Programme

Neurodiab Hospitality Desk open for Registration
Location: Ground floor, Main hall area

Neurodiab Hospitality Desk open for Registration
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Posters are on display throughout the whole duration of the conference
Location: First floor, Studio 1+2+3 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Welcome 
Eirik Søfteland (Bergen, NO) and Vincenza Spallone (Rome, IT)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM: The future of diabetic neuropathy
Chairs: Christian Stevns Hansen (Herlev, DK) and Mark Yorek (Iowa City, US)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Epigenetics – is that the missing link? 
Stephanie Eid (Ann Arbor, US)

Metabolomics and diabetic neuropathy
Mark Yorek (Iowa City, US)

Proteomics and diabetic neuropathy
Karolina Sulek (Copenhagen, DK)

Lipid metabolites and cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy
Gidon Bönhof (Düsseldorf, DE)

Discussion

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Oral presentations (O1-O4) Pathogenesis
Chairs: Dan Ziegler (Düsseldorf, DE) and Thorbjørn Åkerstrom (Måløv, DK)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

SYMPOSIUM: Role of thiamine in diabetes and diabetic polyneuropathy
Wörwag Pharma symposium
Chair: Peter Kempler (Budapest, HU)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Introduction
Peter Kempler (Budapest, HU)

Association of transketolase SNPs with diabetic polyneuropathy: The KORA Study
Dan Ziegler (Düsseldorf, DE)

Association of thiamine status with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rima Obeid (Homburg, DE)

Lunch break 
Location: Second floor, Restaurant NOVA
(We have reserved the inner part of the restaurant. Follow Neurodiab signs.)

Oral presentations (O5-O11) (Young investigators award for the best presentation)
Chairs: Triantafyllos Didangelos (Thessaloniki, GR) and Niels Ejskjaer (Aalborg, DK)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Oral Presentations (O12-O18) (Young investigators award for the best presentation)
Chairs: Fabiana Picconi (Rome, IT) and Peter Kempler (Budapest, HU)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

Guided tour of Bergen where we will end up at Haakonshallen for the Official Opening
If you have signed up for the guided tour, you will have received an email confirming your GROUP NUMBER. Your guide will be meeting his/her group outside the hotel with a sign/group number. Please join your guide/your number.
Each group will have separate itineraries. 

Official opening by the Mayor of Bergen. Canapes and welcome drink

Dine-around, only reserved table/restaurant for those who have signed up. Arrangement on own expense.

Neurodiab Hospitality Desk open
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Posters are on display throughout the whole duration of the conference
Location: First floor, Studio 1+2+3 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Oral presentations (O19-O23) Epidemiology and natural history
Chairs: Anna Korei (Budapest, HU) and Aleksandra Araszkiewicz (Poznan, PL)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

It’s the nerves! 
Rayaz Malik (Doha, QR)

It’s the brain!
Dinesh Selvarajah (Sheffield, UK)

It’s depression!
Bruce Perkins (Toronto, CA)

Panel discussion

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Oral presentations (O24-O27) Small fiber and painful neuropathy
Chairs: Dinesh Selvarajah (Sheffield, UK) and Tae Sun Park (Seoul, KR)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

Lunch break
Location: Second floor, Restaurant NOVA
(We have reserved the inner part of the restaurant. Follow Neurodiab signs.)

Poster presentations (P2-P11) (Young investigators award for the best poster presentation)
Chairs: Tamas Varkonyi (Szeged, HU) and Sondre Meling (Stavanger, NO)
Detailed programme
Location: First floor, Studio 1+2 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Poster presentations (P12-P22) (Young investigators award for the best poster presentation)
Chairs: Gerry Rayman (Ipswich, UK) and Ioannis Nikolaos Petropoulos (Doha, QA)
Detailed programme
Location: First floor, Studio 3 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

SYMPOSIUM: Autonomic nervous system and the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome
Boehringer Ingelheim symposium
Chairs: Kåre Birkeland (Oslo, NO) and Paul Valensi (Bondy, FR)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Introduction to the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome
Kåre Birkeland (Oslo, NO)

The synergistic effect of SGLT2 /aldosterone antagonism on cardiac outcome
Peter Rossing (Copenhagen, DK)

Is the autonomic nervous system the missing piece of a puzzle?
Vincenza Spallone (Rome, IT)

Panel discussion

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

The Göran Sundkvist Young Investigators Award for Clinical Science
Chair: Vincenza Spallone (Rome, IT)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

On pins and needles: how neuropathy guided my career in medicine
Lynn Ang (Ann Arbor, US)

General Assembly Neurodiab
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Departure from your hotel to the port, Dreggekaien, Skur 8

Estimated time of arrival at Cornelius by the Fjords

Neurodiab Conference dinner

Neurodiab Hospitality Desk open
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

Posters are on display throughout the whole duration of the conference
Location: First floor, Studio 1+2+3 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Oral presentations (O28-O31) Autonomic neuropathy and treatment
Chairs: Triantafyllos Didangelos (Thessaloniki, GR) and Gidon Bönhof (Düsseldorf, DE)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Detailed programme

SYMPOSIUM: Diabetes and COVID-19
Chairs: Gerry Rayman (Ipswich, UK) and Anne-Marie Wegeberg (Aalborg, DK)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Mediators and adverse outcome in individuals with diabetes hospitalized for COVID-19
Rodica Pop-Busui (Ann Arbor, US)

COVID-19 and the peripheral nervous system
Giuseppe Lauria (Milan, IT)

Coffee break and visit industry stands
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM: Translational science in pain treatment
Chair: Bruce Perkins (Toronto, CA)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Mechanism-based treatment
Uazman Alam (Liverpool, UK)

Clinical treatment of neuropathic pain
Solomon Tesfaye (Sheffield, UK)

Panel discussion

Poster presentations (P24-P34) Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and diagnosis
Chairs: Mitra Tavakoli (Exeter, UK) and Luca D'Onofrio (Rome, IT)
Detailed programme
Location: First floor, Studio 1+2 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Poster presentations (P1, P35-P45) Autonomic neuropathy and treatment
Chairs: Sanjeev Sharma (Ipswich, UK) and Georgios Ponirakis (Doha, QA)
Detailed programme
Location: First floor, Studio 3 (up the stairs in the main hall outside the conference area)

Invited Key Note
Novo Nordisk gold sponsor
Chair: Christina Brock (Aalborg, DK)
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

GLP-1, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Måløv, DK)

Final words
Vincenza Spallone and Eirik Søfteland
Location: Ground floor, Ballroom

Grab´n´Go lunch and departure
Location: Ground floor, mingle-area outside Ballroom