PROGRAM

Thursday, 20 September, 2007

9.00 - 18.00 EFC Basic Colposcopy Course*
Chairs: Charles Redman, Carl Chow

9.00- 13.00. Part 1

13.00. - 14.00 Lunch

14.00. - 18.00 Part 2

*The Course is sponsored by Cytic

19.00 - Opening Ceremony
- Welcome Speeches
- Guest Lecture:
   The Natural History of HPV Infection: Unresolved Issues - Ciaran Woodman (UK)
- Social Program
- Welcome Reception

Friday, 21 September, 2007- Morning

9.00 - 10.00 Basic Sciences and Lower Genital Tract Pathology
Chairs: Thomas Loening (Germany), Branko Stanimirovic (Serbia)

9.00 - 9.30 Pathogenesis of Cervical Cancer: Theoretical Concept and Clinical Application – Magnus von Knebel Doebritz (Germany)

9.30 - 10.00 Free Communications

9.30 - 9.40 Use of Biomarker (Bm3a) to Determine High Risk Population for Developing Recurrent Cervical Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions - Asfaq M. Khan, Albert Singer, Theresa Wang, Daniel Ndiseng

9.40 - 9.50 Immunocytochemical Techniques Development in Early Precancerous HPV Induced Lesion Prognosis - Nikos Kiriakopoluous, Stavroula Tsitlakidou, Panagiotis Akritopoulos et al.

9.50 - 10.00 T-cell subsets in the cervix and the effects of HIV infection - Shahla Ahmed, Margaret Johnson, Len Poulter

Discussion

10.00 - 11.00 Psycho-Social Aspect of Cervical Cancer Prevention
Chairs: Willy Poppe (Belgium), Vesna Kesic (Serbia)

10.00 - 10.20 Psycho-Social Issues in Screening for HPV and CIN - Patrick Walker (UK)

10.20 - 10.35 Importance of Reintegrating HPV Vaccination and Screening  Programs
- Sonia Pagliusi (UICC)

10.35 - 10.50 Cervical Cancer Prevention: the Need for Public Health Education
- Philip Davies (ECCA)

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30 Novel Optical Imaging Techniques in Detection of Cervical Cancer
Chairs: Antony Basta (Poland), Jose Moutinho (Portugal)

11.30 - 11.50 The Place of Real-Time Screening for Cervical Neoplasia
- Albert Singer (UK)

11.50 - 12.30 Free Communications

11.50 - 12.00 A Novel Optical Imaging Technology for the In-Vivo Detection and Grading, and Guiding Biopsy Sampling and Treatment of Cervical Neoplasia
- Costas Balas

12.00 - 12.10 Dynamic Spectral Imaging for the In Vivo Detection and Quantitative Grading of Cervical Neoplasia: Clinical Evaluation
– William Patrick Soutter, Simos C, Perryman et al

12.10 - 12.20 Epitheliometer - An Impedance Probe for The Detection of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia - Latha Balasubramani

Discussion

12.30 - 13.15 Satellite Symposium: Polartechnics
Electronic Medical Records at Point of Care and Impact on Clinical Practice.

13.15 - 14.00 Lunch

Friday, 21 September, 2007- Afternoon

14.00 - 14.45 European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening
Chairs: Santiago Dexus (Spain), Emmanuel Diakomanolis (Greece)

14.00 - 14.15 HPV and Cervical Cancer Epidemiology in Europe
- Ahti Antilla (Finland)

14.15 - 14.30 Overview of the Status of the Art of New Screening Methods in Cervical Cancer in Europe - Marc Arbyn (Belgium)

14.30 - 14.45 Management of Abnormal Findings - Joe Jordan (UK)

14.45 - 15.30 Cervical Cancer Screening: Future Alternatives?
Chairs: Marc Arbyn (Belgium), Daniel da Silva (Portugal)

14.45 - 15.00 LBS vs. Conventional Smear - Christine Bergeron (France)

15.00 - 15.15 VIA in Screening: Does it Have a Role in Europe
- Kunter Yuce (Turkey)

15.15 - 15.30 HPV Testing in Primary Screening - Urlich Petry (Germany)

15.30 - 16.00 Free Communications

15.30 - 15.40 Can Visual Inspection of Cervix After Application of Acetic Acid Replace Cervical Smear Test, in Cervical Screening Program
- Mohini Vachhani, Ajit Virkud

15.40 - 15.50 Cytological History of Cervical Invasive Cancer - Boulanger Jean Charles, Gondry J, Sevestre Henry

Discussion

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 - 16.50 Sponsored lecture: Digene hc2 HPV DNA Test : Past Experience and Perspectives of Application - M. Krestanpol (Germany)

16.50 - 17.45 Practical Colposcopy
Chairs : J.C. Boulanger (France), Goran Dimitrov (Macedonia)

