Dates:

Thursday-Saturday
20-22nd of February 2025

Venue

Seminar room: Bioptical laboratory, Rejskova 10, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Maximum capacity:

Multihead session: 29 participants
Lectures: up to 120 participants

Course description:

Friends of B&ST Pathology is a meeting focused on hot topics in bone and soft tissue pathology. The program will start with an interactive slide seminar at multihead microscope. There are limited number of seats at the multihead microscope (maximum capacity is 29 people) available for those that register earliest. For other participants, the slides will be projected on a screen in the auditorium. The multihead section will be followed by lectures (maximum capacity is 120 participants) covering a broad spectrum of novel or problematic topics in bone and soft tissue pathology. The scientific program will be prepared by a large group of bone and soft tissue pathology experts (around 20-25 pathologists) from all over the world. A dinner and social program will be organized for each evening.

Topics

• Novel entities
• Update on selected tumor categories (update on tumors with skeletal muscle differentiation etc.)
• Updates on site specific mesenchymal tumors (novel head and neck mesenchymal tumors etc.)
• Problematic/controversial entities and terminology

Course director

Michael Michal, Department of Pathology
Šikl´s Department of Pathology
Charles University Hospital and Medical Faculty Pilsen
Czech Republic
and Bioptická laboratoř s.r.o., Pilsen
Czech Republic

Speakers

Abbas Agaimy (Erlangen, Germany), Fernanda Amary (London, UK), Cristina Antonescu (New York, USA), Daniel Baumhoer (Basel, Switzerland), Greg Charville (Stanford, USA), John Chrisinger (St. Louis, USA), Nooshin Dashti (Lebanon, USA), Carina Dehner (Indianapolis, USA), Josephine Dermawan (Cleveland, USA), Julie C. Fanburg-Smith (Hershey, USA), Karen Fritchie (Cleveland, USA), John Gross (Baltimore, USA), Yin Hung (Boston, USA), Michael Kallen (Baltimore, USA), Kemal Kosemehmetoglu (Ankara, Turkey), Isidro Machado (Valencia, Spain), Anders Meyer (Kansas City, USA), Michael Michal (Pilsen, Czech Republic), Petur Nielsen (Boston, USA), David Papke (Boston, USA), Raul Perret (Bordeaux, France), Bharat Rekhi (Mumbai, India), Andrew Rosenberg (Florida, USA), Vaiyapuri Sumathi (Birmingham, UK), David Suster (New Jersey, USA)

Registration and Fees

Registration Fee:
100 Euro (lectures) - includes lectures and discussions, 2 lunches, 4 coffee breaks,
50 Euro (slide seminar) - includes participation on slide seminar – a seat at multihead

For registered foreign guests we offer individual transportation from/to Prague airport for 70 Euro/person (both trips from/to airport), provided the exact flight information (flight number, date and time of arrival/departure) are supplied by a registered participant by February 17 at the latest. Please send you flight details to kratochvilova@biopticka.cz.

There will be 2 dinners for speakers and participants (Thursday and Friday evening). Price is 30 Euro/person/dinner.

There will be a tour of the famous Pilsner Urquell brewery. Price is 15 Euro/person.

Based on online registration, each registered person will receive a proforma invoice. After registration, please wait until the proforma invoice is sent before payment. Czech participants will receive an invoice with fees in CZK (at the exchange rate 1 EUR = 26 CZK).

Accomodation

You can book any accommodation you choose on your own. There are plenty of hotels. Please use booking.com or other favourite application.

The speakers will stay at Vienna House, which is close to laboratory.
Parking is available in the hotel garage or in a very close public parking house (just opposite to the hotel, much cheaper).

Other suggested hotels (however there are plenty of smaller hotels around):

• Marriott Hotel
  Courtyard Pilsen by Marriott
• Vienna House
  Vienna House Easy by Wyndham Pilsen
• Hotel Rango

Transportation

• By plane – Prague Airport is the most convenient choice for anybody planning to arrive by plane. The airport is some 50 minutes away by car. For registered foreign guests we offer individual transportation from/to Prague airport for 70 Euro/person (see information above).
• By train – Pilsen is easily accessible from Munich (Germany) or Prague by train. The Pilsner central station is in a walking distance from the venue (less than 5 minutes).

Cancellation

When you register, you are agreeing to comply with the following cancellation fee schedule:

• 20% of the agreed amount if the cancellation is made before November 19th, 2024 inclusive.
• 50% of the agreed amount if the cancellation is made between November 20th, 2024 – January 19th, 2025 inclusive.
• 100% of the agreed amount if the cancellation is made from January 20th, 2025 inclusive, onwards.

For cancellation policy of the hotels, please, contact the web-sites hotels and hostels.