58th Annual Meeting
Conference 2024
58th Annual Meeting
Conference 2024
Chair: Konstantinos Makrylakis
Antonio Nicolucci (Italy), Director CORESEARCH, Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Pescara
Antonio Nicolucci
Antonio Nicolucci is the scientific director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology (CORESEARCH), Pescara, Italy. Hi has over 30 years of experience in the field of clinical epidemiological research in diabetes and chronic diseases. He made a major contribution to the development of a continuous quality improvement initiative involving over 300 diabetes centers in Italy. More recently, he was among the promoters of a clinical diabetes registry for children and adolescents with diabetes. Dr. Nicolucci is involved in the design, conduct and analysis of several randomized controlled clinical trials, observational studies and meta-analyses in the field of chronic diseases. He was invited speaker at numerous international conferences, including American Diabetes Association, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, International Diabetes Federation, American Heart Association, European Heart Association, and is author of over 350 publications in indexed scientific journals (H-index 86; 38,207 citations as of 13-02-2024).
Chair: Alessandro Fontanarosa
Max. 2 min. poster pitches in the main hall, followed by ~30 minutes of questions/discussion next to poster boards in reception hall
Juan Pablo Pérez Bedoya, Epidemiology Group, National Faculty of Public Health, University of Antioquia; Study Group on Type 1 Diabetes Epidemiology (EpiDiab), University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Gunnar Toft, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Tessa Crume, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Center for Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity & Diabetes
Marie Balslev Backe, Steno Diabetes Center Greenland; Greenland Center for Health Research, Institute of Health and Nature, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland; Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
Thaddäus Tönnies, Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany; Chair for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology (MBE), Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health/School of Medicine, Witten, Germany
Marica Iommi, Centre for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (EBI), Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
Céline Lavalette, Santé publique France, Saint Maurice, France
Chair: Bendix Carstensen and Vera Bjarkø
10 min. presentations + 5 min. discussion
Sofia Carlsson, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Anders Aasted Isaksen, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Yuxia Wei, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Melony Fortuin-de Smidt, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Chair: Dorte Vistisen and Andrea Faragalli
10 min. presentations + 5 min. discussion
Ina Danquah, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Medical Faculty and University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Hertz-Chair Innovation for Planetary Health, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Emma Bouman, Amsterdam UMC, location Vrije Universiteit, Epidemiology and Data Science
Simon Griffin, MRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Edyta Szczerba, Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
Chair: Adam Hulman
Paola Berchialla (Italy), Centre for Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health (C-BEPH), University of Torino
Prof. Paola Berchialla
Paola Berchialla is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino. She holds a PhD in Applied Statistics and has participated in several projects, developing expertise in analyzing clinical trial data and applying machine learning to clinical research and healthcare applications. Through close collaborations with clinicians, she has developed expertise in predictive modeling for risk assessment in clinical settings.
Her research activity focuses on Bayesian Design for clinical trials and Machine Learning applied to epidemiological research and clinical decision support.
She actively collaborates with several national and international institutes, and since 2018 she has been involved in the Health Behaviour School-aged Children International Study conducted in collaboration with the WHO. She has contributed her expertise to projects funded by the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission’s DG SANCO, and the European Space Agency. She has authored over 250 papers in international scientific journals.
Cultural, Energising, Fun. We will keep this a surprise for now.
3.00 PM: Departure from Charlie Urban Hotel (walking trips)
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Palazzo Ducale is a Renaissance building in Pesaro, now the seat of the Prefecture. It is located in Piazza del Popolo. Construction was begun by Alessandro Sforza in the mid-15th century, on an original nucleus that was owned by the Malatesta family and was later completed by the Dukes of Urbino.
Piazza del Popolo is a square in Pesaro and is the centre of city life. The square is bordered on all four sides by the Post Office and the Ducal, Bavarian and Municipal Palaces. In the centre of the square stands the large fountain called 'The Pupil of Pesaro' by Bernardino Baldi, a famous humanist. It was built in 1593, on the initiative of Francesco Maria II della Rovere. Later, in 1621, a group of bronze dolphins and other ornaments were added on the occasion of Prince Federico della Rovere's marriage to Claudia de' Medici.
The cathedral is dedicated to Maria Santissima Assunta and San Terenzio, patron saint of Pesaro. Neoclassical in style, the cathedral was restored in the 19th century, transforming the 13th-century structure into a Gothic and Romanesque style. The cathedral also contains other mosaics made in different periods and the central rose window and the white stone portal, embellished on both sides by two large lions, stand out.
Dating back to the 13th century, built in the Romanesque style but remodelled according to Gothic dictates before, as can be seen from the Gothic portal in white Istrian stone and red marble entirely decorated, and neoclassical
The Church of San Giovanni is a Renaissance church in Pesaro. With the monastery, with the huge window on the façade in the centre, it housed the tombs of the city's most important families for centuries. Even before the 16th century, there is evidence of a mausoleum built at the behest of Alessandro Sforza.
Inside you can admire the sarcophagus of Paolo Orsini, the Blessed Michelina and the famous image of the Madonna delle Grazie behind the main altar, venerated by all the inhabitants of Pesaro. The history of the Sanctuary is connected to the origins of the Franciscan settlement in Pesaro, which can be dated around 1231; their church dates back to 1270, while the convent to 1325.
The municipal church of Sant'Ubaldo is a small octagonal Roman Catholic church in Baroque style. The chapel was commissioned by the Municipality of Pesaro in 1605 during the rule of the Della Rovere family. It was built to fulfil a vote made by Duke Francesco Maria II (born 1549) for an heir. On 16 May 1605, Francesco's second wife, Livia della Rovere, bore him the desired son, Federico Ubaldo. Therefore, 16 May is the feast day of St Ubaldo.
The Rocca Costanza is a building with military functions built in the 15th century by the Sforza family, then lords of the city of Pesaro.
The Gioacchino Rossini Theatre is the most important theatre in Pesaro, where a series of plays, music and dance performances are organised. It is also one of the venues for the annual Rossini Opera Festival. Built in 1637 as the Teatro del Sole, it was rebuilt on its original site in 1818, taking the name Teatro Nuovo, and inaugurated on 10 June of that year with the staging of Gioachino Rossini's La gazza ladra under the direction of the composer himself in his hometown.
6.00 PM: Teatro Rossini – Concert