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The 2014 PPS/SPP Meeting

Birmingham - UK

Organiser(s)

Local Organisers

  • Phil Cox
  • Tamas Marton
  • Beata Hargitai

Education Committee

  • Jane Dahlstrohm
  • Rita Alaggio
  • Tamas Marton

We would also like to thank:

Clare Winter and Michelle Merritt of the Meetings office of the Royal College of Pathologists, London for their help in the management of the meeting.

Linda Best and colleagues of the ICC for assisting with arrangements at the venue Julia Snowdin of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery for the organisation of the Gala dinner.

Tracey Cox, for administrative support at Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Dan Brown of the Library of Birmingham for organization of the reception.

Our sponsors

Scientific Programme

Thursday 4th Sept

1700-1900
Chairpersons: Glen Taylor and Ronald de Krijger

Paediatric Neuropathology Symposium:

  1. Zoltan MolnarProfessor of Neurodevelopmental Biology andFrancis SzeleUniversity Lecturer in Developmental Biology, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Developmental biology of neuronal migration.
  2. Dr. Waney Squier Department of Neuropathology. Oxford University Hospitals. Neonatal encephalopathy: Changing patterns.
  3. Dr.Catherine Fallot-Bianco, Hopital Sainte Justine etUniversite de Montreal (QC) Canada. Neuronalmigration disorders.

4.     Dr. Casper Jansen, Consultant Paediatric and Neuropathologist, LaboratoriumPathologieOost- Nederland. Hengelo, NL. Paediatric Neurodegenerative Disorders

19.30 Welcome Reception
The Secret Garden, Library of Birmingham

Friday 5th September

0830-1030

Paediatric pathology
plenary session Chairpersons:CsabaGalambos and Nick Smith

Perinatal pathology plenary
session
Chairpersons: Tamas Marton and Rebecca Baergen

1030-1100

Break

1100-1200

IPPA graduate session
Chairpersons: Marta Cohenand Samantha HoldenPresenters:
Jukka Laine(Finland) George Kokai (UK) Bhumita Vadgama, (UK) Gitta Turowski(Norway) Jens Stahlschmidt (UK)

Perinatal/Paediatric pathology
plenary session Chairpersons: Ona M. Faye-Petersen and Cesar Peres

1200-1300
Chairperson: Raj Kapur

Lotte Strauss lecture
Benjamin Wilkins, MD, PhD “p53-mediated biliary defects caused by knockdown of cirhia, the zebrafish homolog of the gene responsible for North American Indian Childhood cirrhosis.”

1300-1400

Lunch

 

1400-1500

Paediatric pathology
plenary session Chairpersons: AuroreCoulomb and Lisa Teot

Perinatal pathology plenary
session
Chairpersons: Linda Ernst and Roger Malcomson

1500-1600
Chairperson: Phil Cox

John Emery Memorial Lecture – Prof. Roc Kaschula: "Malnutrition
as a form of Child Abuse or Neglect"

1600-1630

Tea

1630-1800

PPS AGM

SPP Business meeting

Conference Dinner – Birmingham Museum and Art  Gallery

Saturday 6th  September

0830-1100

Perinatal Symposium – Skeletal
Dysplasia
Chairpersons: Hal Hawkins and ClairEvans

  1. Peter Nikkels(Utrecht, Netherlands):Mimics ofskeletal dysplasia and chondrodysplasiapunctata.
  2. Luc Oligny(Montreal, Canada):Ciliopathies as a cause of skeletal dysplasia.
  3. Trevor Cole(Birmingham, UK):Skeletal Dysplasias:Review of practice in the clinicsetting.
  4. Linda Ernst(Chicago, USA):Diagnosis of skeletaldysplasia in disrupted fetuses.

Paediatric pathology
plenary & poster session Chairpersons: MeganDishop and Marie-Anne Brundler

1100-1130

Break

1130-1300

Perinatal pathology
plenary and poster session Chairpersons: Nick
Smith and Monique De Paepe

Slide seminar – New insight in head
and neck pathology Chairpersons:RaffaellaMorotti and Marian Malone
Presenters: John Hicks, USA Kyle Kurek, USA
Bruce Pawel, USA Lisa Teot, USA
Jane Dahlstrom, Australia

1400 onwards

Cultural activity

2014 programme (2M)

PROGRAMME-4th-joint-PPS-SPP-Meeting-Programme-Bham-Sept-14 (2M)