Leeds Update on Melanocytic and Soft Tissue Tumours

1st - 2nd October 2009, Leeds, United Kingdom



SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Thursday 1st October 2009: Update on Melanocytic Tumours

8.30-9.15 Registration and coffee
9.15-9.30 Welcome
Dr.Sara Edward
MORNING SESSION - CHAIR: Dr.Andrew Boon
9.30-10.15 Clinical aspects of Melanocytic tumours
Prof.Julia Newton Bishop,Consultant Dermatologist
St James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
10.15-11.00 Unusual Melanocytic lesions
Prof.Martin Cook,Consultant Dermatopathologist
Royal Surrey County Hospital,Guildford,UK
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Surgical aspects of melanocytic tumours
Mr.Howard Peach,Consultant Plastic Surgeon
The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds,UK
12.00-12.30 Medical management of Melanomas
Dr.Maria Marples,Consultant Medical Oncologist
St.James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION - CHAIR: Prof Martin Cook
1.30-2.30 Case Discussions Cases 1-5
Dr.Will Merchant,Consultant Dermatopathologist
St.James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
2.30-3.30 Case Discussion cases 6-10
Dr.Sara Edward,Consultant Dermatopathologist
St.James’s University Hospital,Leeds ,UK
3.30-4.30 Case Discussion cases 11-15
Dr.Andrew Boon ,Consultant Histopathologist
St.James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
4.30 Meeting close

Friday 2nd October 2009: Update on Soft Tissue Tumours

8.30-9.15 Registration and coffee
9.15-9.30 Welcome
Dr.Sara Edward
MORNING SESSION - CHAIR: Dr.Will Merchant
9.30-10.15 What the surgeon would want to know from a pathologist
Mr.Kieran Horgan,Consultant Surgeon
The General Infirmary at Leeds,Leeds,UK
10.15-11.00 Role of Radiology in the diagnosis of Soft tissue tumours
Dr. Phil Robinson, Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 Adipocytic Tumours and the recent developments
Dr.Andre M Oliveira, Associate Professor of Soft tissue Pathology
Mayo Clinic,Rochester,Minnesotta
12.15-1.00 Spindle cell Soft tissue tumours
Prof. Cyril Fisher, Consultant Histopathologist
Royal Marsden Hospital,London,UK
1.00-2.00 Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION - CHAIR: Prof.Cyril Fisher
2.00-2.30 Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours-recent developments
Dr.Dan Stark,Consultant Medical Oncologist
St.James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
2.30-3.30 Case discussion . Cases 1-7
Dr.Will Merchant, Consultant Dermatopathologist
St. James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
3.30-4.30 Case discussion.Cases 8-15
Dr.Sara Edward,Consultant Dermatopathologist
St James’s University Hospital,Leeds,UK
4.30 Meeting close

Supported by unrestricted educational grant from Novartis Oncology.