Time

Program

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration and Reception

9:00AM – 9:25AM

Opening Address

9:25AM – 10:50AM

Symposium I: Neuropathology

• Hou Pao Chang Medical Memorial Fund Lecture
  Professor Colin Smith (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  - Diagnostic Neuropathology in the Molecular Era: WHO 2021 Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System

• Dr Gary Kui Kai Lau (Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong)

  - New Paradigms in Stroke Prevention

10:50AM – 11:20AM

Coffee Break

11:20AM – 12:30PM

Symposium II: Hematolymphoid Pathology

• James Gibson Lecture
  Dr John Kwok Cheung Chan (Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
  - The New W.H.O. Classification of Lymphoma: What Have Changed?

• Professor Anskar Yu Hung Leung (Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong)

  - Inducing Immune Activation for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

12:30PM – 2:00PM

Lunch Symposium Sponsored by Astellas

2:00PM – 3:00PM

Symposium III: Genetics & Genomics Pathology

• Professor Toshiro Sato (Keio University, Japan)

  - Understanding of Gastrointestinal Cancers Using Patient-derived Organoids

• Professor Suet Yi Leung (Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong)

  - Genetics and Genomics of Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers

3:00PM – 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30PM – 4:30PM

State-of-the-Art Lectures

• Professor Colin Smith (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

  - Machine Learning and AI in Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Diagnostics

• Dr John Kwok Cheung Chan (Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital)

  - World Health Organization Classification or International Consensus Classification: Which One to Use?

4:30PM– 4:35PM

Closing Remarks