This CME Activity offers a practical review of gastrointestinal pathology combining basic to advanced techniques, pearls and pitfalls to pathologic diagnosis and case reviews.

Learning Objectives :

At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:

– Prepare for colon cancer and universal screening for Lynch syndrome.
– Identify conditions to consider before surgical pathology subspecialty sign-out.
– Discuss the spectrum of gluten-related disorders and current optimum testing for celiac disease.
– Describe the updated epidemiology of cancer risk and Barrett esophagus and the current data on the efficacy of endoscopic surveillance.
– Recognize the major diagnostic pitfalls in the diagnosis of Barrett’s esophagus and Barrett’s-related dysplasia.
– Discuss the more recently recognized variants of ulcerative colitis as well as some of the issues related to diagnosing dysplasia in the setting of IBD.
– Identify some of the major diagnostic issues in the most common colorectal polyps including serrated polyps
– Discuss the effects of contemporary therapy on the pathology and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
– Describe the role of the pathologist in helping to manage patients with IBD-related dysplasia and neoplasia.
– Apply risk stratification criteria for the prognostication of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
– Discuss and recognize the succinate dehydrogenase-deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumor and understand the clinical significance of this category of GIST.
– Identify the biliary pattern of injury on liver biopsy.
– Recognize distinguishing features of steatosis from steatohepatitis.
– List the appropriate immunohistochemical work-up of primary liver tumors.
– Develop an understanding of the characteristic histologic features that allow clear separation of the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns.
– Develop an understanding of the normal histology of the intrahepatic biliary system and how it is affected by a variety of cholestatic liver diseases.
– Develop an understanding of the utility of clinical history and laboratory findings in averting misinterpretation of histologic findings in medical liver biopsies.

Topics/Speakers: 

Update on Pancreas Pathology
Wendy L. Frankel, M.D.

Nomenclature of Colorectal Polyps: Confusion and Controversy
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

Practical Gastritis
Wendy L. Frankel, M.D.

Challenges in Colorectal Cancer
Wendy L. Frankel, M.D.

IBD and IBD-Related Dysplasia
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

Esophageal Pathology – Focus on Barrett Esophagus and Early Squamous Neoplasia
Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D.

Iatrogenic Gastrointestinal Tract Injury
Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D.

A Potpourri of Gastric Lesions and the Company They Keep (Gastritis)
Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D.

Controversies in the Diagnosis of Barrett’s Esophagus
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

The Trouble with Fat: Diagnostic Issues in Well-Differentiated Lipomatous Tumors
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

Diagnosis and Management of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Marie E. Robert, M.D.

The Extremes of Celiac Disease: Normal Villous Architecture and Refractory Sprue
Marie E. Robert, M.D.

Barrett Esophagus Update: Treatment Effects on Dysplasia and Do Current Surveillance Protocols Make Sense?
Marie E. Robert, M.D.

A Contemporary Update of Colitis-associated Dysplasia
Robert D. Odze, M.D., FRCPc

Barrett’s Esophagus: Controversial Diagnostic Issues Relevant to Pathologists
Robert D. Odze, M.D., FRCPc

Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary: Diagnostic Approach Using Immunohistochemistry
Jason L. Hornick, M.D., Ph.D.

Mesenchymal Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract: An Update on GIST and Differential Diagnosis Using Immunohistochemistry
Jason L. Hornick, M.D., Ph.D.

Update on Ampulla and Gallbladder Pathology
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D.

Role of the Pathologist in Diagnosing and Managing Patients with IBD
Robert D. Odze, M.D., FRCPc

Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Gastrointestinal and Pancreatobiliary Tracts
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D.

Differential Diagnosis of Pancreatic Tumors
N. Volkan Adsay, M.D.

HER2 in GI Malignancies: Comparison to Breast and Review Guidelines
Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D.

Colon Cancer and Universal Screening for Lynch Syndrome: Are you Ready?
Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D.

Biopsy Interpretation of Liver Tumors
Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.

Cholestatic Liver Disease
Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.

The Steatotic Liver Biopsy
Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.

Acute and Chronic Hepatitis: Still Important
John Hart, M.D.

Cholestatic Liver Diseases: The Jaundiced View
John Hart, M.D.

Common Pitfalls in Medical Liver Disease Interpretation: How Not to Fall in a Hole
John Hart, M.D.

Introduction to the Hepatic Pathology Road Map
Maxwell L. Smith, M.D.

Histology of Autoimmune Liver Disease – Case Based
Maxwell L. Smith, M.D.
0.5 Hrs $45.00

Non-Hepatrophic Viral Infections of the Liver – Case Based
Maxwell L. Smith, M.D.

An Approach to Hepatic Fibrosis – Case Based
Maxwell L. Smith, M.D.

Drug Induced Liver Injury – Case Based
Maxwell L. Smith, M.D.

Liver Biopsies in the Post-HCV Era
Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D.

CME Release Date 3/14/2021