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 Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
10:20 - 11:05 AM	Dr B K Aikat Oration Asaranti Kar — Professor and HOD, SCB Medical College, Cuttack Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
11:10 - 11:25 AM \| Tea Break
11:25 AM - 12:10 PM	Guest lecture 1 - Evolution of the taxonomy of soft tissue neoplasia in the molecular era: blessing or curse? Abbas Agaimy - Professor and Vice Chair of Pathology University Hospital Erlangen, Germany Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
12:15 - 1:00 PM	PANEL DISCUSSION — Crafting a career in Pathology: Opportunities & Challenges in the Era of Social Media Influence & AI Shalini Mullick — Specialist & HOD, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory, Delhi S Shanthakumari — Professor & Head, PSG IMS&R 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 Kitts and Nevis, West Indies Aneeta Jassar — Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead (UK) Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
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 Bansal Chagan Bihari Maurya Kekan	Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Diagnostic Pathology Vivek Gupta Anil Taragopula Sushant Vinikar	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 Vidhya Lakshmi S	Ear Tumors Varsha Dhume Expert Panelists: Asawari Patil Paromita Roy Anila KR Faculty Participants: Saral Madan Vishesha Adhvaryu Azmat Momin Anjali Balu Rakesh Gupta	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	Know your Microscope Shilpi Sahu	4:00 - 5:00	Skin Appendageal Tumors Uma Nahar Saikia Expert Panelists: Meera Thomas Sonal Sharma Rajalakshmi Tirumalae Sudheer Ararva Sonal Sharma Reena Tomar Priti Sanjay Sriram	Thyroid Tumours Amit Kumar Adhya Expert Panelists: Munita Meenu Bal Megha Joshi Suvradeep Mitra Debajyoti Chatterjee Faculty Participants: Jyoti Verma Meenakshi Mohapatro Veenaa. N.N	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
4:00 - 4:30	Basic Grossing Techniques Sonal Sharma Anju Khairwa Nadeem Tanveer
4:30 - 5:00	Medical autopsy - Impact of unveiling the final diagnosis 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 Vijay Shankar S Ranjan Agrawal Saranya Singaravel Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
9:20 - 10:05 AM	ICP Oration Vani Santosh - Professor, NIMHANS,Bengaluru Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
10:10 - 10:55 AM	Dr CI Jhala Oration Vatsala Misra - MLNMC, Prayagraj Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
10:55 - 11:15 AM \| Tea Break & Poster Walk
11:20 - 12:05 PM	Tamil Nadu Puducherry Chapter Oration Prathiba D - Professor and Consultant Pathologist Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research. Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
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 Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R	Panel Discussion 3 - Assessment Of Pathology Education In India (Panelists 6-3 students/3 teachers; 1 moderator) Anshu Siddhartha Dattagupta Asitava Deb Roy K Swaminathan Panelists (Postgraduate students) : Ezhil Oviya Buvanendra Babu Shraddha Singh Sherene Megha Hall B B Block Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
12:45 - 1:30 PM	Guest lecture 2 “2026 WHO Update on Classification of Breast Tumors” Kamaljeet Singh, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
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" Parikshit Sanyal Rajiv Kaushal Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
9:20 - 10:35 AM	Plenary Poster Award Session Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
10:40 - 11:40 AM	USHA HARDAS INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYMPOSIUM - Infections of GIT: Clues under the microscope Karthikeyan TM Sakthisankari Shanmugasundaram Lavanya S L. Venkatakrishnan Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R	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 B Block Auditorium, PSG IMS&R
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 - B Block Auditorium, PSG IMS&R:	APCON PG QUIZ 2026 - Platform Round Moderator: Aditya Agnohotri Team : Ranjana Ranade Basavaraj Yamkanamardi Main Auditorium, PSG IMS&R:
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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