We are excited to let you know that the agenda for The Pathology Horizons 2021 #virtualconference has now been released.
We are privileged to have a superb panel of expert speakers from across the world participating in this year’s event. They will be covering a range of topics relating to new and emerging techniques, procedures and technologies that are driving the future of pathology.
We look forward to welcoming you to our virtual event!
Best Wishes,
Team Cirdan
An update from the event organisers:
After many conversations with various stakeholders and consideration of current global COVID travel guidelines we have taken the decision to cancel the in-person element of this year’s Pathology Horizons and to run a full day virtual event only on Friday 10th September from 09.15am- 18:00 (BST).
The decision has been a difficult one and has been taken with the best interests of all our speakers and delegates in mind. We want to ensure that the conference remains a valuable event to attend, maximising knowledge sharing and networking. We will still offer a world class speaker list focusing on the future of pathology, and the conference will offer CPD accreditation.
This virtual event will be free of charge and will give you the chance to learn about new technologies, procedural developments and lines of research that are driving the future of pathology. You will hear about the possible pros and cons of these developments, how people in supporting disciplines should be preparing for and perhaps directing these changes.
For those of you who are unable to join us for the live presentations due to time differences, please note that all presentations will be recorded for you to view on demand.
Who should attend?
Pathology Horizons is open to anyone interested in the area of pathology e.g. Pathologists, Laboratory Managers, Laboratory Technicians and Biomedical Scientists.
Agenda
We are currently in the process of revising the agenda to fit within our full day schedule. The virtual conference is shaping up to be an impressive programme for our virtual event, covering a wide range of topics from an international panel of industry experts and thought leaders.
Here is a glimpse at some of the topics you can expect to hear about:
Registration
Registration is now open for our virtual event!
You can register for the free conference by submitting your details though the link below.
Keep up to date with the 2021 conference at www.pathologyhorizons.com and via our social media platforms.
If you have any queries relating to Pathology Horizons, please contact Rebecca Fitton directly at rfitton@cirdan.com.
We Look forward to welcoming you to our virtual event!
Stay safe and take care,
Team Cirdan
Last year our annual Pathology Horizons conference was postponed due to COVID-19 and in its place, we held our special 2 hour webinar edition of the event. This year, we are delighted to announce that with the improving COVID situation we are hoping to hold a special hybrid version of the event from 9-11th September 2021 at the Slieve Donard Resort & Spa, Newcastle, Northern Ireland. The hybrid format of the event will take the form of both in-person and virtual presentations from our speakers, creating a truly seamless event for all our attendees whether virtual or in-person.
The agenda and early bird registration for Pathology Horizons 2021 will be coming soon. However, in the meantime you can pre-register your name and details below to be notified when the early bird registration is open.
We look forward to welcoming you either in-person or virtually to our hybrid event.
Stay safe,
Team Cirdan
It is at a time like this when we really appreciate the work and developments that are taking place within the world of pathology and laboratory medicine. We realise just how much we depend on the pathologists and laboratory professionals for scientific answers and medical findings that are integral to many clinical decisions within healthcare organisations.
Recently, we have been looking back at speaker videos from Pathology Horizons conferences through the years and it’s amazing to see how many of these ideas are now a reality within laboratory operations. We are privileged to have had leading industry experts from across the world attend and speak at Pathology Horizons. The speakers have provided us with insightful knowledge on groundbreaking topics relating to new and emerging techniques, procedures and technologies that are driving the future of pathology.
We would like share some of these videos with you, beginning with a presentation on Computational Pathology by Dr. Liron Pantanowitz from University of Pittsburgh, USA which took place at Pathology Horizons 2017 in the beautiful Cairns, Australia. Dr. Pantanowitz is a well known Professor in the field of Pathology and Bioinformatics and is the Director of the Pathology Informatics Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
The presentation covers the pros and cons of computer aided diagnosis within Pathology and emphasises what is required to develop these much awaited applications. Can AI truly become a reality within Pathology? Can these deep learning tools perform the complex tasks of pathologists, and in some instances with superior accuracy?
View full presentation:
Back by popular demand, keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Glassy from Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, USA will present this September at Pathology Horizons 2020 in N. Ireland.
About Dr. Glassy
Dr. Glassy is a community pathologist in Southern California and director of pathology at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, San Pedro, California. He is a member of Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group, a 40 person independent pathology group covering 15 hospitals and laboratories in California, Portland and Phoenix. He has chaired hospital and CAP national committees. He has served as chairman of the Hematology, Publications, Digital Pathology, Curriculum, and Information Technology Leadership Committees.
He has been involved with digital pathology for over 10 years and has lectured at major pathology conferences such as USCAP, CAP, ASCP, Pathology Visions, and the Royal College of Pathologists. He is past president of the Digital Pathology Association. He edited and illustrated several pathology color atlases and developed software programs for pathology reporting, outreach, and practice management. He holds a green belt in Six Sigma. He is a trustee of the American Board of Pathology as well as a governor of the College of American Pathologists.
