Preliminary Programme and Scientific Agenda

9.00-15.00 Satellite Mini Symposium by the Nordic Association for Psychiatric Epidemiology (Programme)

14.30-16.00 Registration

16.00-16.15 Opening remarks by Jukka T. Salonen

16.15-17.00 Olli S. Miettinen: Epidemiology: Quo vadis?

17.00-17.45 Lenore Arab: Limitations of current nutritional epidemiologic methodology and new directions

18.15-20.30 Welcome reception at the House of City Council

Theme: Genetic Epidemiology

Chair: Jaakko Tuomilehto

9.00-9.30 Jaakko Tuomilehto: Epidemiology and genetics of type 2 diabetes

9.30-10.00 Jukka T. Salonen: Genetics of coronary heart disease

10.00-10.30 Steinar Tretli: The role of epidemiology in the study of gene-environment interaction in cancer

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.00 Oral presentations and posters in three parallel sessions

Session on Methods
Chairs: Laufey Tryggvadottir and Timo Hakulinen

Bendix Carstensen
Rima Kregzdyte
Ulrik Kesmodel
Ilkka Vohlonen

Session on Pharmacoepidemiology
Chair: Svetlana Skurtveit

Kristinn Tómasson
Henrik Ohlsson
Jari Haukka
Leena Lindell-Osuagwu

Poster session 1

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.45 Juha Pekkanen: Prevention of asthma and allergies: challenge to epidemiology

14.00-15.30 Session on Environmental Epidemiology

Organisers: Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, and Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio

Jouko Tuomisto: This world around us: surviving in the sea of environmental risks

Juha Pekkanen: Outdoor particulate air pollution and health

Jukka Juutilainen: Electromagnetic fields and health

Mikko Paunio: Information needs in environmental health decision making

14.00-15.30 Session on Social Epidemiology

Chair: Jussi Kauhanen

Jussi Kauhanen: Post-genomic rationale for social epidemiology

Seppo Koskinen: Socioeconomic health disparities in Finland:
increasing or decreasing?

Inger Njølstad: Gender - a neglected dimension in medical research?

14.00-15.30 Session on Cancer Epidemiology

Chairs: Lars Rylander and Hilkka Riihimäki

Kristján Sigurdsson: Cervical cancer screening, the Icelandic
experience. Future perspectives.

Submitted papers

Jan Wohlfarht
Elisabeth Angell-Andersen
Tapio Luostarinen
Päivi Laukkanen

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.00 Oral presentations and posters in four parallel sessions

Session on Environmental Epidemiology
Chair: Pia Verkasalo

Anne Ahokas
Timo Lanki
Päivi Kurttio
Pia Verkasalo: Concluding remarks

Session on Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Chairs: Michael Davidsen and Jukka T. Salonen

M. J. Mosher
J. Klumbiene
Johanna M. Geleijnese
S. Graff-Iversen

Miscellaneous
Chair: Kristinn Tómasson

Anne O'Farrell
Ashraf El-Metwally
Jolanta Dadoniene
Jos Verbeek

Poster session 2

19.00 Cruise on Lake Kallavesi and dinner at the Lumberjacks' Lodge, starting at 19.00.

Theme: Epidemiologic methods

Chairs: Laufey Tryggvadottir and Timo Hakulinen

9.00-9.30 Kåre Mølbak: Registry based studies in infectious disease epidemiology: Foodborne gastrointestinal infections

9.30-10.00 Terhi Kilpi: Vaccine-related adverse events and registry based studies

10.00-10.30 Coffee

10.30-11.00 Timo Hakulinen: Assessment of the cancer burden in the future

11.00-11.30 Pálmi Jónsson: The concept of Successful Aging and the AGES REYKJAVIK STUDY

11.30-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.00 Oral presentations and posters in two parallel sessions

Session on Perinatal Epidemiology
Chair: Suvi M. Virtanen

Elina Hyppönen
Ulrik Kesmodel
Ellen Aagaard Nohr
Lars C. Stene

Poster session 3

14.00-14.30 Coffee

14.30-16.00 Session on Registers, Life habits, Life conditions and Health
Organiser: Eero Pukkala

Eero Pukkala: Multilevel register linkages – a powerful tool in studies on changes in society and cancer risk

Elisabete Weiderpass: Women's Lifestyle and Health - Norwegian-Swedish prospective cohort study

Jari Haukka: Finnish health and social welfare registers in epidemiological research

Everybody: Discussion on good and bad experiences of searching and using multi-source data; ideas for better collaboration (short presentations of 1-2 overheads allowed)

14.30-16.00 Session on Nutrition
Chair: Lenore Arab

Antonia Trichopoulou: Epidemiological background of Mediterranean diet

Androniki Naska: Dietary patterns in Europe and their trends during the last 20 years

Suvi Virtanen: Nutritional determinants of type 1 diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Nutrition Study.

Pekka Jousilahti: Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes

16.15-16.45 Presentation by the Epidemiologist of the Year 2004 nominated by the Finnish Society of Epidemiology

16.45-17.00 Closing of the Conference

For further information, please contact Maarit Korhonen or Tiina Rissanen