Classic Lectures in Pathology: What You Need to Know: Head and Neck / Endocrine Pathology – 2024

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

Target Audience
This CME activity is intended and designed to educate pathologists.

Educational Objectives
At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:
Utilize cytopathology and histopathology to resolve the most common diagnostic issues in salivary gland pathology.
Discuss the emerging role of molecular diagnostics when used to diagnose salivary gland pathology.
Summarize the immunohistochemical biomarkers in surgical neuropathology.
Differentiate squamous lesions from their mimics.
Discuss diagnostic strategies and treatment implications for HPV-associated tumors of the head and neck.
Recognize key diagnostic features that define common follicular patterned thyroid neoplasms.

TOPICS
Head and Neck

Oral Pathology for the General Surgical Pathologist
Akeesha Alia Shah, M.D.

Newly Defined and Recently Refined Salivary Gland Tumors
Justin A. Bishop, M.D.

Salivary Gland Pathology: The Complementary Roles of Cytopathology and Histopathology and the Emergency of Molecular Diagnostics
Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, M.D.

Common Differential Diagnoses in Salivary Gland Tumors
Christopher Griffith, M.D., Ph.D.

Pitfalls in Diagnosis of Pleomorphic Adenoma and Other Biphasic Salivary Gland Neoplasms
Akeesha Alia Shah, M.D.

Squamous Lesions of the Head and Neck and Their Mimics
Darcy Arendt Kerr, M.D.

Practical Considerations of Human Papillomavirus Testing in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Carmen Gomez-Fernandez, M.D.

Updates on Human Papillomavirus-related Head and Neck Carcinomas
Justin A. Bishop, M.D.

Diagnosis, Grading and Ancillary Testing in Human Papillomavirus Associated Carcinomas of the Head and Neck
Christopher Griffith, M.D., Ph.D.

Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Dysplasia
Justin A. Bishop, M.D.

Endocrine

Steroidogenic Tumors: Germline Predisposition in Endocrine Neoplasia
Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D.

Nuclear Features of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Revisited
Akeesha Alia Shah, M.D.

Thyroid Neoplasia: Inching Towards a Molecular Classification
Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D.

Neuroendocrine Tumors: Hormones from Head to Tail
Sylvia L. Asa, M.D., Ph.D.