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Research methods used in diabetes and its complications 
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3202-18-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 14/10/2018
Date and time14.11.2018, at: 09:00 - 16.11.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats23
Course fee2,040.00 kr.
LecturersElisabeth Reinhardt Mathiesen
ECTS credits2.00
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 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

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
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

Language
English

Form
Lectures and discussions.


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

Dates
Wednesday – November 14, 2018
Thursday – November 15, 2018
Friday – November 16, 2018 – all days 09.00 - 16.00

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 October 14, 2018

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.

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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