Ekhaga Foundation Conference Series: Medicine 2010

 

April 22-23 2010: Villa Källhagen, Stockholm, Sweden


Programme Day 1 - Thursday april 22:

Scientific programme: Integrative Health Care (conference language English)

09:00 - 10:00 Arrival & Registration
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and Conference Opening
Björn Edgren (Chairman, Board of Directors, Ekhaga Foundation)
10:10 - 10:20 General information and introduction to Integrative Health Care
Torkel Falkenberg (Associate Professor, Research group for Studies of Integrative Health Care, Division of nursing, Dep. of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet & Member of the Research Evaluation Board of the Ekhaga Foundation) & Wolfgang Doerfler (Network Integrative Medicine, Östergötland County Council, Linköping, Sweden)
10:20 - 10:45 Presentation of the Ekhaga Foundation: Strategies and Achievements
Bengt Björksten (Professor emeritus, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden & Chairman Research Evaluation Board of the Ekhaga Foundation)
10:45 - 11:05 Integrative Health Care: From Vision to Implementation in Sweden
Finn Bengtsson (Professor, Moderate party, Member of the Swedish Parliament) & Anna Kullberg (MSc, Network Integrative Medicine, Östergötland County Council, Linköping, Sweden)
11:05 - 11:15 Short coffe/tea break
11:15 - 12:15 Challenges and Opportunities with Integrative Care
Harald Walach (Professor, Institute for Transcultural Health Studies -IntraG, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Integrative Health Care Services: the Swedish Perspective
Gunnar Öhlén (PhD, faculty of medicine, Director of the Emergency Department, Karolinska, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden)
14:15 - 15:15 Integrative Health Care Services: the German Perspective
Michael Jack (MD, Competence Centre for Complementary Medicine and Naturopathy, Technical University of Munich, Germany)
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 - 17:45 Presentation of four Ekhaga Foundation Financed Scientific Projects (30 min/project):
Integrative Medicine in Primary Health Care
Tobias Sundberg (PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Research group for Studies of Integrative Health Care, Karolinska Institutet)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) - the Female Metabolic Syndrome. Effects of Electroacupuncture and Physical Activity
Elisabet Stener-Victorin (Associate Professor, The Sahlgrenska Academy, Department of Physiology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Methodology of Personalized Medicine: Integration of Anthroposophic Medicine and Conventional Medicine
Erik Baars (MSc, Epidemiology at Louis Bolk Institute, LA Driebergen, Holland)
16:45 - 17:00 "Take a breath" break
Acupuncture reduces crying in infants with infantile colic - a randomized, controlled, double blind clinical study
Kajsa Landgren (RN, Lic Med Sc, Lund University, Sweden)
17:30 - 18:15 Panel Discussion:
"How to Establish and Reinforce Academic Research on Integrative Care and its Implementation within Health Care"
All speakers
- Summary of the Day and Closing Remarks
Torkel Falkenberg, Wolfgang Doerfler
19:00 - Dinner and cultural events

Programme Day 2 - Friday april 23 :

Vetenskapligt program: Mikrobiell ekologi/inflammation och allergi (conference language Swedish. På svenska)

07:30 - 08:00 Gentle wake-up (Qi-Gong)
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:10 Sammanfattning av gårdagen
Torkel Falkenberg, Wolfgang Doerfler
09:10 - 09:45 Mikrobiell ekologi - en översikt
Bengt Björksten
09:45 - 12:00 Presentation av fyra Ekhagafinansierade forskningsprojekt (30 min/projekt):
Betydelsen av oligosackarider i bröstmjölken och tarmmikrobiota för utvecklingen av immunreglering och allergi
Eva Sverremark-Ekström (Docent, Wenner-Grens institut: Immunologi Stockholms Universitet)
Kan livsstil skydda mot allergiutveckling?
Johan Alm (Med dr, Sachsska Barnsjukhuset, Södersjukhuset samt Inst. för klinisk forskning och utbildning, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
Tarmflorans roll vid hälsa och sjukdom
Lars Engstrand (Professor, Smittskyddsinstitutet, Karolinska Institutet)
Maten och mikroberna på bondgården - vad är det som förmedlar skyddet mot allergi?
Agnes Wold (Professor, Institutionen för biomedicin, avdelningen för infektionssjukdomar, Sahlgrenska Akademin, Göteborgs Universitet)
12:00 - 12:30 Mikrobiell ekologi, prebiotika och probiotika; fakta, fiktion och framtid
Bengt Björksten
12:30 - 12:40 Sammanfattning och avslutning av konferensen
Torkel Falkenberg, Wolfgang Doerfler & Bengt Björksten
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch, avresa



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