USCAP Presents:
2023 Diagnostic Pathology Update
Pragmatic Approaches to Daily Practice

Join USCAP in Montréal, Canada for the 2023 Diagnostic Pathology Update (DPU). DPU combines expert subspecialized academic faculty with a unique destination venue. Come for the premier education in a breadth of pathology subjects and stay to explore all Montréal has to offer. From its exquisite architecture to the art and dining, this UNESCO City of Design is the perfect location to receive relevant pathology updates.

Course Location: Montréal, Canada
Course Directors: Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD and Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD

USCAP Presents:
Second Edition: Pearls and Palms in Surgical Pathology

Join expert pathologists as they guide you through the nomenclature, staging, and ancillary studies for your everyday surgical pathology practice. Faculty will help distinguish between what looks atypical but benign from those that look bland but are malignant. Through the case-based discussion at the Palm Springs Interactive Center, faculty will discuss histological features that are needed to make a specific diagnosis; how histology plays a role in outcomes; whether staging is important and what system to use. Topics will cover Breast, Bone and Soft Tissue, Genitourinary, Gastrointestinal, Thoracic, and Head and Neck Pathology.

USCAP Presents:
Journey to the Center of the Chest:
An Expert’s Perspective on Mediastinal Pathology

Mediastinal pathology has a fascinating specificity in surgical pathology, because it is focused primarily on a single gland (the thymus) that involutes as we age, is more prominent in children than in adults, and requires a unique approach to diagnosis and clinical course. The infrequency of mediastinal tumors influences evolution of expertise by individual pathologists and their institutions. The recent introduction of new classification and staging schemas poses a novel challenge for those confronted with assessing mediastinal lesions. It is essential for practicing pathologists to become familiar with new modalities that impact treatment options and clinical outcomes. It is even more important to become familiar with the diversity of tumors that can occur in the mediastinal compartment. This course provides a unique opportunity for a tutorial in mediastinal pathology by a single internationally recognized expert from MD Anderson Cancer Center.

USCAP Presents:
Update on Hematopathology Classification: The International Consensus Classification Perspective

The diagnosis and classification of hematopoietic tumors is increasingly complex and evolves rapidly. The introduction of the International Consensus Classification (ICC) of Myeloid and Lymphoid Neoplasms and publication of the 5th edition World Health Organization (WHO) classification of the same tumors is the latest stage in this evolution and both further expand the clinical, morphologic, immunophenotypic and molecular genetic criteria for diagnosis. Join USCAP in Baltimore to learn from developers of the ICC on what is new in the classification of these tumors and how the ICC and WHO compare. Leading clinical experts in hematology/oncology will also provide clinician perspectives on the importance of proper disease classification. The course will include disease specific lectures as well as opportunities to join experts in interactive microscopy sessions to gain practical knowledge on how to implement the new disease classifications into practice.

USCAP Presents:
Liver Pathology: Essentials of Daily Practice

Liver biopsies are a common specimen in most surgical pathology practices. Liver biopsy interpretation is challenging because many liver diseases manifest overlapping histological features. A systematic pattern-based approach facilitates identification of subtle features that help to narrow the differential diagnoses, correlate findings with clinical data, and provide a meaningful report. This interactive microscopy course allows independent examination of a teaching set of glass slides followed by discussion around a multi-headed scope, thus filling a knowledge gap that is not covered by didactic lectures or textbooks.

USCAP Presents:
Solving Diagnostic Problems in Breast Pathology

This course will focus on recurrent challenges encountered by pathologists in the evaluation of breast lesions and emphasize a practical approach on how to resolve them. The course will focus on the diagnostic interpretation of a variety of breast lesions. Each case discussion will address pitfalls and problems that may arise in the interpretation, the importance of radiologic-pathologic correlation and practical considerations regarding patient management. Join expert faculty as they review cases based on their extensive experience in a large volume setting.

USCAP Presents:
Pearls, Challenges and Updates in Daily Gastrointestinal Pathology Practice

Join four gastrointestinal (GI) pathologists as they discuss cases of commonly encountered, yet challenging areas in GI pathology. Participants will explore the GI tract from the diagnosis and assessment of dysplasia to inflammatory disorders, iatrogenic injury, neuroendocrine neoplasms, appendiceal pathology, mesenchymal tumors, and polyps. Faculty will discuss how to recognize common inflammatory conditions and their mimics, look for evidence of drug induced mucosal changes in the retrieved GI specimens, and discuss other challenging situations that may lead to diagnostic error. This case-based interactive course will provide a practical GI pathology update for everyday practice.

