Newsletter –Toxicologic and Exploratory
Pathology Specialty Group of the SOT
Volume 3, Issue 2 June 2002
Presidents corner, Jeff Everitt
It’s a pleasure to extend greetings to you as the
incoming President. I’d like to take this opportunity to
tell each of you that I’m available to listen to your
suggestions, criticisms, and general concerns regarding
TEPSS. Please feel free to contact me (919-558-1267 or
everitt@ciit.org).
I would like to thank the TEPSS Program Committee
(Kevin Morgan, JoAnn Schuh, Tom Monticello, and
Jerry Hardisty) for their efforts to solicit Continuing
Education Courses, Symposia, and Workshops for the
2003 SOT Annual Meeting. TEPSS was successful in
sponsoring two CE courses and a symposium for the
upcoming meeting to be held in March 9-13, 2003 at the Figure 1: Jeff Everitt's first act as president is to present a
plaque of appreciation to Bill Kerns, past president
Crystal Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Our specialty has much to contribute to the SOT
educational programs. I am happy to report that the Current Leadership
TEPSS-sponsored CE courses at 2002 annual meeting President: Jeff Everitt 2002-03
were very highly rated by participants and provided the Pres. elect: Bruce McCullough 2002-03
specialty group with significant visibility that should Sec-Treas: George Foley 2002-04
help us in our membership drive. It isn’t too early to Councilor: Roger Renne 2000-03
begin to think of good educational programs to be Councilor: Doug Wolf 2002-04
submitted for the 2004 Meeting to be held March 21-25 Councilor/Past Pres: Bill Kerns 2002-03
in Baltimore, MD. These submissions will be due very
quickly following the upcoming SOT Annual Meeting in New Specialty Section Guidelines adopted
Salt Lake City. Those that wish to serve on the TEPSS This past year, SOT council adopted guidelines to
Program Committee for the 2004 meeting should contact assist Specialty Sections in their service to SOT. The
either Bruce McCullough or myself. guidelines require each specialty section to submit a
I must take this opportunity to urge all of us to actively balanced budget to Council by June 1 of each year. If
recruit new members to TEPSS to ensure the vitality of a specialty section overspends their budget for two
our relatively new specialty section. Our goal is to consecutive years, council will work with officers to
double our membership, a very attainable goal. As assist them in keeping within their budget. The
always, I was impressed by the importance of our alternative would be termination of the specialty
specialty to the SOT when I traveled the aisles of posters section. In addition, if the number of dues paying
at the Annual Meeting and noticed the extensive use of specialty section members falls to less than 50 for
pathology data. We most definitely have an important three consecutive years, officers will be asked to
role to play in the Society. provide Council with a brief written account of
In closing, I would like to sincerely thank our founding specialty section accomplishments and a plan of action
officers for getting our specialty section started. These to insure that the specialty section will continue to
individuals include Drs. D. Reid Patterson, William fulfill a vital function within the Society. Council will
Kerns, Lynda Lanning, Hugh Black, C. Bruce work with the section to develop a plan to increase
McCullough, and Roger Renne. In particular I would membership and effectiveness or, if necessary, to
like to express my thanks to our Past President, Bill terminate the charter of the specialty section.
Kerns, who has been extremely committed and attentive
to the TEPSS.
Have a great summer! Jeff Everitt
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Membership drive aims to double size of Specialty Section Nashville SOT meeting overview
by next meeting by Bill Kerns The 2002 SOT meeting was held in the Opryland
Although our membership is strong at 47, there are Hotel in Nashville. According to the SOT’s
potentially many members of SOT who are either ACVP Communique, the week spent inside the hotel included
or STP members. During the past year and continuing 15 CE courses, 20 symposia, 13 workshops, a
through this year, we have initiated a membership roundtable discussion, 9 platform presentations and
campaign to attempt to attract additional SOT members greater that 60 poster sessions. The Toxicologic and
to join our group. Please help us in this membership Exploratory Pathology Specialty Section hosted a
drive by telling your colleagues about TEPSS and program on Bioimaging in Toxicologic Pathology by
encouraging them to join. The cost is $25/year and Xiaoyou Ying (Aventis) during its evening meeting
payable with you annual SOT dues. These monies are (figure 2). The program proved to be entertaining and
used to support student travel awards, poster awards and informative.
the annual TEPSS reception and council meeting at
SOT. Please visit the SOT website and make sure your
name is on the list of members of the Toxicologic &
Exploratory Pathology Specialty Section
(http://www.toxicology.org/memberservices/specsection
/specsection.html).