View talk from Pathology Horizons 2018 by Dr. Glassy: “Extreme Makeover: Creating Pathology Reports that Make a Difference.”
Pathology Horizons 2020
Pathology Horizons is an annual and open CPD conference organised by Cirdan to discuss what developments lie ahead in Pathology and what we can do to prepare or take advantage of these.
This year the conference will take place on 10 – 12 September in the beautiful Slieve Donard Resort & Spa located in the seaside town of Newcastle in N. Ireland. Nestling at the foot of the Mountains of Mourne, the Resort stands in six acres of immaculate private grounds. A golden strand of beach borders one side while the mighty Royal County Down Golf Links frames the other. Located just 30 miles south of Belfast and 90 miles north of Dublin, it is a fantastic location to mix pleasure and business at this year’s pathology Horizons event.
If you would like to be notified when Pathology Horizons 2020 registration opens, please click here.
With the advent of digital pathology, there is an opportunity to develop computerized image analysis methods to not just detect and diagnose disease from histopathology tissue sections, but to also attempt to predict risk of recurrence, predict disease aggressiveness and long term survival. At the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, our team has been developing a suite of image processing and computer vision tools, specifically designed to predict disease progression and response to therapy via the extraction and analysis of image-based “histological biomarkers” derived from digitized tissue biopsy specimens. These tools would serve as an attractive alternative to molecular based assays, which attempt to perform the same predictions.
The fundamental hypotheses underlying our work are that: 1) the genomic expressions detected by molecular assays manifest as unique phenotypic alterations (i.e. histological biomarkers) visible in the tissue; 2) these histological biomarkers contain information necessary to predict disease progression and response to therapy; and 3) sophisticated computer vision algorithms are integral to the successful identification and extraction of these biomarkers. We have developed and applied these prognostic tools in the context of several different disease domains including ER+ breast cancer, prostate cancer, Her2+ breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and more recently medulloblastomas. For the purposes of this talk Dr. Madabhushi will focus on their work in breast, prostate, rectal, oropharyngeal, and lung cancer.
Dr. Madabhushi is the Director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD). He is also the F. Alex Nason Professor II in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Pathology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Urology, General Medical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Madabhushi received his Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Mumbai University, India in 1998 and his Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 2000. In 2004 he obtained his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in 2005. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2010. In 2012 he accepted the position of Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and is currently directing a center on computational imaging and personalized diagnostics. He was promoted to full professor in 2014.
Dr. Madabhushi has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and over 180 conferences papers and delivered over 240 invited talks and lectures both in the US and abroad. He has over 75 patents either issued or pending in the areas of medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, and computer vision. He has been the recipient of a number of awards for both research as well as teaching, including the Department of Defense New Investigator Award in Lung Cancer (2014), the Coulter Phase 1 and Phase 2 Early Career award (2006, 2008), and the Excellence in Teaching Award (2007-2009), along with a number of technology commercialization awards. His research work has received grant funding from the National Cancer Institute (NIH), National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, private foundations, and from Industry.
Pathology Horizons is an annual and open CPD event organised by Cirdan to discuss what developments lie ahead in Pathology and what we can do to prepare or take advantage of these. Dr. Harewood will be joined by 13 more international industry experts with some of the topics including:
**Given the boutique nature of this conference places are limited, so please book early to guarantee your place.** Find out more about the speakers, agenda and registration here.
Dr. Louise Harewood is the Scientific Lead for the Genomics division of the Precision Medicine Centre (PMC) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The PMC is a new clinical laboratory that brings together high-throughput genomics, digital pathology and big data analytics in a fully integrated fashion. The aim of the centre is to accelerate the translation of potentially relevant diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic findings into clinically actionable information by applying state-of-the-art technology in a clinical laboratory environment.
Louise has a strong genomics background, based largely around structural rearrangement and copy number variation detection, 3D nuclear organisation and genome regulation. Before joining the PMC, she held a position as an independent postdoc in the Innovation lab at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, a post created for her to enable continuation of a previous postdoc project and to bring in and develop new techniques within the building.
Genomic abnormalities play a pivotal role in cancer diagnostics and prognostics, as well as helping to guide treatment choices for individual patients. Although genomic techniques to detect single gene mutations have long since been established in the clinical diagnostic workflow, many other actionable or diagnostic abnormalities, such as structural or copy number variants, continue to be detected by other methods (e.g. FISH, array based methods or cytogenetics) with many different tests often being required for a single patient.
