Newsletter of the
Toxicologic and Exploratory Pathology
Specialty Section of the SOT
Volume 3, Issue 3
November 2002
Society Of Toxicology News
Presidents corner, by Jeff Everitt
Dear TEPSS Members:
It is a pleasure to extend this greeting to you as your
TEPSS President. I hope that all of you had an enjoyable
summer but still managed to meet the early fall deadlines for
2003 SOT abstracts and award nominations. I encourage each
of you to actively participate in the upcoming 2003 annual
meeting in March. The venue in Salt Lake City, Utah promises
to be one of the best ever with a host of informative and
interesting Continuing Education courses, Symposia, and
Roundtables. Three of the four program submissions that were
given TEPSS sponsorship were accepted by the 2003 Program
committee and should enhance the quality of the meeting.
Continuing education courses presented by TEPSS members
at the annual meeting in 2002 in Nashville were among the
most popular and highly rated portions of the educational
program. Hopefully this outcome will continue in 2003.
I encourage each of you to serve as an ambassador for
pathology to recruit colleagues with an interest in the specialty
to join TEPSS. These are exciting days in experimental and
toxicologic pathology with a host of new technologies that are
revolutionizing the discipline. The importance of pathology
within toxicology research has never been greater or held as
much promise for advancement of our understanding of the
pathogenesis of xenobiotic-induced changes. Clearly our
specialty will grow in stature and importance within the
greater toxicology community as the promises of new
technologies in molecular pathology and biomedical imaging
come to fruition. I urge each of you to encourage young
pathologists and toxicologists to participate in TEPSS and
consider ways in which the specialty can enhance their career
growth.
On behalf of the executive committee of TEPSS I welcome
your ideas on how TEPSS can serve the membership. Please
contact me with any suggestions, criticisms, or general
concerns regarding the specialty group. Once again, I hope to
see each of you in Salt Lake City at the annual meeting.
Until then, have a great fall!!
--Jeff Everitt
Specialty sections proposed to SOT council a change in
dues structure. Council accepted the proposal with minor
modifications and the changes will go into effect with the
dues renewal at the end of the year. Council agreed to
reduce the dues to $15 per Specialty Section (it is now $25),
with students receiving one free Specialty Section
membership. This gets the dues structure back to pre-2001
levels and should encourage more Specialty Section
membership.
To make up the shortfall in revenue, the annual meeting
registration will be increased by $10 for regular members,
$20 for non-members, and $5 for students.
For every member who signs up for your Specialty Section,
your section gets $15 (with the exception of the students
who get in free). The revenue from the meeting registration
fee will be divided up based on how many of your Section's
members are attending the annual meeting.
People
belonging to multiple sections will have their increase
divided among the sections to which they belong. The funds
generated should be sufficient to fund specialty section
activities (e.g., modest receptions, student awards, etc.)
*****SOT 2003 Meeting Events******
Salt Lake City, Utah March 9–13, 2003
Three TEPSS sponsored programs that will take place at
the 2003 SOT Annual Meeting will include 2 CE courses
entitled:
”The Nuts and Bolts of Genetically Engineered
Mice in Toxicology"
"Integrating Toxicologic Pathology into
Compound Evaluation and Risk
Assessment II"
The latter course follows upon a similar successful course
that was held last year. In addition TEPSS is pleased to
co-sponsor a scientific session entitled
“Bioterrorism and its Toxicological Effects”
This is a timely topic of great general interest.
Toxicologic & Exploratory Pathology Specialty Section
Annual Meeting and Reception
will be on the evening of Monday, March 10.
Please attend and support your specialty section
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TEPSS Student Travel Awards
by Roger Renne
Our specialty section will sponsor
one award this year for a graduate
student's travel to the annual SOT
meeting in Salt Lake City March 9-13,
2003. To be considered for a student travel award, nominees
must be the senior author of an abstract accepted for
presentation at the annual SOT meeting, dealing with basic or
applied research on the pathogenesis of a toxic response. A
letter of recommendation from an academic advisor who is an
SOT member should accompany the application. Deadline for
submission of nominations for this award is January 10,2003.
Please see the SOT website (Information/Awards and
Fellowships/Specialty Section Awards) for details.
