Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Exercise as Medicine: from Man to Molecule
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3240-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 12/10/2018

Date and time	12.11.2018, at: 09:00 - 15.11.2018, at: 17:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	5,880.00 kr.
Lecturers	Pernille Højman
ECTS credits	3.30

Contact person	Marie Kvistgaard E-mail address: marie.kvistgaard@regionh.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD 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). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. 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 have: 1. gained an understanding of the application of translational research in exercise medicine, 2. developed the ability to critically evaluate current research in exercise as medicine, 3. gained insight, understanding and appreciation of exercise as medicine within a range of different diseases and settings, 4. been presented the requirements for developing clinically viable studies including exercise interventions within the fields of cancer, diabetes, and cardiopulmonary diseases, 5. and received training and demonstrated the ability to disseminate and communicate his/her PhD project in a clear and effective manner. Content The course will focus on the application of exercise training in the management of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health. These areas will be covered from an epidemiological perspective, across integrative physiological evidence to mechanistic molecular insight into the interplay between exercise training and disease. In addition, the students will be presented to challenges in designing and concluding on exercise interventions trials, as well as barriers for implementing and maintaining people and patients in active lifestyles. Center for Physical Activity Research gives priority to dissemination of research to colleagues, but also to lay people. Therefore we have found it of interest to include sessions in the PhD course program that aim at qualifying the students to communicate their PhD project in a clear and short manner. Participants The course is aimed at experienced PhD students with a background as MD, MSc or equivalent, who are interested in exercise physiology, clinical application of exercise or exercise and public health. Preferably, the PhD student should have initiated his/her research project. Before the course starts the participants are expected to prepare themselves by writing a synopsis for the pitching of their project. A template for the synopsis will be circulated prior to the course. This will be used for pitch training and short presentations during the course. Relevance to graduate programs The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programs at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH (but perhaps also from other programs): Basic Metabolic Research Clinical Research Basic Clinical Research in Musculoskeletal and Oral Sciences Language The PhD course will be given in English. Form The PhD course consists of two integrated parts – a three-day PhD course with lectures and student presentations (including training in research dissemination/communication) – and a one day international symposium. The course days will include in-depth overviews of the interaction between clinical care and exercise from a translational perspective. Moreover, topics on critical application of research results as well as research communication will be brought into the discussion and teaching. The international symposium will include presentations and discussions of current research topics and critical opinions within different fields of exercise, clinical and pre-clinical research. Included in the symposium program are time slots during which the students can pitch their own projects, as trained during the course, thus providing them with a unique opportunity to present their work to a broad audience. Lastly, during both the course and the symposium time is set aside for the students to meet, interact and discuss with the invited internationally renowned researchers. Course directors Pernille Højman, postdoc and research group leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, e-mail: phojman@inflammation-metabolism.dk Mathias Ried-Larsen, postdoc and research group leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, e-mail: mathias.ried-larsen@regionh.dk Teachers and moderators Allan Vaag (moderator) Vice President, Innovative Medicines and Early Development, Early Clinical Development, AstraZeneca, Sweden Anna M. Campbell Associate Professor, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland Bente Klarlund Pedersen Professor, Director, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark Camilla Scheele Associate Professor, NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research and Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark Carsten Lundby Professor, Group Leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark Frank Booth Professor, Departments of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, and Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Dalton Cardiovascular Institute, University of Missouri, USA Fredrik Karpe Professor of Metabolic Medicine and Hon. Consultant Physician, University of Oxford, UK Jesper Frank Christensen Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, Denmark Julie Gehl (moderator) Professor, Clinical Oncology, University of Copenhagen. Chief Physician, Zealand University Hospital, Denmark Julie Midtgaard Senior researcher and associate professor, University Hospitals Centre for Health Research, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kristian Karstoft Postdoctoral fellow, Group Leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, Denmark Maiken Nedergaard Professor, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mark Febbraio Senior Principal Research Fellow, Head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory and the Diabetes and Metabolism Division, the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia Mathias Ried-Larsen Postdoctoral fellow, Group Leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Joyner Professor, The Human and Integrative Physiology and Clinical Pharmacology laboratories, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA Morten Zacho Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Pernille Højman Postdoctoral fellow, Group Leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Robin Christensen Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology & Head of the Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Denmark Rudi G. J. Westendorp Professor, Center for Healthy Aging, Section of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steen G. Hasselbalch Professor, Senior Physician, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark Søren Nielsen (moderator) Postdoctoral fellow, Group Leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, Denmark Ulrik Dalgas MSc, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Public Health - Sport Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark Dates 12th – 15th November 2018 Course location Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet Registration Please register before 12th October 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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