Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative dementias
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3513-23-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 01/07/2023

Date and time	04.09.2023, at: 09:00 - 07.09.2023, at: 16:00
Regular seats	26
Course fee	4,400.00 kr.
Lecturers	Gunhild Waldemar
ECTS credits	2.60

Contact person	Eva Havskjær E-mail address: eva.havskjaer@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), 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. Understand the pathophysiology of the dementia disorders 2. Describe risk factors for dementia disorders 3. Have insight into the most used research methodologies in research in dementia disorders 4. Explain the basics of diagnostic assessment of patients with dementia 5. Define key concepts in dementia research Content The course will focus on research into neurodegeneratiove dementias with special emphasis on Alzheimer´s disease. Specific topics covered include clinical presentation and course of demetnias, pathogenesis and neuropathology of Alzheimers´s disease, imaging and biofluids, genetics of demetias, risk factors and epidemiology, and neuropsychology of dementia. Participants Participants may be PhD-students and other researchers working with research in clinical translational or basic sciences in neurodegenerative disorders. Participants may be medical doctors, psychologists, nurses, engineers, data analysts, physiotherapists and others. Participants will be expected to read relevant research articles which will be provided prior to 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: - All graduate programmes Language English Form Lectures in the morning and exercises in the afternoon Course director Gunhild Waldemar, professor, DMSc Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Gunhild.waldemar.01@regionh.dk Teachers Gunhild Waldemar Professor, MD, DMSc, Consultant neurologist Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Kristian Steen Frederiksen MD, PhD, Consultant neurologist Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Patrick Ejlerskov MSc, PhD Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Steen Hasselbalch Professor, Consultant neurologist, MD, DMSc; Memory Clinic, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Asmus Vogel Associate professor, neuropsychologist, MSc, PhD; Memory Clinic, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Jette Stokholm (TBC) Neuropsychologist, MSc, PhD Memory Clinic, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Per Borghammer, (TBC) professor, MD, PhD Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Jørgen Nielsen (TBC) Professor, MD, PhD, Consultant neurologist Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Rik Ossenkoeppele (TBC) MSc, PhD, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.and Clinical Memory Research Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Christina Jensen-Dahm (TBC) MD, PhD Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Casper de Boer MSc, PhD, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andrew Sommerlad (TBC) MD, PhD, Principal Research Fellow Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Lutz Frölich MD, Professor Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Zentralinstitut Für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany Janet Janbek (TBC), MSc, PhD, Post doc. Danish Dementia Research Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Oskar Hansson (TBC) Professor, MD, consultant Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. Memory Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Dates 4th-7th of September 2023 Course location Danish Dementia Research Centre, Section 8007, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Registration Please register before 1st of July 2023 Expected frequency Again in 2025 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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