PROGRAM

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Invited Speakers

Dr Michael Aldred
Dr Susan Arbuckle
Professor Leon Barnes
Professor Margaret Brandwein-Gensler
Dr Roman Carlos
Professor John Eveson
Dr Chris Franklin
Professor Ricardo Santiago Gomez
Associate Professor Richard Jordan
Dr Pritinder Kaur
Professor Richard Kefford
Professor Steven Kossard
Dr Paul Monsour
Dr Peter Morgan
Dr Eddie Odell
Professor Stephen Porter
Dr Torsten Remmerbach
Dr Alison Rich
Professor Takashi Saku
Associate Professor Nicholas Saunders
Dr Ravi Savarirayan
Professor Paul Speight
Professor Takashi Takata
Dr Willie van Heerden
Professor Bob Williamson
Dr Dominic Wood
Dr John Wright

Pre-Congress Course Information

Course 1: Therapeutic Management of Oral Mucosal Lesions
Professor Stephen Porter, University College London, United Kingdom

As a consequence of increasing longevity of life, improved health care strategies, the emergence and re-mergence of infectious disease and changing migration patterns, the spectrum of disorders that can affect the oral mucosa continues to widen. Changes in the oral mucosa can reflect local and systemic congenital and acquired disease, can give rise to local symptoms that may compromise quality of life, and, albeit rarely, cause significant morbidity and mortality. The course will provide an overview of the contemporary management of both common, and uncommon oral mucosal disease. It will highlight controversies as to the diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal disease, review possible future strategies for complex relevant disease and detail disease that has proven difficult to manage.

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Course 2: Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands
John Eveson , University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Professor Paul Speight, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

This course will provide a comprehensive review of non-neoplasic lesions of the major and minor salivary glands. Some of these present clinically like tumours and may have pathological features similar to neoplasms making diagnosis difficult and errors serious. The presentation will cover the key diagnostic features of a range of entities, including developmental disorders, cysts, inflammatory lesions and tumour like lesions. A number of new and rare entities will be covered including for example, adenomatous hyperplasia and sclerosing polycystic adenosis.

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Course 3: Maxillofacial Imaging: Techniques & Indications
Dr Paul Monsour, Queensland Diagnostic Imaging, Australia

These lectures will cover the theory of rotational panoramic radiography, including radiographic anatomy on rotational panoramic radiographs and how to interpret rotational panoramic radiographs. The various imaging techniques available for assessment of odontogenic pathology; non-odontogenic pathology of the jaws; TM joint pathology; pathology involving the salivary glands and pathology of the maxillary sinuses will be covered. The imaging techniques covered will include: conventional radiography; tomography; computed tomography; MRI; Nuclear Medicine and ultrasound. Finally a series of interesting cases will be presented to illustrate the various types of pathology found in the jaws and the value of radiology.

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Course 4: Molecular Techniques in Oral Pathology
Professor Richard Jordan, University of California, USA

Alterations and abnormalities in genes, transcribed RNA and translated proteins underpin the pathological basis of many human diseases. Analysis of these molecules has led to a new understanding of the biological basis and classification of many diseases including cancer. Much of this work has been done on pathological specimens and is being advanced by the discovery of new techniques to analyze DNA, RNA and proteins in diagnostic material. This course will cover modern methods of genetic analysis in pathology specimens examining methods of study of DNA, RNA and proteins and how these techniques have provided new insights into the pathological basis of human disease. This seminar will provide an overview of specific techniques of relevance to the working pathologist including blotting methods, in situ hybridization, quantitative RT-PCR, microsatellite analysis, ploidy analysis, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry and proteomic discovery tools. Specific applications will be emphasized to illustrate how their application to the study of disease is providing new knowledge of human disease and their relevance and use in diagnostic surgical pathology.

