20 settembre 20103rd Annual European Tutorial EFCS

Monday 20th to Friday 24th September 2010

European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS)

3rd Annual European Tutorial

Kimi, Evia (Euboea), Greece

The Kymi Palace Hotel

The 3rd EFCS annual tutorial will  take  place in the Kymi Palace Hotel, which is on the coast to the west of the   town of Kimi, and overlooks the sea where there are several quiet  beaches for  swimming and underwater fishing.

Kimi is the birthplace of George   Papanicolaou and there will be an opportunity to visit his village and  house  during the tutorial.  Kimi is on the  island Evia (Euboea) 90km  (2-hour drive) from Chalkida.  There are ferry boats from Kimi to and  from  Volos, Alonissos, Skopelos, Skyros, Kavala, Skiathos and Limnos.

Evia (Euboea) is the second largest  Greek island  (the largest is Crete). It’s capital is Chalkida, which is  82km from Athens  (about a 1-hour drive) and connected to the mainland  by an iron bridge.
The organizing committee will provide a  transit  bus from El. Venizelos Airport, Athens to Kimi on Sunday at   approximately 16.00.  Delegates should  arrange to book early flights to  allow time for the journey.  There will also be a transit bus on Friday   afternoon and delegates should book evening flights unless they wish  to stay  longer.
Local organisers:  Charikleia Margari, Eirini  Anagnostopoulou and Maria Nasioutziki

Useful links to the Kymi Palace Hotel and  the island of Evia
http://www.kymipalace.gr/index.php?lang=en  
http://www.aroundevia.com/

 

The 3rd EFCS Annual Tutorial

The tutorial will be  residential and  will provide a basic introduction in cytological diagnosis as  well as  some advanced topics and diagnostic techniques.  In this tutorial there  will be sessions on  endoscopic and endobronchial ultrasound-guided FNA  and all lecturers will  emphasis ancillary tests and immunocytochemistry  in their presentations and  workshops.
Printed handouts will be   available for all the workshops, which will be based on glass microscope   slides.  A CD ROM of the lectures will be  available at the end of the  tutorial.   Attendance certificates will be provided and the course  will be eligible  for continuing medical and professional education  points.
The participants should  be pathologists (cytopathologists  or histopathologists), biomedical scientists,  cytotechnologists or have  other relevant background and work in the field of diagnostic   cytopathology either as a full professional or as a trainee.  The  participants will be given the  possibility to test themselves both at  the beginning and at the end of the  tutorial. There will be a maximum  of 50 participants
The lecturers are experts in their field and  come from all over Europe  including the host country, Greece.

Local lecturer / tutors

• Petros  Karakitsos, University General Hospital “Attikon”, Athens,  Greece
• Charitini  Salla, Athens General Hospital,  Athens, Greece

Lecturers from EFCS Tutorial team

• Beatrix  Cochand-Priollet, Lariboisiere  Hospital, Paris 7, France
• Amanda  Herbert, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London  
• Rietje  Salet-van-de Pol, Radboud  University Nijmegen Medical  Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Torill  Sauer, Ullevaal University Hospital, Ullevaal, Norway

Visiting lecturer /tutors

• Mina  Desai, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester
• Gabrijela  Kocjan, University College Hospital, London
• Karmen  Trutin Ostovic, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia

Provisional Programme

Monday 20th September  2010

08.45 - 09.00 -  Introduction
09.00 -  09.30 -  Pretest: Torill Sauer 
Gynaecological and  non-gynaecological cytology
09.30 - 10.00 -  Lecture:   Rietje Salet-van- de Pol (Nijmegen,  Netherlands)
Gynaecological  cytology: technical aspects including preparation of  liquid-based  cytology (LBC), staining and troubleshooting
10.00 - 10.30  -  Lecture:  Mina Desai (Manchester,UK)
Conventional  smears and LBC: similarities and differences

10.30 - 11.00 - Coffee break

11.00  - 11.30 - Lecture: Rietje  Salet-van-de Pol        
Non-neoplastic  gynaecological  cytology
11.30 - 13.00 -  Workshop: Non-neoplastic  lesions, LBC and conventional smears   (Desai and Salet)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 -  Lecture:  Mina Desai 
Squamous  cell lesions (SIL) and cancer
14.45 - 16.00 - Workshop:   SIL and cancer  (Desai)

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee break

16.30  - 17.15 - Lecture:  Petros   Karakitsos (Athens, Greece)          
HPV testing and  vaccination, and their effect on screening
17.15 - 18.30 -   Workshop: SIL (Desai); Multidisciplinary cases  (Karakitsos)

