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ECP 2015 ·
Belgrade
Dear Colleague,
The beautiful city of Belgrade will host the 27
th
European Congress of Pathology.
Pathology is undergoing many important changes from within and from the
outside. By using novel techniques we are gaining better understanding
of diseases, enabling us to make better diagnoses. Geneticists, molecular
biologists, bioinformaticians, and information technologists are providing us
with novel tools and knowledge that is improving our work. The theme for the
2015 ECP congress, Pathology, breaking barriers in medicine, is therefore very
timely: as pathologists we have many interactions with other disciplines and
the evolution of our field has impact on medical decisions in everyday practice.
It is not easy to keep up with everything that is on going, but the ECP tries to
serve the educational needs of pathologists. Moreover, the European Society
of Pathology feels strongly about the role of science in the developments that
steer our practice. Thus, educational needs are always integrated in scientific
progress. A good diagnosis is based on the understanding of the processes we
see through our microscopes or, increasingly, on our screens.
The congress will have organ-based sessions as programmed by our working
groups, special sessions on teaching, quality assessment and public awareness,
andmost importantly, key-note lectures which will enlighten us on developments
outside pathology which affect us very much. No other meeting for pathologists
has such a broad scope and at the same time is so focussed on what we do, in
academia and in general pathology laboratories.
Belgrade is a city with a long, often turbulent history and has seen rapid
advancement in the past years. lt is therefore a good place to feel the old and
the new, and, like in pathology, we need to cherish them both!
Han van Krieken
President of the European Society of Pathology
Jovan Lole Vasiljević
Chair of the Local Organising Committee
Sanja Milenković
President of the Serbian Society of Pathology
Welcome Address
Jovan Lole Vasiljević
Sanja Milenković
Han van Krieken