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Course Fees
Cost for one course: A$250.00
Cost for two courses: A$400.00

Social Program

Welcome Reception
All delegates are invited to attend the Welcome Reception. Renew old friendships and make new acquaintances as we welcome you to Brisbane and the 13^th International Congress on Oral Pathology and Medicine. Drinks and cocktail food will be served.
Date: Thursday, 22 June 2006
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Hilton Brisbane
Cost: Included in the registration fees for members, non-members and students. Please indicate on your registration form if you will be attending as tickets will not be automatically allocated.
Additional tickets: A$45 per person

Gala Dinner
The Gala Dinner is traditionally the social highlight of the program. It is a chance to network with peers in a relaxing and enjoyable environment, whilst sampling some delicious cuisine.
Date: Saturday, 24 June 2006
Time: 19:00
Venue: Hilton Brisbane
Cost: A$95 per person

Dr Michael Aldred

Dorevitch Pathology, Australia
Dr Aldred is an Oral Pathologist with Dorevitch Pathology and a specialist in Oral Medicine in private practice and at hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. He has been Secretary and Chair of the Faculty of Oral Pathology of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and is currently Secretary/Treasurer of IAOP.

Dr Susan Arbuckle

The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia
Dr Susan Arbuckle graduated from the University of Queensland in 1976 with her Internship and Residency at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Susan completed a two year fellowship in Pediatric Pathology at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She was appointed as Staff Histopathologist to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Camperdown (now Children's Hospital at Westmead) in 1994. Susan was appointed Head, Department of Histopathology, in 1996 and currently still holds this position.

Professor Leon Barnes

University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr Barnes obtained his medical degree from the University of Arkansas in 1966 and his training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. Following completion of his residency, he joined the staff at the University of Pittsburgh and has remained there throughout his professional career. Dr Barnes is currently Professor of Pathology and Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Presbyterian Hospital; and Professor and Chairman, Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.

Professor Margaret Brandwein-Gensler

Dr Brandwein-Gensler received her medical degree from Upstate Medical College in 1983. She trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at Mount Sinai Medical Centre. Upon completion of training, she joined the staff at MSSM, and was Division Chief of Head and Neck Pathology. In 2004 she joined Montefiore Medical College/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as Professor of Pathology and Otolaryngology, Division Chief of Head and Neck Pathology, and Director of Tissue Microarray Facilities. She is the current President of the North American Society for Head and Neck Pathology.

Dr Roman Carlos

Centro de Medicina Oral de Guatemala, Guatemala
Dr Carlos completed his Advanced Specialty Education Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at the University of Florida, USA. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a diplomate on the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Dr Carlos has been a member and President (2004-2006) of the International Association of Oral Pathologists (IAOP). Dr Carlos has worked at the University Mariano Galvez in Guatemala as a Professor in the Advanced Specialty Program in Oral Pathology and Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Oral Medicine and an International Professor of the Federacion Odontologica Latinoamericana (FOLA). Dr Carlos was at the La Salle University, Leon Gto in Mexico as a visiting Professor and lectured at the Campinas State University, Piracicaba in Brazil. Dr Carlos has been an author or co-author of 2 chapters and 31 papers. He was also the convenor of the Xth. International Congress of Oral Pathology and Medicine (IAOP) which was held in La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala in 2000.

Professor John Eveson

John Eveson is Professor of Head and Neck Pathology and Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine and Pathology. He heads the Division of Oral Medicine, Pathology and Microbiology in the University of Bristol, England. He has been teaching Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Medicine and Therapeutics for over 30 years. He has an interest in Computer-Aided Learning and has produced a variety of interactive programmes on a range of Head and Neck Pathology and Oral Medicine for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He is responsible for three Consultant Oral Medicine outpatient clinics per week and undertakes diagnostic histopathology of head and neck pathology cases from the United Bristol Hospital Trust and receives referred cases form the UK and abroad. His main interests are in salivary gland pathology and a variety of aspects of oral squamous cell carcinoma. He is co-editor of the World Health Organisation Classification and associated text on Pathology and Genetics of Head and Neck Tumours published in 2005.

Dr Chris Franklin

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Dr Franklin's current appointments include Regional Postgraduate Dental Dean and National Lead Postgraduate Dean for the Additional Dental Specialties. His research interests are in experimental and human oral cancer and precancer, and immortalisation of human oral epithelial cells. Dr Franklin has sat on over 30 committees including - Chair, Royal Colleges of England, Scotland and Ireland Joint Examination Development Group, and Vice Chair, Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors (COPDEND). Chris Franklin has also recently been elected as President of the British Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, and will take up office in May 2006.