19.30 - 21.00 – Reception provided  by Mayor of Kimi

Tuesday 21st September 2010

08.30 - 09.00 - Lecture: Mina  Desai          
ASC-US, ASC-H, diagnostic  pitfalls and look-alikes  
09.00 - 10.30 – Workshop: ASC-US, pitfalls and  look-alikes  (Desai)

10.30 – 11.00 - Coffee  break

11.00 – 11.30 - Lecture: Mina  Desai   Glandular lesions of  the cervix
11.30 – 13.00 – Workshop:  Atypical  glandular cells and adenocarcinoma (Desai)

13.00 – 14.00 -  Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 - Lecture:  Amanda  Herbert    
Cervical cancer audit and EU  guidelines on  quality control
14.30 – 16.00 – Workshops: Invasive cancer   audit (Herbert) 
Multidisciplinary cases, continued (Karakitsos)

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee  break

16.30 – 17.00 - Lecture:  Karmen Trutin  Ostovic (Zagreb, Croatia)              
Urine cytology with  ancillary tests
17.00 – 18.30 – Workshop: Urine cytology   (Trutin Ostovic)

Wednesday 22nd September 2010

08.30 - 09.00 - Lecture: Rietje Salet-van-de  Pol 
Methods  and preparatory techniques in non-gynaecological cytology (special  stains, cell block, ICC, ISH,  other molecular methods)
  09.00 - 09.30 - Lecture: Torill Sauer 
Cytological   diagnostics of breast FNAC
09.30 - 10.30 - Workshop:  Breast FNAC (Sauer)

10.30 - 11.00 - Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30 - Workshop: Breast (continued)
11.30 - 12.00 -  Lecture: Torill Sauer   
Immunocytochemistry and molecular   diagnostics in breast FNAC
12.30 - 13.00 - Lecture:  Beatrix Cochand-Priollet (Paris, France)       
Bethesda   classification of thyroid FNAC and EFCS working party report

13.00 - 14.00 -  Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 - Lecture: Beatrix  Cochand-Priollet  
Thyroid  FNAC
14.30 - 16.00 - Workshop: Thyroid FNAC,   conventional and LBC slides (Cochand-Priollet).

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee  break

Visit to village and birthplace of George Papanicolaou with  supper

Thursday 23rd  September 2010

08.30 - 09.00 - Lecture: Dr Salla (Athens General  Hospital, Greece) 
  Biliary cytology and pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound-guided  FNA
09.00 - 10.30 - Workshop: Biliary and EUS  pancreatic  cytology (Salla)

10.30 - 11.00 - Coffee  break

11.00 - 11.30 - Lecture: Gabrijela Kocjan  (London, UK)         
Salivary   gland FNAC
11.30 – 13.00 – Workshop: Salivary gland  (Kocjan)

13.00 – 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 -  14.30 - Lecture: Gabrijela Kocjan          
Lymph  nodes: non-neoplastic conditions
14.30 - 16.00 –  Workshop: Lymph nodes,  non-neoplastic (Kocjan)

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee  break

16.30 - 17.00 - Lecture : Gabriela  Kocjan          
Lymph   nodes : lymphoma and metastatic malignancy with immunocytochemistry  and  flow cytometry
17.00 - 18.00 - Workshop: lymphoma  and  metastatic malignancy (Kocjan)
18.00 - 18.30 - Lecture: Amanda  Herbert           
Lung cytology and EBUS FNAC

Friday 24th  September 2010

08.30 - 09.00 - Lecture:  Amanda Herbert    
Serous  effusions,  including immunocytochemistry
09.00 - 10.30 –  Workshop: Lung, EBUS FNA and  serous effusions (Herbert)

10.30 – 11.00 - Coffee

11.00 - 12.00 - Workshop: Lung, EBUS and serous  effusions (Herbert,  continued)
12.00 - 13.00 - Post-test and feedback (Torill  Sauer)

Residential  course in the Kymi Palace Hotel on the coast of Evia near the  birthplace of George Papanicolaou

Workshops and  lectures by local and visiting experts on conventional and liquid-based  gynaecological cytology and a wide range of non-gynaecological cytology  including breast, lung, lymph node, salivary gland, serous fluids,  thyroid, urine, endoscopic and endobronchial ultrasound-guided FNA.

     Scientific  Program
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Lecturers /  tutors: Beatrix  Cochand-Priollet,   Mina Desai, Amanda Herbert,   Petros Karakitsos,   Gabrijela Kocjan, Karmen Trutin   Ostovic, Rietje Salet-van  de  Pol, Charitini Salla,   Torill Sauer

Local organisers: Charikleia Margari,   Irene   Anagnostopoulou, Maria Nasioutziki

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