2025 Agenda
Join us for the 49th Annual Pathology on the Beach Conference, a four-day comprehensive course featuring multidisciplinary lectures, case presentations, and interactive Q&A sessions, an exhibit hall and great networking opportunities! This live, in-person event will be held January 21-24, 2025. Esteemed faculty from the University of Miami will be joined by invited experts, including Laura C. Collins, MD, Jeffrey Myers, MD, Marissa Nucci MD and Maria D. Lozano, MD, PhD.. Explore the complete agenda below.
| Time | Session | Speaker |
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025 | ||
| 7:45 AM | Morning Announcements | Carmen Gomez-Fernandez MD |
| 8:00 AM | Practical approach to the endometrial biopsy: benign vs precancer/malignant | Marissa Nucci MD |
| 8:45 AM | A case based discussion of endometrial carcinoma – entities you can diagnose without molecular | Marissa Nucci MD |
| 9:30 AM | A case based discussion of vulvar pathology – precursor lesions | Marissa Nucci MD |
| 10:15 AM | BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS (45 MIN) Location: Coral Ballroom |
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| 11:00 AM | GYN Mesenchymal Tumors: Simplifying the Not So Simple | Andre Pinto MD |
| 11:45 AM | Subtypes of Bladder Cancer: A Practical Approach | Merce Jorda MD PhD MBA and Oleksandr Kryvenko MD |
| 12:30 PM | Challenging World of Prostate Cancer Where 4 Is Not 4 and 5 Is Not 5 | Merce Jorda MD PhD MBA and Oleksandr Kryvenko MD |
| 1:15 PM | LUNCH WITH EXHIBITORS (45 MIN) Location: Coral Ballroom |
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| 2:00 PM | Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasia: WHO Made this So Complicated? | Rhonda K. Yantiss MD |
| 2:30 PM | Fat or Fiction: When It’s not Just Fatty Liver | Nemencio Ronquillo MD |
| 3:00 PM | Insights in Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Tailoring Treatment to Taste | Monica Garcia-Buitrago MD |
| 3:30 PM | Unusual Colonic Polyps: Diagnoses with a Twist! | Domenika Ortiz Requena MD |
| 4:00 PM | From Dusk till Dawn: The Evolution of Autoimmune Gastritis | Oliver McDonald MD |
| 4:30 PM | Avoiding Dyspepsia when Diagnosing Gastric Dysplasia | Elizabeth A Montgomery MD |
| 5:00 PM | WELCOME RECEPTION |
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| WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2025 | ||
| 7:45 AM | Morning Announcements | Carmen Gomez-Fernandez MD |
| 8:00 AM | Biomarkers in cytopathology: Myth or Reality? | Maria Lozano MD |
| 8:45 AM | Predictive Immunocytochemistry in NSCLC: What and How | Maria Lozano MD |
| 9:30 AM | Cytological Diagnosis of Sarcomas in the Era of Ancillary Tests | Maria Lozano MD |
| 10:15 AM | BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS (45 MIN) Location: Coral Ballroom |
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| 11:00 AM | Molecular Testing in Cytology Specimens | Roberto Ruiz-Cordero MD |
| 11:45 AM | Thyroid Cytopathology | Jaylou Velez-Torres MD |
| 12:30 PM | Meeting Adjourns for the day | |
| THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025 | ||
| 7:45 AM | Morning Announcements | Carmen Gomez-Fernandez MD |
| 8:00 AM | Mitigating Mistakes in Breast Core Needle Biopsy | Laura Collins MD |
| 8:45 AM | Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma: Special Types Special Considerations | Laura Collins MD |
| 9:30 AM | Allaying Angst About Ancillary Testing in Breast Cancer | Laura Collins MD |
| 10:15 AM | BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS (45 MIN) Location: Coral Ballroom |
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| 11:00 AM | Lobular carcinoma | Elena F. Brachtel MD |
| 11:45 AM | Demystifying Papillary Breast Lesions through Case Presentations | Carmen Gomez-Fernandez MD |
| 12:30 PM | Meeting Adjourns for the day | |
| FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2025 | ||
| 7:45 AM | Morning Announcements | Carmen Gomez-Fernandez MD |
| 8:00 AM | Practical approach to biopsy diagnosis of diffuse fibrotic lung disease in an age of multidisciplinary diagnosis | Jeffrey Myers MD |
| 8:45 AM | Biopsy diagnosis of diffuse pleural mesothelioma and its mimics | Jeffrey Myers MD |
| 9:30 AM | Pathology through the lens of patient and family-centered care – building toward a better future | Jeffrey Myers MD |
| 10:15 AM | BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS (45 MIN) Location: Coral Ballroom |
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| 11:00 AM | Global diagnostic approaches of common extracranial solid tumors in the pediatric age: Neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, Rhabdomyosarcoma, and Hepatoblastoma. The WHO and ICCR experience | Miguel Reyes-Mugica MD |
| 11:20 AM | Neonatal and infantile liver disease: Liver biopsy as part of the diagnostic approach | Claudia Salgado MD |
| 11:40 AM | Q&A for Pediatric Pathology | |
| 11:45 AM | Common Bone Tumor for the Surgical Pathologist: Avoiding the Pitfalls | Andrew Rosenberg MD |
| 12:30 PM | Meeting Adjourns | |