Whilst genomic sequencing techniques, such as whole genome sequencing, can provide all of this information, they have historically been hindered by high costs, long turnaround times and a lack of suitable bioinformatic analysis tools. This, however, is rapidly changing: – per base sequencing costs have dramatically reduced and sequencing has entered the realms of affordability for many clinical labs. Library preparation and sequencing protocols continue to be improved and made more amenable to automation. There are also a host of computational analysis tools now available on the market with others being continually developed.
The time is approaching when large-scale genomic analyses will be able to replace the multiple individual tests that are currently undertaken for clinical diagnostic purposes in many labs. The generated data will not only allow treatment to be more accurately tailored to individual patients, but also provide vital information about cancer subtypes, risk stratification and provide a vast collection of data that can be re-mined as new biomarkers are discovered.
In this talk, Dr. Harewood will discuss some of the approaches that they are investigating within the PMC with the aim of bringing new genomic technologies into the clinical diagnostic field.
Pathology Horizons is an annual and open CPD event organised by Cirdan to discuss what developments lie ahead in Pathology and what we can do to prepare or take advantage of these. Dr. Harewood will be joined by 13 more international industry experts with some of the topics including:
**Given the boutique nature of this conference places are limited, so please book early to guarantee your place.** Find out more about the speakers, agenda and registration here.
The use of metagenomic sequencing is becoming well-known in human microbiome testing. As high-throughput sequencing becomes more readily available and cost is lowering, more medical testing laboratories are considering the clinical use of shotgun metagenomics.
Clinical applications include identification of infectious agents directly from specimens, including when pathogens are not readily detected using conventional diagnostics. The diagnosis of systemic and central nervous system infections are examples of breakthroughs that have been described. In addition to pathogen identification and microbiome analysis, metagenomics can also be used to explore potential antimicrobial resistance. Clinical metagenomics can assist with therapeutic decision-making, as well as infection prevention and control. Understanding the benefits and barriers in the context of the clinical application is necessary to ensure safe clinical practice and determine regulatory compliance.
In this presentation, Schlebusch will decode and explore the use of metagenomics in clinical practice.
About Dr. Schlebusch
Dr. Schlebusch is an experienced clinical microbiologist recognised for her research, expertise and implementation of innovative technologies for diagnosis of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. She has been the Director of Microbiology at Mater Pathology in Brisbane for the last 7 years. She has recently been appointed as Staff Specialist at Forensic and Scientific Services, Health Support Queensland. Forensic and Scientific Services is Queensland’s reference laboratory for notifiable conditions and routinely performs whole genome sequencing for disease surveillance, disease outbreaks and research.
Pathology Horizons | 8-10th August 2019
Dr. Schlebusch will present on Clinical Metagenomics at the Pathology Horizons conference in Queenstown, New Zealand.
The conference is an annual and open CPD event organised by Cirdan to discuss what developments lie ahead in Pathology and what we can do to prepare or take advantage of these. Dr. Schlebusch will be joined by 13 more international industry experts with some of the topics including:
**Given the boutique nature of this conference places are limited, so please book early to guarantee your place.**
Dr. W. Dean Wallace is a Professor of Pathology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Wallace is the Chief of Pulmonary and Renal Pathology Services and is recognized as an expert in the fields of transplant pathology and lung cancer diagnostics.
Dr. Wallace is also the Director of the UCLA Telepathology and Digital Pathology Center and co-led the team that created the innovative, first of its kind, Integrated Diagnostic Report (IDR) that combines multiple radiology and pathology studies into one dynamic reporting platform. Dr. Wallace has authored several dozen peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and was lead editor of a textbook in the field of transplant pathology.
If you would like to like to watch Dean Wallace’s full talk from Pathology Horizons 2018- please email earmstrong@cirdan.com.
Interested in attending next year’s conference? Find out more and pre-register here.
We are excited to officially announce that Pathology Horizons 2019 will take place in the exquisite Heritage Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand. This remarkable venue offers both scenery and atmosphere, located only a short distance from the town centre as well as overlooking breathtaking views of Lake Wakatipu. The CPD conference organised by Cirdan focuses on the future of pathology and attracts an international audience of delegates from a mix of clinical, academic, IT and business backgrounds. Year on year, the conference boasts an impressive speaker panel, including some of the best minds in the area of pathology and laboratory medicine.
Why attend?
This unique conference provides the opportunity to learn about new technologies, procedural developments and lines of research that are driving the future of pathology. This learning is done in a relaxed and fun environment, where delegates are able to network freely with both delegates and speakers.
Who should attend?
Pathology Horizons is open to anyone interested in the area of pathology e.g. Pathologists, Laboratory Managers, Laboratory Technicians, Biomedical Scientists and Pathology IT. Due to the nature of the conference places are limited, so if you would like to attend remember to book early to avoid disappointment.
What next?
Over the course of the next 8 months we will be revealing the speaker line up and their topics, as well as additional details such as the conference activity and dinner. Watch this space!
If you would like to be notified when Pathology Horizons 2019 registration opens, please click here.
