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

Programs committee report (Renal pathology society):

Members:   Harsharan K. Singh, MD - chair

                   Volker Nickeleit MD, PhD

                    Surya Seshan, MD

The programs committee was involved in planning two major programs on behalf of the Renal Pathology Society:

1) Renal Pathology Society Companion Meeting at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, March 6-12, 2004.  

Symposium theme:   Update in Renal Transplant Pathology.

Moderator:   Harsharan K. Singh, MD

Speakers:   Volker Nickeleit, MD PhD, Robert Colvin MD, Lorraine Racusen MD, and Neeraja Kambham, MD.

The committee has not received the evaluations for this symposium from the USCAP.

2) 2004 ASN symposium at the American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, October 28 - Nov 1, 2004 :

Friday, October 29 - 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Donor Pretreatment and Protocol Biopsies of Kidney Allografts: A Critical Update

The ASN thanks the Renal Pathology Society (RPS) for its assistance with this program.

Moderators

Robert Colvin, Boston, MA, (617) 726-2966, colvin@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Harsharan Singh, Chapel Hill, NC, (919) 843-1067, hsingh@med.unc.edu

New Markers of Rejection (25 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Lorraine Racusen, Baltimore, MD, (410) 955-3437, lracusen@jhmi.edu

Baseline (Zero Hour) Biopsies (25 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Volker Nickeleit, Chapel Hill, NC, (919) 966-2421, volker_nickeleit@med.unc.edu

Protocol Biopsies and Follow-Up Biopsies: A Debate

  One hour overall, format to be determined (initial presentation of arguments, rebuttal, audience questions etc).

PRO

David Rush, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, (204) 787-3437, drush@hsc.mb.ca

CON