newsAustralasian Division of the International

Academy of Pathology

The 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

is shaping up to be an exciting meeting. Our prin-cipal guest speakers this year are Professor Sarah E. Pinder, King’s College, London, U.K. and Dr. John K.C. Chan, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

On Saturday, Professor Pinder will dis-cuss important issues in Breast Pathology. There will be lectures on “Molecular clas-sification of breast cancer – implications for pathologists” and “Diagnosis of intra-ductal proliferative lesions of the breast –

biological implications” as well as a comprehensive slide

seminar. On Sunday, I’ve asked Dr John Chan to cover several aspects of General Surgical

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Pathology (including Salivary Gland and Thyroid Pathology) and his slide seminar entitled “Things are not always what they seem to be” will be highly educational and informative. To enhance their educational value, may I

suggest that you try not to look at the answers to the slide semi-

nar cases beforehand.The Friday keynote lecture, “Gastric

Neoplasia: Updated and evolving concepts”, will be delivered by Professor Gregory Y. Lauwers, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Greg will also be participating in the gastrointesti-nal companion meeting.

Also on Friday, Professor Jeffrey Golden, University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will be speaking at a combined Paediatric and Neuropathology Companion Meeting. In addition, there will be a Saturday workshop on Developmental Neuropathology running in parallel with the main meeting (see programme for fur-ther details).

Associate Professor David Ellis is this year’s Vincent McGovern Lecturer. Like last year’s speaker, Associate Professor Michael Bilous, David trained under Professor McGovern and his lecture “EBV virus - the enemy within” is not to be missed.

The Master Classes are again a feature of this year’s meeting. These sessions, which are open to trainees and consult-ants alike, are excellent. This year we are privileged in having Dr Vicki Howard and

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PRESIDENT

Richard Jaworski

SECRETARY

Stephen Fairy

TREASURER

Jan Kencian

EDITORIAL GROUP

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special guest speaker, Dr Ophelia Dadzie covering Dermatopathology.

Dr Geoff Watson will cover Uropathology and Dr Caroline Fung will tackle issues in gastrointestinal pathology.

The presentations and slide semi-nars from our principal speakers will be available for purchase as colour booklets with an accompanying CD (and in the case of John Chan’s seminar, DVDs). These are being pre-pared by our Editor, Professor Robin Cooke. Robin, with the help of our speakers, has put a lot of time and effort into their production. These are superb teaching and reference resources and I thoroughly recom-mend you purchase them.

As in previous years we hope to be sponsoring a number of pathologists to attend our meeting. Our major sponsor this year is Roche who will also be contributing to the scien-tific programme. Professor Gregory Lauwers’ visit is being sponsored by Sonic Healthcare and Dako Australia.

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Division of the IAP is one of the best meetings for Anatomical Pathologists in the south-ern hemisphere. It offers opportuni-ties for education, friendship and net-working. The meeting runs from June 3 – 5. I look forward to seeing you.Full details and online registration are available at our website: www.iap-aus.org.au

Richard Jaworski,President

Introducing the ASM Principal Invited Speakers Prof. Sarah Pinder

Sarah Pinder undertook her medi-

cal degree at Manchester University,

and following histopathology training and

research in Nottingham, she became Senior

Lecturer at Nottingham City Hospital Breast

Unit. She was appointed as Consultant in

Breast Pathology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital,

Cambridge in 2004.

Her present position is at King’s College

and Breast Research Unit, Guy’s Hospital,

London.

She serves on the National Cancer

Research Institute (NCRI) Breast Clinical

Studies Group, the NICE Guideline

Development Group – Early Breast

Cancer, NHS BSP Pathology Coordinating

Committee and the Sloane Project (NHS

BSP DCIS audit) Steering Committee,

amongst others.

Her research interests are focused on

precursor lesions and the molecular biol-

ogy of breast cancer with emphasis on

correlation of morphology, protein expres-

sion and molecular features. She has pub-

lished approximately 140 research articles

in peer-reviewed literature, over 30 invited

review articles and more than 30 chapters

in medical textbooks.

Dr. John Chan

John Chan graduated from Hong

Kong University Medical School

in 1981.He was trained at Queen

Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, and

did one year fellowship in the United

States with Dr. Juan Rosai at Yale

University and Dr. Ronald Dorfman at

Stanford University.

