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
Educational opportunities at 2018 SPP Meeting in Vancouver
Please see the attached flyer for information about workshops and a symposium at the 2018 SPP Spring Meeting in Vancouver (concurrent with USCAP), which may be of interest to GIPS members:
Case of the Month: November 2017
A 56-year-old man was found on imaging to have multiple masses in his pancreatic body and tail.
Case of the Month: October 2017
A 58 year old man with multiple medical problems (ulcerative colitis, alcohol abuse, hypertension, cardiovascular disease) presented with dizziness, hematemesis and hematochezia.
Case of the Month: April 2017
A 69-year-old man presents with a long history of abdominal pain and small bowel obstruction…
Congratulations to the 2017 GIPS Abstract Award and Travel Award Winners!
Abstract Award Winner:
Adam J. Gomez, Stanford Health Care: Detection of Mutations in DNA Polymerase Ɛ (POLE) in Colorectal Carcinoma with Intact Mismatch Repair Proteins: Immunotherapeutic Implications of Ultramutation
Abstract Award Runner-ups:
Michael Markow, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center: Two-Stain Rather Than Four-Stain Immunohistochemical Screening in Colorectal Cancer May Fail to Detect Mismatch Repair Deficiency
Matthew Rosenbaum, Massachusetts General Hospital: Immune Checkpoint Expression and the Tumor Immune Environment in Colorectal Carcinoma
Travel Award Winner:
Ryan F. Coates, University of Vermont Medical Center.
2017 GIPS Companion Meeting at USCAP
Date/Time: Sunday, March 5, 2017 from 1:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Hemisfair 1, 3rd level of the convention center
Theme: State of the Art: An update on major challenges in GI malignancies.
| Kakar | Selected updates on AJCC staging of GI malignancies | 1:30-2:00 |
| Anders | Immunotherapy for GI malignancies | 2:00-2:30 |
| Pai | Update on diagnosis, grading, and staging of appendiceal mucinous neoplasms | 2:30-3:00 |
| Break | Break | 3:00-3:30 |
| Wang | Goblet Cell Carcinoid | 3:30-4:00 |
| Bob Riddell | Rodger C. Haggitt Memorial Lecture: Dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease | 4:00-5:00 |
The 2017 GIPS Business Meeting will follow these talks at 5:00pm.
2017 GIPS Reception at USCAP
Location: Conference Room 8 at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, San Antonio, TX
Date/Time: Sunday 3/5/17 from 5:30-7:30pm