The Dr. Cam Coady Seminar was established to commemorate Dr. Coady’s great love of medicine and to ensure that his goals and objectives to achieve excellence in health care continue to be fostered. The yearly seminar will continue Dr. Coady’s dedication to the general improvement in patient care and to the advancement of education and research in the general operation of medical care.

Dr. Cam Coady was born in Vancouver, educated at Vancouver College and the University of British Columbia, and subsequently graduated in medicine from McGill University in 1949. He became Director of Laboratories at the Royal Columbian Hospital in January 1958 and developed a unique health care delivery program for laboratory medicine in the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia. This program provides a professionally integrated service for both hospitals and out-patients of the area, and includes services to 13 hospitals (over 2,000 acute care and 1,000 extended care beds), the B.C. Coroners’ Service and the out-patient laboratories of B.C. Biomedical Laboratories Ltd. The emphasis is on excellence in service to patients and physicians as recognized in the citation from the B.C. Medical Association where they described him as "the architect of lab medicine as it exists within organized medicine in British Columbia". Cam was awarded the B.C. Medical Association’s Silver Medal Award for his service to the profession on October 2, 1987.

Cam Coady Slide Seminar Topics:

Year	Topic	Speaker
2015	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar Osteoblasts in Health and Disease	Andrew E. Rosenberg, University of Miami
2014	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar: Gynecologic Pathology	Robert Soslow, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Medical College Cornell University, New York, USA
2013	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar: Pancreas and Biliary Tract Pathology	Volkan Adsay, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
2012	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar: Dermatopathology	Presenters: Dermatopathology Section, Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta 1400-1440 Duane Barber, Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta 1440-1520 Andrea Bruecks, Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta 1545-1625 Kelly Guggisberg, Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta 1625-1700 Martin Trotter, Calgary Laboratory Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2011	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar: Controversial Concepts and Diagnostic Challenges in Breast Pathology	1400-1530 Controversial Concepts and Diagnostic Challenges in Breast Pathology Malcolm Hayes, BC Cancer Agency. Vancouver, British Columbia 1545-1700 Controversial Concepts and Diagnostic Challenges in Breast Pathology Maria-Pia Foschini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2010	1400-1700 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar – Pathology of Melanocytic Lesions: Current Pitfalls and Solutions	1400‐1450 Martin Mihm, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1450‐1540 Boris Bastian, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 1610‐1700 Alan Spatz, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
2009	0830-1200 Chronic Liver Disease: Classification, Evaluation, Differential Diagnosis, and Mimics	Ian Wanless, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2008	0830-1200 Tumors of the Kidney and Urinary Bladder	David Grignon, Centennial Professor of Pathology, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vice Chair for Clinical Programs, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
2007	0830-1200 Dr. Cam Coady Slide Seminar: The Great Mimics-Infections and Tissue Diagnosis	0830-0915 Commonly Encountered Infections in Histopathology Runjan Chetty, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario 0915-1000 The Role of Cytology in the Diagnosis of Common and Exotic Infections William Geddie, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario 1030-1200 Infectious Disease Pathology: Anecdotes, Current Trends and Pathological Patterns Danny A. Milner, Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
2006	08:00-11:30: Cam Coady Slide Seminar Differential Diagnosis in Gynecologic Pathology: Opening a Treasure Chest, Avoiding a Pandora’s Box	Dr. Shawn K. Murray, Dalhousie University Medical School and QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS
2005	08:00-11:30 Non-Neoplastic Lung Disease (Pulmonary Vasculitis, Eosinophilic Diseases, Interstitial Pneumonias)	Dr. Andrew Churg, University of British Columbia Health Sciences Center, Vancouver, BC
2004	08:30-10:00 Differential Diagnosis of Liver Disease Based on the Pattern of Injury and Fibrosis 10:30-12:00 Problem Areas in Viral and Nonviral Hepatitis, Including Grading and Staging	Dr. Linda Ferrell, UCSF Department of Pathology, San Francisco, California
2003	08:30-12:00 Cutaneous Lymphoma: Perils and Pearls	Dr. Lorenzo Cerroni, University of Graz, Austria, and Dr. Noreen Walsh, Dalhousie University, Halifax
2002	Pathology of Head and Neck Tumors: Problems and Progress	Dr. Ken Berean, University of British Columbia Hospital, Vanvouver
2001	8:30-12:00 The Role of the Biopsies in the Evaluation of Barrett’s Oesophagus and Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Dr. Carolyn Compton, Chair, Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montréal
2000	08:30-12:00 Lymph Node Pathology	Dr. Sibrand Poppema, Dean of Medical Sciences, University Groningen & Academic Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
1999	08:30-12:00 Contemporary Issues in Urologic Pathology	Dr. V. Reuter, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, Cornell University Medical College, New York, and Dr. John Srigley, University of Toronto and Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga
1998	Selected Lesions in Thyroid Pathology	Dr. V. A. LiVolsi, Vice-Chair for Anatomic Pathology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Centre

- updated July 28, 2015 -