PLENARY SESSIONS

1 – European Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening: pros and cons
Chair: Amanda Herbert – UK

2 - Demystifying Molecular Cytopathology
Chair: Philippe Vielh – France

3 - CONTEST: a fun and exciting contest between the participants including cytopathology
and cultural knowledge
Chairs: Celso Rubens Vieira e Silva – Brasil and Fernando Schmitt – Portugal

4- Thyroid NCI Conference
Chair: Lester Layfield, Zubair Baloch and Edmund Cibas - USA


SYMPOSIA AND QUIZ

•Symposium – How to screen cervical cancer in XXI Century ?
Chair: Eduardo Franco, Canada

•Symposium – FNA vs CNB
Chair: Gabrijela Kocjan, UK

•Symposium – Predictive Cytology
Chair: Frederique Penault-Llorca, France

•Satellite Symposium – Cervical screening in the Mediterranean Countries
Chairs: Luigi di Bonito, Italy and K. Syrianen, Finland

•Satellite Symposium EFCS and PSC – EUS/FNA
Chairs: Martha Pitman, USA and Marlene Praet, Belgium

•Satellite Symposium EFCS and ESP – Cytology and FISH living in harmony
Chairs: Pinar Firat, Turkey and Philippe Vielh, France

•Satellite Symposium EFCS and IAC – Endometrial Cytology
Chairs: Matias Ayala, Spain and Odete Real, Portugal

•Satellite Symposium EFCS and JSCC
Chairs: P. Vielh, France and Tadao Kobayashi, Japan and Robert Osamura, Japan

•FNA quiz
Chair: Louis Thienpont, Belgium


SLIDE SEMINARS

•Slide Seminar 1: Respiratory Cytology
Chair: Wlodzimierz Olszewski, Poland

•Slide Seminar 2: Urine
Chair: Lukas Bubendorf , Switzerland

•Slide Seminar 3: Soft Tissue and Bone
Chair: Lambert Skoog, Sweden

•Slide Seminar 4: Infectious Disease
Chairs: Kusum Kapila, Kuwait and Canan Ersoz, Turkey

•Interactive Slide Seminar: Gynecology
Chair: C. Bergeron, France

•Interactive Slide Seminar: Breast
Chair: Anna Sapino, Italy

•Interactive Slide Seminar: Thyroid
Chair: Zubair Baloch, USA
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RESIDENTS SLIDE SEMINAR

All residents attending the congress are invited to submit interesting cases, they would like to present. Six to eight cases will be selected for oral presentation, at the auditorium.
The congress registration will be free of charge for residents presenting the selected cases.
The best case, as decided by the audience through electronic vote, will receive an award of €1000.

Seminar Panel:

M. Evelina Mendonça, Portugal
Edneia Tani, Sweden
Isabel Amendoeira, Portugal
César Lacruz Pelea, Spain

Submission opening: January 2, 2009
Submission deadline: March 31, 2009

For Residents Slide Seminar Rules please click here.


• FREE PAPERS
10 minutes presentation+2 additional minutes to discussion