NOPHO Course: Clinical Pharmacology

Dear Colleagues,

You are wellcome to register to NOPHO Course, which will take place in Center of Medical Sciences (lith. Medicinos mokslų centras), Žaliųjų Ežerų Str. 2, Vilnius on 16-17 June, 2025.

Deadline for applications: 2025-05-15

Important information:
1. The official language is English.
2. Participants: all Nordic participants must be members of NOPHO. Maximum number of participants: 30. Selection of participants will be based on previous participation in one or more of the other courses, educational background, and a first-coming principle.
3. Four weeks prior to the course educational material will be sent out. The participants are expected to have read and be well acquainted with this material. Handouts of the presentations will in a standard format be circulated during the course sections. Prior to the course the participants will be divided into groups, and each group will receive a set of patient cases (typical as well as complicated). These must have been read and considered prior to the For each case one of the participants will be asked to prepare a short presentation of the issue to be discussed. During the course and after discussions in the group sessions the cases are to be presented and discussed in plenum. Alternatively, a trainee may be asked to prepare a case from his/her own clinic to be discussed in plenum.
4. Test: there will be no formal In order to evaluate the level and quality of knowledge acquired prior to and during the course, a multiple-choice test will be held at the end of the course.
5. Faculty: the faculty will include lecturers from most of the Nordic countries and with a maximum of 2 lecturers from non-Nordic countries. A core faculty consisting of senior pediatric hematologist/oncologist from different Nordic countries will be staying throughout the course to offer supervision of the group sessions and to participate in the plenum discussions.
6. Fee: no course fee. Meals are covered. The participants will cover their own travel expenses and accommodation.
7. PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Faculty members and Organizing committee:
Goda Vaitkevičienė, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Vilnius, LT
Birgitte Klug Albertsen, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Aarhus, DK
Jesper Heldrup, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Lund, SE
Karsten Nysom, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Copenhagen, DK
Magnus Dahlander, clinical pharmacist, Gothenburg, SE
Sonata Šaulytė-Trakymienė, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Vilnius, LT
Jelena Rascon, pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Vilnius, LT
Milda Girdenytė, clinical pharmacist, Vilnius, LT/Uppsala, SE
Ingrida Lisauskienė – MD, specialist in intensive care, clinical pharmacologist, Vilnius, LT
Kjeld Schmiegelow, prof. in pediatric hematology/oncology, Copenhagen, DK
Sanna Veijalainen, clinical pharmacist, Turku, FI