Below are details for the GIPS Forum, GIPS Companion Meeting, business meeting, and GIPS Reception at the USCAP 2018 annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada:
GIPS Forum
Moderator: Rish K. Pai, MD, PhD
Date and time: Saturday, 3/17/18, 3-5 PM
Location: Vancouver Convention Center West Meeting Room 223–224
Agenda:
3PM: Rish Pai – Introduction
3:00-3:25PM: Richard Kirsch, Mt. Sinai, Toronto – Update on esophagitis
3:25-3:50PM: Mark Valesek, UCSD – Mucosal healing in IBD
3:50-4:15PM: David Schaeffer, Vancouver General Hospital – Predictive biomarkers in GI tract tumors
4:15-4:40PM: Deepa Patil, Cleveland Clinic – Dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus: Impact of new ACG guidelines
4:40-5:00PM: Amitabh Srivastava, Cord Langner, Ian Brown – GI Pathology around the world: North American, European, and Australasian perspectives.
GIPS Companion Meeting
Moderator: Rish K. Pai, MD, PhD
Date and time: Sunday, 3/18/18, 1:30-5 PM
Location: VCC West Ballroom AB
Theme: GI Pathology Up-to-date: How New Discoveries, Techniques and Therapies are Transforming our Practice
Agenda:
1:30 PM: Rupert Langer, MD, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland – Tumor Regression Grading of Gastrointestinal Carcinomas Following Neoadjuvant Treatment
2:00 PM: Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, MD, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia – Endoscopic Resections of the GI Tract: Pathological Evaluation
2:30 PM: Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL – New Trends in Gastric Polyps: Evolving Classification And Pathogenesis
3:30 PM: Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA – Beyond GIST: Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Mesenchymal Tumors
4:00 PM: Neil A. Shepherd, MB, BS, DM, FRCPath, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK – Rodger C. Haggitt Memorial Lecture: The Pathology of Bowel Cancer Screening
GIPS Business Meeting
Date and time: Sunday, 3/18/18, 5-5:30 PM
Location: VCC West Ballroom AB (same as Companion Meeting)
GIPS Reception
Date and time: Sunday, 3/18/18, 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: Pan Pacific Rim 1