Workshops & Symposia
Call for Workshops
Interested in Speaking at an SPP Event?
The SPP Education Committee is soliciting workshop and symposium proposals for future meetings.
2023 August Workshops
Registration for the Society for Pediatric Pathology’s 2023 August Workshop Month has launched. Please visit this link to register. Read the instructions carefully for how to register for the workshop(s) you’re interested in attending.
Each workshop will be offered as a live, virtual presentation inclusive of live Q&A. The live portion will be recorded and made available to registrants for one year after the live workshop date. Each workshop will occur from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern Time (inclusive of a 10-minute break) on the following dates:
- August 4, 2023: Triaging Surgical Specimens of Products of Conception and Post-Partum Bleeding
- Philip Katzman, MD – University of Rochester Medical Center
- Jonathan Hecht, MD, PhD – Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- August 11, 2023: A Contemporary Approach to Pediatric Non-Neoplastic Liver Disease
- Juan Putra, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
- Sarangarajan Ranganathan, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- August 18, 2023: Handling the Post-Operative Heart
- Chrystalle Katte Carreon, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
- Stephen Sanders, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital
- August 25, 2023: Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review
- Florette K. Gray Hazard, MD – Stanford University Medical Center
- Chia-Sui Kao, MD – Cleveland Clinic
You may register for each workshop individually or you may register for all four workshops at a discounted, bundled rate as outlined below.
- Pricing Per Each Workshop
- $150: Members
- $200: Non-Members
- $50: Trainees
- 2023 Bundled Pricing (access to all 4 Workshops)
- $550: Members
- $700: Non-Members
- Trainees: $150
Please note that course content will not be available until the date of each live workshop.
Call for Proposals
The SPP is soliciting proposals for symposia at its Spring Annual Meetings and for workshops (for 2024 and beyond). Based on educational needs identified by the Education Committee, we are specifically seeking proposals for the following topics (please note that symposium and workshop proposals on any topic are always welcome):
Symposium Topics of Particular Interest:
- Pediatric liver tumors with emphasis on updates since the Spring 2018 meeting
- Pediatric skin lesions/pediatric dermatopathology (both neoplastic and non-neoplastic topics are welcomed)
- Pediatric thyroid nodules with emphasis on updates in cytologic and pathologic classification, molecular diagnostics, and management guidelines.
Workshop Topics of Particular Interest:
Symposia: The SPP is currently evaluating its Spring Annual Meeting. As such, the length of the symposia is subject to change.
Workshops: Moving forward, workshops will be offered separately from the Spring Annual Meeting. Workshops will be live streamed for real-time engagement and Q&A and will be recorded to provide on-demand access following the live presentation. Workshop length will be 90 minutes inclusive of Q&A and will incorporate an interactive slide review.
If you have any questions about submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, please contact the following individuals and copy Lauren Parsons, MD, Chair, Education Committee ([email protected]) and Sarah Porter, Education Committee liaison ([email protected]):
Workshops
Workshop Subcommitee Chair: Jessica Davis, MD ([email protected])
Symposia
Symposium Subcommitee Chair: Jiancong Liang, MD, PhD ([email protected])
Past Workshops and Symposia
| Meeting |
Titles |
| Spring, 2009 |
Symposium: Disorders of Intersex
Workshops:
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- The Use of Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Metabolic Diagnosis and General Pediatric Clinical Chemistry Laboratories
- Update in Pediatric Lymphomas, Leukemias and Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome
- Non-Tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
- Update on Bone Pathology in Pediatrics
- Pediatric Renal Tumors Update
|
| Fall, 2009 |
Symposium: Recent Advances in Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors
Workshops:
- Recent Advances in the Molecular Pathology of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Immune Environment & Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors
- Spindle Cell Tumors of Infancy and Childhood: Contribution of Molecular Techniques and Markers to the Diagnosis and Patient Management
- What Does (or Should) Your Oncologist Want to Know?
|
| Spring, 2010 |
Symposium: Recent Advances in Medical Renal Disease
Workshops:
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
- Pediatric Apheresis with the Inclusions of Technical Aspects Thereof, Indications for, and Blood Bank Support Thereof
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- Molecular Biology - An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Non-tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
- Update on Bone Pathology in Pediatrics
|
| Fall, 2010 |
Banff Pathology Course and SPP Symposium Shared Session:
- 2008 WHO Classification of Lymphomas. An Overview
- Hodgkin Lymphoma and Differential Diagnosis
- Pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Recent advances and new entities
- EBV Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorders: Update and Clinical Significance of New Entities
- Reactive lymphoproliferative lesions in children The Spectrum of Histiocytic Processes in Childhood
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| Spring, 2011 |
Symposium: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Workshops:
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- Molecular biology – An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Non-Tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
|
| Fall, 2011 |
Symposium: Vascular Tumors and Malformations Perinatal Symposium: Beyond the Laundry List – Diverse Perspectives on Nonimmune Fetal Hydrops |
| Spring, 2012 |
Symposium: Hirschsprung Disease Workshops:
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- Molecular Biology – An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
|
| Spring, 2013 |
Symposium: Joint Symposium with American Society of Dermatopathology Workshops:
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease-Update in Getting the Diagnosis, with Clinicopathologic Correlations
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
|
| Fall, 2013 |
Clinical Pathology Symposium:
- Challenges to Pediatric Clinical Pathology Under Healthcare Reform
- Waiting for the Next Shoe to Drop: Healthcare Reform and Academic Pediatrics
- A Payers Perspective on Genetic Testing Utilization
- Next Generation Sequencing as a Clinical Test: What is Right for Our Patients?
