MGH Pathology presents continuing medical education (CME) courses under the auspices of Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education.
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education
P.O. Box 825
Boston, MA 02117-0825
Phone: 617-384-8600
Fax: 617-384-8686
Email: hms-cme@hms.harvard.edu
Website: www.cme.hms.harvard.edu
2012 Courses
May 7-10, 2012
GASTROINTESTINAL, LIVER, AND PANCREATIC PATHOLOGY
Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA
The Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School will present a four-day course with Directors Robert D. Odze, MD, FRCP(C), and Gregory Y. Lauwers, MD.
This course provides an intensive, practical, and comprehensive review of the current concepts in diagnostic surgical pathology of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, appendix, anus, liver, gallbladder, biliary tract, pancreas, and peritoneum. The lectures will emphasize current nomenclature and classification, histopathologic diagnostic and differential diagnostic criteria, and clinicopathologic correlations, and will highlight the role of adjunct special studies wherever appropriate. The course will cover all major inflammatory, infectious, preneoplastic and neoplastic, congenital, toxic-metabolic, and iatrogenic diseases. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the pathologist in the diagnosis and reporting of endoscopically obtained biopsy and resection specimens. Interested participants are invited to visit the Harvard CME website at www.cme.hms.harvard.edu.
June 15-17, 2012
PRACTICAL HEAD & NECK PATHOLOGY
Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
The Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School will present a three-day course, PRACTICAL HEAD & NECK PATHOLOGY under the direction of Drs. William C. Faquin, MD PhD, Jennifer L. Hunt, MD; G. Petur Nielsen, MD and Peter M. Sadow, MD PhD.
Head and neck pathology is a subspecialized and highly challenging area where diagnostic pitfalls are common. This course will address this problem by focusing on diagnostic issues such as the interpretation of small biopsy specimens and how to avoid diagnostic errors. The course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of head and neck surgical pathology including the upper respiratory tract, thyroid, salivary gland, skin, inflammatory disease, soft tissue, and oral cavity lesions. An emphasis will be placed on important practical issues for the general as well as subspecialized surgical pathologist. In addition, the course will also review the use of ancillary studies where appropriate as well as recent advances and new entities in the field. While the course will be primarily in lecture format, it will include frequent discussion periods, and each participant will receive a comprehensive course syllabus. Download flier (PDF)
September 22-24, 2012
THORACIC PATHOLOGY
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
The Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will present a three-day course, THORACIC PATHOLOGY under the direction of Drs. Eugene J. Mark, William D. Travis, Richard L. Kradin and Maureen F. Zakowski.
The objective of this course is designed to give a current review of thoracic pathology with clinical and radiographic correlations. The course will run three days and will consist of a series of presentations with some multidisciplinary sessions regarding lung adenocarcinoma, interstitial lung disease and non-neoplastic lung disease in cancer patients. Most of the speakers will be expert lung pathologists, but there will also be clinical and radiographic 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. Interested participants are invited to contact the course director at emark@partners.org and to visit the Harvard CME website at www.cme.hms.harvard.edu.
November 12-16, 2012
CURRENT CONCEPTS IN SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, 34TH ANNUAL COURSE
Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
The Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School will present a five-day postgraduate course, CURRENT CONCEPTS IN SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, 34th Annual Course under the direction of Drs. Eugene J. Mark, Judith A. Ferry, Gregory Y. Lauwers, and Robert H. Young, with forty-one faculty members from the Massachusetts General Hospital.
The objective of this course is to improve the skills of surgical pathologists by focusing on new information and techniques relevant to their practice and emphasizing problems likely to be encountered in a busy practice. Disease areas to be discussed will include: bladder, bone, bone marrow, brain, breast, cervix, gastrointestinal tract, infectious disease, kidney, liver, lung, lymph nodes, ovary, pancreas, placenta, pleura, prostate, salivary gland, skin, soft tissue, thyroid, and uterus. The application of immunochemistry and electron microscopy and molecular pathology to diagnostic pathology will be discussed where appropriate. Instruction will be primarily by lecture. A CDROM and syllabus including representative material from each lecture will be given to each registrant.
Registrants will be eligible for credit for Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) for the purpose of meeting the American Board of Pathology requirements for Maintenance of Certification. Registrants must pass a post-test assessment in order to claim SAMs credit. Interested participants are invited to contact the course director at emark@partners.org and to visit the Harvard CME website at www.cme.hms.harvard.edu.
Updated 12/8/2011
