ISSP 2024
Annual Scientific Meeting
Irish Society of Surgical Pathologists
04-05 October 2024
Assembly Buildings Conference Centre
Belfast, BT1 6DW
Friday 04 October
9:00 Registration
9:45 Welcome
Session 1
10:00 Digital pathology. Paul Kelly, Belfast Trust.
10:15 Advanced reporting by biomedical scientists. Mary McElroy, Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry.
10:30 Laboratory mergers: a tale of translocation, fusion, and mutation! Bill Bennett, Cork University Hospital.
10:45 Resilience. Rory Kelly, Antrim Area Hospital.
11:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 2
11:30 Her2 low – the future. Grace Callagy, University of Galway.
12:00 GI pathology update. Shaun Walsh, University of Dundee.
12:30 Gynae pathology update. Glenn McCluggage, Belfast Trust.
1:00 Networking lunch
Session 3
2:00 Trainee presentations
3:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 4
3:30 Trainee presentations
5:00 AGM
7:30 Gala dinner, Europa Hotel.
Saturday 05 October
Session 5
10:00 Going paperless in the NHS. David Alderdice, Ulster Hospital, Belfast.
10:15 Histopathology in an integrated undergraduate medical curriculum, visible or invisible? Joe Houghton, Queen’s University Belfast.
10:30 Supporting trainees with dyslexia and neurodiversity. Liz Hook, University of Cambridge.
10:45 Ukrainian pathology during wartime. Antonina Kalmykova, CSD Laboratories, Kyiv, Ukraine.
11:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 6
Chaired by British Division of the International Academy of Pathology
11:30 Pulmonary cytology. Julie McCarthy, Cork University Hospital.
12:00 Uropathology update. Eva Comperat, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
12:30 Dysplastic naevus. Phillip McKee, UK.
1:00 Close
Annual Scientific Meeting
Irish Society of Surgical Pathologists
04-05 October 2024
Assembly Buildings Conference Centre
Belfast, BT1 6DW
Friday 04 October
9:00 Registration
9:45 Welcome
Session 1
10:00 Digital pathology. Paul Kelly, Belfast Trust.
10:15 Advanced reporting by biomedical scientists. Mary McElroy, Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry.
10:30 Laboratory mergers: a tale of translocation, fusion, and mutation! Bill Bennett, Cork University Hospital.
10:45 Resilience. Rory Kelly, Antrim Area Hospital.
11:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 2
11:30 Her2 low – the future. Grace Callagy, University of Galway.
12:00 GI pathology update. Shaun Walsh, University of Dundee.
12:30 Gynae pathology update. Glenn McCluggage, Belfast Trust.
1:00 Networking lunch
Session 3
2:00 Trainee presentations
3:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 4
3:30 Trainee presentations
5:00 AGM
7:30 Gala dinner, Europa Hotel.
Saturday 05 October
Session 5
10:00 Going paperless in the NHS. David Alderdice, Ulster Hospital, Belfast.
10:15 Histopathology in an integrated undergraduate medical curriculum, visible or invisible? Joe Houghton, Queen’s University Belfast.
10:30 Supporting trainees with dyslexia and neurodiversity. Liz Hook, University of Cambridge.
10:45 Ukrainian pathology during wartime. Antonina Kalmykova, CSD Laboratories, Kyiv, Ukraine.
11:00 Coffee, exhibitors, posters
Session 6
Chaired by British Division of the International Academy of Pathology
11:30 Pulmonary cytology. Julie McCarthy, Cork University Hospital.
12:00 Uropathology update. Eva Comperat, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
12:30 Dysplastic naevus. Phillip McKee, UK.
1:00 Close