ME-conference in Stavanger, Norway 22-23 September 2021 (new date)

Note: due to the Covid-19 situation, the conference has been postponed to 2021.

The Norwegian ME Association - Rogaland County - invites to a big ME-conference in Stavanger 23-24th Sept. 2020.

Main lecturers are:
Ron Davis and Ian Lipkin

Other lecturers are:
Kristian Sommerfelt, professor and paediatric neurologist at Haukeland University Hospital
Per Julin, senior doctor and researcher at ME/CFS Ward at Stora Sköndal, Sweden
Nigel Speight, paediatrician, England
Øystein Fluge, oncologist and senior doctor at Haukeland University Hospital
Brian Hughes, professor in psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway
Katarina Lien, MD and researcher at Oslo University Hospital
(Name not yet finalised), Stavanger University Hospital

The conference will take place at Radisson Blu Atlantic Hotel in the centre of Stavanger. Main themes of the conference will be research into ME and experiences from clinical practice.

The first day will be for health care personnel and applications for continuing education credits have been sent.
Tickets
Facebook event

The second day is for everyone.
Tickets
Facebook event

 

Incredible line-up (lol im speaking like its a festival)

Think I have to go listen to this, would be great to ask some questions or meet some of them in person

 

For me it's too far away from where I live. I see it costs money to participate, so I assume this will not be streamed live online (?).
Do you, @Kalliope or @Marky, know if there will be published "summary-publications" from any media after the conference?
The Norwegian ME-association maybe?

 

I think @benji mentioned somewhere that they are trying to make a live stream available?

 

Oh, fantastic! If so, 23-24th September are booked in my calendar.

 

Previously, somebody usually writes a transcript to one of the facebook groups Hopefully there will be a live-stream though. Important when so many cant travel and want to listen!

 

I hope so. Excellent work by The Norwegian ME-association with this conference. It's a living-ME-legends-show. If you know what I mean. It sounds better in Norwegian

 

There will be some kind of summary for sure

 

If someone attends they should press Lipkin about his prediction that he made a couple years ago that there would be a treatment for this disease by now. This type of bluster (a different b word could also be used here) is not helpful— it unrealistically inflates patient expectations.

Also Lipkin is a “bug” guy and I am not optimistic that looking for bugs will bear fruit in this disease.

 

Web page for the conference. Most is in Norwegian, but there is a small section in English as well.

https://www.mekonferanse.no

 

You mean where he also said "provided the resources are made available"? I don't think anybody would claim that the appropriate level of resources have been made available, so quoting him out of context isn't helpful in my opinion.

 

For reference, if it's needed,

http://simmaronresearch.com/2015/12...ears-to-solve-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-mecfs/

 

Agree.

Hopefully this will be a conference where also health care personnel and decision makers within health services that haven't yet attended ME conferences will participate. The aim of the conference is to provide an overview of the research field as of today and to share some experience from clinical care.

To have someone of dr. Lipkin's calibre joining to talk about his research into ME, will hopefully in itself help make the field more attractive to other researchers. A conference in the spirit of dialogue and enthusiasm for ME research might inspire more collaboration, more research projects, more funding.

 

The conference has been approved by the Norwegian Medical Association with 8 points for continuing education credits in general practice.

 

Really great news!

 

Sorry, I haven’t a clue. Has to be someone else.

 

Due to the Corona situation this conference will be postponed and new dates are 22nd and 23rd September 2021.