At the beginning of 2014, I hope everyone
has had a nice holiday and New Year. We
had an extremely remarkable and successful meeting at the Companion Meeting in
the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) in March, 2013 at the
Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. The
theme of our program was focused on the update of liver fibrosis. At the meeting, excellent talks on the
up-to-date research in liver fibrosis, image modalities of fibrosis, and assessment of fibrosis progression and regression in liver biopsy were
given by Drs. Alastair Burt, Scott Reeder, and Pierre Bedossa,
respectively. Our clinician guest, Dr.
Jay Hoofnagle, shared his clinical insight on the clinical evaluation and the future perspectives of fibrosis in liver
disease. We have received a lot of
positive feedback from the audience.
The pathogenesis of primary liver neoplasms
remains complex and the pathological diagnosis may be challenging at
times. There has also been recently
developed nomenclature in the imaging reporting of liver cancer. The theme of our 2014 meeting focuses on
update of liver neoplasms. The meeting
will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in Ballroom 3 on Sunday, March
2nd, 2014 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm. We will hear about an update of hepatocellular adenoma from the aspect of molecular biology to
pathological diagnosis from
our pathologist colleague, Dr. Paulette Bioulac-Sage. We will also hear an update on the liver
imaging reporting of liver cancer from our radiologist colleague, Dr. Claude
Sirlin. After the coffee break, a talk
about update on unusual malignant mesenchymal tumors
will be given by Dr. Linda Ferrell.
Finally, Dr. Milton Finegold will give an update on pediatric liver neoplasms. We sincerely hope you agree this is an
excellent program with outstanding speakers and we look forward to your
attending.
Right after the Companion Meeting we will
have our business meeting where we will be voting on new officers, including
the Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer.
Dr. Isabel Fiel will be stepping up to be President. I will be moving on to be Past
President. We sincerely thank the
current Past President, Dr. David Kleiner for his excellent service during his
tenure.
We are also especially indebted to Dr.
Elizabeth Brunt, who has spent tremendous efforts and time, serving as
Secretary-Treasurer in the past many years.
Without her, the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society would not have
thrived! It is important for you members to stay for the voting at the Business
Meeting. The Executive Committee
welcomes names for the slate of officers after the persons’ consent by February
15. Feel free to send a suggestion to any of the current officers.
I appreciate all of the members for their
support of our society. The dues that
you pay to be part of the HPHS help to support non-member guest speakers at our
Annual Meeting and our Annual Prize for
best USCAP abstract by a pathologist-in-training.
We welcome and encourage abstracts from
pathology trainees for the Best Abstract Award at HPHS again this year. Please
send the accepted abstract to Dr. Oyedele Adeyi (email: oyedele.adeyi@uhn.on.ca) by January 25. If you are not currently a member, but would
like to join, applications are available from Dr. Elizabeth Brunt, our current
Secretary-Treasurer, who may be reached at ebrunt@path.wustl.edu. And a final reminder, our international
members are not assessed the annual membership dues.
Sincerely,
Matthew M. Yeh, M.D., Ph.D.
President,
Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society