With increased membership, we can become less reliant
on SOT for funding and continue to host an annual
reception with invited speaker. Our goal for this year is
to double the size of the group. You will be hearing
more from us during the year about this initiative.
SOT 2002—Educational Sessions by Bill Kerns Figure 2: Xiaoyou provided an excellant overview of
It was a great year for our Specialty Section, with 5 bioimaging opportunities in toxicologic pathology
sessions organized by the TEPSS programming
committee and 8 sessions in total sponsored by TEPSS. TEPSS Student Travel Awards by Roger Renne
The sessions were all well attended. It is clear that there
is great interest among the general membership of SOT Our specialty section sponsored one award this past
in the contributions that the pathologist makes to hazard year for a graduate student’s travel to the annual SOT
identification and evaluation and in assessing risk. meeting. To be considered for a student travel award,
Below is a listing of the sessions from SOT 2002. nominees must be the senior author of an abstract
2002 Continuing Education Courses accepted for presentation at the annual SOT meeting,
Use of Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) in dealing with basic or applied research on the
Molecular Toxicology Research pathogenesis of a toxic response. A letter of
A Practical Approach to Blood and Lymphoid Tissue
recommendation from an academic advisor who is an
(BLT) in Toxicology Assessments
SOT member should accompany the application. Five
Integrating Toxicologic Pathology into Compound
Evaluation and Risk Assessment graduate students were nominated for this year’s
Toxicity Profiling of Genes and Proteins by student award:
Toxicologists: Advanced Topics in Toxicogenomics
Toxicology of Naturally Occurring Toxins – Don’t Mess Nominee Advisor Institution
with Mother Nature! Norman Barlow Paul CIIT Center for
2002 Symposium Foster Health Research
Michael Fisher Prakash Med College of
Drug-Induced Human Hepatotoxicity: Predictive
Nagarkatti Virginia
Strategies
Charlie Partridge Kenneth Texas A&M
Mitochondrial Toxicity: Clinical Importance, Models and
Ramos University
Mechanisms
Melinda Pomeroy Marion VA-MD Reg. Col
2002 Workshop
Ehrich of Vet Med
Drug-Induced Vascular Disease: Markers of Injury Harihara Univ of Louisiana
Pallavi Limaye
Mehendale Monroe
SOT 2002 is behind us now and we are planning for
2003 and 2004. Please get involved by volunteering to The winner of the student travel award was Pallavi
work with the TEPSS programming committee. Your Limaye. Her abstract was entitled Mechanisms Of
ideas are vital to the continued success of our specialty Progression And Regression Of Acute Liver Injury and
section. Resistance of Newly Divided Cells. Co-authors were
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U.M. Apte, T.J. Bucci, A. Warbritton, and H. M. Membership: Bruce reviewed lists of the 47 TEPSS
Mehendale. Ms. Limaye gave a brief presentation on her members. Based on comparing membership lists, there
poster at the evening meeting of the Specialty Section are approximately 400 SOT members who are STP &/or
(Figure 3). We urge TEPSS members involved in ACVP members. Bruce will organize a mailing list to be
graduate or residency training in toxicology or supplied to SOT to do an e-mail TEPSS membership
drive by the middle of April. The membership drive will
toxicologic pathology to make their students aware of
target May and late October. Doug will assume
this opportunity for travel to the SOT meeting. Further membership chair in May. The goal for the section is to
details on requirements and deadlines for next year’s double membership in the coming year.
student travel awards are available on the SOT website.
Student Awards: There were five submissions this
year. The nominees will be listed and then the winner
will present a 5-minute presentation on their paper at the
specialty section meeting. There will be a clarification
on the website to reflect that the submitter is the primary
contributor and a trainee.
Program: Jeff listed members of the program
committee for 2003: Kevin Morgan, JoAnn Schuh, Tom
Monticello, and Jerry Hardisty. The proposed symposia
for 2003 include such topics as: Transgenics (co-
sponsored with Vet specialty group), Renal toxicity (co-
Figure 3: The winner of the TEPSS Travel Award, Ms. sponsored with Mechanism) and Immunotoxicology.
