APCON 2026 – 74th Annual Conference of IAPM & IAP-ID | Coimbatore

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 - Professor and Vice Chair of Pathology University Hospital Erlangen, 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 Panelists Garima Jain, Scientist E- Medical \| ICMR-National Institute of Digital Health & Data Science, Delhi Payal Keswarpu, Director, Clinical Science and AI Data Curation, RWE Informatics, Concert AI, Bangalore Sachin Kale, Kale Path Lab and MGM Medical College, Chhatrapati D. Jeevan, Medical University of the Americas, Saint kit and Nevis, West Indies Dr Aneeta Jassar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead (UK) 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
Time	BEGINNERS CAFE HALL A	TIME	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 Expert Panelists: Rakhee Kar Elanthenral Segamani Ganesh K V Faculty participants: Saumyaranjan Prashant Ramteke Ganesh	Nodular Liver Lesions Rachna Chaturvedi Expert Panelists : Siddhartha Datta Gupta Kedar Deodhar Munita Bal Faculty participants : Surbhi Goyal Malini Eapen Subash Yadav Nalini Balsal Chagan Bihari Maurya	Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Diagnostic Pathology Vivek Gupta Anil Traigopula Sushant Vinirkar	MDS/MPN- Smears to sequence Bhushan Asthana S Venkatesan Ankur Ahuja Rama Hariharan
2:30 - 3:00 PM	Art of Doing a Thesis Ravi Phulware Mukund N Sable	2:00 - 3:00 PM
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Morphological approach in soft tissue tumors K. Valarmathi	3:00 - 4:00 PM	Appendicular Tumors Chaitra V Expert Panelists : Malathi M Ruchi Mittal Shanthi Velusamy Faculty participants : S Shanmuga Priya Sivaranjani S Sujith Sudhir Shalaka A. Deshpande Dr Vidhya	Ear Tumors Varsha Dhume Expert Panelists : Asawari Patil Paromita Roy Anila KR	Pathology of Testis in DSD: Morphology, Mimics, and Malignancy Risk Uttara Chatterjee Seema Kaushal Suravi Mohanty Umamaheswari G	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	3:00 - 4:00 PM
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 Rajalakshmi Tirumalae Sudheer Ararva Sonal Sharma Reena Tomar Sanjay Sriram	Thyroid Tumours Amit Kumar Adhya Expert Panelists: Suvradeep Mitra Debajyoti Chatterjee Faculty Panelists: TBD	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	Medical autopsy - Impact of unveiling the final diagnosis Nandita Kakkar	4:00 - 5:00 PM
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 Dr Ranjan Agrawal - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium Dr Saranya Singaravel - PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium
9:20 - 10:05 AM	ICP Oration - Dr. Vani Santosh - Professor, NIMHANS,Bengaluru 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 Gurmeet singh Shilpi More Shivangi Harankhedhar 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 Dr. Siddhartha Dattagupta Dr. Asitava Deb Roy Dr. K Swaminathan Hall B 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
Time	BEGINNERS CAFE HALL A	TIME	Hall B	Hall C	Hall D	Hall E
2:00 - 2:30 PM	Basic Nomenclature Used in Molecular Pathology Deepak K Mishra	2:00 - 3:00 PM	"Real Intelligence" in Unravelling Newly recognized/"provisional" tumor entities in bone and soft tissue tumors Bharat Rekhi Abbas Agaimy Sunil Pasricha Adarsh Barwad	Core Biopsies from Lung Mass Pramita Sahu Gayatri Rath Tummidi Santosh	Spindle Cell tumor of Breast Varuna Mallya Shramana Mandal Monika Singh Anila Sharma J Sree Rekha Aminder Singh	Spotlight on Adrenal Tumours Sandhya Sundaram Chandramouleeshwari Poonam Elhance Swaminathan Usha Kini
2:30 - 3:00 PM	Understanding Eye Histology Dilip K Mishra	2:00 - 3:00 PM
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Basics of Confocal Microscopy R Selvakumar	3:00 - 4:00 PM	Deciphering Urinary Bladder Cancer-Basics, Morphology and Molecular Jitendra Singh Nigam Ashok Singh Jyotsna Naresh Bharti Seema Kaushal Biswajit Dey Tarun Kumar	Case-Based learning in Gynecological Cancer Pathology Santosh Menon Anila Sharma Preethi Divya Midha	Cervical Pathology at the Crossroads: Morphology, Molecular, and Machine Learning Charanjeet Ahluwalia Shilpi Agarwal Sana Ahuja	Trephine biopsies interpretation (Stains, IHC and ISH) Tara Roshni Paul Shantveer G Uppin Faiq Ahmed
3:30 - 4:00 PM	Skin biopsies: pattern-based approach Amit K Yadav	3:00 - 4:00 PM
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 Rajiv Kaushal
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 Sangeeta B Desai Rajeev Kaushal Rajiv Tangri Vinod PK Kunal 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 Chakrabarty & 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 : Ranjana Ranade Basavaraj Yamkanamardi 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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