Scientific Program
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Ponte Vecchio Room
14.00 FOCUS SESSION
15.00MISCELLANEOUS INFLAMMATORY DERMATOSES
Chairs: Giovanni Borroni (Italy), Wayne Grayson (South Africa)
Psoriasis: novel insights
Rino Cerio (United Kingdom)
Neutrophilic urticarial dermatoses
Dieter Metze (Germany)
Blistering clinico-pathological-IF correlations
Catherine M. Stefanato (United Kingdom)
Discussion
Pitti Room
14.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
15.00Alopecia
Laila El Shabrawi-Caelen (Austria)
Ponte Vecchio Room
15.00 FOCUS SESSION
16.00TOUGH ADNEXAL TUMORS
Chairs: Maxime Battistella (France), Jag Bhawan (USA)
Sebaceous tumors
Dmitry V. Kazakov (Czech Republic)
Follicular tumors
Jean Kanitakis (France)
Sweat gland tumors
Tammie Ferringer (USA)
Discussion
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Pitti Room
15.00 LAB PROTOCOLS
16.00IF, FISH AND MUTATIONAL ANALYSES
Chairs: Pedram Gerami (USA), Werner Kempf (Switzerland)
Immunofluorescence
Balbir Bhogal (United Kingdom)
FISH analysis
Beatrice Vergier (France)
Mutational analyses
Willeke Blokx (The Netherlands)
Discussion
16.00
16.30
Coffee break - Poster Viewing
Ponte Vecchio Room
16.30 FOCUS SESSION
17.30MISDIAGNOSES IN SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
Chairs: Steven Billings (USA), Alessandro Franchi (Italy)
In spindle cell soft tissue tumors
Eduardo Calonje (United Kingdom)
In epithelioid cell soft tissue tumors
Boštjan Luzar (Slovenia)
In neural tumors
Zsolt Argenyi (USA)
Discussion
Pitti Room
16.30 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
17.30 Challenging inflammatory dermatoses
Jag Bhawan (USA)
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Thursday, 26 September 2013
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17.30- FOCUS SESSION
18.30 OPPORTUNITIES WITH NOVEL ANTIBODIES AND SPECIAL STAINS
Chairs: Klaus J. Busam (USA), José Luis Rodriguez-Peralto (Spain)
In melanoma
Victor G. Prieto (USA)
In adnexal tumors
Doina Ivan (USA)
In lymphomas
Fabio Facchetti (Italy)
Discussion
Pitti Room
17.30 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
18.30 Skin biopsy in HIV patients
Wayne Grayson (South Africa)
18.30
18.45
Opening Ceremony
18.45 Founders’ Medal Ceremony
19.00 Heinz Kutzner (Germany)
W.P. Daniel Su (USA)
19.00 Welcome Reception
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8.30 FOCUS SESSION
9.30NOVEL PERSPECTIVES IN SKIN CANCER
Chairs: Alistair Robson (United Kingdom), Beth S. Ruben (USA)
MiRNA in melanoma: ready for clinical applications?
Victor Tron (USA)
Recent advances in pathologic evaluation and non melanoma skin cancer reporting
Wilma Bergfeld (USA)
Pathology of cutaneous side effects of targeted therapy
Melissa Pulitzer (USA)
Discussion
Ponte Vecchio Room
9.30 FOCUS SESSION
10.00 MELANOMA: MORPHOLOGY, GENES AND MORE
Chairs: Heinz Kutzner (Germany), Martin C. Jr Mihm (USA)
Desmoplastic melanoma
Klaus J. Busam (USA)
Clinicopathological correlation of controversial melanocytic lesions
Lorenzo Cerroni (Austria)
What genomics has taught me about melanocytic tumors
Philip E. LeBoit (USA)
Discussion
10.30
11.00
Coffee break - Poster Viewing
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Friday, 27 September, 2013
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Ponte Vecchio Room
11.00 FOCUS SESSION
12.00CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY, DIGITAL DERMATOPATHOLOGY AND TELEPATHOLOGY
Chairs: Daniela Massi (Italy), Cesare Massone (Austria)
Confocal microscopy for pathologists
Caterina Longo (Italy)
Telepathology: the remote assessment of melanocytic skin lesions
H. Peter Soyer (Australia)
Virtual dermatopathology - Current technology and use
Ellen Mooney (Iceland)
Discussion
Pitti Room
11.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
12.00Cutaneous lymphoma
Werner Kempf (Switzerland)
Ponte Vecchio Room
12.00 The A.B. Ackerman Lecture
13.00 Chair: Heinz Kutzner (Germany)
Beyond BRAF in melanoma
Boris Bastian (USA)
Pitti Room
13.00 ISDP Executive Committee Meeting
14.00
13.00
14.00
Lunch & Satellite Symposia
Ponte Vecchio Room
14.00 Focus on Immunointervention in Melanoma
14.30 Chair: Nicola Pimpinelli (Italy)
Immunotherapy in advanced melanoma: current status and future perspectives Vanna Chiarion Sileni, (Italy)
New knowledge on dendritic cells and melanoma
Gianni Gerlini, (Italy)
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14.30 FOCUS SESSION
15.30 NEW MOLECULAR TESTS FOR MELANOMA DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
Chairs: Rossitza Lazova (USA), Nicola Pimpinelli (Italy)
Application of FISH in melanocytic lesions
Pedram Gerami (USA)
