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The London GI PATHOLOGY update returned in 2023 as an in-person event, enhanced by an additional day. For 2024 we have added a further day to increase the scope of the meeting. So why not join us this April,  live and In Person, or Virtually with our HD live-streaming. All delegates will have access to recordings post-meeting.

The speakers are experienced, enthusiastic, high quality specialists from the UK, Europe and the USA with strong commitments to academic and clinical work. The emphasis is on the diagnostic approach, and the lectures include relevant updates and recent developments in a wide range of neoplastic and non-neoplastic pathology.

The event is suitable for anyone who reports digestive disease pathology. Please join us in London or online for a lively, enjoyable and educational conference.

Dr Odze is currently professor of pathology and consultant pathologist at Tufts medical center and medical school, and president of Dr Robert Odze Pathology LLC, a medical/pathology consulting company (odzepathology.com). Dr Odze has a long history of research in GI diseases, most notably in the science related to cancer development in chronic inflammatory diseases such as Barrett’s esophagus and IBD. In this capacity, Dr Odze has published more than 450 articles, including original research, reviews, book chapter and books. He is editor of the largest and most comprehensive textbook of GI pathology worldwide, titled “Surgical pathology of the GI tract, Liver, Biliary tract, and Pancreas”, which is currently in its 4th edition (released Nov 2022) and is also editor of several major pathology and clinical journals. Dr Odze has a long history of education and teaching, and has given more than 300 lectures over the course of his career.

Professor Neil Shepherd is Professor of Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology at Gloucestershire Cellular Pathology Laboratory, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK. He is a specialised GI pathologist and has, and has had, wide-ranging involvement in national and international GI pathological education, training, research, audit, publishing and service provision. He has given more than 150 invited lectures at national & international symposia on GI pathology. He is Editor of Morson & Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology, the flagship UK textbook of GI pathology and Associate Editor for GI pathology for Histopathology, the leading UK journal for Cellular Pathology. He has written seven other books, 40 chapters & more than 200 original articles & reviews. He is a past President, former General Secretary and current Councillor of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology.

Christine Sempoux is Professor of Pathology at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland where she acts currently as the Vice Dean for Academic Careers and Equal Opportunities, and she is the Vice Director of the Institute of Pathology of the Lausanne University Hospital. She achieved her medical studies and pathology training at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium and obtained a PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences in 2002. Prior to move to Switzerland in 2014, she worked as Senior Physician at the Pathology Department of the Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc in Brussels, Belgium.

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*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below

April 10.mp4
April 11.mp4
April 12.mp4
Programme _ London GI Pathology Update.pdf

*Detail:

Wednesday 10 April – HPB

09.25-09.30 Introduction Roger Feakins UK
09.30-10.05 Liver biopsy: iron, copper and other abnormal deposits John Hart USA
10.05-10.40 Vascular liver diseases Christine Sempoux CH
10.40-11.15 Neoplasia of the ampulla and periampullary region Volkan Adsay TR
11.15-11.45 COFFEE 1
11.45-12.20 Cholangiocarcinoma Yoh Zen UK
12.20-13.00 Viral hepatitis John Hart USA
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.35 The biopsy diagnosis of cirrhosis – trickier that it seems John Hart USA
14.35-15.10 Benign tumours of the liver Christine Sempoux CH
15.10-15.40 COFFEE 2
15.40-16.15 Inflammatory disorders of the pancreas Yoh Zen UK
16.15-16.55 Pancreatobiliary neuroendocrine neoplasms and mimics Volkan Adsay TR
16.55-1700 Closing Remarks Roger Feakins UK

Thursday 11 April – GI

09.25-09.30 Introduction Roger Feakins UK
09.30-10.20 Diagnosis of colitis in mucosal biopsies Rob Odze USA
10.20-10.55 Pathology of inflammatory bowel disease in resections Neil Shepherd UK
10.55-11.30 Dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease Lindsay Alpert USA
11.30-12:00 COFFEE 1
12:00-12:30 Unusual anal pathology Shaun Walsh UK
12.30-13.00 Molecular/predictive tests in upper GI cancer Manuel Rodriguez Justo UK
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Upper GI cancer precursors and hereditary gastric cancer Irene Gullo P
14.40-15.15 Rare variants of gastric cancer Fatima Carneiro P
15.15-15.45 COFFEE 2
15.45-16.20 Eosinophil-rich disorders of the GI tract Nicole Panarelli USA
16.20-16.55 Mimics of neoplasia in the luminal GI tract Neil Shepherd UK
16.55-1700 Closing Remarks Roger Feakins UK

Friday 12 April – GI

09.25-09.30 Introduction Roger Feakins UK
09.30-10.05 Assessment of early colorectal cancer Iris Nagtegaal N
10.05-10.40 Polyps and polyposis in the GI tract Fatima Carneiro P
10.40-11.15 Coeliac disease, mimics and other enteropathies Nicole Panarelli USA
11.15-11.45 COFFEE 1
11.45-12.20 Non-Helicobacter gastritis Lindsay Alpert USA
12.20-13.00 Common mesenchymal tumours of the GI tract Jason Hornick USA
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Rare and new mesenchymal tumours of the GI tract Jason Hornick USA
14.40-15.15 MMR and molecular pathology in colorectal neoplasia Iris Nagtegaal N
15.15-15.45 COFFEE 2
15.45-16.20 Oesophagitis is not always eosinophilic Shaun Walsh UK
16.20-16.55 Lymphomas of the GI tract Manuel Rodriguez Justo UK
16.55-1700 Closing Remarks Roger Feakins UK