At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:

• Apply a practical approach to technical issues in processing pulmonary pathology specimens.
• Describe the life cycle of diffuse alveolar damage.
• Recognize and assess granulomatous disease of the lung.
• Describe the diagnostic features of lung adenocarcinoma.
• Differentiate neoplastic and inflammatory lung disease.
• Analyze key features of unusual interstitial pneumonia of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and its mimics.

Program

- Diagnosing Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma in the Molecular Age: Doing More With Less

Carol Farver, M.D.

- Interstitial Lung Pathology: What Every Pathologist Needs to Know

Carol Farver, M.D.

- Dealing with Small Samples: Pulmonary Cytology-Histology Correlation

Jennifer A. Brainard, M.D.

- All You Ever Wanted to Know About UIP

Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

- Not Your Grandpa?s Thoracic Pathology: Changes in Concepts, Diagnoses, Terminology, and Therapy in the last 10 years

Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

- Key Pearls of Interstitial Lung Disease and Their Mimics That Should Change Your Approach

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.

- Lung Adenocarcinoma: What Do I Need to Know?

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.

- The Importance of Clinical and Radiologic Correlation in Pulmonary Pathology

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.

- Controversies in Lung Pathology

Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

- How Biopsy Technique (Transbronchial, Cryo, or Needle Biopsy) Changes Your Pathologic Approach

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.

- What To Do With the Blue Biopsy

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.

- Approach to Important Non-Adenocarcinoma Thoracic Neoplasms

Kevin O. Leslie, M.D.