APCON 2026 Comprehensive Schedule & Sessions
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IAPM Inauguration 6 PM Onwards Culturals and Dinner |
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| Morning Sessions - AUDITORIUM | |
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| 8:30 - 10:15 AM | DR KC Basu Mallick Award Papers (5) and KS Ratnakar Best Paper (4) Award Presentations |
| 10:20 - 11:05 AM | DR BK AIKAT Oration - Dr Asaranti Kar |
| 11:10 - 11:25 AM | Tea Break & Poster Walk | |
| 11:15 AM - 12:10 PM | Guest lecture 1 - TBD |
| 12:15 - 1:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION 1 Crafting A career in Pathology: Opportunities & Challenges in the Era of Social Media Influence & AI |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING (extended lunch hours for poster presenters & reviewers) | |
| 2:00 - 5:00 PM | Parallel Sessions | ||||||
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| Time | BEGINNERS CAFE HALL A |
TIME | MODERATED SLIDE SEMINARS | CMEs | HEMATOLOGY | |
| HALL B | HALL C | HALL D | HALL E | |||
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | Virtual Tour of Pathology |
2:00 - 3:00 PM | Oncopathology: Mixed Bag |
Liver Nodules |
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Diagnostic Pathology |
MDS/MPN- Smears to sequence |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Art of Doing a Thesis |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Morphological approach in soft tissue tumors |
3:00 - 4:00 PM | Appendicular Tumors |
Ear Tumors |
Pathology of Testis in DSD: Morphology, Mimics, and Malignancy Risk |
Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM | Know your Microscope |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 PM | Basic Grossing Techniques |
4:00 - 5:00 PM | Skin Appendageal Tumors |
Thyroid Tumours |
Advances in CNS Tumor Diagnostics in the Molecular Era |
Going Beyond PT & aPTT- Viscoelastic Methods for Global Hemostasis Assessment |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | How to do Autopsy? |
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| 5:00 - 8:00 PM | POSTER REVIEW | 5:00 - 8:00 PM | PROFFERED PAPERS | |||
| Official Meetings | |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | IJPM EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING - Board Room |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | IAPM EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING - Board Room |
| 8:00 PM Onwards | DINNER |
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| Morning Sessions - AUDITORIUM / HALLS | ||
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| 8:30 - 9:15 AM | Dr Gaya Prasad Memorial Symposium: The Art and Science of Visuals in Pathology - |
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| 9:20 - 10:05 AM | ICP Oration - |
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| 10:10 - 10:55 AM | Dr CI Jhala Oration - |
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| 10:55 - 11:15 AM | Tea Break & Poster Walk | ||
| 11:20 - 12:05 PM | Tamil Nadu Puducherry Chapter Oration - |
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| 12:05 - 12:40 PM | PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium : Hematology Slide seminar/ panel discussion - From Flow Cytometry to Genomics: Evolving Diagnostics in Acute Leukemia - |
PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium: Panel Discussion 3 - Assessment Of Pathology Education In India (Panelists 6-3 students/3 teachers; 1 moderator) |
| 12:45 - 1:30 PM | Guest lecture 2 - | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 PM | LUNCH & POSTER REVIEW | ||
| 2:00 - 5:00 PM | Parallel Sessions | |||||||
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| Time | BEGINNERS CAFE HALL A |
TIME | Oncopath | ||||
| Hall B | Hall C | Hall D | Hall E | ||||
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | Basic Nomenclature Used in Molecular Pathology |
2:00 - 3:00 PM | "Real Intelligence" in Unravelling Newly recognized/"provisional" tumor entities in bone and soft tissue tumors |
Core Biopsies from Lung Mass |
Spindle Cell tumor of Breast |
Adrenal Tumours |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Understanding Eye Histology |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Basics of Confocal Microscopy |
3:00 - 4:00 PM | Deciphering Urinary Bladder Cancer-Basics, Morphology and Molecular |
Case-Based learning in Gynecological Cancer Pathology |
Cervical Pathology at the Crossroads: Morphology, Molecular, and Machine Learning |
Trephine biopsies interpretation (Stains, IHC and ISH) |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 PM | Skin biopsies: pattern-based approach |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | POSTER REVIEW | 4:00 - 5:00 PM | PROFFERED PAPERS | ||||
| Official Meetings | |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | ICP GBM - Board Room |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | IAPM GBM - Auditorium |
| 8:00 PM Onwards | Banquet Dinner |
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| Morning Sessions & Valedictory | ||
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| 8:30 - 9:15 AM | TIMELY TOPIC "Quality control of AI assisted pathology" - |
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| 9:20 - 10:35 AM | Plenary Poster Award Session - | |
| 10:40 - 11:40 AM | PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium : USHA HARDAS INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYMPOSIUM - Infections of GIT: Clues under the microscope |
PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium : PRACTICING PATHOLOGISTS' SESSION - Adoption of Digital Pathology & AI in the era of Precision Medicine |
| 11:40 - 12:00 PM | Tea Break | ||
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium : APCON UG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round |
PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium : APCON PG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round |
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | Valedictory Function And Installation Of New Office Bearers | |
| 1:30 PM Onwards | Concluding Lunch | ||
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