2024 Course Overview
The Gastrointestinal, Liver, and Pancreatic Pathology course provides a broad overview of many areas of gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and hepatobiliary pathology and is presented by Harvard Medical School faculty and selected guest faculty with recognized expertise in the topic areas. The course is designed to update both academic practicing pathologists and those in the community with advances in gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and hepatobiliary pathology, and to provide aids in diagnosis based on conventional morphologic analysis, as well as updates on new staging criteria, new techniques such as novel immunohistochemistry markers, and molecular pathology data. Interactive learning formats, including didactic lectures, case seminars, and frequent discussion periods with extensive time for contact with faculty will be provided. The course will assist the learners in developing new strategies they can use in practice, leading to improved diagnoses, and better patient care.
Who Should Attend
- Specialty Physicians
- Allied Health Professionals
Learning Objectives
Describe the spectrum of benign and neoplastic gastrointestinal, pancreatic and liver disorders with emphasis on use of proper and up-to date nomenclature and criteria, and reporting findings of prognostic significance which meet current practice standards.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and hepatobiliary cancers in the context of up-to-date grading and staging guidelines.
- Evaluate difficult GI lesions with a better understanding of the relevant histologic features of those lesions, as well as the techniques that add value in their assessment.
- Evaluate non-tumoral pathology of the GI tract and liver with a better understanding of the differential diagnosis, how to incorporate clinical information into that differential, and how to address the needs of clinical colleagues.
2024 Agenda
Information for the 2025 course is not yet available.
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Monday, May 6, 2024
DAY ONE
8:00-8:10 AM
Introduction/Welcome
Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD; Mark Redston, MD
8:10-8:55 AM
Barrett’s Esophagus and Associated Neoplasia
Mark Redston, MD
8:55-9:25 AM
Clinician’s Perspective- Upper GI Tract
Kunal Jajoo, MD
9:25-9:35 AM
Q&A
Mark Redston, MD; Kunal Jajoo, MD
9:35-9:45 AM
Break
9:45-10:15 AM
Gastric Polyps and Precursor Lesions
Stuti Shroff, MBBS, PhD
10:15-10:45
Celiac Disease and its Differential Diagnosis
Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD
10:45-11:30 AM
Slide Seminar on Upper GI Tract
Miranda Machacek, MD, PhD
11:30-11:45 AM
Q&A
Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD; Miranda Machacek, MD, PhD; Stuti Shroff, MBBS, PhD
11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Lunch
12:45-1:15 PM
Biopsy Diagnosis of Colitis
Mark Redston, MD
1:15-1:45 PM
IBD: Controversies and Challenges
Michael G. Drage, MD, PhD
1:45-2:15 PM
Colon Polyps and Polyposis
Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
2:15-2:25 PM
Q&A
Mark Redston, MD; Michael G. Drage, MD, PhD; Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
2:25-2:35 PM
Break
2:35-3:05 PM
Molecular Diagnostics in Colon Cancer and Screening for Lynch Syndrome
Jonathan Nowak, MD, PhD
3:05-3:35 PM
Challenges in Colon Cancer Staging
Mark Redston, MD
3:35-4:20 PM
Slide Seminar: Lower GI
Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
4:20-4:30 PM
Q&A
Jonathan Nowak, MD, PhD; Mark Redston, MD; Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
DAY TWO
8:00-8:30 AM
GIST: From KIT to Succinate Dehydrogenase
Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD
8:30-9:00 AM
Mesenchymal Tumors and Mesenchymal Polyps (other than GIST)
David Papke, MD, PhD
9:00-9:30 AM
Drug Induced Disorders of GI Tract
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD
9:30-9:40 AM
Q&A
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD; Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD; David Papke, MD, PhD
9:40-9:50 AM
Break
9:50-10:20 AM
GI Lymphomas
Judith A. Ferry, MD
10:20-11:05 AM
Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasms
Joseph Misdraji, MD
11:05-11:50 AM
Anal Pathology: Overview and Update
Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
11:50 AM-12:00 PM
Q&A
Judith A. Ferry, MD; Joseph Misdraji, MD; Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD
12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00-1:45 PM
Endocrine Tumors of the Tubal Gut
Raul S. Gonzalez, MD
1:45-2:30 PM
Cytology and Small Biopsy Diagnosis of Pancreaticobiliary Tumors
Lisa Zhang, MD
2:30-2:40 PM
Q&A
Raul S. Gonzalez, MD; Lisa Zhang, MD
2:40-2:50 PM
Break
2:50-3:35 PM
Surgical Pathology of Pancreatic Tumors
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD
3:35-4:05 PM
Biliary Tract Neoplasia
Stuti Shroff, MBBS, PhD
4:05-4:50 PM
Slide Seminar: Instructive Cases in Pancreatic Pathology
Esther Baranov, MD
4:50-5:00 PM
Q&A
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD; Stuti Shroff, MBBS, PhD; Esther Baranov, MD
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
DAY THREE
8:00-8:30 AM
Medical Liver 1- Diagnostic Approach to Hepatitis
Angela Shih, MD
8:30-9:00 AM
Medical Liver 2- Fatty Liver
Lei Zhao, MD, PhD
9:00-9:30 AM
Clinician’s Perspective on Liver Biopsies
Daniel S. Pratt, MD
9:30-9:40 AM
Q&A
Angela Shih, MD; Lei Zhao, MD, PhD; Daniel S. Pratt, MD
9:40-10:00 AM
Break
10:00-10:45 AM
Liver Tumors
Rondell Graham, MBBS
10:45-11:15 AM
Medical Liver 3- Cholestatic Disorders
Angela Shih, MD
11:15 AM-12:00 PM
Case Seminar: Challenging Liver Cases
Lei Zhao, MD PhD
12:00-12:10 PM
Q&A
Lei Zhao, MD PhD; Angela Shih, MD; Rondell Graham, MBBS
12:10-12:20 PM
Concluding Remarks
Jonathan N. Glickman, MD, PhD; Mark Redston, MD
12:20-12:30 PM
Course Adjourns