CFAS International Symposium
2024 ’Exercise as Medicine’
The symposium is hosted by TrygFonden’s Center for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet, which aim to develop physical exercise as a treatment for long-term illnesses. Every third adult Dane has one or more long-term illnesses, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, COPD and cancer. Physical exercise has a potential therapeutic effect on all these diseases.
The symposium will provide insight into the latest research in ‘Exercise as Medicine’ in relation to long-term illnesses. The symposium will be open to researchers, health professionals, students, and stakeholders from Denmark and abroad.
The Pernille Højman Memorial Lecture is an integrated part of the symposium. Pernille Højman (1978-2019) was senior researcher, group leader, and Lundbeck Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her honor, we have instituted the Pernille Højman Memorial Lecture, which has been held since 2019. After the Memorial Lecture, the Pernille Højman Travel Grant, instituted by Pernille’s husband Torben Højman Jensen, is awarded to a talented young, upcoming researcher working within the field of exercise and/or cancer research.
The program is available at the webpage, where you sign up.
Participation is free of charge, but a “no-show” fee will be charged if you
register and do not show up on the day without prior notice.