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GIPS programs at USCAP 2018 Annual Meeting in Vancouver

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

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