President
CHARLES Jennette, M.D.
Vice President
LORRAINE RACUSEN , m.d.
Councillors
JAN BRUIJN, M.D.
STEPHEN BONSIB, M.D.
MARK HAAS, M.D.
Secretary and Treasurer
GUILLERMO A. HERRERA, M.D.
Department of Pathology
LSUHSC Shreveport
1501 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71130-3932
Telephone: (318) 675-4557
Fax: (318) 675-7662
E-mail: gherre@lsuhsc.edu

Education & Scientific Committee:

Committee Activities planned for 2003:

•  Initiate meeting on the classification of IgA nephropathy, preceded by a survey of RPS membership.

2.    Lupus nephritis: study reproducibility of new classification system and extend classification to include tubulo-interstitial and vascular lesions.

•  Increase visibility of RPS during EDTA-ERA meeting

•  Collaboration with Pat Walker, Research Committee, and other interested members on follow-up to best practices paper adding new techniques (i.e., beyond histology, IF, IHC, basic transmission EM).   One example could be immuno-EM (e.g., see paper by Herrera, Truong and colleagues in March, 2003 Human Pathology).

•  Work with Research Committee in developing guidelines/suggestions for further facilitation of inter-institutional collaborations.

•  Contribute to pre-ASN PGE course.

•  Organize renal path courses 2003 in Leiden and Heidelberg.

•  Start organizing 2 nd European Renal Path workshop (June 11-22, 2004, Vienna).

9.    Renal Path Guide (Bruijn/Fogo).

One additional item that was raised was an effort to standardize criteria for diagnosis of thin glomerular basement membrane nephropathy.   If there is interest this could start with a survey of RPS members followed by organization of a committee of interested members. return to home page