Society News

Links to upcoming meetings

Here is a series of links to national and international neuropathology meetings – please contact davidhilton@nhs.net if you have a meeting that you would like added to the list.

cIMPACT-NOW (important updates available)

cIMPACT-NOW (the Consortium to Inform Molecular and Practical Approaches to CNS Tumor Taxonomy) was created under the sponsorship of the International Society of Neuropathology in late 2016—following publication of the 2016 Updated 4th Edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System “blue book”—to provide a forum to evaluate and recommend proposed changes to future CNS tumor classifications. While it is understood that the major impact on international brain tumor classification comes about through the WHO classification update process (cIMPACT-NOW is “Not Official WHO”), it has been hoped that this additional process will “see impact” in selected tumor types and in periods between the WHO classification updates. Thus, cIMPACT-NOW updates are not intended to supplant the existing WHO classification, but to provide possible guidelines for practicing diagnosticians and future WHO classification updates. More information on cIMPACT-NOW can be found in the following publications:

New ISN book – Developmental Neuropathology (second edition)

This is a completely revised and updated edition of Developmental Neuropathology covering brain development; chromosomal changes; malformations; secondary malformations and destructive pathologies; developmental vascular disorders; acquired metabolic and exogenous toxins; metabolic disorders; sudden infant death syndrome; paediatric head injury;