Professor Ricardo Santiago Gomez

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Professor Gomez, DDS, MS and PHD in Oral Pathology, is Dean of the School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has written 72 articles in peer-reviewed journals (English literature) and is a research Fellow of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil.

Associate Professor Richard Jordan

University of California, USA
Richard Jordan is Associate Professor of Oral Pathology and Pathology at the University of California San Francisco and is Chairman of the Division of Oral Pathology, Medicine & Radiology. His research interest is in the area of molecular markers of cancer development and progression and has led the application of quantitative PCR methods to routine biopsy specimens for the validation array-based gene discovery. He runs a busy pathology service and consultation practice at UCSF with expertise in lymphomas of the head and neck.

Dr Pritinder Kaur

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Dr Kaur studied Cell Biology as an undergraduate at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, UK and undertook her PhD thesis work at the Paterson Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Dr Kaur has also worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, The Hanson Centre for Cancer Research in Adelaide and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Kaur's recent findings have important implications for the treatment of severe burns victims.

Professor Richard Kefford

Westmead Hospital, Australia
Richard Kefford MB BS PhD FRACP is Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia, Chair of the Division of Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney and Director of the Westmead Institute for Cancer Research. He founded the Department of Medical Oncology at Westmead Hospital and continues clinical practice in the medical treatment of melanoma and breast cancer. He has NIH- and NHMRC-funded research into the molecular biology of melanoma. Professor Kefford is Consultant Medical Oncologist to the Sydney Melanoma Unit and the NSW Breast Cancer Institute. He is a Member of the WHO Melanoma Group, the Melanoma Genetics Consortium, the Research Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Executive Review Committee for Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Cutaneous Melanoma.

Professor Steven Kossard

Skin and Cancer Foundation, Australia
Professor Kossard graduated in Medicine from Sydney University and completed his PhD in melanoma research in 1973. His specialty training in Dermatology was undertaken in Sydney and at the Mayo Clinic with specialisation in Dermatopathology in 1979. Since 1980 he has been Head of Dermatopathology and Clinical Associate Professor in Dermatology at the Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia, conjoint with St Vincent's Hospital and the University of New South Wales. Past President of the Australasian Dermatopathology Society and Chairman of the International Committee for Dermatopathology, he has over 130 publications in the field of dermatology, particularly dermatopathology.

Dr Paul Monsour

Queensland Diagnostic Imaging, Australia
Dr Monsour graduated from the University of Queensland Dental School in 1978 with a BDSc (hons) degree. He completed a PhD in Oral Biology in 1987 and a Masters degree in Oral Pathology & Radiology in 1991. Paul is a registered specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and is the first OMF radiologist working in private practice on the East Coast of Australia. He currently works as a full time OMF radiologist reporting on over 100 cases per day.

Professor Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan is Professor of Oral Pathology and Hon. Consultant at King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's & St Thomas' Hospitals and is currently Head of the Clinical & Diagnostic Sciences Group. A London Hospital (now Barts & The London) Medical College graduate, he has worked variously in Göteborg, Sweden, The London Hospital, Eastman Dental Institute (London), and The Royal College of Surgeons as Research Fellow and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. A former Secretary/Treasurer of IAOMP, he has combined a career in research, teaching and surgical pathology of the head and neck. He has included odontogenic cysts amongst his research interests and publications, including (with Prof EW Odell) the textbook "Biopsy Pathology of the Oral Tissues".

Dr Eddie Odell

King's College London. Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Dr Eddie Odell is Professor of Oral Pathology and Medicine at King's College London / Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. He is an author of several undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks and has research interests in oral premalignancy and undergraduate education in pathology.

Professor Stephen Porter

University College London, United Kingdom
Stephen Porter is Professor of Oral Medicine in the Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences, UCL, University of London. Professor Porter graduated in Biochemistry (1979) and Dentistry (1982) from the University of Glasgow, he gained his MB ChB (1991), MD (1993) and PhD (1997) from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1987) and England (1987). His main clinical interests are the management of immunologically-mediated oral mucosal, potentially malignant, disease and salivary gland disease. Professor Porter has published extensively in the past 20 years.

Dr Torsten Remmerbach

University of Leipzig, Germany
Dr Remmerbach is Associate Medical Director of the Outpatient Clinic of the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery of the Leipzig University Hospital. He is also a lecturer of Oral Surgery and a member of the advanced education program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Dental Institute of the University of Leipzig. Dr Remmerbach has also worked at the Max-Burger Research Center of the University of Leipzig.

