Workshops & Companion Society Meeting Proposals
Call for Proposals
Interested in speaking at an SPP Event? The SPP Education Committee is soliciting workshop and symposium proposals.
Note - Annual Meeting symposium are submitted by potential meeting hosts; see Fall Meeting Host page for further information and proposals.
Topic Suggestions
General Research-related statistics/scientific writing Quality in the pediatric pathology laboratory Updates in classification systems Oncologist perspective on reporting/influence on therapy
Pediatric Dermatopathology (specifically non-neoplastic) Autopsy Pediatric breast pathology Brain tumor pathology for the non-neuropathologist Endocrine tumors (non thyroid, non pancreas) Inflammatory bowel disease Soft tissue tumors COG perspective on new studies/protocols (NB, etc) Dental pathology
Perinatal Congenital infections/malformations Molecular/genetic testing in stillbirth Skeletal dysplasia Patient/family focused placental pathology & reporting Gestational trophoblastic disease Developmental neuropathology Metabolic diseases/inborn errors of metabolism
USCAP Companion Society Ideas Disorders in sex development Pediatric and perinatal autopsy Medical and neoplastic liver Placental pathology for general pathologists Pediatric GI Pediatric sarcoma Radiology/pathology correlations
2026 January Workshops
Registration is open! To register, click here.
Each workshop will be offered as a live, virtual presentation inclusive of live Q&A. The live portion will be recorded and made available to registrants for one year after the live workshop date. Each workshop will occur from 12:00pm – 2:00pm EST on the following dates:
Patterns of Colonic Mucosal Injury in Chronic Diarrhea: A Diagnostic Approach to Pediatric IBD and Mimics (January 9th, 2026)
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and Neoplasia: Bridging Histopathology and Genetics (January 16th, 2026)
- Bradley Quade, MD, PhD (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
- Lawrence Hsu Lin, MD, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Placental Pathology Reporting – Improving and Standardizing Quality and Clinical Utility (January 23rd, 2026)
- Sanjita Ravishankar, MD (University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine)
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Eumenia Castro, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics)
Surgical Pathology of Pediatric Pancreatic Diseases (January 31st, 2026)
- Charlotte Kim, MD (Texas Children’s Hospital)
- Heather Keir, MBChB (Texas Children’s Hospital)
2025 Workshops - Registration for the Society for Pediatric Pathology’s 2025 January Workshops is available through January 2026. Please visit this link to register.
If you have any questions about submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, please contact the following individuals and copy Lauren Parsons, MD, Chair, Education Committee ([email protected]) and [email protected]:
Workshop Subcommittee Chair: Shahrazad Saab, MD ([email protected])
Past Workshops and Symposia
| Meeting |
Titles |
| Spring, 2009 |
Symposium: Disorders of Intersex
Workshops:
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- The Use of Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Metabolic Diagnosis and General Pediatric Clinical Chemistry Laboratories
- Update in Pediatric Lymphomas, Leukemias and Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome
- Non-Tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
- Update on Bone Pathology in Pediatrics
- Pediatric Renal Tumors Update
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| Fall, 2009 |
Symposium: Recent Advances in Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors
Workshops:
- Recent Advances in the Molecular Pathology of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Immune Environment & Pediatric Soft Tissue Tumors
- Spindle Cell Tumors of Infancy and Childhood: Contribution of Molecular Techniques and Markers to the Diagnosis and Patient Management
- What Does (or Should) Your Oncologist Want to Know?
