Workshops & Companion Society Meeting Proposals

Call for Proposals

Interested in speaking at an SPP Event?
 
The SPP Education Committee is soliciting workshop and symposium proposals.

Note - Annual Meeting symposium are submitted by potential meeting hosts; see Fall Meeting Host page for further information and proposals.

Topic Suggestions

General
Research-related statistics/scientific writing
Quality in the pediatric pathology laboratory
Updates in classification systems
Oncologist perspective on reporting/influence on therapy

Pediatric
Dermatopathology (specifically non-neoplastic)
Autopsy
Pediatric breast pathology
Brain tumor pathology for the non-neuropathologist
Endocrine tumors (non thyroid, non pancreas)
Inflammatory bowel disease
Soft tissue tumors
COG perspective on new studies/protocols (NB, etc)
Dental pathology

Perinatal
Congenital infections/malformations
Molecular/genetic testing in stillbirth
Skeletal dysplasia
Patient/family focused placental pathology & reporting
Gestational trophoblastic disease
Developmental neuropathology
Metabolic diseases/inborn errors of metabolism

USCAP Companion Society Ideas
Disorders in sex development
Pediatric and perinatal autopsy
Medical and neoplastic liver
Placental pathology for general pathologists
Pediatric GI
Pediatric sarcoma
Radiology/pathology correlations

2026 January Workshops

Registration is live at this link to register to view recordings.

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 12:00pm – 2:00pm EST on the following dates:

​Patterns of Colonic Mucosal Injury in Chronic Diarrhea: A Diagnostic Approach to Pediatric IBD and Mimics (January 9th, 2026)

  • ​​Iram Siddiqui, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC​ (The Hospital for Sick Children​)

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and Neoplasia: Bridging Histopathology and Genetics (January 16th, 2026)

  • Bradley Quade, MD, PhD​ (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School​)​​
  • Lawrence Hsu Lin, MD, PhD​ (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

Placental Pathology Reporting – Improving and Standardizing Quality and Clinical Utility​ (January 23rd, 2026)

  • Sanjita Ravishankar, MD​ (​​University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine​)
  • ​​Eumenia Castro, MD, PhD​ (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, ​University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics​)

Surgical Pathology of Pediatric Pancreatic Diseases (January 31st, 2025)

  • ​​Charlotte Kim, MD​ (Texas Children’s Hospital​)
  • Heather Keir, MBChB​ (Texas Children’s Hospital​)

Registration for the Society for Pediatric Pathology’s 2025 January Workshops is available through January 2026. Please visit this link to register.


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 [email protected]:

Workshop Subcommittee Chair: Shahrazad Saab, MD ([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
SymposiumUpdates 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
Spring, 2023 
Symposium: Vascular Malformations and Tumors
Summer, 2023

Workshops: 

  • Triaging Surgical Specimens of Products of Conception and Post-Partum Bleeding
  • A Contemporary Approach to Pediatric Non-Neoplastic Liver Disease
  • Handling the Post-Operative Heart
  • Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review
Fall, 2023

Symposium: Fanconi Anemia: Updates in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment

Winter, 2024

Workshops: 

  • Update on Pathology of Liver Tumors
  • Pediatric Liver Tumors Outside the Hepatoblastoma Box
  • Congenital Cystic Lung Lesions: An Update on Clinical and Pathologic Correlates
  • Pediatric Otorhinolaryngologic and Oromaxillofacial Pathology with an Emphasis on Development and Associations with Cancer Predisposition Syndromes
Spring, 2024

Symposium: Pediatric Thyroid Tumors: A Practical Update on The Classification, Molecular Diagnostics and Management Strategies

Fall, 2024

Symposium: GI and Liver Disease
Perinatal Symposium: Diagnostic Challenges and Innovation in Placental Pathology

Winter, 2025

Workshops:

  • Pediatric Lymphadenopathy: A Systematic and Pattern-Based Review of Benign and Malignant Lymph Node Pathology (Pt I & II)
  • Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplant Pathology
  • Surgical Pathology of Pediatric Pancreatic Diseases