EDA 2026: Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM August 2026

All times, content and titles are provisional and subject to change.

Wednesday 4 November

Pathophysiology symposium 09:00-16:00

Location: Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Oslo.

09:00 – 10:00 : Registration, mingling and coffee

Both sequence and some titles are tentative. The program will be organized in an integrated way, and we would like to encourage attendance for the whole meeting.

Confirmed speakers

Colm Cunningham: Changes in brain energy metabolism in mouse and humans: from cross-sectional to real time.

Rune Enger: Title TBC. Topic: Mouse models exploring brain blood flow, glymphathic system, astrocyte/neuron interplay and real-time cellular metabolic imaging

Lasse Giil: Context dependent metabolic stress in delirium

Rob Sanders: Metabolism of mice and men/women

Sophie Lautrup: Cell model of delirium

Hans Christian Boesen: Glymphatic dysfunction as a driver of delirium

Per Selnes: CSF system structure and clearance dynamics

Geir Selbæk: Interplay between delirium, dementia and biomarkers in the HUNT cohort (n=10.000).

Thursday 5 November

Time 
08.00 to 09.00EDA executive committee meeting
08.30 to 09.30Registration
09.30 to 09.45Welcome, practical info
09.45 to 10.45Keynote 1 – Liz Sampson (UK)
How can we get the message across to politicians and bureaucrats who plan health care services?
10.45 to 11.15Coffee break and posters
11.15 to 12.30Parallel 1 Symposium
Young EDA
Parallel 2 Advancing Child-Centered Pediatric Delirium Care in the PICU  Parallel 3
Beyond Delirium Guidelines: Creating Sustainable Systems for Perioperative Brain Health
12.30 to 13.30Lunch and posters
13.30 to 15.00  Best abstracts Oral presentations, 8 x 10 minutes
Parallel sessions
15.00 to 15.30Coffee break and posters
15.30 to 16.30Maeve Leonard Award Lecture
Winner 2025: Meera Agar (AUS)
Two Vulnerabilities, One Imperative: Research for Better Delirium and Palliative Care
16.30 to 17.15General assembly
17.15 to 17.30Walk to Oslo City Hall
17.30Check in and distribution of admission passes at Oslo City Hall
18.00 to 19.30Reception at Oslo City Hall
19:30Social dinner at Oche

Friday 6 November

Time
08.00 to 08.45EDA board meeting
08.50 to 09.00Welcome and information
09.00 to 10.00Keynote 2 – Robert D. Sanders (AUS) Network dysfunction in delirium
10.00 to 10.30Coffee break
10.30 to 11.45 Parallel 4
Music and delirium
Parallel 5
Session title to be confirmed
Parallel 6
Pathophysiology themes
11.45 to 12.45Lunch
12.45 to 14.00 Parallel 7
Adaptive platform trials
Parallel 8
ADA/ADS symposium
Parallel 9
Delirium and big data
Delirium/dementia/epidemiology
14.00 to 14.30Coffee break
14.30 to 15.45 Parallel 10
Grant writing, research planning, research resources
Parallel 11
Simulation-based training for delirium
Parallel 12
Delirium in the Developing Brain
15.45 to 16.00Break
16.00 to 16.30Wind up and farewell – prize winners