Thoracic Pathology 2009
October 16-18, 2009
New York, NY
This course is designed to give a current review of thoracic pathology with clinical and radiologic correlations. The course will run for 2-1/2 days and consists of a series of presentations with some multidisciplinary sessions on lung adenocarcinoma, interstitial lung disease, and nonneoplastic lung disease in cancer patients. Most of the speakers will be expert lung pathologists, but there also will be clinical and radiologic presentations by well-known thoracic clinicians and radiologists. The presentations will illustrate the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to solving difficult problems in thoracic disease.
This course will be invaluable for pathologists, pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, and radiologists, including physicians-in-training.
Objectives
By the end of this course, the participant should:
- Have an understanding of current concepts in lung, pleural, and mediastinal pathology.
- Understand the importance of the correlation between clinical, radiologic, and pathologic data in diagnosis and management of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary vasculitis.
- Know the significance of lung biopsy and multidisciplinary correlation for the diagnosis of nonneoplastic lung disease in acute lung injury and in patients with cancer.
- Comprehend the most recent histologic concepts in lung cancer diagnosis and classification, including problematic issues related to spiral CT screening.
- Realize the important issues in molecular targeted therapy for lung adenocarcinoma.
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Have a practical understanding of differential diagnosis for mediastinal and pleural lesions.
- Understand the usefulness of cytologic studies in pulmonary, pleural, and mediastinal diagnoses.
Agenda
Contact:
Peter Brodhead
CME Administrator
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue, Box 31
New York, NY 10021
Tel: (646) 227-2025
Fax: (212) 557-0773
Email: brodheap@mskcc.org
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