NEWSLETTER

United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting Highlights

Renal Pathology Society

Marriott Wardman Park

March 23-28, 2003

Washington, DC

Sunday, March 23, 2003

8:30 a.m. RPS Companion Meeting (room to be announced)

TUBULO-INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS: Diagnostic Issues, Mechanisms and Methodology

Moderator: Stephen M. Bonsib, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN

Acute Interstitial Nephritis: Infection, Rejection and Autoimmune — John Tomaszewski, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Drug-induced Tubulointerstitial Nephropathies: New Insights and Old Concepts — Glen Markowitz, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY

Tubular Epithelial Cell Injury and Interstitial Fibrosis — Jeffrey Kopp, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

New Methods to Diagnose Kidney Disease: Lasers, Chips, Dendrimers and Beyond — Robert Star, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Sunday, March 23, 2003

7:30 p.m. Renal Specialty Conference (room to be announced)

Monday, March 24, 2003

5-6 pm Board of Directors meeting, Park Tower Room 8228 (only Board of Directors members)

6-7 pm Business meeting, Washington Rooms (Ballroom North) 2 and 3 (all RPS members and interested potential members)

7-8 pm Reception, Washington Rooms (Ballroom North) 2 and 3

8-10 pm Dinner, Washington Rooms (Ballroom North) 2 and 3

Also:

World Congress of Nephrology Meeting

Berlin, Germany, June 8-12, 2003

RPS Business Meeting & Reception

Sunday, June 10, 2003

12 noon-2:00 p.m.