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APCON 2026

Scientific Programme

Comprehensive Schedule & Sessions

IAPM Inauguration
6 PM Onwards
Culturals and Dinner
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
11:15 AM - 12:10 PM Guest lecture 1 - TBD 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
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 2:00 - 3:00 PM Oncopathology: Mixed Bag Sumeet Gujral Liver Nodules Rachna Chaturvedi Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Diagnostic Pathology Saumya Ranjan Mallick / Vivek Gupta MDS/MPN- Smears to sequence Bhushan Asthana
2:30 - 3:00 PM Art of Doing a Thesis TBD
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
3:30 - 4:00 PM Know your Microscope Shilpi Sahu
4:00 - 4:30 PM Basic Grossing Techniques Sonal Sharma 4:00 - 5:00 PM Skin Appendageal Tumors Nita Khurana Thyroid Tumours Amit Kumar Adhya Advances in CNS Tumor Diagnostics in the Molecular Era Vaishali Suri Going Beyond PT & aPTT- Viscoelastic Methods for Global Hemostasis Assessment Tushar Sehgal
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 PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium: Hematology Slide seminar/ panel discussion - From Flow Cytometry to Genomics: Evolving Diagnostics in Acute Leukemia
Mrinalini Kotru
PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium: Panel Discussion 3 - Assessment Of Pathology Education In India (Panelists 6-3 students/3 teachers; 1 moderator)
TBD
12:45 - 1:30 PM Guest lecture 2 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 PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium: USHA HARDAS INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYMPOSIUM - Infections of GIT: Clues under the microscope
Sakthisankari Shanmugasundaram
PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium: PRACTICING PATHOLOGISTS' SESSION - Adoption of Digital Pathology & AI in the era of Precision Medicine
Alok Sharma
11:40 - 12:00 PM | Tea Break
12:00 - 1:00 PM PSG IMS&R B Block Auditorium: APCON UG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round
Moderator: Indranil Chakraborty & Team
PSG IMS&R Main Auditorium: APCON PG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round
Moderator: Aditya Agnohotri & Team
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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