Dear Colleagues:

Salutations! The Spring Meeting in Boston is now history. It was a very productive and very exciting meeting in an awesome venue. As a group, we were present to thank David Parham for his excellent leadership as SPP President over the past year, and we welcomed Jeff Goldstein as the new SPP President. We were privileged to have Richard van Praagh deliver our 2009 Farber-Landing Lecture, wherein he provided fascinating personal insights into the history of congenital cardiac disease pathology and treatment. The Disorders of Intersex Symposium was a big success, incorporating discussions of surgical, pathologic, and ethical aspects of the management of patients with these complex disorders. This meeting offered our most extensive menu to date of Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs), for the Symposium and for all six of the highly educational Workshops offered at the meeting. An extensive panel of virtual slides as preview cases for the Transplantation Workshop was also introduced. The standing-room only attendance at several platform and poster sessions spoke highly of the vitality and enthusiasm of the pediatric pathologists and trainees participating. The SAM Post-tests will be available online within the next few days. Please don't forget to submit your Online Meeting Evaluation, which provides important feedback to the SPP, helping to improve future educational offerings and meetings.

Until next time, Robert E. Ruiz SPP Website Editor (last updated 3-11-09)