Achieving an integrated diagnosis of diffuse adult type gliomas and the clinical management of gliomas.
Join us in this Future Oncology webinar, designed for medical trainees.
Dr Kate Stewart will present on the topic "Neuropathology of diffuse adult type gliomas: achieving an integrated diagnosis". Diffuse adult-type glial tumours are the most common malignant primary tumours of the Central Nervous System. Diagnosis based on histology alone is no longer sufficient in the molecular era.
This will be a brief discussion of the interaction between histopathology, immunohistochemistry and molecular testing in coming to a final integrated diagnosis that allows accurate classification of tumours, enabling enrolment in clinical trials.
Dr Lawrence Cher will also provide an overview of the clinical management of gliomas.
Dr Stewart is an anatomical pathologist and medical educator. She trained at the Austin, Royal Children's and Women's Hospitals and the Alfred Hospital, and obtained her Fellowship of the RCPA in 2005. She has worked as a pathologist in both the public and private sectors throughout Melbourne, with special interests in breast, skin and neuropathology. Dr Stewart has earned a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education and is working towards her Masters qualification.
Lawrence is a neurologist treating headaches, stroke and epilepsy and specialising in brain tumours, and gliomas.
He graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney with Honours, completing his FRACP in 1988. He performed his Neurology training at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and the Austin Hospital.
He completed post-graduate Neurologyand Neuro-oncology training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was involved in the care and treatmentof patients with brain tumours, as well as patients with neurologic complications associated with cancer.
On return to Australia he set up the Neuro-oncology clinic at Austin Health, and private practice. He has been involved in clinical trials, and is a foundation member of the Society of Neuro-oncology, a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and COGNO.
