Conferences and symposiums SFOepi day 2025
Each year, SFOepi hosts a conference focusing on a different theme within the fields of epidemiology and biostatistics. This year's theme is precision medicine and the work of SFOepi awardees.
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Program
9.00-9.10 Welcome by SFOepi chair - Catarina Almqvist
9.10-9.50 Megan Roberts - University of North Carolina
Title: Precision medicine in Public Health
Megan Roberts is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she leads research in implementation science. Her work explores the adoption and impact of precision medicine approaches in healthcare, with a focus on cancer prevention, genetic testing, and health equity.
9.50-10.20 Paul Franks - Lund University
Title: Precision medicine in Cardiometabolic diseases
Paul Franks is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Lund University. His research focuses on the genetic and environmental determinants of type 2 diabetes and obesity, with an emphasis on precision medicine and translational prevention strategies.
10.20-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-11.20 Jonas Halfvarson - Örebro University
Title: Precision medicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Jonas Halfvarsson is Professor of Gastroenterology at Örebro University. His research centers on the epidemiology, genetics, and molecular mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), aiming to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient outcomes.
11.20-11.50 Olof Stephansson - Karolinska Institutet
Title: Precision medicine in Obstetrics
Olof Stephansson is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and a senior consultant in obstetrics. His research addresses maternal and perinatal health, with particular focus on pregnancy complications, obstetric outcomes, and the use of large-scale population registers.
11.50-12.30 Panel debate on Precision Medicine
12.30-14.00 Lunch and poster session
14.00-14.25 Ida Karlsson – MEB, Karolinska Institutet
Title: Obesity as a heterogenous phenotype – moving beyond BMI
Ida Karlsson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet. Her research focuses on life course epidemiology, aging, and genetic and environmental influences on health using twin and population-based cohorts.
14.25-14.50 Peter Ueda - KEP, Karolinska Institutet
Title: Neurodegenerative disease among contact sport athletes - heading for clarity
Peter Ueda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet and resident physician at the Center for Diabetes, Stockholm Region. His research addresses cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and drug safety using large-scale register-based data.
14.50-15.20 Coffee break
15.20-15.45 Nicola Orsini - GPH, Karolinska Institutet
Title: Harnessing Statistical Thinking in Public Health
Nicola Orsini is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. He specializes in epidemiological methods, including dose-response analysis and causal inference, with applications in nutrition, lifestyle, and chronic disease research.
15.45-16.05 Donghau Lu - IMM, Karolinska Institutet
Title: Towards precision medicine in women’s mental health
Donghao Lu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. His work focuses on how psychological, social, and biological factors shape women’s mental health across the life course, using large-scale register data and longitudinal methods.
16.05-17.10 Oral presentations and poster award
Speakers: Giulia Dallagiacoma, Yuxia Wei, Jing Wu, Shayan Mostafaei
17.10-18.00 Mingle
18.00 Dinner at K-märkt, Solnavägen 3