Dr Alison Rich

University of Otago, New Zealand and Head of Medlab Dental Oral Pathology Diagnostic Service, New Zealand
Dr Rich is Senior Lecturer in Oral Pathology at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Head of Medlab Dental Oral Pathology Diagnostic Service. She is Chair of the Faculty of Oral Pathology, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and Australasian Councillor to the International Association of Oral Pathologists.

Professor Takashi Saku

Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan
Professor Saku is one of the leading oral pathologists in Japan. He has served as chairperson of the Committee for Education, Japanese Society for Oral Pathology and as a member of the Japanese Board of Pathology for the Certifying Examination in Oral Pathology. He has published over 200 research articles.

Associate Professor Nicholas Saunders

University of Queensland, Australia
Associate Professor Saunders received a PhD in Pharmacology in 1990 from the University of Western Australia. He established the Epithelial Pathobiology Group within the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research at the University of Queensland, and has a specialist interest in squamous cell carcinoma formation of the head and neck region and of the skin.

Dr Ravi Savarirayan

Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Ravi Savarirayan is a clinical geneticist employed as Head of the Royal Children's Hospital Clinical Genetics Service in Melbourne. His special area of expertise is in the inherited disorders of the skeleton that cause short stature, arthritis and osteoporosis in both children and adults. He is the foundation director of he Southern Cross Bone Dysplasia Centre that receives consultations for advice and diagnosis from all around the world and an elected member of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Society (ISDS) council that classifies these disorders. He pursued his doctoral studies in the clinical and molecular aspects of these disorders and has published over 75 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He conducts clinics for patients and their families with these conditions in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Auckland and is widely consulted regarding management of these conditions. Professor Savarirayan's international reputation in the field was acknowledged with a recent invitation to deliver the opening scientific address at the Combined Congress of Orthopaedic Associations (Sydney), held every seven years.

Professor Paul Speight

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Paul Speight is Professor of Oral Pathology at the University of Sheffield. He is immediate Past-President of the British Society for Oral Maxillofacial Pathology, and is President-Elect of IAOP. His special interests include oral cancer biology, cancer screening and salivary gland and jaw pathology.

Professor Takashi Takata

Hiroshima University, Japan
Professor Takata is the Chair of Department of Oral Maxillofacial Pathobiology at Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the director of Dental School, Hiroshima University. His main research field is molecular pathology of oral neoplasms, experimental periodontal pathology and diagnostic histopathology of oral lesions. Professor Takata is apppointed to the councilors of IAOP, JSOP, Jpn Assoc Periodontol, Jpn Soc Pathol and others. Professor Takata has authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed international publications and 20 book chapters.

Dr Willie van Heerden

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Willie van Heerden qualified as an Oral Pathologist at the University of Pretoria. After obtaining his PhD, he became a Fellow of the College of Pathologists of South Africa and was awarded a DSc degree based on publications. He is currently Head of the Department of Oral Pathology and Oral Biology at the University of Pretoria. His hobbies include scuba diving, photography and fly fishing.

Professor Bob Williamson

Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia
In 1976, Professor Williamson became the Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In 1995 he moved to Melbourne as Director of the Murdoch Institute and Professor of Medical Genetics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Officer of the Order of Australia.

Dr Dominic Wood

IQ Pathology, Australia
Dr Wood is a Partner and one of five Anatomical Pathologists at IQ Pathology, a private histopathology laboratory in Brisbane, Australia. While the practice receives a broad range of histopathology specimens, Dominic has undertaken additional training in dermatopathology and has practised in this field for 11 years.

Dr John Wright

Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas, USA
Dr Wright is Vice Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Professor and Director of Pathology and Director of the advanced education program in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at Baylor College of Dentistry. He has contributed 90 publications, including 12 book chapters and three textbooks. Dr Wright is currently a Director of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Wilson A. Delgado

Wilson A. Delgado was trained in Pathology in the University of Maryland and in the Armed Forces Institute of Patholoy at Washington D.C. He teaches Oral Medicine and Pathology for under and postgraduate students in his country. He has an Oral Tropical Diseases Service and runs a biopsy service.