This BDIAP Upper GI Pathology symposium provides timely reviews of the more important inflammatory and neoplastic entities in the oesophagus, stomach and proximal small intestine by a galaxy of international gastrointestinal pathology stars.

TOPICS COVERED

• Oesophagitis: an update 
• Don’t look back in anger: lessons from Barrett’s dysplasia reporting and reviewing 
• The pathology of gastric and duodenal polyps 
• Challenging issues in patterns of gastritis 
• Molecular pathology of gastric cancer (through the eyes of a pathologist)
• Current and future issues in upper GI lymphoma 
• A practical approach to (relatively) common spindle cell tumours of the GI tract
• Challenges in small intestinal pathology 
• Biopsy practice in the upper GI tract: what they should and should not biopsy
• Case Presentations

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Consultant Histopathologists
• Histopathologists in Training
• Senior Biomedical Scientists

SPEAKERS

• Professor Kieran Sheahan (Dublin)   
• Dr Marnix Jansen (London)
• Professor Greg Lauwers (Tampa)
• Dr Chella van der Post (Nijmegen)
• Professor Fátima Carneiro (Porto)
• Professor Stefan Dojcinov (Swansea)
• Dr Leona Doyle (Boston)
• Dr Maurice Loughrey (Belfast)
• Professor Neil Shepherd (Gloucestershire)
• Professor Marco Novelli (London) 
• Professor Ray McMahon (Manchester) 
• Professor Manuel Rodriguez-Justo (London)