been in WHO Blue books on sale at the USCAP meeting in exclusive club in Washington, the Cosmos Vancouver 2012. Elaine Jaffe is one of the 4 series Club. She was one of a small group of women Education and Quality Assurance Programmes.. editors for the 4th Edition Series of these books. who were the first females to be admitted. Hematopathology (2011) by Elaine S. Jaffe, Soon after her admission she was appointed Nancy Lee Harris, James W. Vardiman, Elias to the Board of Trustees of the Cosmos Club Campo and Daniel A. Arber, published by Foundation, on which she served until 2002. Saunders, Elsevier. The Foundation is the ‘charitable’ component Elaine has played an active role in many pro- of the Club and it awards its honorary prizes fessional bodies including the IAP and the and sponsors research etc. To give you some USCAP, of which she is a past President. idea of the exclusivity of the membership of Over the course of her life she has given this Club, in one of their rooms they have a lectures and conducted courses in numer- wall covered with photographs of members ous countries. However, this is her first visit who have won Nobel Prizes, and on the
Pathology Network is one of Stacey Mills’ continuing to Australia. During the past 10 years the opposite wall photos of members who have education activities. He is Am. J. Surg. Path. editor. lectures have been more keynote lectures won Pulitzer Prizes for literature.
Activities Gallery
Above: Fiona Bonar, Bill Murray, Anita Muljono, Kasim Ismail, Betty Lin. Below: Sean Chang, Karry Kasmeridis, Daniel Houghton, Georgina England.
Above: Dr Esther Myint with successful students she has tutored for the RCPA examinations in Anatomical Pathology in 2012. Esther trained in Burma and spent 5 years in the Hunter Pathology Service doing the Registrar training for the RCPA. Since graduating in 2010 she has been running courses for overseas trained pathologists studying for the RCPA examinations. Front: Spinder Samra, Vanita Bhargava, Esther Myint, Lianne Lee. Back Vas Kamath, Alexandra Allende, Lisa Lin, Martha Lehman. Right: Sam Boros and Linda Shen who will be organising the Assembly of the Asia Pacific IAP Congress in Brisbane in 2015, and Soon Lee who will be President of the Australasian Division of the IAP in the lead up to that Meeting. 5 Above: Caroline Fung & Teresa Yung. Above: Heather Smith, Orna Craiinic, Brooke Beerksley. Above right: Anna Below: Maurice Matich, Duncan Lamont, Mahendra Singh. Salkeld, Pessa Nikolil, Dan Gabriel Scripcaru. Right: Ravi Mathew, Frances Petry, Daniel James, David Godbolt, Kris Kerr, Sujartha Fernando.
Below: Caroline Smith, Jill Lipsett, Craig James. Bottom: Kevin Trown, David Palmer, Maurice Matich.
WORLDWIDE PATHOLOGY COMMUNITY COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town, South Africa is very proud to be the host of the 29th International IMPORTANT DATES Academy of Pathology Congress from 30 September to 5 October 2012. • Poster Abstract Submission Opens This opportunity stems from Africa’s growing contribution to address health problems 15 October 2011 of continental and international importance. African health professionals, often in collaboration with leading experts from across the world, are closely involved with • Online Registration Opens research and development of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventative strategies in the 30 October 2011 fight against globally important diseases such as the HIV pandemic, tuberculosis and • Poster Abstract Submission Closes malaria. 30 March 2012 From an economic perspective, South Africa has become an important economic • Confirmation of Poster Abstract power amongst developing countries, reflected by her recent inclusion with Brazil, Acceptance 30 April 2012 Russia, India and China in the BRICS economic grouping that is becoming a dominant • global economic force. Early Bird Registration Closes
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PROGRAMME The scientific programme includes a wide range of symposia, slide seminars, long and short courses, and workshops covering the entire spectrum of Anatomical Pathology, including Cytopathology, Molecular Pathology, Environmental Pathology, Computational and Telepathology, Paediatric Pathology, Education, and Infectious and Tropical Diseases. International experts in all the Anatomical Pathology subspecialties developed excellent programmes with a strong emphasis on current and future trends in surgical pathology of all the major organ systems. In addition, the programme caters for updates on autopsy pathology, immunohistochemistry, quality assurance in Anatomical Pathology, an authorship workshop, and surgical pathology slide seminars by the Arkadi M. Rywlin International Pathology Slide Seminar Club and the Association of Indian Pathologists in North America.
