
Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Pathology May 10 ‑ 13, 2010 • Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

Course Directors:
Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD and Robert D. Odze, MD, FRCP(C)
Offered By: Departments of Pathology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
and
Massachusetts General Hospital

This course provides an intensive, practical, and comprehensive review of the current concepts in diagnostic surgical pathology of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, appendix, anus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and peritoneum. The lectures will emphasize current nomenclature and classification, histopathologic diagnostic and differential diagnostic criteria, and clinicopathologic correlations, and will highlight the role of adjunct special studies in diagnostic gastrointestinal, liver, gallbladder and pancreatic pathology wherever appropriate. The course will cover all major inflammatory, infectious, preneoplastic and neoplastic, congenital, toxic-metabolic, and iatrogenic diseases of the tubal gut, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the pathologist in the diagnosis and reporting of endoscopically obtained biopsy and resection specimens. Personal interaction with the course faculty will be provided in the form of question and answer sessions and in slide seminars. A comprehensive course syllabus will be provided to each participant. A CD-ROM including PDFs of lectures and photographs of the cases discussed in the slide seminars, as well as samples of the entities presented during the course, will be provided to all participants.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

Have a solid approach toward the handling, interpretation, differential diagnosis and sign-out of gastrointestinal, liver, gallbladder and pancreatic biopsy and resection specimens with particular emphasis on clinicopathologic correlations and clinicians expectations regarding reporting information.
Have an understanding of the recent advances and controversial concepts in diagnostic surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.
Have an understanding of the application of newer diagnostic techniques and prognostic markers in neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.
Integrate the knowledge acquired in this course for the purpose of teaching and research.

ACCREDITATION

Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 27.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE*

MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010
7:30 ‑ 7:50	Registration/Continental Breakfast
7:50 ‑ 8:00	Introduction/Welcome Dr. Odze
8:00 ‑ 9:00	Biopsy approach to esophageal disorders and Barrett's esophagus Dr. Odze
9:00 ‑ 10:00	Biopsy approach to inflammatory diseases of the stomach Dr. Lauwers
10:00 ‑ 10:15	Questions/Break
10:15 ‑ 11:00	Biopsy approach to neoplastic diseases of the stomach Dr. Lauwers
11:00 ‑ 11:45	Biopsy approach to inflammatory diseases of the duodenum Dr. Goldsmith
11:45 ‑ 12:30	Slide seminar ‑ Esophageal disorders Dr. Odze
12:30 ‑ 1:30	Lunch
1:30 ‑ 2:30	Biopsy approach to IBD colitis Dr. Odze
2:30 ‑ 3:30	Biopsy approach to non‑IBD colitis Dr. Lauwers
3:30 ‑ 3:45	Questions/Break
3:45 ‑ 4:30	Slide seminar ‑ Small and large intestine disorders Dr. Odze
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010
7:30 ‑ 7:50	Continental Breakfast
7:50 ‑ 8:20	Upper GI polyp pathology Dr. Odze
8:20 ‑ 8:30	Questions
8:30 ‑ 9:20	Lower GI polyp pathology Dr. Odze
9:20 ‑ 9:30	Questions
9:30 ‑ 10:30	Clinicians' perspective on upper and lower gastrointestinal biopsies Drs. Farraye/Shields
10:30 ‑ 10:45	Questions/Open Forum Drs. Odze/Farraye/Shields
10:45 ‑ 11:00	Break
11:00 ‑ 11:45	Clinically important systemic and mural disorders of the GI tract Dr. Bellizzi
11:45 ‑ 12:30	Slide seminar ‑ Stomach disorders Dr. Lauwers
12:30 ‑ 1:30	Lunch
1:30 ‑ 2:15	Update on colon cancer and pathologic staging Dr. Lauwers
2:15 ‑ 3:00	Endocrine disorders of the GI tract Dr. Deshpande
3:00 ‑ 3:15	Questions/Break
3:15 ‑ 4:00	Neoplastic disorders of the appendix Dr. Misdraji
4:00 ‑ 4:45	Slide seminar ‑ Inflammatory and miscellaneous appendiceal disorders Dr. Misdraji
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010
7:30 ‑ 7:50	Continental Breakfast
7:50 ‑ 8:30	Tumors of the anal canal Dr. Zukerberg
8:30 ‑ 9:30	GISTs and other mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract Dr. Hornick
9:30 ‑ 9:45	Questions/Break
9:45 ‑ 10:45	Lymphomas of the GI tract Dr. Ferry
10:45 ‑ 11:30	Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of solid ampullary and pancreatic tumors Dr. Hornick
11:30 ‑ 12:15	Slide seminar ‑ Hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders I Dr. Hornick
12:15 ‑ 1:15	Lunch
1:15 ‑ 2:00	Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of cystic pancreatic tumors Dr. Pitman
2:00 ‑ 2:45	Pathology of the gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts Dr. Goldsmith
2:45 ‑ 3:00	Questions/Break
3:00 ‑ 3:45	Molecular diagnostics in GI tract tumors Dr. Burgart
3:45 ‑ 4:30	Slide seminar ‑ General GI pathology Dr. Burgart
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010
7:30 ‑ 8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00 ‑ 9:00	Neoplasms of the liver Dr. Odze
9:00 ‑ 10:00	Interpretation of liver biopsies I: inflammatory diseases Dr. Batts
10:00 ‑ 10:30	Questions/Break
10:30 ‑ 11:30	Interpretation of liver biopsies II: biliary/cholestatic diseases Dr. Batts
11:30 ‑ 12:15	Slide Seminar: Inflammatory disorders of the liver Dr. Misdraji
12:15 ‑ 1:15	Lunch
1:15 ‑ 1:45	Cytology of the liver and biliary system Dr. Wang
1:45 ‑ 2:45	Drug‑induced and metabolic disorders of the liver Dr. Misdraji
2:45 ‑ 3:30	Slide seminar ‑ Hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders II Dr. Lauwers

