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)