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6 37th ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING not for the faint hearted Case 3 • Dr Siaw Ming Chai, PathWest, QE2 Dr Michael Texler, PathWest, Fremantle COMPANION Medical Centre, Perth, WA Hospital, Perth, WA Ampullary lesions: a review of the A 59 year old man with a large MEETINGS PathWest experience and current sigmoid polyp. Whatever next? issues in reporting PROGRAM • Dr David Chang, Garvan Institute, Sydney NEUROPATHOLOGY Friday, June 1, 2012 Molecular pathological phenotypes Bayside Room 102 and outcome in adenocarcinoma of Convenor: Dr Peter Robbins, PathWest, QEII ASM Principal sponsor: the ampulla of vater Medical Centre, Perth, WA • Dr Bastiaan de Boer, PathWest, QE2 Lecture: Medical Centre, Perth, WA Case Report: Cystic mucinous duct Dr Michael Buckland, Royal Prince Alfred lesion of the pancreas: ?a separate Hospital, Sydney, NSW entity. An update on the molecular 9:00 – 10:45 am biology of gliomas: implications for diagnosis and treatment SOFT TISSUE AND BONE 11:15 – 1:00 pm Case Presentations: Auditorium Case 1 LYMPHOMA – EBV LPD A/Prof. Michael Gonzales, Royal Auditorium Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Convenor: Dr Benhur Amanuel, PathWest, Case 2 Convenor: A/Prof. Richard Jaworski, Douglass QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WA Dr Cesar M Salinas-La Rosa, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne Hanly Moir Pathology, Macquarie Park, NSW Case 1 Lecture: Cases 1-4 Professor Elaine S Jaffe, Invited Speaker, Dr Peter Robbins, PathWest, QEII Medical Dr Fiona Bonar, Douglass Hanly Moir Clinical Professor of Pathology, George Centre, Perth, WA Pathology, Macquarie Park, NSW Washington University School of Medicine, CNS Pseudotumours Cases 5-7 USA Dr Fiona Maclean, Douglass Hanly Moir Case 2 PAEDIATRICS Pathology, Macquarie Park, NSW Dr Chris Van Vliet, PathWest, QEII Case 8 Medical Centre, Perth, WA Bayside Room 105 Professor Stacey Mills, Invited Speaker Case 3 Convenor: Dr Nicole Graf, The Children’s Case 9 Dr Penny McKelvie, St Vincent’s Hospital, Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW Dr Kenneth Lee, Concord Hospital, Melbourne, VIC Topic: Placental pathology update, Concord, NSW. Case 4 including “commonly missed A/Prof. John Miliauskas, IMVS, Surgical common things” BREAST Pathology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Presenters: Bayside Room 104 Woodville, Adelaide, SA • Dr Susan Arbuckle, The Children’s Hospital Convenor: A/Prof. Gelareh Farshid, Case 5 at Westmead, Sydney, NSW Consultant Pathologist, SA Pathology and Clinical A/Prof. David Ellis, SA Pathology and • Dr Amanda Charlton, The Children’s Director, BreastScreen SA, Adelaide, SA Clinpath Pathology, Adelaide, SA Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW • Prof. Jane Dahlstrom, ACT Pathology, • Dr Oana Crainic, Canterbury Health GASTROENTEROLOGY Laboratories, Christchurch, NZ Canberra, ACT Primary angiosarcoma, Bayside Room 104 • Dr Nicky Graf, The Children’s Hospital at postradiation angiosarcoma and Convenor: Dr Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, Westmead, Sydney, NSW atypical vascular lesion of the PathWest, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WA • Dr Jeanette McFarlane, LabPlus, Auckland, NZ breast Lectures: • Dr Ella Sugo, SEALS Pathology, Randwick, • Dr Gavin Harris, Canterbury Health • A/Prof. Robert Eckstein, PaLMS, Royal NSW Laboratories, Christchurch, NZ North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW Wide local excisions of the breast The RCPA protocols for and the pathologist – are we missing the structured reporting of 2:00 – 3:45 pm something? gastrointestinal cancers – past • A/Prof. Sandra O’Toole, Consultant achievements and future plans INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Pathologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, • Dr Ian Brown, Envoi Pathology, Herston, OF GYNAECOLOGICAL Sydney, NSW QLD PATHOLOGY (ISGYP) The molecular pathology of breast Malignant polyps: Issues for Auditorium cancer pathologists and clinicians Convenor: Dr Lyndal Anderson, Royal Prince • A/Prof. Gelareh Farshid, SA Pathology and • Dr Sheng Khor, PathWest, QEII Medical Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW BreastScreen, SA Centre, Perth, WA Guest Lecture: Biopsy assessments of screen Drug induced lesions of the GI tract Dr Susan Bigby, Middlemore Hospital, NZ detected microcalcifications Case presentations: Case 1 LIVER Case 1 Dr Dariush Daneshvar, Westmead Dr Daniel Houghton, PathWest, QEII Hospital, Sydney, NSW Bayside Room 105 Medical Centre, Perth, WA Case 2 Convenor: Dr Bastiaan de Boer, QE2 Medical A 35 year old female with metastatic Dr James Scurry, Hunter Area Pathology Centre, Nedlands, Perth, WA gastric carcinoma; any chance? Service, Hunter New England ‘Sweetbread Smorgasbord’ Case 2 Case 3 • Dr Ebo Oost, Registrar, PathWest, QE2 Dr Mark Bettington, Envoi Pathology, Dr Felik Paulus, Prince of Wales Hospital, Medical Centre, Perth, WA Herston, Queensland Sydney Case report: Pitfalls in the A 61 year old male with acute small Case 4 interpretation of ampullary lesions: bowel obstruction Dr Tamazin Leecy, Queen Elizabeth II 7 Medical Centre, Perth Another familial GIST syndrome Case 2 Case 5 • Tristan Dodds, Royal North Shore Hospital, Dr Anitha Thomas, PathWest Laboratory Dr Marcus Dabner, King Edward Memorial St Leonards NSW Medicine, Perth Hospital for Women, Perth Mutation specific Case 3 immunohistochemistry for Dr Ruta Gupta, Royal Prince Alfred ORELL FNA BRAFV600E in papillary thyroid Hospital, Sydney Bayside Room 102 carcinoma Case 4 Convenor: Dr Afaf Haddad, Dorevitch Dr David Clouston, Focus Pathology, Pathology, Ormond, Victoria 4:05 – 5:00 pm Melbourne, VIC Lectures: • Dr Bill Murray, Peter MacCallum Cancer PLENARY LECTURE DERMATOPATHOLOGY Institute, Melbourne, VIC Auditorium Bayside Room 105 When all else fails, scrape! Professor Keith Kerr, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Convenors: Dr Vicki Howard & Dr Jessamine • Dr Reena Ramsaroop, Diagnostic Medlab, Reddy, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, Sydney Auckland, NZ Lung Adenocarcinoma – Where are Breast Implants and ALCL we now? Lectures: • Dr Rooshdiya Karim, Royal Prince Alfred • Dr Rachael Chambers, Queensland Hospital, Sydney, NSW Medical Laboratories, Brisbane, QLD 5:15 – 7:15 pm Intraneural glomus tumour A Myxoid mix up LUNG • Dr Huw Llewellyn, The Canberra Hospital, • Dr Mahdieh Gorji/Dr Vicki Howard, Auditorium Canberra, ACT Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, Sydney, Hot granuloma- A diagnostic Convenor: A/Prof. Wendy Cooper, Royal NSW conundrum Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney NSW Idiopathic palmoplantar Lecture and case presentation: hidradenitis RENAL A/Prof. Sandra O’Toole, Royal Prince Alfred • Dr Raghwa Sharma, ICPMR, Westmead Bayside Room 104 Hospital, Sydney, NSW Hospital, Sydney, NSW Convenor: Professor John Dowling, Monash Molecular testing in lung cancer – Basal Cell Carcinoma colonising Medical Centre, Clayton, VIC What do surgical pathologists need Melanoma – a conundrum to know? • Dr Jonathan Zwi, Nephropathologist, • Dr Shaun Chou, ICPMR, Westmead Lecture: Auckland Hospital, NZ Hospital, Sydney, NSW FSGS in diabetic patients from South Professor Keith Kerr, University of Phemphigus gestationis Auckland Aberdeen, Scotland Update on Pulmonary • Dr Nathan Harvey, PathWest, QEII Medical • Dr Alison Skene, Anatomical Pathology, Neuroendocrine Tumours Centre, Nedlands, Perth, WA Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC Cytogenetic testing on problematic Case presentations: The molecular diagnosis of rejection melanocytic lesions in human kidney transplants Case 1 Dr Julie Burn, Douglass Hanly Moir • Dr Fiona Chan, St Vincent’s Hospital, • Dr Kim Oliver, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Pathology, Sydney, NSW Melbourne, VIC Brisbane, QLD Case 2 A spindle cell myxoid tumour Case presentation for discussion Dr Kathleen Merrick, Healthscope • Dr Mae Ramirez, St George Hospital, • Prof. John Dowling, Monash Medical Pathology, Sydney, NSW Sydney, NSW Centre, Clayton, VIC Case 3 Mosaic cherry angioma Then and Now – a review of Dr Ju Ee Seet, National University Hospital, developments in the aetiology of Singapore selected renal diseases OPHTHALMIC Case 4 Bayside Room 106 ENDOCRINE PATHOLOGY Dr Edwina Duhig, The Prince Charles Hospital laboratory group, Pathology Convenor: Dr Jeanne Tomlinson, ICPMR, Bayside Room 105 Queensland Westmead, NSW and A/Professor Sonja Klebe, Convenor: Dr Anthony Gill, Royal North Shore SA Pathology/Flinders University, Adelaide SA Hospital, Sydney, NSW INTERNATIONAL Lectures: Lectures: SOCIETY OF UROLOGICAL • Dr Alex Dempster, Southern Community • Dr Ann Marie McNicol, Molecular and PATHOLOGY Laboratories and Dr Paul Oei, IGENZ Ltd, Cellular Pathology, School of Medicine, The NZ University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (ISUP) Bayside Room 104 Ocular melanoma genetics, the New Topic yet to be advised Zealand Experience Convenor: A/Prof. Hema Samaratunga, • Dr Angela Chou, SYDPATH, St Vincents • Dr Gael Phillips, Director of Fetal and Hospital, Darlinghurst NSW Aquesta Pathology, Brisbane, QLD Paediatric Pathology, Pathology Queensland, Von Hippel Lindau syndrome – what Lectures: Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, pathologists need to know • Prof. Guido Martignoni, Università degli Brisbane, QLD Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy • Dr Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, PathWest Sampling and reporting PEComas: the past, the present, the Pathology, Perth, WA retinoblastoma Papillary thyroid carcinoma: future and....back aggressive features and variants • Prof. Brett Delahunt, Wellington School of • Dr Tersia Vermeulen, PathWest, Royal Perth Hospital, WA • Dr Veli Marjoniemi, St George Hospital, Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sydney NSW Otago, Wellington, New Zealand A Solitary Man An unusual pancreatic endocrine New directions in renal cancer Intraocular tumour – a sting in the tumour grading tail? Jeanette Philips Award Case presentations: • Dr Svetlana Cherepanoff, SEALS, Prince of presentations: Case 1 Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW • Ricardo Vilain, HAPS pathology, John Prof. James Kench, Royal Prince Alfred An unusual case of lacrimal duct Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW Hospital, Sydney, NSW obstruction. 8