Friday 14th – Saturday 15th July 2023, Hotel One, Gulberg, Lahore, Pakistan
The International Academy of Cytology (IAC), IAP (Pakistan Division) and Histopathology and Cytology Society of Pakistan held a most exciting educational event – “The Cytopathology Tutorial” on July 14-15, 2023, in Lahore, Pakistan.
Cytopathology as a field has evolved into a frontline clinically-oriented discipline, playing a pivotal role in timely and accurate patient management. Recent years have seen an exponential growth of newer techniques (automation, immunomarkers and molecular testing) being applied to augment morphologic evaluation of cytologic specimens. Additionally, there have been several significant revisions of tumor nomenclature and classifications in Histopathology which directly affects the way the diagnoses of such lesions are rendered in Cytopathology. Several updated “Reporting Systems” have been introduced in Cytopathology. There are new therapeutic approaches personalized for oncologic patients with important implications on cytologic interpretations.
Thank you for the excellent organisation. Dr. Loya and Dr. Mudassar, the architects of the great meeting. (L-R) Dr. Syed Ali, Dr. Asif Loya and Dr. Mudassar Hussain.
This two-day course brought the world’s leading experts in Cytopathology to Pakistan, in person and virtually, along with distinguished national speakers. The tutorial exposed general pathologists, cytopathologists, pathology trainees and cytotechnologists not only to a comprehensive didactic curriculum but by employing unique ways of faculty-to-attendee interactions offered a truly enriching educational experience. A combination of focused unknown case presentations and high-resolution video microscopy/virtual slide presentations will follow each lecture session. Each afternoon session ended with an hour-long special interactive presentation of truly “challenging cases” with active participation of the attendees.
It is hoped that after the meeting a link can be provided for the registrants to view videos for a limited time.
FACULTY
Faculty
Dr. Zubair Baloch, MIAC (Virtual)
U.S.A.
Faculty
Dr. Zubair Baloch, MIAC (Virtual)
U.S.A.
Dr. Baloch received his medical degree from Liaquat Medical University in Sind, Pakistan. After receiving his PhD in 1991 he joined the pathology residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. This was followed by fellowships in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia. Dr. Baloch began his career as an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UPENN medical center in1997 and is currently a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine there. He has authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications in leading pathology journals on the subject of endocrine and head and neck pathology; and book chapters and monographs. Dr. Baloch has delivered numerous lectures, workshops and short courses both at the national and international meetings including ASC, USCAP, ASCP, CAP, ECC and IAP. Dr. Baloch has co-authored 3 books and has served as co-editor of the most recent ?Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology?. Dr. Baloch has also served as the chair of the terminology and morphologic criteria committee of the 2007 NCI sponsored thyroid FNA initiative which led to the development of ?Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification Scheme?. Dr. Baloch also served on the international panel which recommended the renaming of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma to non-invasive follicular tumor with papillary like nuclear features (NIFTP). Dr. Baloch is executive editor of Diagnostic Cytopathology and member of the editorial board of Cancer Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Endocrine Pathology and Journal of American Society of Cytopathology.
Dr. Baloch has served as the chair of ASCP and ASC annual meeting scientific program committee, member of USCAP education committee, ASC executive board, ASCP committee for continuing professional development, Papanicolaou Society scientific program committee, American Association of Endocrinologist thyroid nodule guideline task force and American Thyroid Association laboratory test committee.