PPS 2009: 55th Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, USA 
(Jointly with the SPP).
14-17 October 2009
The Union League, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, USA
Local organiser: Dr Pierre Russo
Meeting Announcement
The Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society are getting together!
The meeting venue will be the Union League in downtown Philadelphia.
Join us in Philadelphia, PA to share new discoveries and advance the knowledge of paediatric and perinatal pathology!
Further information and updates will be available on the SPP and PPS websites: http://www.spponline.org and http://www.paedpath.org.
Online abstract submissions for the upcoming Joint Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society are now closed.
Abstracts relating to all aspects of paediatric and perinatal pathology were welcomed. The deadline for submission was Tuesday June 16, 2009, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
Online Registration (via SPP website)
Final Agenda (PDF)
Final Perinatal Symposium Agenda (PDF)
Abstracts (PDF)
Slide Seminar
Hotels (PDF)
Dress code at the Union League!
Final Programme
PPS AGM Documents
PPS AGM Minutes
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Final Programme
Wednesday, October 14 Committee Meetings
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM SPP Committee Meetings Room
8:30-10:30 AM Executive Committee Boardroom
12:30 – 1:30 PM Strategic Planning Committee Grant West
1:00 – 2:00 PM Practice Committee Grant East
1:30 – 3:00 PM Finance Committee Grant West
1:00 – 4:00 PM Education Committee Grant Middle
2:00 – 3:00 PM Fellowship Committee Grant East
3:00 – 4:00 PM Publication Committee Grant West
3:00 – 4:00 PM. Research Committee Grant East
3:00 – 4:00 PM. Archives Committee TBA (meet in Union
League Inn Lobby)
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PPS Council Meeting TBA
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM SPP Council Meeting Grant West
6:00 – 8:00 PM Welcome Reception
The Union League, Meade Ballroom
Thursday, October 15
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
7:45 AM – 8:00 AM Opening Remarks
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Platform Session Ia- Meade Ballroom
Platform Session Ib- Grant Ballroom
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Platform Session Ic- Meade Ballroom
Platform Session Id- Grant Ballroom
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM Trolley Tour of Philadelphia with Box Lunch
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Platform Session IIa- Meade Ballroom
Platform Session IIb- Grant Ballroom
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Break
4:30 - 5:30 PM John Emery Lecture- “Is Genetics Inhumane?”
Professor Arnold Munnich, M.D., Ph.D.
Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades and University Paris-Descartes
Paris, France
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PPS Business Meeting
McMichael Room
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Perinatal Business Meeting
Fell Room
7:00 PM Free Night
Friday, October 16
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Symposium: Recent Advances in Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors
Moderator: Cheryl M. Coffin, MD
Lincoln Hall
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM “Recent Advances in the Molecular Pathology of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma”
Fred Glenn Barr, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM “Immune Environment & Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors”
John Anderson, M.B.B.S. Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology
Institute of Child Health, London, England
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break- Library Lounge
Visit Posters- Grant Ballroom
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM “Spindle Cell Tumors of Infancy and Childhood: Contribution of Molecular Techniques and Markers to the Diagnosis and Patient Management”
Louis Guillou, M.D. Staff Pathologist & Professor of Pathology
Institut Universitaire de Pathologie, Lausanne, Switzerland
11:15 AM – Noon “What Does (or Should) Your Oncologist Want to Know?”
Richard Berry Womer, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Noon – 1:00 PM LUNCH on your own
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Poster Discussions
Posters for Discussion I - Lincoln Hall
Posters for Discussion II - Meade Ballroom
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Slide Seminar: Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumor Pathology - Lincoln Hall
2:30 - 2:45 pm - Cheryl M. Coffin, M.D.
2:45 - 3:00 pm - Bruce Pawel, M.D.
3:00 - 3:15 pm - Louis P. Dehner, M.D.
3:15 - 3:30 pm - Louis Guillou, M.D.
3:00 - 3:45 pm - David M. Parham, M.D.
3:45 - 4:00 pm - Gino Somers, M.D.
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Lotte Strauss Lecture - Lincoln Hall
“Genomic Analysis of High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”
Charles G. Mullighan, M.B.B.S., M.Sc., M.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM FREE Time
7:30 PM SPP/PPS Banquet
National Constitution Center
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
www.constitutioncenter.org
Saturday Oct 17
6:30 – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Library Lounge
8:00 AM – 12:30 PM Symposium Program: Congenital Tumors
Moderators: Dr. Theonia K. Boyd and Dr. Marie-Anne Brundler
8:00 - 8:10 AM Introduction Dr. Theonia Boyd
8:10 - 9:00 AM “Congenital Tumors – Why are They Different?” Dr. Adrian Charles
9:00 - 9:45 AM “Congenital Tumors of the Central Nervous System." Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams
9:45 - 10:35 AM “Imaging of Congenital Tumors: Fetal & Neonatal Techniques in 2009." Dr. Carol Barnewolt
10:35 - 10:50 AM Break - Library Lounge
10:50 - 11:40 AM “Fetal and Neonatal Management of Congenital Tumors". Dr. Ken Liechty
11:40 AM-12:30 PM “Genetic Predisposition to Neuroblastoma” Dr. Yaël Mossé
Documents for the 2009 PPS AGM on Thursday 15th October at 17.30 - 19.00 (local time) in the McMichael Room in the Union League at the Philadelphia Meeting:
56th PPS Annual Meeting
Padova, Italy
16-18 September 2010
Local organiser: Dr Rita Allaggio
