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.

Content

This course covers important theoretical and practical aspects of methods in integrative human cardiovascular studies. The purpose is to provide the participants with knowledge of advantages and pitfalls of these methods during lectures and demonstrating methods and allow participants hands-on experience during practical sessions. Complete course program will be available at www.dcacademy.dk ahead of the course start.

Participants

Ph.D students working with cardiovascular physiology/pathophysiology – i.e. medical, human biology, human physiology or animal biology.

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:

• Cardiovascular Research
• Basic and Clinical Research in Musculoskeletal Sciences
• Basic Metabolic Research

Form

27 lectures. 8 hours of laboratory-experiments/practical (2 workshops with participant demonstrations and in vivo demonstrations. Homework required (reading of background material + oral presentation of Ph.D. project). Evaluation/exam- knowledge review.

Teachers

International:
Carsten Lundby, Professor, MD, PhD (NOR) Lillehammer Fakultet for helse- og sosialvitenskap Seksjon for helse- og treningsfysiologi
Craig G. Crandall Professor, PhD (US) - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern
Damian Bailey, Professor, PhD (UK) - Neurovascular Research Laboratory at the University of South Wales
James (Jim) A. Pawelczyk, Professor (USA) - Department of Kinesiology (KINES) at PennState College of Health and Human Development 
James Fisher, Professor, PhD (NZ) – Department of physiology, University of Auckland
Johannes Van Lieshout Professor, MD, PhD (NL) - Department og Internal Medicine & Department Medical Biology, University of Amsterdam
José González-Alonso Professor, PhD (UK) - Department of Exercise and Cardiovascular Physiology, Brunel University London
Paul Fadel, Professor, PhD (US) - Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington
Scott Smith Professor, Professor, (US) - Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern
Katarina Steding Ehrenborg, (NO) - Lund Cardiac MR Group

National:
Anders Perner, Professor, MD, PhD (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Christian Aalkjær, Professor (AAU - Department of Biomedicine)
Jakob Stensballe, MD, PhD (DK) (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Julie Hertel, DVM, PhD (UCPH - Department of Biomedical Sciences)
Kim Bredahl MD, PhD (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Kirstine Callø, Assoc. Professor PhD (UCPH - Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences)
Lars Nybo, Professor, PhD (UCPH - Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports)
Lasse Gliemann, Assoc. Professor PhD (UCPH - Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports)
Marianne Agerskov, PhD (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Morten Damgaard (hvidovre hospital)
Niels H. Secher Professor, MD, DMSc (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Nicolai B. Foss Assoc. Professor, MD, DMSc (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Per Lav Madsen, MD, DMSc (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Rune Strandby MD, PhD (UCPH - Department of Clinical Medicine)
Thomas Jespersen, PhD, Professor (UCPH - Department of Biomedical Sciences)
Tobias Wang, Professor, PhD (AAU - Department of Biology – Zoophysiology)
Ylva Hellsten Professor, DMSc (UCPH - Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports)

Course location

Danske Studenters Roklub (DSR) - Strandvaenget 55, 2100 Copenhagen + laboratory-experiments at SUND-Frederiksberg and the August Krogh Institute.

Contact person

Jamie Finkelstein, e-mail address: jamie.fineklstein@regionh.dk