PG4 Core Curriculum Postgraduate Course: Pathology for the clinician

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland), O. Eickelberg (Munich, Germany)
Aims: To provide an overview of the role of pathology and its techniques in the diagnosis and choice of treatment in lung diseases. In particular, this course will help the pulmonary clinician to understand reports from pathology and get an update on novel techniques in pathology (including molecular pathology) that will support clinical decisions.

HERMES SYLLABUS LINKS: B.1 Airway diseaes, B.1.2 Acute bronchitis, B.1.3 Chronic bronchitis, B.1.4 COPD (chronic obstructive bronchitis and/or emphysema), B.2 Thoracic tumours, B.5 Pulmonary vascular disease, B.6 Occupational and environmental diseases, B.6.8 Smoking-related disease, B.7 Diffuse parenchymal (interstitial) lung disease, B.8 Iatrogenic disease B.11 Pleural diseases, B.10.2 Obstructive lung disease, B.12 Diseases of the chest wall and respiratory muscles including the diaphragm, B.13 Mediastinal diseases excluding tumours, B.14 Pleuro-pulmonary manifestations of systemic/extrapulmonary disorders, B.15.3 Alpha-1 antitrypsin, B.21 Orphan lung diseases.

TYPE OF COURSE: Lecture based

Smoking induced lung disease W. Timens (Groningen, Netherlands)
Novel aspects in lung cancer pathology: how does it help for selecting chemotherapy? E. Brambilla (Grenoble, France)
Interstitial and orphan lung diseases: contribution of the pathologist A. Nicholson (London, United Kingdom)
Pulmonary hypertension: what does the pathology tell us? P. Dorfmuller (Le Plessis Robinson, France)