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APCON 2026

Scientific Programme

Comprehensive Schedule & Sessions

IAPM Inauguration
6 PM Onwards
Detailed inaugural schedule will be updated shortly.
Morning Sessions - AUDITORIUM
8:30 - 10:15 AM DR KC Basu Mallick Award Papers (5) and KS Ratnakar Best Paper (4) Award Presentations PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
10:20 - 11:05 AM DR BK AIKAT Oration - Dr Asaranti Kar PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
11:10 - 11:25 AM | Tea Break & Poster Walk
11:25 AM - 12:10 PM Guest lecture 1 - Evolution of the taxonomy of soft tissue neoplasia in the molecular era: blessing or curse? Dr. Abbas Agaimy - Germany PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
12:15 - 1:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION 1 Crafting A career in Pathology: Opportunities & Challenges in the Era of Social Media Influence & AI
Shalini Mullick / S Shanthakumari Main Auditorium
1:00 - 2:00 PM | LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING (Extended lunch hours for poster presenters & reviewers)
2:00 - 5:00 PM | Parallel Sessions
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 Nadeem Tanveer Tripti Nakra 2:00 - 3:00 PM Hematolymphoid Tumors Saumya Ranjan Mallick Nodular Liver Lesions Rachna Chaturvedi Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Diagnostic Pathology Vivek Gupta MDS/MPN- Smears to sequence Bhushan Asthana
2:30 - 3:00 PM Art of Doing a Thesis Ravi Phulware Mukund N Sable
3:00 - 3:30 PM Morphological approach in soft tissue tumors K. Valarmathi 3:00 - 4:00 PM Appendicular Tumors Chaitra V Ear Tumors Varsha Dhume Pathology of Testis in DSD: Morphology, Mimics, and Malignancy Risk Uttara Chatterjee Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies Bidyut Krishna Goswami Rupsha Dutta Pal Rashmi Kushwaha Rakhee Kar Jaya Bagchi Samaddar
3:30 - 4:00 PM Know your Microscope Shilpi Sahu
4:00 - 4:30 PM Basic Grossing Techniques Sonal Sharma Anju Khairwa Nadeem Tanveer 4:00 - 5:00 PM Skin Appendageal Tumors Uma Nahar Saikia Thyroid Tumours Amit Kumar Adhya Advances in CNS Tumor Diagnostics in the Molecular Era Vaishali Suri Suvendu Purkait Anila Sharma Megha S. Uppin Going Beyond PT & aPTT- Viscoelastic Methods for Global Hemostasis Assessment Tushar Sehgal Narender Kumar Jyoti Kotwal
4:30 - 5:00 PM How to do Autopsy? Nandita Kakkar
5:00 - 8:00 PM POSTER REVIEW 5:00 - 8:00 PM PROFFERED PAPERS
Official Meetings & Dinner
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

Day 2: December 4th, 2026

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Morning Sessions - AUDITORIUM / HALLS
8:30 - 9:15 AM Dr Gaya Prasad Memorial Symposium: The Art and Science of Visuals in Pathology Dr Vijay Shankar S - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
9:20 - 10:05 AM ICP Oration TBD - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
10:10 - 10:55 AM Dr CI Jhala Oration TBD - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
10:55 - 11:15 AM | Tea Break & Poster Walk
11:20 - 12:05 PM Tamil Nadu Puducherry Chapter Oration TBD - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
12:05 - 12:40 PM Hematology Slide seminar/ panel discussion - From Flow Cytometry to Genomics: Evolving Diagnostics in Acute Leukemia Mrinalini Kotru Hall A PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium Panel Discussion 3 - Assessment Of Pathology Education In India (Panelists 6-3 students/3 teachers; 1 moderator) Dr. Anshu PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium
12:45 - 1:30 PM Guest lecture 2
“2026 WHO Update on Classification of Breast Tumors”
Dr. Kamaljeet Singh, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
1:30 - 2:00 PM | LUNCH & POSTER REVIEW
2:00 - 5:00 PM | Parallel Sessions
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 TBD 2:00 - 3:00 PM "Real Intelligence" in Unravelling Newly recognized/"provisional" tumor entities in bone and soft tissue tumors Bharat Rekhi Core Biopsies from Lung Mass Pramita Sahu Spindle Cell tumor of Breast Varuna Mallya Adrenal Tumours Sandhya Sundaram
2:30 - 3:00 PM Understanding Eye Histology Dilip K Mishra
3:00 - 3:30 PM Basics of Confocal Microscopy TBD 3:00 - 4:00 PM Deciphering Urinary Bladder Cancer-Basics, Morphology and Molecular Jitendra Singh Nigam Case-Based learning in Gynecological Cancer Pathology Santosh Menon Cervical Pathology at the Crossroads: Morphology, Molecular, and Machine Learning Charanjeet Ahluwalia Trephine biopsies interpretation (Stains, IHC and ISH) Tara Roshni Paul
3:30 - 4:00 PM Skin biopsies: pattern-based approach Amit K Yadav
4:00 - 5:00 PM POSTER REVIEW 4:00 - 5:00 PM PROFFERED PAPERS
Official Meetings & Banquet
4:00 - 5:00 PM ICP GBM Board Room
5:00 - 7:00 PM IAPM GBM Auditorium
8:00 PM Onwards Banquet Dinner

Day 3: December 5th, 2026

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Morning Sessions & Valedictory
8:30 - 9:15 AM TIMELY TOPIC "Quality control of AI assisted pathology" Lt Col (Dr) Parikshit Sanyal - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
9:20 - 10:35 AM Plenary Poster Award Session PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
10:40 - 11:40 AM USHA HARDAS INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYMPOSIUM - Infections of GIT: Clues under the microscope Karthikeyan TM Sakthisankari Shanmugasundaram Lavanya S, Professor L. Venkatakrishnan PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium PRACTICING PATHOLOGISTS' SESSION - Adoption of Digital Pathology & AI in the era of Precision Medicine Alok Sharma PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium
11:40 - 12:00 PM | Tea Break
12:00 - 1:00 PM APCON UG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round
Moderator: Indranil Chakraborty &
Team: Suvendu Purkait
Devajit Nath
Gunvanti Rathod
Parth Rajendragiri Goswami
Hall A PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium:
APCON PG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round
Moderator: Aditya Agnohotri & Team PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium:
1:00 - 1:30 PM Valedictory Function And Installation Of New Office Bearers
1:30 PM Onwards | Concluding Lunch

Day 4: December 6th, 2026

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