The Pathologists’ Assistants of New England
Spring Meeting 2008
 Portland Regency Hotel
Portland, Maine

Weekend of April 25th - 27th 2008

Program
(Times and some topics may be updated)

Friday April 25th

Morning
8:30 AM    Full Breakfast

10:30 AM    Business Practice of Pathology - Future Challanges (1CME)
                        Dr. Mike Jones, Chief of Pathology, Maine Medical Center, Portland Me


                                                Afternoon

12 Noon   Lunch At the Regency Hotel of Portland



1:15 - 4:30       Tissue Banking Operations:  Round Table Discussion  (3CME)
The goal of this workshop is to get PA's who are working in tissue banking to share their ideas about all aspect of tissue
 banking.  If your institurion is thinking about setting up a tissue banking operation,  this workshop will help you to understand
many of the logistics and requrements for doing so.

After and Introductory statement from Dr. Mike Jones, The afternoon will be broken up into 20 to 30 minute blocks to discuss  many of the practicle aspects of tissue banking  including:


Consenting and IRB requirements
Choosing type of tissue to bank and ways of preparing tissue
Inventory management
Data management
Personnel requirements
Costs involved and charging for services


We are looking for ideas on how to best put this set up this.   Please share your insite - we are looking for about 10 participants for the discussion.  If you are involved in tissue banking at your hospital and would like to contribute, please contact Rocky Ackroyd  at ackror@mmc.org. 

5:30 PM       Dinner suggestions and evening activity to be announced
   


Saturday April 26th


8:00 AM    Contentinal Breakfast

9:00 AM    Cancer Registries and the Importance of Pathology Data (1CME)
                       Ken Gerlach,   CDC, Atlanta Georgia

10:30 AM   Worms, Wheezes and Weird Diseases"  (1CME)
                        Dr. Tony Mattia,   Newton Wellsley Hospital, Newton, MA

12:00 Noon          Lunch in the Old Port.
                You are on your own to discover one of the many unique restarunts in walking distance in the Old Port
                  

2:00 PM   Pathologic Changes of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy to the Breast (1CME)
                       Dr. Joshua Kish, Pathologist,  Massachusettes General Hospital, Boston, MA

3:15 AM  Combining Pathology and Molecular Markers for the Management of Colon Cancer                 (1CME)
                       Dr.Karen Rasmussen, PhD,. FACM, MaineCenter for Cancer Medicine

5:00 PM   Dinner at  "The Inn on Peaks Island"
                We will be taking a Casco Bay ferry to one of the 22 islands in Portland harbor.
                      Please go to the Events Page for more details
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If you have any questions, please contact Rocky Ackroyd  at 207-662-6825 or ackror @mmc.org

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