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.  

Workshops Update

At this time, the Society for Pediatric Pathology is restructuring its workshop offerings. Workshops will no longer be provided in conjunction with the Spring Annual Meeting. Moving forward workshops will be offered as live, virtual presentations inclusive of live Q&A. Each workshop will be recorded and available for one year to registrants. The goal is for new workshops to also incorporate an interactive slide review.

 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:
  • Transplant Pathology

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
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
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 Neuropathology
Perinatal 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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
 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