BRAF in melanoma: a bench to bedside overview
Amaya Viros (United Kingdom)
ew strategies in melanoma: molecular testing in advanced disease
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Alexander Lazar (USA)
Discussion
Ponte Vecchio Room
15.30 FOCUS SESSION
16.30 RELEVANT MISTAKES IN CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMAS
Chairs: Melissa Pulitzer (USA), Marco Santucci (Italy)
In mycosis fungoides
Jerad Gardner (USA)
In cutaneous T-cell lymphomas other than MF
Werner Kempf (Switzerland)
In cutaneous B-cell lymphomas
Lorenzo Cerroni (Austria)
Discussion
Pitti Room
15.30 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
16.30 Soft tissue tumors of the skin
Steven Billings (USA)
16.30
16.45
Coffee break - Poster Viewing
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16.45 ROUND TABLE
17.30SETTING UP A DERMATOPATHOLOGY LAB IN EUROPE AND USA: CRITICAL ISSUES
Raymond L. Barnhill (USA), Klaus J. Busam (USA),
Lorenzo Cerroni (Austria), Philip E. LeBoit (USA), Wolfgang
Weyers (Germany), Artur Zembowicz (USA)
Pitti Room
16.45 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
17.30Infectious diseases
Omar P. Sangüeza (USA)
Ponte Vecchio Room
17.30 FOCUS SESSION
18.30 EMERGING INFECTIOUS SKIN DISEASES
Chairs: Rino Cerio (United Kingdom), Jorge L. Sanchez (Puerto Rico)
Viral-related skin diseases
Maria Teresa Fernández Figueras (Spain)
Emerging infections in tropical and subtropical dermatology
Francisco Bravo Puccio (Peru)
Find the unexpected in infectious diseases
J. Martin Sangüeza (Bolivia)
Discussion
Pitti Room
17.30 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
18.30 Vulvar pathology
Maria Angelica Selim (USA)
Ponte Vecchio Room
General Assembly of ISDP
20.30
Social Dinner
Scientific Program
Saturday, 28 September 2013
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8.30
LAB PROTOCOLS
9.30
PROCESSING, SPECIAL STAINS AND IHC
Chairs: Heinz Kutzner (Germany), Catherine M. Stefanato (United
Kingdom)
Skin specimens handling and processing, including special sites
Katrin Pfaltz (Switzerland)
Histochemistry
Beth S. Ruben (USA)
Immunohistochemistry
Lyn McDivitt Duncan (USA)
Discussion
Pitti Room
8.30 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
9.30Childhood and rare melanocytic lesions
Raymond L. Barnhill (USA)
Ponte Vecchio Room
9.30 FOCUS SESSION
10.30 METASTATIC PATHWAYS IN MELANOMA
Chairs: Claire Lugassy (USA), Carmelo Urso (Italy)
Angiotropism in melanoma
Raymond L. Barnhill - Claire Lugassy (USA)
Sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma: how to interpret them
Martin Cook (United Kingdom)
Predictors of sentinel lymph node metastasis in melanoma patients
Richard Scolyer (Australia)
Discussion
Scientific Program
Saturday, 28 September 2013
10.30
11.00
Coffee break - Poster Viewing
Ponte Vecchio Room
11.00- SELF-ASSESSMENT SESSION I
13.00 Chair: J. Andrew Carlson (USA)
J. Andrew Carlson (USA)
Lydia Essary (USA)
Bernard Cribier (France)
Cesare Massone (Austria)
Josè Manuel Mascaro (Spain)
Katrin Kerl (Switzerland)
Grace Kao (USA)
Franco Rongioletti (Italy)
Paul Craig (United Kingdom)
Michael Tronnier (Germany)
Stéphanie Leclerc-Mercier (France)
Camilla Vassallo (Italy)
Maxwell A. Fung (USA)
Anjela Galan (USA)
Ying Guo (USA)
Kerry Crotty (Australia)
Rajiv M. Patel (USA)
Gerardo Ferrara (Italy)
Gürkan Kaya (Switzerland)
Tammie Ferringer (USA)
Pitti Room
11.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
12.00Atypical melanocytic proliferations – Consultation cases
David Elder (USA)
Pitti Room
12.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
13.00 Panniculites
Josè Luis Rodriguez-Peralto (Spain)
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14.00
Lunch
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
Ponte Vecchio Room
14.00 SELF-ASSESSMENT SESSION II
16.00 Chair: Doina Ivan (USA)
Alistair Robson (United Kingdom)
Peter Haeusermann (Switzerland)
M. Ramam (India)
Jivko Kamarachev (Switzerland)
Guido Collina (Italy)
Mirjana Ziemer (Germany)
Carlo Cota (Italy)
Margot S. Peters (USA)
Sara Edward (United Kingdom)
Carlos Torres-Cabala (USA)
Rafael Botella-Estrada (Spain)
Isabel Viana (Portugal)
Elisabeth Ball de Picon (Venezuela)
Llucia Alos (Spain)
Aleodor Andea (USA)
Anna Maria Cesinaro (Italy)
Saba Ali (USA)
Tetsunori Kimura (Japan)
Ricardo Macarenco (Brazil)
Carlo Tomasini (Italy)
Pitti Room
14.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
15.00 Spitzoid melanocytic lesions
Rossitza Lazova (USA)
Pitti Room
15.00 Videomicroscopy Tutorial
16.00 Critical histological differential diagnoses involving pigmented epithelioid
melanocytoma, lentigo maligna and nevoid melanoma
Artur Zembowicz (USA)
Ponte Vecchio Room
16.00 Closing remarks