Annual Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Johns Hopkins University

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

• Discuss the differential diagnosis between dysplasia and reactive non-neoplastic atypia

• Discuss practical and clinically relevant issues

• Discuss new targetable options in biliary and colon cancer

• Understand the current performance and uncertainties of “liquid biopsy” multi-cancer early detection tests

• Response to neoadjuvant treatment.

• Patterns of inflammation associated with STI of the digestive tract

• The role and advances in circulating tumor DNA

• The use of special stains and immunohistochemical stains in the work up of liver tumors

• Differentiate between indolent and aggressive lymphoproliferative disorders of the GI tract

• Recognize challenges in small biopsies, frozen sections, and grossing of biliary neoplasms

• Discuss various neuroendocrine tumors across the length of the GI tract

• Discuss several types of GI mesenchymal tumors

• Know the criteria used to classify the three main mass-forming precancerous neoplasms of the pancreas