XXV Congress
of the International Academy of Pathology

Brisbane
October 10-15, 2004

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.

Above: Executives of the Organising Committee for IAP Congress 2004
L-R. Robin Cooke (President of the Congress), Shinichiro Ushigome (President of the I.A.P.) , Bob Eckstein (Vice President of the Congress, and Chairman of the Scientific Committee), Warick Delprado (President of the Australasian Division of the I.A.P.)

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.

Above: Members of the Board of the Australasian Division of the I.A.P. at the Board Meeting in June, 2002.
Back row L-R Peter Robbins (W.A.), Veli Marjionemi (NSW) [Treasurer], Brett Delahunt (N.Z .), Robin Cooke (Qld) [Editor, News Letter], Richard Jaworski (NSW), Kon Muller (Tas) [Vice President, South East Asia], Rayleen Jovanovic (NSW) [Assistant Secretary], Front - Warick Delprado [President Elect], Con Theocarous (NSW) [Honorary Secretary], Bob Eckstein [President], Jenny Ma Wong (NSW), Jan McLean (NSW) [Secretary].

Above: Speakers at the Uropathology Club Session, June 2002
L-R. Leo Francis (Brisbane), Chris Douglas (Sydney), Cate Campbell (Higgins) (Brisbane), Tony Watt (Brisbane), Brett Delahunt (Wellington), Sue Fredericks (Sydney), Hema Samaratunga (Brisbane), Geoff Watson (Sydney).

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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).
Slides and Case Histories are being sent by mail to purchasers. Prof. Kurman's 38 cases with one image for each case are available for viewing at www:iap-aus.org.au There will be a handout at the meeting.

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.

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Companion
Club
Programs

Friday, May 30

Combined Gynaecological Pathology Symposium

8.00 - 9.00
Registration
 

9.00-10.40
ISGP Companion Meeting

Main Auditorium
Pathology of the Placenta

8.55 - 9.40
Lecture: A Practical Approach to Placental Pathology
Dr T. Yee Khong

9.40 - 10.40
Slide Seminar
- Dr. Christopher Henderson
- Dr. Richard Jaworski
- Dr. Huw Llewellyn & Dr. Bob Brown
- Dr. Nicky Graf
- Dr. T. Yee Khong
 

10.40 - 11.00
Morning Tea
 

11.00 - 12.45
Test & Teach - Gynaecological Pathology Teaching Session
(Sponsored by Mayne Health)

Main Auditorium

Chairman: Dr R. Scoyler

12 Cases

11.00 - 11.25
Cases 1-3 : Professor Peter Russell

11.25 - 11.50
Cases 4-6 : Dr Catherine Camaris

11.50 - 12.15
Cases 7-9 : Dr Richard Jaworski

12.15 - 12.40
Cases 10-12 : Dr. Nick Mulvaney
 

12.45 - 2.00
Lunch
 

2.00 - 3.45
Staging & Grading of Gynaecological Malignancy

Meeting Room 4

2.00 - 2.45
FIGO Staging of Gynaecological Malignancy : Associate Professor Jonathan Carter

2.45 - 3.05
Grading of Endometrial Carcinoma : Dr. James Kirker

3.05 - 3.25
Grading of Ovarian Carcinoma : Dr Richard Jaworski

3.25 - 3.45
VIN : Dr James Scurry
 

Neuropathology

9.00 - 10.40

Meeting Room 2

Convenors: Dr Peter Robbins and Dr Victor Ojeda

9.00
Welcome, Introduction, and Update on Neuropathology Component of Brisbane 2004 Congress : Dr Peter Robins

9.05
Lecture: Molecular Genetics of CNS Tumours : Dr Michael Gonzales

9.25
Lecture: Selected Aspects of Meningioma Diagnosis, Classification and Grading : Dr Peter Robbins

9.55
Case Presentations:
- Dr Renate Kalnins, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Vic
- Dr Michael Gonzales, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Vic
- Dr Peter Robbins, PathCentre, Nedlands, WA
 

Dermatopathology

9.00 - 10.40

Meeting Room 4

Convenor: Dominic Wood

Case Presentations - 9 minutes each
Inara Strungs
Microcystic Adnexal Carcinoma and Syringocystadenoma Papilliferum arising in an Organoid Naevus

Richard Scolyer : Cellular Neurothekeoma

Geoffrey Strutton : Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Penis

Stephen Mann : Retiform Haemangioendothelioma

Wade Barrett : Pseudolymphomatous Angiokeratoma

Fergus Whitehead : Cutaneous Wegener's Granulomatosis

Nick Mellick : Atypical Fibroxanthoma and CD 99

Anna Simpson : Necrobiotic Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma

Bish Dutta : Idiopathic Palmoplantar Eccrine Hidradenitis in an Adult

Bish Dutta : Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome associated with Multinodular Goitre
 

Faculty of Oral Pathology

9.00 - 10.40

Meeting Room 5

Convenor: Michael Aldred

9.00
Clear Cell Tumour of the Palate : Murray Walker

9.15
Sarcoidosis and Mucous Extravastion Cysts : Anna Talacko and Michael Aldred

9.30
White Sponge Naevus : Karl Rodins, B Robertson, Paul Buckley, Jane Dahlstrom, Murray Walker

9.45
Polymorphous Low Grade Adenocarcinoma : Chris Angel

10.00
Granular cell tumour of the tongue Jane Dahlstrom

10.15
Ewing's Sarcoma of the Jaws : Katie Loh

10.30
Hyperparathyroidism and Cemento-ossifying Fibromas : Michael Aldred and Anna Talacko
 

Liver Companion Meeting

11.00 - 12.45

Meeting Room 2

Convenor: Dr David Cohn

Update on HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

11.00 - 11.15
Clinical Issues
Speaker : Professor Geoffrey Farrell, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney

11.20 -12.00
Pathology
Speaker: Professor Pauline Hall, Division of Anatomical Pathology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

12.05 - 12.15
Case Report - Autosomal Dominant Haemochromatosis Ferroportin 1 Mutation
Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Searle, Queensland Medical Laboratory, Brisbane

12.20 - 12.45
Cholestatic Liver Disease
Speaker: Professor Prithi Bhathal, University of Melbourne
 

Lung Companion Session

11.00 - 12.45

Meeting Room 4

Convenor: Dr Jenny Ma Wyatt, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW

Case Presentations:
1. Lymphangiomatosis
Presented by Dr Susan Arbuckle, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW.

2. "Hot Tub Pneumonitis"
Presented by Dr Genevieve Bennett, ACT Pathology, Garran, ACT.

3. Intravascular Lymphomatosis diagnosed on Transbronchial Biopsy of the Lung.
Presented by Professor Doug Henderson, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA.

4. Polymorphous Low-Grade Adenocarcinoma
Presented by Dr Richard Scolyer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW.

5. Two Cases of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Presented by Dr Stephen Rainer, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW.

Lecture:
"Acquired Cystic Lung Disease"
by Dr Lindy Clarke, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.
 

Renal

11.00 - 12.45

Meeting Room 5

Convenor: Dr John Dowling

1. Complement in Glomerular Diseases : Prof. John Charlesworth

2. Case Presentation: Sudden Nephrotic Syndrome in Longstanding Systemic Sclerosis : Dr. Moira Finlay

3. Case Presentation:Asymptomatic Haematuria and Proteinuria in a young man : Dr. Kirsten McIroy

4. Case Presentation: Interstitial Changes with a difference : Prof. John Dowling
 

Soft Tissue Companion Club

2.00 - 3.45

Meeting Room 2

Convenor: Dr Caroline Fung

Main Lecture:
Update on Vascular Tumours : Dr Phil Allen

Case Presentations:
1. Dr. Mike Watson
2. Dr. Andrew Kedziora
3. Assoc. Prof. Penny McKelvie
4. Dr. Richard Scolyer
5. Dr. Dominic Spagnolo
 

Breast

2.00 - 3.45

Main Auditorium

Convenor: Dr Gelareh Farshid

Microarray Technology and Breast Cancer - Implications for Pathology : Dr Deon Venter

DCIS Update : Dr Jane Armes

Updated Staging System for Breast Cancer : Dr Steve Allpress

QA Survey Data for Immunohistochemical Assessment of HER2 Expression : Dr Margaret Cummings

QA Survey Data for Immunohistochemical Assessment of ER/PR : Dr Glen Francis
 

Paediatric

2.00 - 3.45

Meeting Room 5

Convenor: Dr Yee Khong

2.00 - 2.45
How We Approach Series - How We Approach a Clinician Request for FNA in Paediatric Pathology : Dr Nick Smith, King Edward Memorial Hospital / Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth

2.45 - 3.00
Slide Seminar
Proximal Renal Tubular Dysgenesis associated with Severe Hemosiderosis in a Neonate : Dr Hunaina Al-Kindi, Canberra Hospital, Canberrra

3.00 - 3.15
A spontaneously regressing Metastatic Renal Tumour : Dr Gino Somers, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

3.15 - 3.30
A nasty abscess in a heart transplant patient : Dr Gino Somers, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

3.30 - 3.45
Chronic Meningitis : Dr Lavinia Hallam, Canberra Hospital, Canberra
 

Gastroenterology

Main Auditorium

5.15 - 7.00

Convenor: Dr John Pedersen

Speakers:
Dr B de Boer : Gastric Lymphomas
Dr A Clouston : Undescribed lesions of the GI Tract
Dr A Charlton : Early Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Carcinoma
Dr C Campbell : Eosinophilic Oesophagitis
Dr P Crowley : Upper Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumours
 

Uropathology

5.15 - 7.00

Meeting Room 4

Convenor: Dr Geoffrey Watson

Lecture:
The Role of Immunohistochemistry in Uropathology : Dr Geoff Watson

Slide Presentations of 8 Interesting Renal Tumours:
Speakers:
Dr Geoff Watson (Sydney)
Prof Brett Delahunt (Wellington)
Dr Hema Samaratunga (Brisbane)
Dr Ian Brown (Brisbane)
Dr Stephen Fairy (Sydney)
 

Orell FNA

5.15 - 7.00

Meeting Room 2

Convenors: Dr Judy Bligh and Dr Ann Finney

Lecture:
A Review of the role of FNA in the Diagnosis of Mesothelioma: The PathCentre Experience : Dr Darrel Whitaker, PathCentre, Perth

Lecture:
Cytology of Ovarian Cystic Lesions : Dr Nicholas Mulvany, Melbourne Pathology, Melbourne.

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

Meeting Room 5

Convenor: Dr Stephen Braye

Lecture:
Immunohistochemistry of Splenic Lymphoma
Prof Anthony S-Y Leong

Slide Seminar:
Splenic Lymphoma
Dr John Miliauskas and Dr Stephen Braye
 

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Registration Examination
for the
International Academy of Cytology

Hong Kong,
October 10, 2003

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
QHPS Gold Coast Hospital,
108 Nerang Street,
Southport Qld 4215.
Phone: 07 5571 8319
Fax: 07 5571 8496.
Email: Stephen_Weinstein@health.qld.gov.au
or
Dr David Evans at P.O. Box 181 Glen Osmond SA 5064
Email: ddevans@iprimus.com.au

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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:
Dako
QML Pathology
S&N Pathology
Mater Laboratory Services
Cytyc Thin Prep
PKF Accountants

Individuals:
Dr Ann Warrel

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