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Diabetes Research - Methodology of exploring pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications.
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3202-17-00-01 
Enrollment deadline: 17/10/2017
Date and time08.11.2017, at: 08:00 - 10.11.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee2,280.00 kr.
LecturersElisabeth Mathiesen
ECTS credits2.10
Contact personGitte Karina Geil    E-mail address: gitte.karina.geil@regionh.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will:

a. 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.
b. Obtain knowledge and insight in pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications in the present and future generations.
c. Present their own research briefly and obtain contacts and networking with top researchers from a wide spectrum of international top 10 diabetes research centers


Content
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.


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

Language
English

Form
Lectures and discussions.

Course directors
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

Course secretary
Gitte Geil, Department of Endocrinology P 2132, Rigshospitalet
Entrance no.2, 13th floor, 9, Blegdamsvej, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø.

Dates
8-10 November 2017

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

Registration: Please register before 11 October 2017

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

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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