Chair

Lyudmila Severyanova

Kursk State Medical University, Russian Federation

Session Introduction

Dariusz Borys

Loyola University Chicago, USA

Title: Application of digital pathology in clinical practice, education and research

Time : 12:05-12:35

Biography:

Dariusz Borys is a Professor of Pathology and Orthopedic Surgery, Head of Orthopedic and Pediatric Pathology and Director of Digital Pathology at Loyola University Chicago. He has received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Wroclaw, Poland in 1994 and completed a residency program in anatomic pathology at County General Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland in 1995. He has completed his Postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona in 1998. He continued on with and completed residency training in both anatomic pathology and clinical pathology at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. He has received a Pediatric Pathology Fellowship at New York University, New York, New York in 2005 and followed that with an Orthopedic Pathology Fellowship at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York in 2006. After completing his fellowships, he has become faculty member in the rank of assistant professor at University of California and then he finally moved to Loyola University Chicago in 2013. At LUMC he is appointed as a Professor of Pathology and Orthopedic Surgery and is serving as the Head of orthopedic and Pediatric Pathology and Director of Digital Pathology. Currently his research focuses on the molecular markers in diagnostic, prognostic and targeted therapy in osteosarcoma.

 

Abstract:

Digital pathology is a dynamic, image-based environment which enables the acquisition, management and interpretation of pathology information generated from a digitized glass slide. Healthcare applications include primary diagnosis, diagnostic consultation, intraoperative diagnosis, medical student and resident training, manual and semi-quantitative review of immunohistochemistry (IHC), clinical research, diagnostic decision support, peer review and tumor boards. In the last decade digital pathology was rapidly expanding as an essential technology tool to support medical education, tissue based research, drug development and the practice of clinical pathology. This presentation is to highlight application of digital pathology application in daily clinical practice, education and research.

 

Fariha Kauser

University of Dundee, Scotland

Title: Central giant cell granuloma of anterior maxilla

Time : 13:35-14:05

Biography:

Dr fariha Kauser has received her Bachelor degree in dental surgery from Ras al khaimah medical and health sciences university, UAE, and Diploma in medical education, university of Dundee, Scotland.

 

Abstract:

This paper holistically represents the uncommon location of central giant cell granuloma due to its occurrence in maxilla. Central giant cell granulomas are benign, non-proliferative lesion and commonly seen in mandible. The aetiology is still unknown and not a true neoplasm but may be linked to its reactive, non-developmental and aggressive nature. This case report presents a 21 years old Asian male with moderate painful swelling in the left side of anterior maxilla. The lesion was more painful on palpation and adjacent tooth was having grad3 2 mobility. Tumor was located on anterior maxilla, close to the midline, separating the upper left lateral incisor from upper left canine. Medical, family and social history is non-significant.

 

Anshoo Agarwal

Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Title: Learning pathology in a digital world with digitization of education: From glass slides to digital files and thereafter

Time : 14:05-14:35

Biography:

Anshoo Agarwal is currently working as Professor and In-charge of Pathology Department (female campus), Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She has received her Degree from King George’s Medical College. She had been Discipline Coordinator (Pathology Dept.) in University Technology MARA, Malaysia. She is a member of many associations like Indian Association of Pathology and Microbiology, International Academy Pathology, Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Emirates Medical Association Pathology Society, International Economics Development Research Center etc. She has more than 100 publications. She is Editorial Member of three journals and is reviewer in many journals. She had organized many national and international CME’s, Workshops and Conferences.

 

Abstract:

Education and training in pathology remain essential to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in pathology. Traditionally, education and training in pathology has been delivered using textbooks, glass slides and conventional microscopy but increasingly web-based resources have been developed to supplement or replace the more traditional methodologies. From an educational stance, the use of virtual slides ensures that all students see the same slide; that slide is the best and most representatives in the collection, rather than one of inferior quality and that poor microscope technique does not interfere with the learning experience. It also allows rare slides to be used without fear of breakage. Displaying the slide on a computer screen means that students can more easily discuss the content with each other, allowing for the use of group-work based approaches to teaching. This pedagogy was more difficult to pursue when students assessed a glass slide on their individual microscopes. Digital pathology has been shown to improve individual and group learning and enhance the overall learning experience. Digital pathology also has the benefit of delivering courses to students outside the classroom setting. On-line resources can be accessed by students anytime, anyplace allowing them to view slides that would have traditionally been restricted to the slide box and the classroom. The use of digital imaging for surgical pathology raises new safety and effectiveness issues that must be addressed. We recognize the many benefits the technology provides at the same time we need to be sure of its limitations to prevent the associated risk.

 

Dagmara Poprawski

Country Health South Australia Local Health Network, Australia

Title: Telemedicine: Bringing cancer care for patients closer to home

Time : 14:35-15:05

Biography:

Dagmara Magdalena Poprawski has graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1992 and has done tropical, rural and remote medicine for many years. She has completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Tropical Medicine in 1998 from Mahidol University in Thailand. She has then returned to Adelaide to undertake Physician Training and Specialized in Medical Oncology. Since 2013, she had been working in regional South Australia and is currently the Acting Clinical Director of Country Health Services in SA. She has completed her Diploma in Geriatric Oncology in 2016 and is a Member of SIOG.

 

Abstract:

An innovative model of care through provision of telemedicine clinics in medical oncology in South Australia has been introduced to improve the burden of the tyranny of distance. This system has been utilized in South Australia (SA) to deliver oncological care to rural areas for 5 years. A retrospective clinical review was performed in 2013-2017 with 999 patients seen in SA, 2 regional and 7 rural hospitals. Telemedicine included pre-therapy reviews 781, restaging 203 and 15 new consultations. Our model allowed more satisfaction to health workers and patients, accepting this as consultation option. Benefits of this innovative model of care are saving patient’s travel, decreasing the burden on metropolitan clinic appointments and improving hospital budgets. Also, to improve attendance rates and duration of therapy response by enabling patients to have cared near their home. Relative improved decision making/outcomes during consultations, especially in indigenous and patients with cultural and linguistic challenges. The challenges are phone interpreting service, patients with disabilities, having a nurse on the patient’s end of the consultation, and setting up new rural centers as part of this service provision. There are many similarities including the issues of distance to cancer care, centralized in metropolitan hospitals and overburdened clinics in many countries around the world including that of Asia. Most countries now have a metropolitan-centric model of specialist cancer of care, but they also have basic IT systems in regional and rural health facilities that can be adapted to suit a global development of telemedicine provision of care.