He is Consultant Pathologist of the

Pathology Department in the Queen

Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. This

is the largest hospital in Hong Kong

with 1800 beds.

Faces from last

year’s Meeting

Above: Michael Brown (Canberra), Co-lin Arnold (Gold Coast).

Below: Fred Kassem, Satya Singh.

Above: Roisin Reynolds, Hee Jin Song.

Left: Razmin Ghazali, Gen-eral Hospital, Kuala Lumpur Invited guest from Malaysia.

Above left: Dillon Close, Christine Qian, Matt Facey (Vic).

Below left: Vince Murdolo, Alison Skene, Peter Crowley.

Left: Hema Samaratunga, Ed-wina Duhig, Annabelle Mahar

Below: John Pauli, Andrew Bettington, Tim Khamu.

In addition to provision of general

services, the Hospital is a referral

center.

He has become a much sought

after speaker on aspects of Surgical

Pathology and Immunopathology.

His lectures take him to many dif-

ferent countries. He is a contributor

to the WHO blue book series on

Tumour Pathology, including contri-

butions to Haematolymphoid system,

head and neck, endocrine organs,

thymus, soft tissue and skin.

He has published numerous arti-

cles on a wide range of topics. He

has written many book chapters, par-

ticularly on the following subjects:

lymphoreticular system, thymus,

thyroid, parathyroid and salivary

gland. He has co-authored the AFIP

fascicle on Tumors of Lymph Nodes

and Spleen (third series). He receives

second opinion consultations from

all over the world.

On his first visit to Australia as a

guest speaker at one of our Annual

meetings he demonstrated the use of

power point presentations and digital

cameras. His interest in digital imag-

ing continues.

Left: John Bothman, Janice Zeng (Credit Valley Hospital, Canada), Heny Lau.

Below: Front; Margreth van Aartsen, Cor-rine Wallace, Darina Yuong,Victoria Francis. Back; Skye Thomas, Simone Kirch.

Above: Fiona Maclean, Rooshdiuza Karim, Wendy Cooper, Geoff Watson.

Left: Richard Scolyer, Vicki Howard and Philip LeBoit.

Below: Veli Marjoniemi, Kerry Crotty, Jane Dahlstrom, Elizabeth Sinclair.

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36th Annual Scientific Meeting Companion Meetings Program and Skin Master Class Program

Major Sponsor

Friday, June 3

9:00 – 10:45INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GYNAECOLOGICAL PATHOLOGY (ISGyP)Convenor: Dr Lyndal Anderson, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, NSWLecture: Dr Raghwa Sharma, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, NSW.New insights into the pathogenesis of serous ovarian carcinoma.Case Presenters:1. Dr Susan Bigby, Middlemore Hospital, New Zealand2. Dr Rachael van der Griend and Dr David Challis,

Royal Hobart Hospital, TAS3. Dr Inny Busmanis, Singapore General Hospital,

Singapore4. Dr Kerryn Ireland-Jenkin, Austin Pathology, VIC5. Dr. Anita Achan, Westmead Hospital, NSW

LYMPHOMAConvenor: Dr Benhur Amanuel, PathWest, Perth, WACase Presenters:1. Dr Dominic Spagnolo, PathWest Laboratory

Medicine, Perth, WA2. Dr Debra Norris, QML, VMO Princess Alexandra

Hospital, Brisbane, QLD3. Dr Daniel Kearney, Surgical Pathology, SA Pathology/

IMVS, Adelaide, SA4. Dr Penny McKelvie, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne,

VIC5. Dr Benhur Amanuel, PathWest Laboratory Medicine,

Perth, WA

LIVERConvenor: Dr Bastiaan de Boer, PathWest, QE2 Medical Centre, Perth, WALecture: Professor Greg Lauwers, Vice Chairman, Dept of Pathology, Chief, Gastrointestinal Pathology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USAEarly Hepatocellular CarcinomaCase Presentations:1. Dr Mireille Hardie, PathWest, QE2 Medical Centre,

Perth, WA Spindle Cell Lesions of the Liver2. Dr Jennifer Kim, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney,

NSW Intraductal Papillary Neoplasms in the Liver

3. Dr Michelle Alizart, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, QLD

A Cystic Tumour in the Bile Duct

11:15 – 1:00BREASTConvenor: A/Prof Gelareh Farshid, SA Pathology, SA1. Profiling Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast Dr Rosemary Balleine, Cancer Institute NSW Fellow,