16.50 - 17.05 Colposcopy in the Management of HPV Infection - Vera Prilepskaya and Svetlana Rogovskaya (Russia)

17.05 - 17.20 Colposcopy of Glandular Lesions - Goran Grubisic (Croatia)

17.20 - 17.35 The Role of Colposcopy and Cytology in Recurrent Disease Diagnosis
- Antony Basta (Poland)

Discussion

17.45 - 18.15 Renzo Barasso Award : Case Reports

18.15 - 19.00 Satellite Symposium: Merck
The Prophylactic Value of Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine- Present and Future
- Gregg Sylvester (USA)

20.30  - Gala Dinner

Saturday - 22 September, 2007- Morning

8.30 - 9.30 Management of CIN
Chairs: Juergen Heinrich (Germany) J-L Leroy (France)

8.30 - 8.45 To Treat or Not to Treat Low Grade Disease - Theo Helmerhorst & Aagje Bais (Netherlands)

8.45 - 9.00 Improvements in Treatment of CIN - Pat Soutter (UK)

9.00- 9.15 Residual Disease- Walter Prendiville (Ireland)

Discussion

9.30 - 10.00 Free Communications

9.30 - 9.40 Risk of Cervical and Other Cancers After Treatment of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia- Ikka Kalliala, Pekka Neiminen, Eero Pukkala, Ahti Antila

9.40 - 9.50 Predicting Persistence/Recurrence After Conisation for High Grade CIN
- Gustavo Mendinhos, Jos Silva Periera, A. Pedro et al.

9.50 - 10.00 Audit and Re-Audit of Management Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Cervix Over an Eight Year Period - Bella Noel

10.00 - 10.30 EFC Consensus Guidelines for the Management of CIN
- Mahmood Shafi (UK)

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.00 Cervical Glandular Intraepithelial Neoplasia
Chairs: Christine Bergeron (France), Andjelka Knezevic (Serbia)

11.00 - 11.10 Free Communication
Management of Atypical Glandular Cells on Cervical Cytology: A National Non-Consensus? - Saswati Maitra, Shahla Ahmed, Linda Tan et al.

11.10 - 11.20 Cytology of Cervical Glandular Intraepithelial Lesions
- Ermina Ilijazovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

11.20 - 11.35 Cervical Glandular Intraepithelial Lesions: The View of Pathologist
- Thomas Loening and C.Kuehler-Obbarius (Germany)

11.35 - 11.50 Management of Adenocarcinoma in Situ - Santiago Dexeus and Damian Dexeus (Spain)

Discussion

12.00 - 12.30 Special Lecture
Microinvason in Lower Genital Tract Pathology - Frank Girardi (Austria)

12.30 - 13.30 EFC General Assembly

13.30 - 14.30 Lunch

Saturday, 22 September, 2007- Afternoon

14.30 - 15.30 Vulvar Disease
Chairs: Pat Soutter (UK) , Milica Berisavac (Serbia)

14.30 - 14.50 Difficult Vulva - Monserat Carrarach (Spain)

14.50 - 15.10 Vulvar Manifestations of HIV Infection - Franco Anglana (Italy)

15.10 - 15.30 Terminology of Vulvar Intraepithelial Lesions - Mario Sideri (Italy)

15.30 - 16.00 Free communications

15.30 - 15.40 Treatment of High Grade VAIN - Jean Louis Leroy

15.40 - 15.50 Heparinase Has a Causative Role in Provoked Localized Vulvodynia
- Jacob Bornstein

15.50 - 16.00 Clinical Outcome of Anogenital Neoplasia Among Women With HIV
- Konstantin J. Dedes, Christine Beneder, Nicolas Samartzis et al.

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 - 18.00 Survey of European Programs & Accreditation in Colposcopy
Chairs: Charles Redman (UK), Vladimir Boskovic (Serbia)

16.30 - 16.45 German Program for Accreditation in Colposcopy
- Jurgen Heinrich (Germany)

16.45 - 17.00 Spanish Program for Accreditation in Colposocopy
- Javier Cortes (Spain)

17.00 - 17.15 Colposcopy Training and Accreditation in Sloveina
- Andrej Mozina (Slovenia)

17.15 - 17.30 National Colposcopy Training in Serbia: 10 Years of Experience
- Branko Stanimirovic, Vesna Kesic (Serbia)

17.30 - 17.45 Colposcopy Training in Europe - Results of the EFC Survey
- Simon Leeson (UK)

Discussion

18.00 Awards Ceremony:
Santiago Dexeus, Vesna Kesic, Urlich Petry
• Renzo Barasso Award for the Best Case Report
• Award for the Best Presentation
• Award for the Best Poster
• Welcome to EFC 2009 in Berlin

Farewell