Friday 2nd February 2018
09.00 Registration and Refreshments
09.20 Introduction (Chairs: Dr David Poller & Dr Sarah Johnson)
09.30 What is normal? Morphology and immunohistochemistry of endocrine organs – Dr M Moonim, London
10.00 Molecular mechanisms in Thyroid Tumours; Normal, pathological and diagnostically useful – Prof Manuel Sobrinho-Simoes, Porto
10.30 Pathological Indicators of Prognosis in Thyroid Cancer – Dr R Ghossein, New York
11.15 Refreshments
11.30 Mini Symposium Thyroid & WHO Classification of Endocrine Tumours 2017: Encapsulated follicular lesions and other entities in the new WHO Classification (2017) – Professor Giovanni Tallini, Bologna
12.00 Thyroid Cytology and implications of the new WHO Classification (2017) – Dr D Poller, Portsmouth
12.15 Update on Brititsh Thyroid Cytology Terminology – Dr S Johnson, Newcastle
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon Chair (Dr M Moonim)
14.00 Panel discussion of interesting cases (previously submitted) and 'ask the panel' question time – Profs. Ghossein, Sobrinho-Simoes, Tallini & UK faculty
14.40 What do the clinician and patient need from the pathologist's report? Treatments, Trials and Assessing Risk – Dr Kate Newbold, London
15.20 Refreshments
15.40 Diagnostic and Medicolegal Pitfalls in Thyroid Pathology – Dr R Ghossein
16.20 Adrenal and Parathyroid Tumours Recent developments and ongoing challenges – Dr S Johnson, Newcastle
17.00 Close
Saturday 3rd February 2018
Slide Seminar: Chair Dr P Matthews
Invited Faculty: Dr Ghossein, Prof Sobrinho-Simoes, Prof. Tallini
UK Faculty: Dr S Johnson, Dr M Moonim, Dr D Poller
09.30 Arrival
11.00 Mid morning refreshments
13.00 Close
Topics to be covered
- Papillary nuclei
- Capsular and vascular invasion
- Immunochemistry (Thyroid/parathyroid/adrenal)
- Difficult cases
- PDC versus ADC
- New Diagnostic Entities in WHO 2017 (NIFTP, FTUMP, WDTUMP)