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| Spring, 2010 |
Symposium: Recent Advances in Medical Renal Disease
Workshops:
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
- Pediatric Apheresis with the Inclusions of Technical Aspects Thereof, Indications for, and Blood Bank Support Thereof
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- Molecular Biology - An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Non-tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
- Update on Bone Pathology in Pediatrics
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| Fall, 2010 |
Banff Pathology Course and SPP Symposium Shared Session:
- 2008 WHO Classification of Lymphomas. An Overview
- Hodgkin Lymphoma and Differential Diagnosis
- Pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Recent advances and new entities
- EBV Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorders: Update and Clinical Significance of New Entities
- Reactive lymphoproliferative lesions in children The Spectrum of Histiocytic Processes in Childhood
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| Spring, 2011 |
Symposium: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Workshops:
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
- Pediatric Transplantation Pathology
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- Molecular biology – An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Non-Tumoral Testicular Pathology in Children
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| Fall, 2011 |
Symposium: Vascular Tumors and Malformations Perinatal Symposium: Beyond the Laundry List – Diverse Perspectives on Nonimmune Fetal Hydrops |
| Spring, 2012 |
Symposium: Hirschsprung Disease Workshops:
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- Molecular Biology – An Introduction to the Conventional and New Diagnostic Tests
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
- Pediatric Thymus Pathology
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| Spring, 2013 |
Symposium: Joint Symposium with American Society of Dermatopathology Workshops:
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Pediatric Neuropathology Update
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease-Update in Getting the Diagnosis, with Clinicopathologic Correlations
- Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Children: An Update
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| Fall, 2013 |
Clinical Pathology Symposium:
- Challenges to Pediatric Clinical Pathology Under Healthcare Reform
- Waiting for the Next Shoe to Drop: Healthcare Reform and Academic Pediatrics
- A Payers Perspective on Genetic Testing Utilization
- Next Generation Sequencing as a Clinical Test: What is Right for Our Patients?
Surgical Pathology Symposium
- Chronic Inflammatory and Premalignant Conditions of the Pediatric Colon
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Children on a Fast Track to Cancer
- Genetics of Crohn Disease: New Insights into Pathogenesis
- Chronic Inflammatory Conditions of the Pediatric Colon
- Reading the Genetic Tea Leaves: Understanding Who Gets Colon Cancer and Why
Perinatal Symposium
- Developmental Genetics of Congenital Anomalies
- Gene Targeting
- Evolution and Development
- The Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations: Approaches to the Study of Cause
- Prenatal Imaging and the Autopsy: Working Together for Accurate Diagnoses
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| Spring, 2014 |
Symposium: Pediatric Dermatology: Focus on Cutaneous Inflammatory Disorders Workshops:
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlates
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- Selected Rare Tumors in the Pediatric Population
- Updates in Pediatric Hematopathology
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
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| Fall, 2014 |
Symposium: Pediatric NeuropathologyPerinatal Symposium: Skeletal Dysplasia |
| Spring, 2015 |
Symposium: Advances in Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas in the Young: New Entities and Revised Concepts Workshops:
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach and Update on Pathogenesis.
- Disorders of Histiocytes
- The Frozen Section: Diagnosis and Pitfalls
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlations
- Pediatric Hematopathology
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
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| Fall, 2015 |
Symposium: Cystic Fibrosis Perinatal Symposium: The Pathology of Arthrogryposis Multiplex |
| Spring, 2016 |
Symposium: Neonatal and Infantile Cholestatic Liver Disease Workshops:
- The Cytopathology of Pediatric Non-Thyroidal Head and Neck Masses with Histologic Correlations
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach and Update on Pathogenesis
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- Pediatric Hematopathology
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy with Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
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| Fall, 2016 |
Symposium: Current Concepts in Tropical Medicine Perinatal Symposium: Obesity in Pregnancy |
| Spring, 2017 |
Symposium: Personalized Medicine in the Practice of Pediatric Tumor Pathology Workshops:
- Pediatric Lung Biopsy: A Pattern-Based Diagnostic Approach & Update on Pathogenesis
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Pediatric Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Pathology and Associated Syndromes
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy With Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
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| Fall, 2017 |
Clinical Pathology Symposium: Personalized Medicine in the Clinical Pathology Laboratory Symposium: Down Syndrome in the Twenty First Century Perinatal Symposium: Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Spring, 2018 |
Symposium: Pediatric Malignant Liver Tumors: New Advances in Pathologic Classification, Molecular Diagnostics and International Cooperative Trials Workshops:
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
- Adding Relevance to the Pediatric Autopsy With Defined Pre-autopsy Goals and Practical Techniques
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Pediatric Kidney Biopsy Interpretation: Essentials for the Pathologist-on-Call
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
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| Fall, 2018 |
Symposium: Quality, Patient Safety and Value Creation from a Pathology Platform Perinatal Symposium: Updates on Congenital Malformations |
| Spring, 2019 |
Symposium: Lymph Node Pathology for the Practicing Pediatric Pathologist Workshops:
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
- Challenges in Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Selected Difficult Cases
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- The Role of heuristics and bias in patient safety: preventing errors in pathology
- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Biopsy: An Update on the Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Pediatric Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
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| Fall, 2019 |
Symposium: Heart Disease |
| Spring, 2020 |
No symposium Workshops:
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative Pathology
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
- The Role of heuristics and bias in patient safety: preventing errors in pathology
- Bone dysplasias: A systematic diagnostic approach.