Translational Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Local Health Network & Clinical Senior Lecturer, Sydney Medical School

2. Core Biopsy Evaluation of Papillary Lesions of the Breast

Dr Nirmala Pathmanathan, Research Fellow, Westmead Millenium Institute & Consultant Pathologist, Singapore General Hospital

3. Genomics and the Hunt for New Therapeutic Targets in Breast Cancer

Professor Paul Waring, Professor of Pathology, The University of Melbourne

4. Molecular Classification of screen detected breast cancer

A/Prof Gelareh Farshid, Clinical Director, BreastScreen SA & Senior Consultant Pathologist, SA Pathology

LUNGConvenor: Dr Jenny Ma Wyatt, PathWest, QEII, Perth, WALecture 1

Associate Professor Wendy Cooper, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW.

Non-small cell lung cancer. What’s new for pathologists.

Lecture 2 Dr Prudence Russell, St Vincent’s Pathology, Melbourne, VIC

Does lung adenocarcinoma subtype predict patient survival?

Lecture 3 Prof Stephen Fox, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC

EGFR mutation testing in lung carcinomaCase Presentations:1. Dr Tina Baillie, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology,

Sydney, NSW A case of Churg-Strauss Syndrome2. Dr David Godbolt, Northside Pathology/Pathology

Queensland, QLD Pulmonary extramedullary haematopoiesis in the

context of myelofibrosis3. Dr Annabelle Mahar, Tissue Pathology and

Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW.

An unusual cytokeratin positive spindle cell tumour

4. Dr Lisa Lin, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW Spindle cell variant of juvenile xanthogranuloma

PAEDIATRICS/NEUROPATHOLOGY joint sessionConvenors: Dr Nicole Graf, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Dr Ella Sugo, Sydney Children’s Hospital, SEALS Pathology, NSW and Dr Peter Robbins, PathWest, Perth, WATopic:

Tumour and Non-tumour pathology of Chronic Epilepsy in Childhood

Guest Presenter: Professor Jeffrey Golden, University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Classifying and reclassifying cortical dysplasiaCase Presentations:1. Dr Ella Sugo, Sydney Children’s Hospital, SEALS

Pathology, Sydney2. Dr Michael Krivanek, The Children’s Hospital at

Westmead, Sydney3. Dr Penny McKelvie, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne4. Dr Judy Grogen & Dr Amanda Charlton, The

Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney5. Dr Renate Kalnins, The Austin Hospital, Melbourne

2:00 – 3:45SOFT TISSUE & BONEConvenor: Dr Phil Allen, SA Pathology, Flinders Medical Centre, SALecture:

Dr Phil Allen The Fabulous Family of Epithelioid Vascular Tumours

Case Presentations:1. Dr Brooke Beardsley, Canterbury Health Laboratories,

Christchurch, New Zealand2. Dr Sarbar Napaki, Southern IML Pathology and the

Wollongong Hospital, NSW3. Dr Irene Low, PathWest, QE2 Medical Centre,

Nedlands, Perth, WA4. Dr Fiona Maclean, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology,

Macquarie Park, NSW

ORELL FNAConvenor: Dr Afaf Haddad, Dorevitch Pathology, Heidelberg, VicPresenters:1. Dr Felicity Frost, PathWest QEII, Perth Learning from errors in salivary gland FNA

Cytology, PathWest QEII experience2. A/Prof Elizabeth Salisbury, Prince of Wales Hospital

and University of NSW, Sydney Head and Neck Cytology from the Neck Down

3. Dr Teik Beng Phung, Dorevitch Pathology, Melbourne Malignant hypertensive breast lump

4. Dr Kris Kerr, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane Is that a parathyroid in your FNA needle hub, or are you just happy to see me?

