Advanced Diagnostic Dermatopathology Course 2025

Date:  20th Sep. - 24th Sep, 2025;  then live interactive scanned slide discussions on Saturdays in October (10am-12pm) up to 8 hours and access to 30 hours of recorded sessions of interactive scanned slides discussion. Live interactive power point presentations (covering most inflammatory and neoplastic skin disorders)
On-line access to 1200 scanned slides (common and rare examples of inflammatory and neoplastic lesions of the skin) and access to the recorded interactive discussion sessions covering 1100 scanned slides (18 ‘2-hour videos’; (total 36 hours)).

Duration

9 days  

Topics covered

  • Introduction to basics of clinical dermatology (common diseases) for pathologists

  • Inflammatory: Bullous lesions, spongiotic, lichenoid, psoriasiform, granulomatous, vasculopathic and panniculitic dermatitides, perforating disorders, metabolic disorders, dermal deposits, infections, invisible dermatoses, nail disorders, cutaneous infections, vulval pathology, alopecia & folliculitis

  • Neoplastic: Epidermal tumours and their differential diagnoses & cysts, adnexal tumours (follicular tumours, sebaceous tumours and sweat gland tumours), vascular tumours, melanocytic lesions, dermal spindle cell lesions, histiocytic proliferations, cutaneous T-cell lymphomas & mimics, cutaneous B-cell lymphomas & mimics, EBV-driven cutaneous lymphoprolifertaive disorders, leukaemia cutis and interesting cases.

CPD

80 CPD points

Who should attend?

  • Pathologists & Dermatologists preparing for the Dermatopathology Diploma or the American Board of Dermatopathology exams

  • Pathologists & Dermatologists practicing General pathology &/or Dermatopathology

  • Doctors planning to pursue a career in Dermatopathology.

Location

Virtual

Course organisers

  • Professor Hazem Ibrahim, Consultant Dermatopathologist & Dermatologist (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Dr Preethi Gopinath, Consultant Histopathologist, Director of Medical Education, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

  • Dr Hend Ahmed, Histopathology trainee doctor, North West London Deanery

  • Dr M Daruish- Senior Dermatopathology clinical fellow Dorset County hospital, Dorchester, UK

Speakers

  • Prof Hazem Ibrahim: Consultant Dermatopathologist & Dermatologist (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), London, UK

  • Dr Victoria Swale; Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), London, UK

  • Prof Dr Eckart Haneke:  Consultant Dermatologist, Dept Dermatol, Inselspital, Univ Berne, Germany

  • Dr Saleem Taibjee; Consultant Dermatologist & Dermatopathologist, Dorset County Hospital & Poundbury Cancer Institute, UK

  • Dr Nicholas Tiffins: Consultant Dermatopathologist, St George’s university hosp.& Sheffield teaching hospital, UK

  • Dr James Carton: Consultant Dermatopathologist, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

  • Dr Willia Rickaby: Consultant Dermatopathologist, UCLH NHS trust, UK

  • Prof Nicolas Ortonne: Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Henri Mondor Hospital, & Paris Est Creteil University (UPEC), Creteil, France

  • Dr Ibrahim Khalifeh- Consultant Pathologist, Greater Cincinnati Pathologists, The Christ Hospital, US

  • Dr E Ieremia- Consultant Dermatopathologist,  John Radcliffe Hospital  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Dr S Al-Hayssat- Consultant pathologist with special interest in Dermatopathologist (UK)

  • Dr A. Bakshi- Consultant Dermatopathologist, Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Liverpool

  • Dr K Holte- Consultant Dermatopathologist, Royal Victoria Hospital (UK)

  • Dr M Daruish- Senior Dermatopathology clinical fellow Dorset County hospital, Dorchester, UK

Contact Dr Hend Mahfouz Dermpath24@gmail.com for more details, or visit https://drhazemdermpath.com and https://bookwhen.com/drhazemdermpath.