INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY
(SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION)
Division of Anatomical Pathology
D7 Groote Schuur Hospital
Anzio Road
Observatory 7925
Telephone +27 21 4043381
Fax
+27 21 4481789
Secretary Phone: +27 21 6705719
Fax:
+27 21 6830904
Website: www.iapsouthafrica.co.za
IAP (SA DIVISION) NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2011
1. IAP (SA) COUNCIL 2012
As of 1 January 2012 there will be a new IAP executive committee, who will serve for a
term of 4 years (2012-2105). I would like to congratulate the new committee and wish
them well in their new roles. The executive committee is from WITS University and is
comprised of:
Prof Martin Hale
Dr Agata Czajkowski
Dr Peter Swart
President
Secretary
Treasurer
The IAP (SA) councillors for the various regions are as follows:
Dr Lerato Nkoane
Dr Melanie Louw
Prof Helen Wainwright
Prof Johann Schneider
Prof Mirta Garcia-Jardon
Dr Jalaludin Vaubel
Prof Cathy Beukes
Prof Meshack Bida
Dr Tomas Slavik
Dr Ashwin Bramdev
Dr Johan Dempers
Prof Sonja Boy
Gauteng, Johannesburg
Gauteng, Pretoria
Western Cape, Cape Town
Western Cape, Tygerberg
Eastern Cape, Umtata
KZN, Durban
Free State, Bloemfontein
Limpopo
Private
Private
Forensic (coopted)
Oral Pathologist (coopted)
Congratulations to all the elected IAP (SA) officials, and thanks to them for committing time
and energy to the successful running of the IAP.
2. 51st ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE FSASP 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2011
The 2011 FSASP congress was held at the Sandton Sun Conference Centre in
Johannesburg. Our invited speakers were really excellent and gave lectures of the highest
quality. Those who attended gave very positive feedback and we learnt a lot from them.
The IAP (SA) invited speaker was Prof Runjan Chetty, who is currently working as
President: Professor D Govender
Secretary: Dr K Taylor
Treasurer: Dr M Duffield
Professor of translational pathology at Oxford University. He travelled around the country
after the congress giving lectures and adding in a few extras. The lectures were on a
variety of subjects, but mainly GIT pathology. Prof Sarah Pinder from London, who is a
breast pathologist at King’s college London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, was
kindly sponsored by the British division of the IAP. She also travelled around the country to
the various centres. It was a privilege to have had two such wonderful speakers.
We were also really fortunate to have an additional speaker Prof Andrew Field, who was
invited by cytopathology. He also contributed some really interesting and informative
cytopathology lectures.
Thanks and congratulations to the organisers of the congress, the University of
Witwatersrand, for organising such a successful meeting.
3. 52nd ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE FSASP 2013
The next FSASP congress will be held in Cape Town. The dates are still to be decided and
this conference will be combined with the technologists’ conference. The usual FSASP
congress will not be held next year as the IAP international meeting is to be held in Cape
Town in 2012.
4. 29TH INTERNATIONAL IAP CONFERENCE, CAPE TOWN 2012
The International IAP Conference will be held in Cape Town from 30 September to 5
October, 2012 at the Cape Town International Conference Centre. The organising
committee is headed by Prof Martin Hale. All anatomical pathology specialities are
covered with approximately 600 speakers attending. Some very well know names in
pathology will be presenting. Registrations for the conference are now open. I encourage
as many of you as possible to be there. A tremendous amount of work has been done and
this is a great opportunity for Cape Town and South Africa.
The members of the organising committee are as follows:
Prof Martin Hale
Dr Bruce Dietrich
Dr William Bates
Dr Helen Wainwright
Dr Pete Davies
Prof ROC Kaschula
Prof Johann Schneider
Dr Ellen Bolding
Deidre Cloete
Zelda Coetzee
President
Vice president
Treasurer
Secretary
Scientific committee/ Marketing and Sponsorship convenor
Logistics
Convenor of Scientific committee
Logistics/ Social Events Convenor
Conferences et al
Imfunzelelo
The website address for registrations and other information is:
www.iap2012congress.com
Please also check on the site for bursary application information for young pathologists
from Africa.
