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Saturday, March 20, 2010 — 7:00 PM, Virginia
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- Joint PSC-ASC Companion Meeting: Fine-needle Aspiration of Thyroid Lesions: Beyond NCI State of the Art Thyroid FNA Conference - Part 1
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Moderator:
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Zubair W. Baloch, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Disclosure:
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In accordance with ACCME guidelines regarding disclosure, the USCAP policy requires that faculty members who have a significant financial or other relationship with a commercial company, entity, or service (which will be discussed in this Symposium) must disclose this to attendees. The Academy also requires that speakers disclose any products that are not labeled for the use under discussion. Stephen Raab receives grant/research support
from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The other speakers listed below have indicated they have nothing to disclose.
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| 7:00 | Introduction - Zubair W. Baloch, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 7:15 | Endocrinologist View of Role of FNA in the Management of Thyroid Lesions - Susan Mandel, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA |
| 7:45 | Molecular "Reflex" Testing of Thyroid FNA Specimens - Yuri Nikiforov, University of Pittsburgh UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 8:00 | Case 1 - Anjali Saqi, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY |
| 9:00 | Case 2 - Melina Flanagan, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia |
| 9:20 | Case 3 - Scott Boerner, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 9:40 | Question and Answer Session |
The PSC and ASC solicited topics of interest from their membership at the annual business meetings. Several potential topics were discussed at the Executive Board meeting and the topic for the 2020 session was chosen in agreement with the chairs of the scientific program committees. Improving the current practice of thyroid FNA cytology is of high interest to PSC & ASC membership and is currently cited as an important and the most discussed topic in cytopathology and endocrine pathology. The PSC and ASC membership are focused on the dissemination of best practices to improve quality of thyroid FNA specimens, classification and explore the role of various ancillary techniques that may prove beneficial to the cytopathologist.
Our needs assessment process was based on the evaluation of the current literature and the feedback provided by audience participating in person and online (NCI thyroid FNA website) at the NCI state of the art thyroid FNA conference held at Bethesda, Maryland.
The purpose and objectives of the program are as follows: 1) Provide a clinician’s view of cytopathologic examination and diagnosis of thyroid FNA specimens. 2) Highlight the role of molecular techniques as an aid to cytopathologic diagnosis of thyroid FNA specimens. 3) Describe the role of the pathologist in the management of thyroid nodules. 4) Discuss known “best-practices” and means of implementation. 5) Provide and illustrate various common and uncommon thyroid lesions by case presentation.
Evaluations through the USCAP are required in order to obtain CME credit. We also will evaluate effectiveness by monitoring attendance and tracking the scope and breadth of questions and the evaluations of each speaker. |
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