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
- WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
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| Fall, 2020 |
No symposium |
| Spring, 2021 |
Symposium: Molecular Testing for Pediatric Sarcomas: Practical Strategies and Workflows in the Era of Personalized Medicine and an Updates WHO Classification Workshops:
- Handling the Post-Operative Heart (new)
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative
- Role of Bias in Pediatric Pathology: Preventing Errors and Enhancing Patient Safety One Child at a Time. (American Board of Pathology approved Patient Safety Course)
- Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Overview with Emphasis on Differing Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications than Those in Adults (new)
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
- What Can the Placenta Tell Us?
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| Fall, 2021 |
Symposium: Inflammatory Bowel Disease An Update on the Pathophysiology and New Molecular Insights |
| Spring, 2022 |
Symposium: Technology Platforms to Supercharge Your Practice
Workshops:
- A Contemporary Approach to Pediatric Non-Neoplastic Liver Disease
- Triaging and Gross/Microscopic Evaluation of Products of Conception in Missed/Spontaneous Abortions and Post-partum Bleeding
- Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Overview with Emphasis on Differing Pathogenesis and Clinical Implications than Those in Adults (new)
- Handling the Post-Operative Heart
- Hirschsprung Disease: Diagnostic, Intra-operative, and Post-operative
- Discovering Cancer Predisposition in Children
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| Fall, 2022 |
Symposium: Updates on the Pathology and Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease Perinatal Symposium: Evaluation of Birth Defects Due to Teratogenic versus Genetic Effects in Perinatal Pathology |
| Spring, 2023 |
Symposium: Vascular Malformations and Tumors |
| Summer, 2023 |
Workshops:
- Triaging Surgical Specimens of Products of Conception and Post-Partum Bleeding
- A Contemporary Approach to Pediatric Non-Neoplastic Liver Disease
- Handling the Post-Operative Heart
- Germ Cell Tumors in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review
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| Fall, 2023 |
Symposium: Fanconi Anemia: Updates in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
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| Winter, 2024 |
Workshops:
- Update on Pathology of Liver Tumors
- Pediatric Liver Tumors Outside the Hepatoblastoma Box
- Congenital Cystic Lung Lesions: An Update on Clinical and Pathologic Correlates
- Pediatric Otorhinolaryngologic and Oromaxillofacial Pathology with an Emphasis on Development and Associations with Cancer Predisposition Syndromes
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| Spring, 2024 |
Symposium: Pediatric Thyroid Tumors: A Practical Update on The Classification, Molecular Diagnostics and Management Strategies
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| Fall, 2024 |
Symposium: GI and Liver Disease Perinatal Symposium: Diagnostic Challenges and Innovation in Placental Pathology
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| Winter, 2025 |
Workshops:
- Pediatric Lymphadenopathy: A Systematic and Pattern-Based Review of Benign and Malignant Lymph Node Pathology (Pt I & II)
- Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplant Pathology
- Surgical Pathology of Pediatric Pancreatic Diseases
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