Here you will find details for the 2017 Advanced Paediatric Pathology Course.
Marian Malone Memorial
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Marian Malone Memorial Course

Dr Marian Malone died on 16th September 2015. She was Consultant Paediatric Pathologist and honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children between 1986 and 2014. She graduated from University College Dublin in 1977. Her pathology training was at The London Hospital, under Professor Sir Colin Berry, and then at GOSH under Professor Albert Claireaux and Dr (later Prof) Tony Risdon.Following the retirement of Prof Risdon in 2004, Marian became head of Histopathology. She had a special interest in dermatopathology and immunopathology and lectured internationally on histiocytic disorders. Since 2000, she was chair of the Histiocytosis Pathology Reference panel of CCLG, and pathology advisor at the Nikolas Symposium on Langerhans’ cell disease. She was author of over 100 publications, and co-author in 2009 of the textbook Diagnostic Pediatric Surgical Pathology. For 14 years she was a member of the Editorial Board, and European Editor, of the journal Pediatric and Developmental Pathology.
She was a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and chaired its examiners’ panel in Paediatric Pathology from 2003-8. She was a founder member of both the British an Irish Paediatric Pathology Association and the London Perinatal Pathology Network. She was a national inspector for the laboratory accreditation organization, CPA-UK, and a pathology assessor for the national confidential enquiries into perioperative deaths (CEPOD) and maternal and child deaths (CEMACH). Latterly, she was chair of the UK Children’s Cancer Clinical Reference Group. In recognition of her contribution to children’s health in the UK, she was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in November 2014.
She embraced the new, without fear of change, but held steadfastly to core principles. She inspired deep affection, and her loss was a hard burden for the many friends and colleagues. In response to the wish of many colleagues that there should be a fitting commemoration of her achievements and in fulfillment of the continuing desire for those in paediatric and perinatal pathology practice for an updates in their specialty, we have organized this Update Course in memory of Marian in her native city.
Michael Ashworth
Deirdre Devaney
Gordan Vujanic
Local Organiser: Dr. Deirdre Devaney
Course Directors: Dr Michael Ashworth
Prof. Gordan M. Vujanic
Accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (EACCME, 15797)
Registration and tea from 14.00
(The Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin)
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Introductory Lecture by Dr Barry Kennerk
Ale-Houses, Grave-Robbers And Cuban
Bloodhounds: Dublin City Coroners In
The Nineteenth Century
Dr Barry Kennerk graduated with a PhD in history from St. Patrick’s College, Dublin in 2014. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which was Temple Street Children’s Hospital – An Illustrated History (2014). He is an occasional freelance contributor to newspapers at home and abroad including the Irish Times and New York Times. His work has also featured in a number of peerreviewed publications including the Journal of Medical Biography and Oxford Journal’s Social History of Medicine. He divides his time between the department of paediatric neurosurgery, Temple Street and Belvedere College where he teaches English and history.
Chair: Michael Ashworth
08.30 - Opening
08.40 Lecture 1
Less Invasive Autopsy and Postmortem Imaging (N. Sebire)
9.25 Lecture 2
How Should we Investigate Stillbirth in The Future (N. Sebire)
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 Lecture 3
Non-Hirschsprung’ s neonatal intestinal pseudo-obstruction (R. Kapur)
11.25 Lecture 4
Common And Uncommon Skeletal Disorders – Part 1(A. Konstantinidou)
12.10 Lecture 5
Participants’ Slides Seminar (Cases 1 - 4)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – Tour to Trinity College and Book of Kells and a Short Tour of Georgian Dublin
19.00 Dinner
Chair: Neil Sebire
20.00 - 22.00 Lecture 6 - Participants’ Slides Seminar (Cases 5 - 13)
Chair: Raj Kapur
08.30 Lecture 7 - Small Bowel Biopsy In Paediatrics (P. Russo)
9.20 Lecture 8 - Eosinophils in the GI Tract- the good, the bad and the ugly (M-A. Brundler)
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 Lecture 9 - Pathologist’s Role In Management Of Patient With Persistent Obstructive Symptoms After Pull-Through Surgery For Hirschsprung’s Disease (R. Kapur)
11.30 Lecture 10 - New Genes Braking Old Concepts: Renal Development and Disease (J. Martinovic)
12.10 Lecture 11 - Update On Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (N. Sebire)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – Guinness Store House
19.00 Dinner
Chair: Gordan Vujanic
20.00 Lecture 12 - Wilms Tumour Genetics – Why Is It So Hard (A. Charles)
20.40 - 21.45 Lecture 13 - Tutors’ Slide Seminar (Cases 1 - 4)
Chair: Neil Sebire
08.30 Lecture 14 - Neuroblastic Tumours: Classifi cation and Molecular Insight (R. Alaggio)
9.20 Lecture 15 - Differential Diagnosis Of Paediatric Small Blue Cell Tumours – An Update (R. Alaggio)
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 Lecture 16 - Neonatal Cholestasis – Lessons Learnt (P. Russo)
11.30 Lecture 17 - Neonatal Hemochromatosis (R. Kapur)
12.20 Lecture 18 - Common And Uncommon Skeletal Disorders – part 2 (A. Konstantinidou)
13.15 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30 James Joyce Walking Tour of Sandycove and Dun Laoghaire
18.30 -23.00 Johnnie Fox’s Pub - Evening of Irish Music and Entertainment. Dinner included
Chair: Pierre Russo
08.30 Lecture 19 - Paediatric Infl ammatory Bowel Disease (P. Russo)
9.20 Lecture 20 - Spindle Cell Tumours (And Pseudotumours) Of Soft Tissue – Differential Diagnosis (R. Alaggio)
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 Lecture 21 - Congenital Posterior Fossa Cysts (R. Kapur)
11.30 Lecture 22 - Liver Tumours In Children – An Update (R. Alaggio)
12.20 Lecture 23 - Tutors’ Slide Seminar (Cases 5-8)
13.15 – Lunch
14.00 Tour to Glendalough
19.00 Dinner
Chair: Deirdre Devaney
20.00 - 21.00 Lecture 24 - Tutors’ Slide Seminar (Cases 9-12)
Chair: Rita Alaggio
08.30 Lecture 25 - Methods And Issues In Placental Pathology (N. Sebire)
9.20 Lecture 26 - Patho-Biology Of Non-Wilms Renal Tumours Of Childhood (M .O’Sullivan)
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 Lecture 27 - Pancreatic Disorders In Children (P. Russo)
11.30 Lecture 28 - Don’t Worry, I Won’t Eat You – An Overview Of Histiocytic Disorders (M .O’Sullivan)
12.20 Lecture 29 - Marian Malone Memorial “Though Much is Taken, Much Abides” – The Legacy Of Marian Malone (M. Ashworth)
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon free for personal study
19.00 – Course Dinner Royal St George Yacht Club
Chair: Raj Kapur
9.30 Lecture 30 - Amsterdam Placental Classifi cation (E. Mooney)
10.15 Lecture 31 - Fraser Syndrome (S. Patrier)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 Lecture 32 - Classifi cation Of Rhabdomyosarcoma: Implications For Treatment (A. Kelsey)
12.15 Lecture 33 - Fetal Hydrops – A Clinico-Pathological Approach (L. Oligny)
13.00 Business Meeting
13.15 Lunch and Depart