Saturday in Pathology: Updates on Gynecologic Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics

Continuing Professional Development

A virtual continuing medical education event for Practicing Pathologists, Fellows and Residents, hosted by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center.

This event is eligible for a maximum of 3 hours Section 1 credits and a maximum of 3 hours Section 3 credits (upon the completion of the post-conference knowledge assessment quiz).

This seminar will be interactive with adequate time for discussion and comments following each speaker's presentation. The interactive component will comprise at least 25% of the sessions.

An audience polling app will be utilized as a form of interactive discussion and testing.

Who should attend

Anatomical and General Pathologists
Postgraduate Residents and Fellows

Learning objectives

This case-based approach to pathology will go beyond looking at the basics and delve into the clinical and practical relevance of our diagnoses.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

discuss recent updates on cervical cancers and their implications for clinical management
apply molecular testing to guide targeted therapy of GYN tumors
identify key diagnostic features and work-up of some uncommon endometrial tumors on biopsies and resections

Agenda

You can download all these details in the PDF brochure.

8:50 am Welcome, opening remarks and introduction
Dr. Fang-I Lu

9:00 am Session 1: Biopsy Diagnosis of Epithelial Lesions of the Cervix: from Basics to Biomarkers

Dr. Carlos Parra-Herran
Staff Pathologist, Anatomic Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School

10:00 am Session 2: Update on Molecular Diagnostic Testing for Gynecologic Cancers

Dr. Bojana Djordjevic
Staff Pathologist, Precision Diagnostics and Therapeutics Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

11:00 am Break

11:30 am Session 3: Challenging endometrial tumors on biopsies and resections

Dr. Jelena Mirkovic
Staff Pathologist, Precision Diagnostics and Therapeutics Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

12:30 pm Evaluation and close

Format of the event

The event will be conducted entirely online using Zoom.

While attendance is FREE, we request that you register in advance as below. The maximum number of registrants is capped at 500.

How to register

Contact Karen Laws karen.laws@sunnybrook.ca

Please use “2023 Saturday in Pathology” as the subject of the email and provide your profession and hospital/university affiliation at the time of the registration.