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

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)

Local organisers:

• Charikleia Margari,  
• Irene   Anagnostopoulou,
• Maria Nasioutziki