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

Activity no.: 3202-22-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/10/2022
Date and time16.11.2022, at: 09:00 - 18.11.2022, at: 16:00
Regular seats24
Course fee3,720.00 kr.
LecturersElisabeth Mathiesen
Bo Feldt-Rasmussen
Mads Hornum
Lene Ringholm
ECTS credits2.10
Contact personLene Ringholm    E-mail address: lene.ringholm.02@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), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants 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 leading international 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: Evaluation of insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, immunology, genetic, epigenetic, epidemiology, inflammation and the role of incretins, SGLT 2 antagonists, glucagon 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 diabetic complications as hypoglycaemia, 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
Lene Ringholm, MD, PhD
Mads Hornum, associate professor, MD, PhD


Teachers (subject to change)
Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Niels Eiskjær, PhD
Torben Hansen, Professor, PhD
Niels Jessen, PhD
Michael Larsen, MD, DMSc
Steen Madsbad, Professor, MD, DMSc
Thomas Mandrup Poulsen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Ulrik Pedersen-Bjerregaard, Professor, MD, DMSc
Tina Vilsbøl, Professor, Chief Physician, DMSc
Kirsten Nørgaard, Professor, Chief Physician, DMSc
Dorte Vistisen, Associate Professor, PhD
Flemming Pociot, Professor
Arne Astrup, Senior project director, Professor, MD, DMSc
Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen, Associate Professor
Lene Ringholm, MD, PhD
Mads Hornum, Associate Professor, MD, PhD


Dates
Wednesday – November 16th, 2022
Thursday – November 17th, 2022
Friday – November 18th, 2022 – all days 09.00 - 16.00


Course location
The Auditorium, Department of Nephrology 2132, Rigshospitalet
Entrance 2, 13th floor, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø


Registration
Please register before October 1st 2022

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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