Current Issues in Liver Pathology

Date: April 12-14, 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Credits: 20.25 CME

Core Competencies: PC, MK, PBL
Intended Audience: Pathologists, Pathology Residents, Hepatologists, Gastroenterology Fellows, Pathologists’ Assistants

Stay on the cutting edge with new information about:

• Unique histologic features of steatohepatitis in pediatric patients
• New immunostains in the evaluation of liver tumors
• Current guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in the management of patients with chronic HCV hepatitis
• Emerging concepts, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, overlap syndromes such as PBC and autoimmune hepatitis, drug-induced hepatotoxicity, genetic hepatotoxicity, chronic cholestatic conditions, and reporting systems for chronic hepatitis

Special course features:

• Case demonstrations with video microscopy
• Individual microscopes and glass slides for use throughout the course
• Learner engagement using audience response equipment
• Course syllabus included
• SAM credits (on-line pre and post-test required)

Gain valuable insights for your own work in analyzing liver diseases, with an emphasis on histologic features that impact patient management and prognosis. You’ll be guided, step by step, through some of the most common and difficult diagnoses. An experienced hepatologist will be in attendance throughout the course to provide the clinician’s perspective and to answer your questions. Bring your challenging slides for discussions with the faculty and evaluate your knowledge with self-assessment options. Today, surgical pathologists know that simple descriptive statements of histologic features in the assessment of a liver biopsy are simply not enough. You must provide a management strategy for a specific disease entity or provide a differential diagnosis to guide a focused patient workup. This course will provide valuable guidance.

Following this course, you will be able to:

• Apply a systematic approach to evaluating liver biopsies that integrates clinical information into the diagnostic process.
• Interpret current data regarding prognostic histologic features in chronic hepatitis and integrate approaches to systematic reporting.
• Apply new developments in your diagnosis of steatohepatitis, genetic hemochromatosis, overlap syndromes and other evolving areas of hepatic disease.
• Apply new diagnostic techniques to differentiate the spectrum of hepatic mass lesions.

The ASCP designates these educational activities for a maximum of 20.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activities.

This activity meets MOC Part II Lifelong Learning requirements. A self-assessment option is available for pathologists attending this program to earn SAM credits for Maintenance of Certification, Part II Self-Assessment Modules (MOC-SAM) for part of the course.