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Program
THE XXVII SIGNE AND ANE GYLLENBERG SYMPOSIUM
Psychosomatic medicine revisited
September 19th-20th 2024
at the Hanaholmen Cultural Centre, Espoo, Finland
8.15-9.00 | Registration at Hanasaari |
Theme 1 | Welcome and introduction – Chair: Henrik Enckell |
9.00-9.10 | Welcome from the organizers Per-Henrik Groop Professor of Internal Medicine Chairman of the Board Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation |
9.10-9.55 | Keynote lecture: Mentalization, Resilience and Psychosomatic Symptoms, Professor Peter Fonagy |
9.55-10.40 | Keynote lecture: Relations between Mind, Brain and Body, Professor Richard Davidson |
10.40-11.10 | Coffee break |
11.10-11.50 | Keynote lecture: Current understanding and management of functional somatic symptoms, Professor Peter Henningsen |
11.50-12.00 | Q&A and discussion |
12.00-13.30 | Lunch |
Theme 2 | Mechanisms – Chair: Tom Pettersson |
13.30-14.15 | Keynote lecture: The Media and the Medical Profession – an unholy alliance dedicated to producing somatic symptoms, Professor Simon Wessely |
14.15-14.45 | Stress, Fatigue, and Illness Behaviour, Professor Mats Lekander |
14.45-15.15 | Structural and functional autonomic disorders are not on the same PAG, Professor Thomas Chelimsky |
15.15-15.45 | Coffee break |
15.45-16.15 | Placebo and Nocebo, Professor Luana Colloca |
16.15-16.45 | Placebos and Placebo Effects: Making Sense of the Conceptual Confusion, Professor Pekka Louhiala |
16.45-17.15 | From Mechanisms to Clinical Practice, Adjunct Professor Helena Liira |
17.30-19.00 | Buffet dinner at Hanasaari |
Friday 20th September 2024
Theme 3 | Clinical syndromes – Chair: Markku Sainio |
9.00-9.30 | Functional Neurological Disorders - Past, Present and Future, Professor Jon Stone |
9.30-10.00 | Environmental Intolerance, Adjunct Professor Markku Sainio |
10.00-10.30 | Why does pain persist?, Professor Eija Kalso |
10.30-11.00 | How can challenges be turned into opportunities? The unique legacy of getting it right for people with functional symptoms, Professor Mark J Edwards |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30-12.00 | The neurobiology of stress mediated gastrointestinal dysfunction in disorders of gut brain interaction, Professor Qasim Aziz |
12.00-12.15 | The Non-pharmacological Management of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI), Professor Gisela Chelimsky |
12.15-12.45 | Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Professor Markku Partinen |
12.45-14.00 | Lunch |
Theme 4 | Clinical care and management of functional disorders –Chair: Viveca Söderström-Anttila |
14.00-14.30 | Frida’s pain: a biopsychosocial perspective, Professor Judith Rosmalen |
14.30-15.00 | A novel, concentrated treatment approach for chronic health challenges. Can we expect our interventions to work?, Professor Gerd Kvale |
15.00-15.50 | Panel discussion with short introductions: Implementations into Practice -Somatic Symptoms and Syndromes in Healthcare Systems -Somatic Symptoms and Syndromes and Health Insurance -What’s next? Chair: Professor Markku Partinen Participants: Professor Helena Liira, Associate professor Lena Thorn, Professor Jon Stone, Professor Simon Wessely |
15.50-16.00 | Closing remarks – Professor Tom Pettersson Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation |