Diagnostic Pathology Update: Enhance Your Practice with Expert Insights

Stay updated on the latest advancements in pathology with our comprehensive course, covering topics from gastrointestinal pathology to head and neck pathology. World-renowned faculty present the most current information to improve your daily practice.

Target Audience

• Practicing academic and community pathologists
• Pathologists-in-training

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to:

• Update diagnostic criteria for particular lesions occurring at various body sites
• Understand classification updates based on new information from the molecular and genomic worlds
• Adapt new information to practice changes that improve and optimize patient care and outcomes

Course Content

Our comprehensive course includes expert-led sessions on:

Breast Pathology

• Breast Papillary Lesions: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD
• Breast Spindle Cell Lesions – Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD
• Immune Biomarkers in Breast Cancer – Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD
• Small Glandular Proliferations of the Breast (ARS) – Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD
• Special Type Breast Carcinomas (ARS) – Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD

Soft Tissue and Bone Pathology

• Beyond Dermatofibroma: What’s New in Cutaneous Mesenchymal Tumors? – Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD
• Classification of Pleomorphic Sarcomas is Important and Easy (I Promise!) – Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD
• Gastrointestinal Mesenchymal Tumors: Avoid Going Down the Tube(s)! (ARS) – Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD

Gynecologic Pathology

• Classification of Endometrial Carcinoma: Integration of Morphologic, Immunophenotypic, and Molecular Data – Brooke Howitt, MD
• INI1-deficient Vulvar Tumors (ARS) – Brooke Howitt, MD
• Mesonephric-like Carcinoma (ARS) – Brooke Howitt, MD
• Updates in Uterine Mesenchymal Neoplasms: New Entities, New Tools (New Headaches?) – Brooke Howitt, MD
• Vulvar Squamous Lesions and Cancers: Updates in Classification and Staging – Brooke Howitt, MD

Genitourinary Pathology

• “Flat” and “Deceptively Bland” Urothelial Lesions: Nothing to be Trifled With! – Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD
• Prostate Biopsy Interpretation: The Obvious and Not So – Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD
• Things That Matter Are Not Easy: Pitfalls in GU Pathology (ARS) – Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD

Pulmonary Pathology

• “It’s a What?” Memorable Thoracic Frozen Sections (ARS) – Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
• Small Cell, Large Cell: Crash Course in Neuroendocrine Lung Neoplasms – Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
• The Mighty Eosinophil: What to Consider When You See Eosinophils in the Lung (ARS) – Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
• Thoracic Tumor Toolkit: 10 Must-know Tumors in Thoracic Pathology – Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD
• What You Inhale Can Kill You: Lung Pathology of Smoking and Vaping – Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD

Gastrointestinal Pathology

• Biopsy Interpretation of Inflammatory Diseases of the Colon – Rish K. Pai, MD
• Demystifying Appendiceal Tumors: Information our Clinicians Need to Know – Rish K. Pai, MD
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease Associated Neoplasia (ARS) – Rish K. Pai, MD
• Usual and Unusual Colorectal Polyps (ARS) – Rish K. Pai, MD
• What’s New in Colorectal Cancer? – Rish K. Pai, MD

Hematopathology

• Lessons From Two Competing Classifications: Lymphoid Neoplasms (ARS) – Olga Weinberg, MD
• Lessons From Two Competing Classifications: Myeloid Neoplasms – Olga Weinberg, MD
• Plasma Cell Neoplasms (ARS) – Olga Weinberg, MD
• Practical Approach to Cutaneous Lymphomas – Olga Weinberg, MD
• The Controversies in Lymphoma Classification – Olga Weinberg, MD

Head and Neck Pathology

• Mucosal Squamous Proliferations: Bread and Butter – Ilan Weinreb, MD
• New Salivary Kids on the Block (ARS) – Ilan Weinreb, MD
• Salivary Gland Cancers: An Array of Pink, Clear and Blue and Molecular Too! – Ilan Weinreb, MD
• IN HEAD; A Tumor Acronym for Those in the Nose Bleed Section (ARS) – Ilan Weinreb, MD

Original release date: August 20, 2023