*Please note: Program changes/substitutions may be made without notice.

Last update 11.23.09

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Course Number #302624

Physicians and Allied Health Professionals ‑ $1050 (USD).
Reduced Fee for Residents and Fellows in Training ‑ $850 (USD).
* A letter of verification from Department Chairman must accompany registration form/payment for a reduced fee for Residents/ Fellows in Training.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

All foreign payments must be made by a draft on a United States Bank or by Visa or MasterCard.

If paying by CHECK, please make payable to Harvard Medical School and mail with completed registration form to Harvard Medical School‑Department of Continuing Education, PO Box 825, Boston, MA 02117‑0825.

If paying by credit card, please register online.

Telephone or mail‑in registration with credit card payment is not accepted.

Inquiries should be directed to the above address, made by phone: (617) 384‑8600, Monday ‑ Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM (EST), or by email: hms‑cme@hms.harvard.edu

Upon receipt of registration a confirmation will be mailed to the address listed on the form.

TUITION REFUND POLICY

Live Course Option:
A handling fee of $60 is deducted for cancellation for the live course only. Refund requests must be received by mail or fax one week prior to the course. No refunds will be made thereafter.

COURSE LOCATION

All sessions will be held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, 138 St. James Ave., Boston, MA 02116 (Telephone: 1‑800‑441‑1414).

ACCOMMODATIONS

Hotel rooms in Boston are limited. You are urged to make your reservations early. A limited number of rooms has been reserved at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel until April 17, 2010. Please specify that you are enrolled in this course to receive a reduced room rate. A map of Boston and Cambridge listing local hotels will be sent with your confirmation of enrollment. For additional housing assistance, call Boston Reservations at (617) 332‑4199.

TRAVEL

Please do not make non-refundable airline reservations until you have been confirmed into your course. You can make your airline reservation by calling: the HMS Travel Desk toll free 1‑877‑4HARVMD (1‑877‑442‑7863) Monday ‑ Friday 9 am ‑ 8 pm (EST). From outside the U.S., Canada and Virgin Islands, please call 617‑559‑3764.

FACULTY

KENNETH P. BATTS, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Minnesota, Gastrointestinal Pathologist, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, Minneapolis, MN	ANDREW BELLIZZI, MD Instructor in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA	LAWRENCE J. BURGART, MD Professor of Pathology, University of Minnesota College of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN
VIKRAM DESHPANDE, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA	FRANCIS FARRAYE, MD Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA	JUDITH A. FERRY, MD Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
JEFFREY D. GOLDSMITH, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA	JASON L. HORNICK, MD, PHD Associate Professor in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA	GREGORY Y. LAUWERS, MD Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
JOSEPH MISDRAJI, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA	Robert D. Odze, MD, FRCP(C) Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA	MARTHA PITMAN, MD Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
HELEN SHIELDS, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA	HELEN WANG, MD, PHD Associate Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA	LAWRENCE ZUKERBERG, MD Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Last update 11.22.09

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Meet the Faculty

Dr. Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD is Director of Surgical Pathology and Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology service at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is also Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Saitama Medical University in Japan. His work has centered mainly in the area of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary and pancreatic pathology, particularly oncologic surgical pathology. He has been a regular invited speaker at all major national and international pathology meetings. Dr. Lauwers serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Modern pathology, and is Deputy‑Editor‑in‑Chief of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is a co‑author with Dr. Odze of the upcoming 4th edition of the "Tumors of the Esophagus and Stomach" published by the AFIP and a co‑editor of the 5th edition of the Morson and Dawson's textbook of gastrointestinal pathology.

Robert D. Odze, MD, FRCPC is professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology Division at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Dr. Odze has a long standing commitment to gastrointestinal research and education. He is the senior editor and author of the largest and most comprehensive textbook of GI, liver, biliary tract and pancreatic pathology worldwide. Dr. Odze has directed many international courses in GI Pathology including those presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and International Association of Pathology (IAP) annual meetings. Dr. Odze's research focuses on the pathogenesis of neoplastic precursors of the GI tract, particularly Barrett's esophagus and inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Odze currently serves as the associate editor of the IBD journal.