Limaye, provided a brief overview to the Specialty Section at
the evening meeting. Budget: Reid submitted the annual report for 2001/02.
There was a discussion on soliciting small ($300 to
Summary of the Executive Committee held March 19, $500) donations from industry to TEPSS. Bill will draft
2002, Nashville a letter. Potential to target pathology contract
The meeting was called to order at 7:10am. The following laboratories, bioimaging companies, tissue informatics.
members attended: Jeff Everitt, George Foley, Bill Kerns,
Lynda Lanning, Bruce McCullough, Reid Patterson, Roger
Renne, Doug Wolf Communication: There was a discussion of setting a
There was positive feedback on TEPSS sponsored or co- goal of two newsletters, one mid summer and one prior
sponsored programs at the 2002 meeting. Bill Kerns updated to the SOT meeting. Discussions on material to include
council on the SOT specialty section presidents meeting. in the newsletters listed STP/ACVP activities, Program
Issues discussed included the proposed change in deadlines committee activities, Excepts from SOT newsletter,
from April 15 to April 31 for CE, symposia and workshop review of TEPSS successes at SOT meeting, pictures of
applications. There is a possibility that proceedings of future meeting activities.
symposia and workshops could be published.
There was also discussion on repetition of CE courses at 2003 Goal Setting:
approximately 3 year intervals with the potential of TEPSS to 1. Membership drive to double membership in the
sponsor CE courses of different organ systems each year. The coming year-Bruce/Doug
SOT Program Committee will distribute draft programs of the 2. Finance drive to solicit funds from industry
annual meeting by the end of September to Presidents of the sources-Bill
Specialty Sections to review for conflicts of sponsored 3. Awards will update the website-Roger
symposia or workshops. 4. Program to continue to impact on meeting
Council members also discussed the TEPSS website. There program-Jeff/Bruce
was a discussion about improving the content on our specialty 5. Communication will deliver 2 newsletters in the
section. Council has been requested to put the by-laws on the coming year-George
website.
No further business was presented and the meeting
Budget: Next year, the Specialty Sections will no longer adjourned at approximately 8:30 am (CST).
automatically receive money from SOT but each section will
receive funds from SOT based on membership dues collected.
Committee Reports
Elections: Reid reported the results of the election
B McCullough is President Elect (2002-03)
G Foley is Secretary-Treasurer (2002-04)
D Wolf is the new Councilor (2002-04)
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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF INTEREST
Genetically engineered mice in the pharma. industry 20th European Society of Vet Pathol
Chicago, Ill, July 7-10, 2002 Turin, Italy, September 18-21, 2002
www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ceps/itp5 http://www.esvponline.org/default/index.html
European pathology course Pharmacogenetics: From bench to bedside.
Institut fur Tierpathologie, Univ. Bern The New York Academy of Medicine.
July 18-20, 2002 New York, NY., Oct 3-4, 2002
www.vetmed.unibe.ch/itpa http://www.nyam.org
Model Organisms for Drug Devel Conf First Annual Human Proteome Congress
IBC Life Sciences November 21-24, Versailles, France
Boston, MA, August 8-9, 2002 www.hupo.org/new/first_annual_hupo_congress.html
http://www.lifesciencesinfo.com/2713/?source=2713-38
National Society of Quality Assurance
RTP Rodent Pathology Course Albuquerque, N.M.
Research Triangle Park, NC October 14-18, 2002
September 8-10, 2002
http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/info/ce/rodent.htm American College Of Veterinary Pathologists meeting
New Orleans, La, Dec 8-11, 2002
2002 Primate Pathology Workshop http://www.acvp.org
Calif Regional Primate Research Center
Monterey, CA, September 8, 2002 SOT 42nd Annual Meeting
http://www.nhp2002.ucdavis.edu Salt Lake City, Utah
March 9–13, 2003
Please feel free to contact your officers of the section with any questions, comments or suggestions. Your suggestions for
programs and membership are especially welcome and encouraged. The section exists to serve its members by providing
CE courses, workshops and symposium as well as supporting student travel.
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