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THE PAEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY SOCIETY (PPS)

The Paediatric Pathology Society (PPS), started in 1955 as the Paediatric Pathology Club, is composed of pathologists who specialise in or have a major interest in the pathology of the fetus, neonate or child. The Society exists to promote paediatric pathology in its widest sense, embracing all the disciplines of pathology, but most members are now Histopathologists. Membership is largely European, reflecting the origins of the Society, but is open to those from anywhere in the world.

The Society runs an Annual Scientific Meeting, with meetings generally happening in Europe. Donations to the Society have enabled the institution of a guest lecture - The John Emery Lecture - at the annual meeting and the Norman Brown Award is given for the best presentation by a junior member or guest.

Please note that this site is www.paedpath.org, not to be confused with www.pedpath.org, which is our journal website.

Philadelphia 2009 - Programme Update
The Updated Programme and Hotels List for this year's SPP/PPS joint Meeting in Philadelphia (October 2009) are now available.
Click "Read More" below for details or download the PDF documents:

Images: SPPlogo.jpgPPS LogoPreliminary Agenda (PDF)
Preliminary Perinatal Symposium Agenda (PDF)
Hotels (PDF)

Roger Malcomson on June 29 2009 19:59:41· Read More · 13 Reads · Print
Newsletter June 2009
The latest PPS Newsletter is now available to download.
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Philadelphia 2009: Call for Abstracts - deadline 16th June. 
President: Subspecialty issues in France.
PDP impact factor up! - 1.238
3rd IPPA Update: 2010, Venice, Italy 11-16th September.
56th PPS Annual Meeting: 16-18 September 2010, Padova, Italy.


Roger Malcomson on May 26 2009 12:05:53· Read More · 29 Reads · Print
Call for Abstracts Annual Meeting 2009
PPS LogoThe Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society are getting together!Images: SPPlogo.jpg


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 are welcome. The deadline for submission was Tuesday June 16, 2009, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. The online submission form can be accessed through the Society for Pediatric Pathology's website: www.spponline.org.

The meeting is being held in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 14-17, 2009. Further information and updates will be available on the SPP and PPS websites: http://www.spponline.org and http://www.paedpath.org

Join us in Philadelphia, PA to share new discoveries and advance the knowledge of paediatric and perinatal pathology!

Preliminary Programme

Roger Malcomson on April 14 2009 14:23:21· Read More · 68 Reads · Print
Message from the President Elect
NewsChristina Isaksen

Firstly, I wish to thank the Society's members for electing me as the new President from October 2009. I feel very honored in this respect and hope to serve the Society well and live up to the expectations of all members.

I have been engaged with perinatal pathology for about 20 years, attended the five IPPA courses and three update courses. In 2000 I defended my thesis on a comparison between ultrasound and postmortem findings in fetuses and infants. For the moment I have a 50% position at the St. Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim and 50% at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

In 2003, I organized the PPS Annual Meeting in Trondheim and was member of the PPS Committee from 2000-2004. I have also been a member of the Speciality Committee and Educational Committee of the Norwegian Society of Pathology.

The future of Paediatric Pathology is challenging. There is a lack of pathologists specialising in Paediatric Pathology. Over the last 20 years, the shift in autopsy practice has been from infants to fetuses, demanding a more meticulous technique. Parents have become more reluctant to agree to an autopsy, many demanding that all organs are immediately replaced in the body. This renders examination of the central nervous system, in particular, more difficult.

The challenge of the future is to inspire young pathologists to specialise in Paediatric Pathology. With this hope I wish all members of the PPS a prosperous and Happy New Year!

Christina Vogt Isaksen
President-elect


Roger Malcomson on January 05 2009 21:01:56 · Print
New Journal Watch Page Editor
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New Journal Watch Page editor: Liz Hook (Cambridge, UK)

The Journal Watch page was a great idea, originally suggested by Steve Gould. Until now, I have completely neglected it, to my shame! However, I am now very glad to announce that Dr. Liz Hook, Consultant in Paediatric and Periantal Pathology at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, UK has agreed to maintain this page for us.

Please keep an eye the Journal Watch page and please do not hesitate to contact Liz at journalwatch@paedpath.org to suggest articles to be included on the page. Alternatively, you can click on click on "Submit a link" in the panel on the left.

Links to articles that would be likely to be of interest to Paediatric and/or Perinatal pathologists, particularly those relating to advances that directly relate to everyday practice, would be most welcome.


Roger.


Roger Malcomson on November 13 2008 14:08:39· Read More · 215 Reads · Print
2008 PPS Slide Seminar
Annual Meeting

The PPS 2008 Slide Seminar for the Annual Meeting in Helsinki is still available.               PPS Logo


              
Click HERE


Roger Malcomson on August 11 2008 12:21:57· Read More · 446 Reads · Print
IPPA Course Graduates
NewsProfessor Gordan Vujanic is currently updating his records. He asks anyone who has graduated (has completed the 5 year programme) of IPPA Advanced Courses in Paediatric Pathology at any time in the past to please e-mail him with the details.

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Roger Malcomson on August 08 2008 11:03:40· Read More · 377 Reads · Print
How to submit stuff for the website
If you've got anything you'd like to see appearing on the website, read on ...

Ed Lazda on October 02 2006 15:46:42· Read More · 773 Reads · Print
A message from the President
Hot News Paris, 21.8.06. Liliane Boccon-Gibod gives her thoughts on the new website and how it relates to the PPS and her presidency.






It is a great satisfaction for me that my 3 years term as PPS President will begin with the launching of our new web site, which I am sure, will help us fulfilling many of our goals.

It is now common place to stress the challenges facing physicians in the first decade of this new millennium. These challenges do not spare our specialty: shortage of pediatric pathologists, competition with organ specialist, leading to potential erosion of cases presenting the maximal scientific interest, necessity to expand our knowledge from morphology to molecular biology. At the same time, we have to promote the awareness of pediatric pathology, by increasing the visibility for pediatric and perinatal pathology in general medical meetings. The electronic links that should link us to other pathology domains will allow us to inform some target audiences about pediatric pathology and promote the visibility of our specialty.

We also have to face a new scrutiny of the public upon what we are doing, while we were previously used to work in the shade. There is a difficult balance to maintain between full exposure and opacity. Our new web site allowing much more conviviality should be of help to guide us through the maze of the new regulations and legal problems we are facing. The incorporated discussion forum should also allow members to feel more secure on difficult cases, which can be posted for discussion on the web.

This web site should allow us also to keep an open eye on all what is happening in the pediatric pathology small world and make other pathologists around the world closer to our Society, facilitating all kind of exchanges.

Our Society, founded in 1955, will hold its 52nd meeting in Liverpool in September 2006. We have now reached full maturity and always been able to find within our membership young volunteer energies to increase the standing of our Society. The PPS web site remodeling is a good example of this with a few members working behind the scene to enhance considerably it’s possibilities, and we should be grateful to them. We are all asked to help them keep the Society web page alive with our own input. All energies and ideas are welcome.

If these goals are fulfilled during my presidency, I will be a happy president!

Ed Lazda on August 29 2006 11:41:48· Read More · 0 Comments · 864 Reads · Print
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