SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Thursday, May 15th, 2008.

09:45-10:15 INAUGURATION. Room 1

OPENING CEREMONY

		Chairperson: Roberto Sabrido Regional Health Minister, Castilla-La Mancha Government, JCCM
		Vocals:
		Evangelina Aranda Vice-Director of Toledo Campus and Institutional Relationships. University of Castilla-La Mancha, UCLM
		George Mihalas President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, EFMI
		Aurelio Ariza President of the Spanish Society of Pathology-Spanish Division of the International Academy of Pathology, SEAP-DEAIP
		Salvador Arribas General Secretary. Spanish Society of Health Informatics, SEIS
		Marcial García Rojo Organising Committee Chair, HGCR-SESCAM-SEIS

10:15-11:15 TELEPATHOLOGY NOWADAYS. Room 1

		Chairpersons: Yrjö Collan (Finland), Janusz Szymas (Poland)

		10:15-10:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 Efficiency and diagnostic reliability of telepathology consultation Klaus Dietmar Kunze Institut für Pathologie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
		10:45-11:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 The importance of optical optimization in whole slide imaging (WSI) and digital pathology imaging Yukako Yagi, John R. Gilbertson Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

11:15-12:30 OPEN SOURCE IN PATHOLOGY

		Chairpersons: Vincenzo Della Mea (Italy), Jorma Isola (Finland)
		11:15-12:30 ROUND TABLE
		Open source solutions in public health services José Sacristán Head of Systems Service. Information Technology Area. SESCAM, Toledo, Spain.
		Open source tools for Pathology Vincenzo Della Mea Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

12:30-13:30 Lunch

12:30-13:30 DAKO SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM. Room 2

Image Analysis in Routine Clinical Diagnostic Download Abstract Book

12:30-12:35		Welcome Chair: Marcial García Rojo Pathology Department. Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Spain.
12:35-13:00		Pathology Workflow and Integration of ACIS III in Dako Link Joachim Schmid Director, Imaging & Pathology Workflow, Dako, USA
13:00-13:25		Use of ACIS III in daily use to support the breast panel diagnosis Fernando A. Soares University of São Paulo, São Paulo. Medical Hospital A.C. Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil.
13:25-13:30		Discussion and closing

13:30-14:00 WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCES IN TELEPATHOLOGY. Room 1

		Chairperson: Yasunari Tsuchihashi (Japan)

		13:30-14:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE 3 Need, feasibility and sustainability in two projects of telepathology in developing countries, Africa and South East Asia Serey Vathana Chhut¹, Gerhard Stauch², Sam Ang Cheng¹, Gaudens Komba³, Ponsiano Tonja³, Martin Oberholzer⁴ 1 Phnom Penh Institute of Pathology; 2 Aurich; 3 St Joseph’s Mission Hospital Peramiho; 4 Department of Pathology, University of Basel.
		14.00-15:30 SCIENTIFIC SESSION 1
		Telepathology in emerging countries pilot project between Italy and Egypt Essam Ayad¹, Francesco Sicurello² 1 Departament of Pathology. Cairo University and Italian Hospital in Cairo. Egypt 2 @ITIM-Italian Association of Telemedicine and Medical Informatics, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy.
		Dynamic active telepathology over National Health Laboratory System (NHLS) network, South Africa. Feasibility pilot study using Nikon Coolscope Lech Banach, A Stepien, J Schneider, E Wichrzycka-Lancaster NHLS and Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa.
		Virtual Health Care Center in Georgia Thomas Schrader¹, Ekaterina Kldiashvili² 1 Department of Pathology, University Hospital Berlin – Charite. Berlin. Germany; 2 Georgian Telemedicine Union (Association). Tbilisi. Georgia.
		Telepathology network in the Pomerania: Evaluation and acceptance study of mamma biopsy applied virtual slides Eduard Wolf¹, Annette Lebeau², H Pickartz³, M Anders⁴, P Debold⁴, Mikael Lundin⁵, Thomas Betz⁶, Janusz Szymas⁷ 1 Institut für Hämatopathologie, Hamburg, Germany; 2 Institut für Pathologie, Universität Hamburg, Germany; 3 Institut für Pathologie, Berlin-Spandau, Germany; 4 Labor für Histologie u. Cytologie, Greifswald, Germany; 5 Biomed Informatics Group, Dept of Oncology & Folkhälsan Research Center, Univ of Helsinki, Finland; 6 Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, Germany; 7 Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Medical Sciences. Poznan. Poland.
		Serendipia: Castilla-La Mancha telepathology network Carlos Peces¹, Marcial García-Rojo², José Sacristán¹, Antonio José Gallardo¹, Antonio del Barrio¹ 1 Information Technologies Department of the Regional Health Care Services of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM). Toledo, Spain 2 Pathology Department. Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Spain.

