EPMA-World Congress in Bonn, 15-18th September 2011

Programme

Programme Overview

The paradigm change from late interventional to Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (PPPM) is a leading global challenge in the 21st century. Of paramount importance is the communication among professionals – medical doctors, biotechnologists, computer-scientists, healthcare providers, policy-makers, educators, etc. This is a new philosophy of advanced healthcare and the platform for personalised patient’s treatment considered as the "medicine of the future". This paradigm change can be achieved only by well-coordinated measures focused on solving the accumulating problems in healthcare and reducing the concomitant economical burden that societies across the globe are progressively facing. This task requires novel and creative political regulations and formation of new guidelines to advance current healthcare systems. The overall concept in the field is conducted by the “European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine” (EPMA) – the “umbrella”-organisation in 30 countries around Europe and worldwide. The EPMA-Congress is an important global event promoting a multidisciplinary consolidation in the branch. Specialised sessions will take place as listed below:

Specialised Sessions:

- Healthcare in overview across the globe
- Collaboration with global organisations (UNO, WHO, UNICEF, NASA, etc.)
- Granting strategies in PPPM (EU-Commission, NIH, NCI, National Ministries)
- PPPM-related Education
- Primary Prevention, Body Culture, Sport Medicine
- PPPM in Reproductive Medicine
- PPPM early in life (Neonatology, Paediatrics)
- PPPM in Diabetes care
- PPPM in Neurodegeneration
- PPPM in Cancer
- PPPM in Cardiovascular Pathologies
- Clustered PPPM-Centres, Validation and Standards
- Patients’ needs: “round-table” with GPs and Organised Patients’ Groups
- Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI)
- Patients’ modelling in PPPM
- Role of Laboratory Medicine in PPPM
- PPPM-related Bio-Banking
- Drug-diagnostics co-development and commercialisation strategies in the PPPM era
- Private-public partnerships

Inaugurated in 2011, the EPMA-World Congress will take place every two years following the 24-months thematic cycle of the EPMA-Journal (Springer). Some congress particularities we will make to our good tradition:
1. PPPM-related implementation - a specialised session will be dedicated to "Clustered PPPM-Centres, Validation and Standards", where experiences will be shared from creating specialised PPPM-related Medical Centres in Europe and worldwide.
2. Strong integration of PPPM-related industry - without exception, each Congress-session will benefit from topic-related input by the industry and regulators, including innovative R&D concepts, advanced technologies, PPPM-cantered products, etc.

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