5. A/Professor Andrew Field, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney, NSW

The FNA diagnosis of intraduct lesions of the breast

RENALConvenor: Professor John Dowling, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, VICLecture:

Dr Angela Makris, Nephrology, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW

Pre-eclamptic Nephropathy – An UpdateCase Presentations: 1. Dr Heath Smith, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS2. Dr Tony Longano, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton,

VIC3. Professor John Dowling, Monash Medical Centre,

Clayton, VIC4. Professor John Dowling

DERMATOPATHOLOGYConvenor: Dr Vicki Howard, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, Sydney, NSW1. Dr Raghwa Sharma: ICPMR Westmead Hospital,

Sydney, NSW BRAF inhibitors2. Dr Rooshdiya Karim, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,

Sydney, NSW Giant cell fibroblastoma variant of DFSP in an

adult3. Dr Tamazin Leecy, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,

Sydney, NSW Xanthoma disseminatum4. Dr Trevor Beer: Cutaneous Pathology Nedlands, WA 10 cases of acquired elastotic haeamangioma – an

underdiagnosed entity?5. Dr Vishnu Subramanian/Dr Vicki Howard: Douglass

Hanly Moir Pathology, Sydney, NSW Cutaneous drug reactions6. Dr Georgia Harris, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW Blisters – EM or TEN?

5:15 – 7:00GASTROENTEROLOGYConvenors: Dr Ian Brown, Envoi Pathology, Herston, Qld & Dr Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, PathWest, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WALecture 1

Dr M Priyanthi Kumarasinghe Her2 testing in gastric & GOJ cancer: challenges & implications

Lecture 2 Professor Gregory Lauwers, Vice Chairman, Dept of Pathology, Chief, Gastrointestinal Pathology

Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. “Differentiation in the upper gut, where are the MUCs taking us?”

Professor Gregory Lauwers visit sponsored by Dako and Sonic HealthCase presentations:1. Dr Christophe Rosty, Royal Brisbane and Women’s

Hospital, Brisbane, Qld Serrated Polyposis syndrome2. Drs Sooraj Pillai, P Kumarasinghe & Dominic

Spagnolo, PathWest, QEII, Perth, WA Solitary stenosing ischaemic jejunal ulcer, necro-

tising mesenteric arteritis and with prominent numbers of IgG4+ plasma cells

3. Dr Rod Conrad, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Qld Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome4. Dr Bastiaan de Boer, PathWest, QEII, Perth, WA NK cell enteropathy.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF UROLOGICAL PATHOLOGY (ISUP)Convenor: A/Professor Hema Samaratunga, Aquesta Pathology, Milton, QldLecture:

Professor Brett Delahunt, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Gleason grading, past, present and future1. Dr Joanna Perry-Keene, Pathology Queensland Royal

Brisbane & Women’s Hospital2. Dr Bryn Atmore, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney3. Dr Deborah Smith, Healthscope Pathology, Brisbane4. Dr Fiona Maclean, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology,

Sydney5. Dr Geoffrey Watson, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,

Sydney.

ENDOCRINEConvener: Anthony Gill, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSWInvited Lecturers: 5:20 – 5:40

Dr Ann Marie McNicol, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

Topic TBA5:40 - 6:00

Dr John Chan, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon. Hong Kong

Subclassification of follicular thyroid carcinoma: more than minimally invasive and widely invasive

6:00 – 6:20 Dr Alfred Lam, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD

RCPA thyroid cancer working protocol6:20 – 6:40

Dr Anthony Gill, Royal North Shore Hospital, St

Leonards NSW Mitochondria driven endocrine neoplasia –

unique but under-recognised morphological clues to hereditary neoplasia

Jeanette Philips Award Presentations:(Registrar Original Research Presentations)6:40 – 6:50

Dr Julie Paik, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW

Merkel Cell Carcinoma in Australasia6:50 – 7:00

Dr Daniel Wong, PathWest, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA

Oncocytic adrenal cortical neoplasms

OPHTHALMICConvenors: A/Prof Sonya Klebe, SA Pathology/Flinders University, SA and Dr Jeanne Tomlinson, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, NSWLecture 1:

A/Prof. Sonya Klebe An Approach to the Handling and Interpretation

of Corneal Specimens Lecture 2:

Dr Jeanne Tomlinson Tumours of the Eyelid

DERMATOPATHOLOGY MASTER CLASSDr Vicki Howard and Dr Ophelia DadzieSomething old, something new, something bor-rowed, something blueSomething old: Not another lecture on adnexal tumours : Dr V HowardSomething new: Molecular diagnostics in dermatopathol-ogy, an introduction: Dr DadzieSomething borrowed: Tips we have learnt from others along the way: Drs V Howard & DadzieSomething blue: What’s new in vascular tumours of the skin: Dr V Howard