14.00-15:30 OLYMPUS SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM. Room 2
Experiences of digital histology in clinical practice and research Download Invitation

		Welcome Chair: Yrjö Collan Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Finland..
		Automated tissue microarray image analysis to identify and quantitatively determine tumour-relevant proteins Daniel Göttel Application Specialist, Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
		Virtual microscopy: a tool for the Italian Pathology Society’s (SIAPEC-IAP) activities Claudio Clemente Informatic Commission of SIAPEC-IAP, Milan, Italy
		Integrating virtual slides into Saint-Louis Hospital’s LIS David Ameisen INSERM U728, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France

15:30-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-17:20 TELEPATHOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS. Room 1

		Chairpersons: Gloria Bueno (Spain), Péter Gombás (Hungary)

		15:50-16:20 KEYNOTE LECTURE 4 Telemedicine: The art of the workaround Bruce H. Williams DVM, DACVP Chairman, AFIP Dept. of Telemedicine. Washington, DC, USA.
		16:20-17:20 SCIENTIFIC SESSION 2
		Telediagnostics of intraoperative biopsies of mammary carcinoma I.N. Shestakova, Yu.P. Gribunov, Yu.L. Perov, L.S. Khodasevich Medical Center, General Management Department of the President of the Russian Federation. Moscow, Russia.
		Use of virtual slide system for quick frozen intra-operative telepathology diagnosis in Kyoto, Japan Yasunari Tsuchihashi¹, Terumasa Takamatsu², Yukimasa Hashimoto³, Tooru Takashima³, Kooji Nakano³, Setsuya Fujita¹ 1 Louis Pasteur Centre for Medical Research, Ukyo, Kyoto, Japan; 2 CLARO Inc., Aomori, Japan; 3 Yamashiro Public Hospital, Kizu, Kyoto, Japan.
		Organizational model for a telepathology system Roberto Mencarelli¹, Adriano Marcolongo², Alessio Gasparetto³ 1 Department of Surgical Pathology; 2 General Manager; 3 Department of Information Technology - Azienda ULSS 18. Rovigo, Italy.
		The integration of whole slide images as research data in the scientific metadata repository of the Open European Nephrology Science Center Uwe Kuehn¹, Claudia Hahn², Sonja Niepage², Yao Zhou², Dietmar Keune², Sabine Hanss³, Thomas Weckend⁴, Gabriele Schmidt¹, Thomas Schrader² 1 Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany; 2 Department of Pathology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; 3 Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Germany; 4 IT-Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

17:20-19:00 TELEPATHOLOGY AND VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY IN EDUCATION. Room 1

		Chairpersons: Klaus Kayser (Germany), Chhut Vathana (Cambodia)

		17:20-17:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE 5 Discontinuous video recording of biopsies in the context of an integral third degree teaching program José Ernesto Moro Rodríguez Anatomic Pathology Area. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain.
		17:45-18:10 KEYNOTE LECTURE 6 Digital pathology as teaching and testing system in pre- and postgraduate courses Janusz Szymas Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Medical Sciences. Poznan. Poland.
		18:10-19:00 SCIENTIFIC SESSION 3
		Hypertext atlas of fetal and neonatal pathology Marta Ježová1, Katarína Múčková1, Ondřej Souček1, Josef Feit1, Pavel Vlašín2 1 Institute of Pathology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2 Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Brno, Czech Republic.
		Teaching veterinary pathology in 21st century Andreas Pospischil, Maja Ruetten, Vahid Djamei, Lloyd Vaughan Veterinary Pathology Zurich, Switzerland
		Teaching dental students pathology with use of Webmicroscope - three years experiences Janusz Szymas1, Mikael Lundin2 1 Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Medical Sciences. Poznan. Poland. 2 Biomed Informatics Group, Dept of Oncology & Folkhälsan Research Center, University of Helsinki, Finland.

16:00 – 19:00 SLIDE SCANNING TRAINING COURSE (Spanish). Room 2
Curso básico de escaneado y gestión de preparaciones digitales (microscopía virtual)
(en español, digirido a Patólogos y Técnicos de Anatomía Patológica y Citología)
IZASA / Nikon / Aperio
Teachers: Jordi Recansens / Óscar Gamo
Grupo Instrumentación científica. Izasa, Spain.

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