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Exercise as Medicine: in a Translational Perspective
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3240-23-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 28/02/2023
Date and time20.03.2023, at: 08:45 - 23.03.2023, at: 15:45
Regular seats20
Course fee6,600.00 kr.
LecturersMathias Ried-Larsen
ECTS credits3.10
Contact personEmil Green Toft    E-mail address: cfas-events.rigshospitalet@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. have an understanding of the application of translational research in exercise medicine,

2. have developed the ability to critically evaluate current research in exercise as medicine,

3. have gained insight, understanding and appreciation of exercise as medicine within a range of different diseases and settings,

4. have been presented with the requirements for developing clinically viable studies including exercise interventions within the fields of cancer, diabetes, and cardiopulmonary diseases,

5. and have received training in 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 translationally, i.e., 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. During the course we will discuss the future of Exercise as Medicine through the linse of Precision Medicine. Centre for Physical Activity Research gives priority to dissemination of research not only 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 concise 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 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 Cancer Research

Basic and Clinical Research in Musculoskeletal 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. During the course, time is set aside for the students to meet, interact and discuss with the invited internationally renowned researchers. The international symposium day will include presentations and discussions of current research topics and critical opinions within different fields of exercise, clinical and pre-clinical research.


Course director
Mathias Ried-Larsen, Assoc. Professor (SDU) and research group leader, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, e-mail: mathias.ried-larsen@regionh.dk
and
Cody G. Durrer, PhD, postdoc, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, e-mail: cody.garett.durrer@regionh.dk


Teachers
Alejandro Lucía
Professor of Exercise Physiology, the Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of Madrid, Spain

Anne May
Professor, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands

Bente Klarlund Pedersen
Professor and Centre Director, Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Casper Simonsen
Senior Researcher, Group leader, PhD., Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Graham Finlayson
Professor, University of Leeds, School of Psychology, Leeds, UK

Henrik Bo Wiberg Larsson
Professor, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ismael Gögenur
Professor, DMSc, Consultant,Dept. Surgery, Center for Surgical Science, Zealand University Hospital, and Institute for Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Jonas Salling Quist
Postdoc, PhD., Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark

Julie Midtgaard
Clinical Professor, Psychologist, Glostrup Mental Health Centre and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Kasper Lage
Ph.D., M.B.A., Managing Director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Martin Gibala
Professor, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Canada

Melitta McNarry
Professor, Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University, UK

Morten Lund
Postdoc, PhD., Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Morten Zacho
External Assoc Prof., University of Southern Denmark, and Senior Manager, Kompan Fitness Institute, Denmark

Ruth Loos
Professor, PhD, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Steen Hasselbalch
Professor, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ulrik Winning Iepsen
Postdoc, PhD, Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Dates
20 – 23 March 2023


Course location
Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet


Registration
Please register before 28 February 2023

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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