Membership in the Toxicologic and Exploratory
Pathology Specialty Section. Or what's in it for me?
by Doug Wolf
The importance of specialty sections to SOT cannot
be overemphasized. It is from out of the specialty sections
that most of the wonderful programming arises. The best and
most efficient way to have impact on the yearly educational
offerings at SOT is through a specialty section program
committee. Then, to gain support for your educational or
symposium idea one again must work through specialty
sections to get their endorsement for your idea. The best way
to work through and have influence on the direction of SOT
and offerings at the annual meeting is as a member of a
specialty section.
The goal of the Toxicologic & Exploratory Pathology
Specialty Section (TEPSS) is to inform the toxicology
community of the value and importance of pathology
assessment. The TEPSS does this by supporting continuing
education courses, workshops, and symposia that highlight
pathology endpoints in toxicity assessment.
We need as broad a support as possible to achieve
this mission through the regular SOT meeting as well as our
yearly specialty section meeting. Your paid membership is
vital for us to achieve these goals. For those of you whose
company or institution pays for your membership to
professional organizations, it may be as simple as
remembering to check the box next to the TEPSS before
sending in your yearly registration fee. For those of you
whose primary function is in pathology assessment, come to
our next specialty section meeting where you will find a group
with similar interests to network with and see a stimulating
presentation on a current issue important to the practicing
toxicologic pathologist. Remember the Toxicologic and
Exploratory Pathology Specialty Section will only be able to
influence SOT programming, making sure there is relevancy
to the pathologist, with your support.
Program for 2004 SOT Meeting. by B McCullough,
TEPSS Pres-Elect, 2004 Program Chairperson
Yes, the date is correct. Even though we are months
away from the 2003 SOT meeting it is time to start thinking
about and preparing for the 2004 meeting. The principal
mission of the Toxicologic and Experimental Pathology
Specialty Section of the SOT is to provide a framework for
contributing to the content of the SOT scientific program each
year. To sustain the success attained to date we must start
formulating ideas into proposals. For your information
nominations for presentations for each subsequent year’s
SOT must be submitted during the month (April) following
the annual meeting. To have any chance of being successful
in having nominated programs accepted preparation must
begin before the final month. The annual SOT meeting is
our opportunity to influence what SOT members hear about
toxicologic and experimental pathology. Let’s make the
most of this opportunity by submitting substantive proposals
for presentations. If you have an idea for a symposium,
continuing education course or workshop, please contact me
at Bruce.McCullough@aventis.com .
Executive Committee Teleconference Summary,
August 29, 2002. Meeting called to order at 11:02am. J
Everitt, B McCullough, G Foley, B Kerns & D Wolf in
attendance. R Renne sent regrets.
MEMBERSHIP: Jeff Everitt reported on the specialty
section presidents’ teleconference. There was a proposal to
decrease Specialty Section dues back to $15 and increase
the annual meeting dues by $10 to supplement the cost of
receptions for the specialty sections. The TEPSS executive
committee also discussed efforts to increase the section’s
membership by targeting potential members of SOT and emailing an overview of TEPSS’s contributions and urging
them to join. The membership campaign will be targeted
for the fall of 2002.
FINANCE DRIVE: Following the 2002 meeting, Bill
discussed the issue of soliciting funds from industry with
the SOT office. Bill will develop a target list of potential
contributors and draft a letter with the objective of mailing
by the fall of 2002. Funds will be used to increase Student
Travel Awards and support Specialty Section programs
during the annual reception. Bill will contact the SOT
office to see if changes in potential reception funding by
SOT has created any issues with industry support.
RECEPTION PROGRAM: There was discussion on
potential topics for the 2003 TEPSS reception. The goal
would be to have a 20-25 minute program. Potential topics
include career development, clinical pathology, flow
cytometry, metabonomics or MRI.
2003 SOT TEPSS-SPONSORED PROGRAMS
TEPSS had four submissions (sponsor or co-sponsor) for the
2003 Annual Meeting, of which three were accepted.
Topics accepted include genetically engineered mice,
bioterrorism and toxicologic pathology.
Discussion also included the need to begin planning for and
soliciting for 2004 programs (CE, Workshop, Symposia).
TEPSS FALL NEWSLETTER: George stated that the
goal was to publish a newsletter in October. This would
allow for distribution prior to SOT renewal notices. Articles
for the fall newsletter include a message from the President
(Jeff), a call for programs for 2004 Annual meeting (Bruce),
update on membership drive (Doug), announcement of the
Student Travel Award (Roger), summary of summer
teleconference (George).
