Course: Methodology of exploring pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications

Frontline clinical diabetes research will be covered by international top researchers with focus on the following methods used in clinical diabetes research: Epidemiology, methods of evaluation of insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, immunology, genetic, epigenetic, the gut microbiotica and the role of incretins and other treatment modalities. Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, MODY and gestational diabetes will be covered. Research methods evaluating the impact on the next generation and the different late diabetic complications as retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and macrovascular disease will also be dealt with.

1. Time & place
2. Who can attend?
3. Learning objectives
4. Programme & speakers
5. Organisers
6. Registration 

TIME & PLACE

Dates: 

• Wednesday – November 13, 2019
• Thursday – November 14, 2019
• Friday – November 15, 2018 – all days 09.00  - 16.00

Venue: The Auditorium, Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology  2132, Rigshospitalet. Entrance no. 2, 13^th floor, 9, Blegdamsvej, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø

WHO CAN ATTEND?

PhD. students as well as medical doctors with special interest in this field. There is a maximum of 24 participants.

Relevance to graduate programmes

The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

• Basic Metabolic Research
• Clinical Research

Learning objectives

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Obtain knowledge and insight in a wide spectrum of research methodology covering clinical aspects of type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, MODY and gestational diabetes.
2. Obtain knowledge and insight in pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications in the present and future generations.
3. Present their own research briefly and obtain contacts and networking with top researchers from a wide spectrum of international top 10 diabetes research centers

PROGRAMME & SPEAKERS

Full programme

Course director

• Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, MD, DMSc

Teachers

• Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Niels Eiskjær, Ph.D.
• Bente Klarlund Pedersen, professor, DMSc
• Torben Hansen, Professor, Ph.D.
• Niels Jessen, Ph.D.
• Marit Eika Jørgensen, Chief Physician. Ph.D.
• Michael Larsen, MD, DMSc
• Steen Madsbad, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Ole D. Madsen, Director for Research
• Thomas Mandrup Poulsen, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Birger Thorsteinsson, Professor, MD, DMSc
• Tina Vilsbøl, Professor, Chief Physician, DMSc
• Kirsten Nørgaard, Chief Physician, DMSc

ORGANISERS

Contact person: Gitte Karina Geil, gitte.karina.geil@regionh.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser: fak-phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

REGISTRATION

Please register before November 1, 2019. Register here.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.