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The official language of the conference is English. No simultaneous translation will be provided.

See: Overall Time Schedule

Plenary lectures

Thursday, June 14th

09.15  – 10.00  
The birth of the meta-physician. A vision for good doctoring in a hi-tech world

 Richard Horton Chief Editor of The Lancet, UK   

13.30  – 14.00  
What kind of knowledge do General Practitioners need?

 Elisabeth Swensen GP, Norway   

The concept of medical knowledge will always be a battleground between definitions. General practitioners basically need to know what is appropriate, beneficial and achievable to their patients as well as the community they serve. So called evidence based medicine, a useful tool for certain scientific purposes, introduced an instrumental medical rhetoric that does not reflect this complexity. GPs need to develop and defend a professional language that is congruent with their specific body of knowledge.


Friday, June 15th

08.30 – 09.15  
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Carrots or Pills for all? A Dialogue on Reasonable Practice  

Anders Hernborg GP,  Sweden   
Jan Håkansson GP,  Sweden

Key issues to be addressed: A paradigm shift is underway in cardiovascular disease prevention, - the use of global risk assessment instead of single risk factors as basis for interventions. How do we handle the change? Are we currently witnessing a risk pandemia exploited by a medical-industrial complex? Should every person above 55 be offered a protective Polypill? Can we communicate risk in a way that gives the individual a fair chance to be a real partner

09.15 – 10.00 
A life in general practice

John Salinsky GP, United Kingdom

A personal account of my 33 years in the same practice. It covers how my ideas have changed over that time, the problems I had to cope with in balancing science with interpersonal relationships and the pleasures of getting to know people and observe their lives unfolding in parallel with mine.

13.30 – 14.00  
Challenges and pitfalls of risk communication

 Lotte Hvas GP,  Denmark       
 Susanne Reventlow GP,  Denmark

Risk communication aims to help people to navigate amongst different health risks and take relevant precautions.  But how do our patients perceive risk and what does it mean to be
labelled at risk’?
We will use research-based examples of ‘risk conditions’ to discuss how people deal with risk depending on their personal interpretations, what they imagine, their values and social relations. We also want to discuss how the way of talking about risk may affect patients’ identity and constitute their scope of action


Saturday, June 16th

09.00 – 09.45 
Milestones in molecular medicine– a historical overview and vision of the future of genomic research

Hakon Hakonarson
Pediatrician, Director Genomics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
 
The lecture provides an overview of the field of human genetics addressing the key molecular approaches in the study of complex diseases such as asthma and diabetes. The genetic complexity of multigenic disorders will be outlined underpinning the important need of understanding the linkage disequilibrium structure of the human genome, ethnic and sex-related differences, and the need for applying approaches that allow for gene-gene and gene-environment interaction studies. The Sequencing of the Human Genome and the International HapMap Project mark the start of a new phase in human genetics providing an unprecedented resource to investigators thereby facilitating the design of genome-wide association studies using state-of-the-art mircotechnology


09.45 – 10.30  
Doctoring as leadership: power and ethics in general practice.
                         
Edvin Schei GP and  lecturer,  Norway   

Physician power has been attacked and tabooed in legitimate efforts to strengthen patients’ rights. Yet the structural and symbolic power wielded by doctors is what makes good and appropriate healing actions possible. The notion of clinical leadership highlights patient vulnerability, medicine’s ethical core, and the importance of character development in medical education.

10.30 – 12.00
Closing Ceremony   

Nordic Research Prize in General Practice
Magda and Svend Aage Friederichs Prize

For the last 20 years the Magda and Svend Aage Friederichs Prize has been given to Nordic General Practitioners who have played an important role in promoting good research in General Practice. The Nordic Prize amounts to 100,000 Danish Crowns.
The GPs are nominated by the Nordic National Colleges, the Academic Centres of General Practice and by previous Prize receivers. Every other year the Nomination Committee thus selects an outstanding Nordic GP, who has played an important role for research in general practice in the Nordic Region and is well known nationally as well as internationally.