Additional topics for the
newsletter are welcome.
NEXT MEETING:
The next meeting will be a
teleconference in mid-October. Updates on projects will be
reviewed and a program/speaker for the TEPSS reception
will be discussed.
MEETING ADJOURED:12:07pm Submitted by GL. Foley
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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF INTEREST
SOT 42nd Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah March
9–13, 2003
Toxicogenomics: The "New Biology" Revolution in
Environmental Health Sciences, November 4, 2002,
National Academies Auditorium, Washington, DC.
Contact: Jennifer Saunders, (202) 334-2616;
jsaunders@nas.edu.
British Toxicology Society Annual Congress, March 30–
April 2, 2003, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K.
Details from Clive Kind: +1509 644215;
clive.kind@astrazeneca.com.
American College of Toxicology 23rd Annual Meeting,
November 10–13, 2002, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Contact:
(301) 571-1840
22nd International Symposium of the Society of
Toxicologic Pathologists: Human Genome, June 1619, 2003, Westin Harbor Resort, Savannah, Georgia.
Contact: Clarissa Wilson, (703) 438-7508;
stp@toxpath.org; www.toxpath.org.
First Annual Human Proteome Congress. November 2124, Versailles, France.
www.hupo.org/new/first_annual_hupo_congress.html
20th International Neurotoxicology Conference: "Emerging
Issues in Neurotoxicology," November 18-21, 2002, The
Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, Arkansas. Contact: Joan
Cranmer, (501) 320-2986; CranmerJoanM@uams.edu. ,
www.neurotoxicology.com.
Principles of Pharmacokinetics and Toxicokinetics,
November 18-22, 2002, Westin La Paloma, Tucson,
Arizona. Contact: Michael Mayersohn;: (520) 626-1938;
or Lynne Mascarella,: (520) 626-3020.
ILSI Seminar: Emerging Technologies from Microscopy to
Non-invasive Imaging December 7, 2002. New Orleans,
LA. Contact: Fran DeLuca, 202-659-0074
American College Of Veterinary Pathologists meeting.
New Orleans, La, Dec 8-11, 2002 http://www.acvp.org
Environmental Endocrine Disrupters Conference Orlando,
Florida, Jan. 9-10, 2003,. Contact: Barbara Sherman,
(724) 457-6576; hnpacs@aol.com.
Toxicology Forum Winter Meeting, February 3-5, 2003,
Washington, DC. Contact: Toxicology Forum, (202) 6590030; toxforum@clark.net.
Teratology Annual Meeting, June 21–26, 2003, Loews
Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact
Teratology Headquarters, (703) 438-3104,
TSHQ@teratology.org, www.teratology.org
9th International Neurotoxicology Association Meeting,
June 23-27, 2003, Dresden, BG Institut Arbeit und
Gesundheit, F.R. Germany. Contact: Dr. Andreas
Seeber, 49 (0231) 10 84-323; seeber@ifado.de.
Toxicology Forum Summer Meeting, July 12-17, 2003,
Aspen, Colorado. Contact: Toxicology Forum, (202)
659-0030; toxforum@clark.net.
EUROTOX 2003 - the 41st Congress of the European
Societies of Toxicology, September 28-31, 2003,
Florence, Italy. Info: Ms. Marina Marinovich, ,;: + 39-22048-8225/8356;
marinamarinovich@mailserver.unimi.it
24th Annual Meeting of the American College of
Toxicology, November 2-5, 2003, Washington, DC,
USA. Info: Secretariat ACT,+ (301) 571-1840;
ekagan@actox.org. Web site: http://actox.org
Please feel free to contact your officers of the section with any questions, comments or suggestions. Your suggestions for
programs and membership are especially welcome and encouraged. The section exists to serve its members by providing
CE courses, workshops and symposium as well as supporting student travel.
Office
President
President elect
Sec-Treas
Councilor
Councilor
Councilor/ Past Pres
Name
Jeff Everitt
Bruce McCullough
George Foley
Term
2002-3
2002-3
2002-4
e-mail
jye40103@gsk.com
bruce.mccullough@aventis.com
george.foley@pfizer.com
Committee/Task
2003 Program
2004 Program
Newsletters
Roger Renne
2000-3
renne@battelle.org
Student Awards
Doug Wolf
Bill Kerns
2002-4
2002-3
Wolf.doug@epa.gov
billkerns@charter.net
Membership
Sage advice
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