Surgical Pathology Symposium
- Chronic Inflammatory and Premalignant Conditions of the Pediatric Colon
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Children on a Fast Track to Cancer
- Genetics of Crohn Disease: New Insights into Pathogenesis
- Chronic Inflammatory Conditions of the Pediatric Colon
- Reading the Genetic Tea Leaves: Understanding Who Gets Colon Cancer and Why
Perinatal Symposium
- Developmental Genetics of Congenital Anomalies
- Gene Targeting
- Evolution and Development
- The Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations: Approaches to the Study of Cause
- Prenatal Imaging and the Autopsy: Working Together for Accurate Diagnoses
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| Spring, 2014 |
Symposium: Pediatric Dermatology: Focus on Cutaneous Inflammatory Disorders Workshops:
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlates
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Updates in Pediatric Hematopathology
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
|
| Fall, 2014 |
Symposium: Pediatric NeuropathologyPerinatal Symposium: Skeletal Dysplasia |
| Spring, 2015 |
Symposium: Advances in Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas in the Young: New Entities and Revised Concepts Workshops:
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach and Update on Pathogenesis.
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlations
- Pediatric Hematopathology
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
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| Fall, 2015 |
Symposium: Cystic Fibrosis Perinatal Symposium: The Pathology of Arthrogryposis Multiplex |
| Spring, 2016 |
Symposium: Neonatal and Infantile Cholestatic Liver Disease Workshops:
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlations
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach and Update on Pathogenesis
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- Pediatric Hematopathology
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy with Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
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| Fall, 2016 |
Symposium: Current Concepts in Tropical Medicine Perinatal Symposium: Obesity in Pregnancy |
| Spring, 2017 |
Symposium: Personalized Medicine in the Practice of Pediatric Tumor Pathology Workshops:
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach & Update on Pathogenesis
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy With Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
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| Fall, 2017 |
Clinical Pathology Symposium: Personalized Medicine in the Clinical Pathology Laboratory Symposium: Down Syndrome in the Twenty First Century Perinatal Symposium: Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Spring, 2018 |
Symposium: Pediatric Malignant Liver Tumors: New Advances in Pathologic Classification, Molecular Diagnostics and International Cooperative Trials Workshops:
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy With Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
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| Fall, 2018 |
Symposium: Quality, Patient Safety and Value Creation from a Pathology Platform Perinatal Symposium: Updates on Congenital Malformations |
| Spring, 2019 |
Symposium: Lymph Node Pathology for the Practicing Pediatric Pathologist Workshops:
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- The Role of heuristics and bias in patient safety: preventing errors in pathology
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
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| Fall, 2019 |
Symposium: Heart Disease |
| Spring, 2020 |
No symposium Workshops:
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative Pathology
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
- The Role of heuristics and bias in patient safety: preventing errors in pathology
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
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| Fall, 2020 |
No symposium |
| Spring, 2021 |
Symposium: Molecular Testing for Pediatric Sarcomas: Practical Strategies and Workflows in the Era of Personalized Medicine and an Updates WHO Classification Workshops:
- Handling the Post-Operative Heart (new)
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative
- Role of Bias in Pediatric Pathology: Preventing Errors and Enhancing Patient Safety One Child at a Time. (American Board of Pathology approved Patient Safety Course)
- Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Overview with Emphasis on Differing Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications than Those in Adults (new)
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
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| Fall, 2021 |
Symposium: Inflammatory Bowel Disease An Update on the Pathophysiology and New Molecular Insights |
| Spring, 2022 |
Symposium: Technology Platforms to Supercharge Your Practice
Workshops:
- A Contemporary Approach to Pediatric Non-Neoplastic Liver Disease
- Triaging and Gross/Microscopic Evaluation of Products of Conception in Missed/Spontaneous Abortions and Post-partum Bleeding
- Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Overview with Emphasis on Differing Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications than Those in Adults (new)
- Handling the Post-Operative Heart
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
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| Fall, 2022 |
Symposium: Updates on the Pathology and Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease Perinatal Symposium: Evaluation of Birth Defects Due to Teratogenic versus Genetic Effects in Perinatal Pathology |
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