President: Professor D Govender
Secretary: Dr K Taylor
Treasurer: Dr M Duffield
5. TRAVELLING SEMINAR
The travelling seminar this year was presented by Dr Johan Dempers, from the University
of Stellenbosch Forensic Pathology Department. The seminar was excellent, and was very
interesting and instructive for forensic and anatomical pathologists. There was a lot of
positive feedback from those who attended. The next travelling seminar will be presented
in 2012 by Prof Jos Hille, oral pathology. The dates are still to be decided but the seminar
will probably take place in April or May.
6. MEMBERSHIP AND ANNUAL FEES
Thank you to all those who have joined the IAP and renewed your fees this year. Your
membership is greatly valued, as this allows us to invite (and pay for) expert speakers,
develop our website, and hopefully in the future form working relations with those outside
of our borders.
The IAP fees remain unchanged this year. Please would all departments encourage
registrars to join the IAP (SA) as we need their input, and want as many as possible to be
involved.
A new membership form will be sent out early next year with updated bank details. Please
would everyone try to pay as early in the year as possible to assist with the tax return and
also because we have to pay fees to the International IAP based on the number of
members we have.
If you wish to enquire about membership status up to the end of 2011 the person to
contact is Dr Maureen Duffield at Maureen.Duffield@uct.ac.za, but from 2012 your new
treasurer will be Dr Peter Swart at peter.swart@nhls.ac.za.
Please also if you have changed your home address or email address, or you discover
people that are not on the mailing list send the details to the new secretary, Agata
Czajkowski at agata.czajkowski@nhls.ac.za. Some of my email contacts are very out of
date and some of the people cannot be located.
7. IAP (SA DIVISION) WEBSITE
The IAP (SA) website can be visited at www.iapsouthafrica.co.za. We had a completely
new website developed last year, so please all have a look. The editorial committee
comprises Johann Schneider and Wayne Grayson. If you have interesting news, teaching
cases or educational material you would like to put on the website contact Johann
Schneider at jws2@sun.ac.za. If there are articles you think every anatomical pathologist/
forensic pathologist should read then send these to Johann. Anyone is welcome to make a
contribution. Research collaboration is also possible via the website. I would like to
encourage everyone to contribute.
President: Professor D Govender
Secretary: Dr K Taylor
Treasurer: Dr M Duffield
8. UPCOMING MEETINGS
USCAP meetings 2012
Diagnostic Cytopathology course
January 14 - 16, 2012. Scottsdale, Arizona.
101st USCAP Annual Meeting
March 17 - 23, 2012. Vancouver, Canada.
Practical Pathology Seminar
May 17 – 20, 2012. Boston.
Diagnostic Pathology Update Course
July 15 – 20 July, 2012. Bar Harbor, Maine.
The website for the above and other USCAP information is:
http://www.uscap.org
Mayo Clinic 19th International Surgical Symposium Seminar
May 1 - 4, 2012. Zagreb, Croatia
Website: http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com/education/surgpath2012/
International Academy of Cytology
IAC Cytology Tutorial in Hong Kong
Feb 24 – 27,2012. Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre, University of Hong Kong
Website: http://www.cytology-iac.org/hong-kong-tutorial-2012
For additional information on international IAP events visit:
http://www.iaphomepage.org
For other congresses a useful website is:
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/conferences.html
9. USCAP
Useful short courses, valuable teaching material and the “virtual microscopy slide box” can
all be viewed on the website of the USCAP website http://www.uscap.org/
Material from congresses is also on the website. This website is sponsored by USCAP.
President: Professor D Govender
Secretary: Dr K Taylor
Treasurer: Dr M Duffield
10. HAPPY NEW YEAR
The IAP executive wishes you all a very happy and exciting 2012.
I would like to thank all of you who supported the IAP for the last 4 years of my term of
office as secretary. This has been a very rewarding time and I have got to know many of
you, who I otherwise would not have met. It has been a privilege to be involved with the
IAP(SA) and the pathologists of South Africa. I wish the new executive all the best. Please
give them and the IAP your continued support.
Best wishes,
KATHY TAYLOR
SECRETARY
IAP (SA DIVISION)
021 6705700
083 6759531
kathy.taylor@pathcare.co.za
President: Professor D Govender
Secretary: Dr K Taylor
Treasurer: Dr M Duffield