USCAP Presents:
Diagnostic Challanges in Urologic Pathology

The faculty consists of 4 nationally and internationally recognized urological pathologists. Each will use 18 cases to discuss new entities and other difficult tumors, new and modified grading criteria, new and modified staging criteria, new concepts and reporting requirements, new diagnostic tools and roles of pathologists in precision patient management.

USCAP Presents:
Fifth Edition: Modern Surgical Pathology Through the Expert Eyes of APSS-USCAP

Course Location: Palm Springs, CA
Course Co-Directors: Kirk D. Jones, MD and Laura W. Lamps, MD

USCAP Presents:
Dermatopathology in the Desert: Practical Tips for Safe Practice

This course will cover the broad spectrum of diagnostic dermatopathology including dedicated sessions to melanocytic tumors, cutaneous mesenchymal neoplasms, cutaneous lymphomas and histiocytoses and inflammatory conditions. Using a case-based didactic approach our expert faculty will emphasize important diagnostic challenges and pitfalls and provide practical tools to safely navigate them.

In addition, there will be a focus on novel entities and recent developments in the fileds of immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology as an adjunct to the morphologic diagnosis. The course will be interactive and invite active discussions.

USCAP Presents:
From the Internet to In-Person: Surgical Pathology Cases from Six Social Media Educators

Social media has emerged as a powerful tool in pathology education worldwide, but in-person teaching at the microscope remains the cornerstone of sharing knowledge, insight, and experience. This interactive microscopy course will provide key updates in the daily practice of surgical pathology from six proven educators. Topics will include molecular testing of bone, soft tissue, thyroid, and endometrial neoplasms; histologic distinction of difficult appendiceal, thoracic, mesenchymal, head and neck, and endocrine lesions; best practices in thoracic frozen section evaluation; and proper workup of limited material in gastrointestinal, thyroid, bladder, and renal samples.

USCAP Presents:
Crash Course in Cytopathology of the Thorax, Soft Tissue, Head and Neck, Pancreatobiliary and Genitourinary Tract

Multiple revisions and updates have recently been created for the standardized reporting and classification of cytologic samples from non-neoplastic and neoplastic processes involving the pancreatobiliary tract, liver, thyroid, head and neck (including salivary gland), urine, kidneys, adrenal gland, serous fluids, lung and soft tissue. These standardized reporting schemes provide a framework for the consistent categorization of cytopathology reports and allow cytopathologists to convey clear and consistent diagnostic information, in language uniformly understood by pathologists and clinicians the world over. New developments in the diagnosis, grading and nomenclature are not fully appreciated in the community, often leading to errors in diagnosis and delayed or inappropriate patient management. This case-based course will illustrate new guidelines, practical clues, daily challenges, diagnostic pearls and pitfalls, as well as the proper handling of specimens from these sites along with accurate cytologic diagnosis of neoplasms, as well as their distinction from, key cytomorphologic mimics. This course will emphasize the new guidelines (including WHO), pearls, and common pitfalls. This will offer pathologists a unique perspective into the key diagnostic cytomorphometric signatures of common entities, which they can apply to daily signout in any practice setting. The target audience for this course includes cytopathologists, general surgical pathologists who sign out cytopathology specimens, cytopathologists with special interest in pathology from these sites, pathologists-in-training (residents and fellows) and cytotechnologists.

USCAP Presents:
Hematopathology: Current Classifications and Diagnostic Dilemmas

The practice of hematopathology diagnostics in the modern era is a dynamic and challenging field, especially for general pathologists, junior faculty, and trainees. In addition to the ever-expanding landscape of ancillary studies, especially molecular and cytogenetic studies, two new classification schemes arrived on the scene in 2022. The new International Consensus Classification and the updated WHO 5th edition classification, offer similar but not identical frameworks for clinical diagnostic hematopathology. Additionally, distinction of reactive from neoplastic entities remains a continuous challenge in both bone marrow and lymphoid tissue. Finally, clinical hematology, which impacts the treatment of our patients, is also a continuously evolving field and it is essential to understand how to best provide diagnoses that are updated, accurate, and accessible to our clinical colleagues. This course will seek to highlight diagnostic issues raised by these recent advances through an interactive case-based format. These cases will illustrate how to interpret and apply morphologic criteria in the diagnosis of hematologic neoplasms, especially areas of ambiguity or disagreement within the two classifications. It will also highlight how to avoid diagnosing malignancy in benign mimics, and how apply ancillary testing in concert with the morphology, particularly when there are discordant or unexpected results. The target audience is general pathologists who diagnose bone marrow and lymphoid lesions, practicing hematopathologists and advanced hematopathology trainees.