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Contents: Report on the 94th Annual Meeting of the United states and Canadian Academy of Pathology The Spirit of San Antonio - Host city of the 2005 USCAP Meeting |
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Report on the 94th Annual Meeting of the United states and Canadian Academy of Pathology February 26 -
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Next year, 2006, the USCAP will stage the 100th Anniversary International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology in the beautiful city of Montreal in Canada from Sunday September 17 to Thursday September 21. The orgnanisers are planning a first class scientific and social programme that will also provide a glimpse of what has happened in Pathology in the past century. They hope to welcome large numbers of their colleagues from all over the world to join them in this celebration. In spite of this major commitment, the USCAP will continue to run its usual schedule of meetings in 2006. A record 3289 delegates attended the 94th Annual Meeting of the USCAP in San Antonio, Texas. 14% of the delegates came from 58 different countries outside the US and Canada and over 900 of them were pathology trainees. Dr. Ricardo Lloyd (Mayo Clinic) served a distinguished and active term as President of the USCAP. He turned over the gavel and the Presidency to Dr. Sylvia Asa (Toronto) as the new President of the Academy. 2098 scientific abstracts were submitted for evaluation (over 99% submitted electronically.) 75% of these were accepted. These abstracts are now on-line in easily searchable form at www.uscap.org). Next year submissions will all be electronic.
The Buckhorn Saloon bar in San Antonio with foot
rest from the original Saloon which opened in 1881. 23 Companion Societies presented their educational endeavors on Saturday night and Sunday. The total registrations were 2371. The American Society for Clinical Pathology Companion was presented for the first time this year. As usual, all of the Companion Societies and evening Specialty Conferences handouts/syllabuses were placed on our website after the annual meeting. (www.uscap.org) IAP Council meeting in San Antonio, Feb. 2005
L to R – Paulo Cardoso de Almeida, Leah Shander, George Kontogorgous, Anna Kadar, Francis Jaubert, Florabel Mullick, Jack Strong, Emilio Alvarez, Eduardo Santini-Araujo, Robin Cooke.
Above: Andrew Weng, (formerly of Brigham & Women’s, Boston, presently of British Columbia Cancer Center, Vancouver) recipient of the Castleman Award (for the best published paper in the field of human pathology.)
Above: Stephen Vogel with Dylan V. Miller (Mayo Clinic) winner of the F. Stephen Vogel Award for the most outstanding paper published in an Academy journal by a pathologist-in-training.
Above right: Koushan Siami-Namini, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK was the winner of The ADASP/USCAP Autopsy Award. Below: President of the USCAP, Ricardo Lloyd, presenting a medal of appreciation to Dr. Philip Sharp, Nobel Laureate from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston) for his excellent Nathan Kaufman Timely Topics Lecture entitled “The Biologic and Potentially therapeutic Activities of Short RAS,” arguably the “hottest topic” in biology/genetics/medicine right now. Philip is wearing the Silver Star of the Texas Rangers presented to him by Greg Fuller. Two Distinguished Pathologists Awards were presented this year to individuals in recognition of distinguished service in the development of the discipline of pathology. Dr Bruce Beckwith (now retired and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Loma Linda University) for his contributions to pediatric tumour pathology; and Robert Collins (Vanderbilt) Hematopathology. They were recognized by the Academy membership for their major and extensive contributions to pathology over the years. (Please see the USCAP Website (www.uscap.org) for biosketches of these two great pathologists.) One President’s Award was presented this year to a pathologist in recognition of major contributions to the profession of pathology - Dr. Andrew Huvos, Bone, and Head and Neck pathologist from Sloan-Kettering /Memorial, NYC. The F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award went to Dr. Ronald DeLellis, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, for his major contributions to the Academy over the years. The 16 evening Specialty Conferences, which are organ-based, were held from 7:30-9:30 PM, which was a testimony to the continuing endurance of the meeting’s registrants. The handouts at these meetings continue to be highly sought-after. All of the evening Specialty Conferences are online on the Academy’s website. For the past three years the unknowns (i.e., clinical history and representative histologic images) are placed on our USCAP website several weeks before the annual meeting, and the answers, complete text, references, etc are placed on our website the last day of our annual meeting (Friday morning) for all throughout the world to enjoy.
Above: Members of the groups who won the 4 Stowell Orbison Awards from L to R: Timothy Jones, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Esther O’Regan, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Trish Scognamiglio, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; Chen Zong-Ming, Washington University, St., Louis, MO.
Robert Collins and his wife, Elizabeth, with Sarah Reynolds and Crawford Evans, former Fellows from Vanderbilt University.
Below: Bruce Beckwith and his wife, Nancy Browning.
Below: Florabel Mullick, (centre) Hon. Secretary of the IAP, with, two of her Fellows. On her right, Nour Sneige, and on her left, Hala Makhlouf (Egypt), Roc Kaschula, Gold Medal winner from South Africa, and standing, Alan Rose (Minneapolis) and his wife, Nuja.
Above: Marc Ladanyi, Sloan-Kettering/Memorial, New York, winner of the Young Investigator Award for his extensive work in the field of tumor genetics.
David Page of Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee, with some of his former Fellows. David presented the Maude
Abbott Lecture which he titled “The Surgical Pathologist and the
History of Breast Cancer.” Andrew Huvos and his wife, Phyllis.
Ron DeLellis and his wife, Dolores.
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