Pathology Updates 2025

Pathology Updates 2025

15-17 September 2025

Seminar Room @ Champalimaud Foundation

The Champalimaud Foundation is pleased to announce the second edition of the international course Pathology Updates 2025, taking place from 15 to 17 September 2025 in the Seminar Room of the Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon.

Organised in partnership with Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, this course builds on the success of the 2024 edition and continues its mission of offering high-impact, practice-oriented updates in surgical pathology and cytopathology.

About the Course

Pathology Updates 2025 offers a focused and practical approach to the diagnostic challenges encountered in surgical pathology and cytopathology. Over the course of three days, renowned international faculty will present lectures and engage participants in case-based discussions designed to stimulate critical thinking and diagnostic accuracy.

This edition will provide updated perspectives across a broad range of topics, including:

• Salivary gland cytopathology
• Pancreas, breast and lung pathology
• Mesothelioma and thoracic sarcomas
• Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (GEP-NENs)
• Cytology updates and uncommon tumour variants
• Diagnostic support technologies, including zebrafish models and biophotonics

With dedicated sessions for live case discussions, this course emphasises practical learning and multidisciplinary insights.

Course Objectives

• Identify and resolve complex diagnostic dilemmas through exposure to both routine and rare entities.
• Interpret and apply ancillary testing to improve diagnostic confidence and clarity.
• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration by linking pathology with clinical decision-making and oncological perspectives.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Surgical and cytopathologists in clinical practice;
• Pathology trainees and fellows;
• Medical laboratory professionals;
• Clinicians and researchers with an interest in pathology.

Programme

Check the programme for these three days of knowledge exchange, cutting-edge updates, and real-world pathology cases.

Registration

Registration for this course is free but limited to available seats. Admission is subject to the evaluation by the organising committee, which will assess the justification provided in the registration form. Please explain why you wish to participate in this course (maximum 200 words) in the corresponding form field.

Organization

Dr. Rafaela de Lima Rego is a Consultant in Anatomic Pathology at the Pathology Centre of Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown and Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre, since July 2023.

She is a practicing surgical pathologist with 22 years of experience in three different countries (Brazil, USA and Portugal). She served as faculty at the Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa, Francisco Gentil for 15 years and at Hospital da Luz de Lisboa for 9 years. She did her Medical Degree and Residency Program in Rio de Janeiro and her Fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Hepato-pancreaticobiliary pathology (GI-HPB) at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

As part of her activities, she performs diagnostic pathology in a complex GI-HPB consultation routine, participates in multidisciplinary consultations and therapeutic decision-making tumor boards in Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic and Liver tumors, has been a training advisor for residents at the Anatomic Pathology Residency Program, Director of many gastrointestinal and liver courses, author and co-author of several papers published in national and international scientific journals, author of 2 book chapters and participates in translational research projects, with special interests in GI-HPB pathology.

While at the Mayo Clinic, she met Dr. Alessandra Schmitt and from this friendship came the enthusiasm to create the Pathology Updates course. 2024 is going to be its' 5th edition and the second conducted at the Champalimaud Foundation.

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