Brennan Prize Presentation A$1,000

Registrars and prospective trainees in dermatology or pathology are encouraged to present a paper related to dermatopathology at the ADS conference. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and presentations should be a maximum of 10 minutes.

Abstracts will be published in the Australasian Journal of Dermatology.

Clinicopathological Gems

Pathologists, dermatologists and registrars are invited to participate in this popular segment, giving a short presentation on illustrative cases they have encountered.

Abstracts should be no longer than 150 words. Presentations should be no longer than 5 minutes. Multiple presentations may be accepted.

Abstracts should be emailed to suepeck@xtra.co.nz - by 26th June 2009.

SP Conference Management

PO Box 4400

Palmerston North 4442

New Zealand

Phone - 64 6 3571466

Keynote Speakers

Dr Clay Cockerell M.D

Clay J. Cockerell, M.D. is a practicing dermatologist and dermatopathologist in Dallas, Texas. He is Director of Cockerell and Associates Dermpath Diagnostics Laboratories, Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Director of Dermatopathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

He is also the owner of Cockerell Dermatopathology Consultation Services.

Jaime Eduardo Calonje MDDipRCPath

Director of Dermatopathology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London, United Kingdom for the last 10 years. St John’s is the main Skin Center in the United Kingdom and it is a national and international referral center. I personally organize three of the four training courses in dermatopathology in the United Kingdom and in the last 5 years I have given over 100 invited lectures in many countries in America, Europe, Africa and Asia. I was co-editor and have now been appointed the main editor of one of the major best-selling dermatopathology books in the world (Skin pathology with clinicopathological correlations, 2 volumes, 2000 illustrations). I have published 125 peer reviewed papers, 8 chapters in books (including Lever Histopathology of the Skin and Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology) and more recently an Atlas of Melanocytic lesions (co-author).

The conference will run over three days, finishing around midday Sunday and include a varied and interesting program with a broad range of topics in both neoplastic and inflammatory dermatopathology. We are privileged to have two distinguished keynote speakers of international repute as well as several well known local and international speakers. A tribute session to the late Professor Ackerman is being organized. The conference dinner will be held on the Saturday night at the heritage Hotel.