EDA 2026: Program

Moderators: Sophie Leroy (GER), Viktor Bublitz (GER), Yorben Lodema (NL), Julia van der A (NL)

Sanchit Turaga (UK) and Lily Elderton (UK)

Hannah Moorey (UK)

Bram Tilburgs (NL)

Room: Helsinki

Sara Åkerman (Sweden) Children’s experience of pediatric intensive care and delirium explored through Photovoice

Jelena Golubovic (US) Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Pediatric Delirium: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Nadia Zaim (US) Proactive Psychiatric Consultation for Delirium Prevention and Management in the PICU

Roberta Esteves Vieira de Castro (Brazil) Beyond Delirium: Implementing a Brain Health Approach in the Pediatric ICU

Room: København

Svenja Letz (GER) From Delirium Guidelines to Sustainable Systems of Care: Lessons from Large-Scale Implementation

Peter Nydal (GER) Interprofessional Leadership, Family Engagement and Sustainable Delirium Care

Cynthia Olotu (GER) Brain Health Before Surgery: Prehabilitation as a Delirium Prevention Strategy

Alex Barroso (SPA) Reading the Vulnerable Brain: Intraoperative EEG and the Limits of Delirium Prevention

Room: Oslo

Room: Helsinki

Yamini Ajmera (13): To evaluate determinants and short-term and long-term outcomes of delirium in hospitalized older adults.

Maria Scheutz (24): The relationship between MRI-based preoperative blood-brain barrier permeability and postoperative delirium symptom severity is modulated by intraoperative blood-loss

Sofie Lautrup (39): Longitudinal Associations Between Immune-Regulatory Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites and Delirium

Yoonhyoung Jo (41): Postoperative Delirium Is Associated with Cortical Gray Matter Loss Following Brain Metastasis Surgery: A Longitudinal MRI Study

Christine von Arnim (43): Preoperative Plasma Amyloid-β1-40 Is Associated with Increased Risk of Postoperative Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: Results from the Prospective FINDERI Cohort

Yorben Lodema (66): Widespread Alterations in Aperiodic EEG Activity in Delirium

Mathias Hella (73): CSF α-synuclein seeding activity in delirium: exploring a potential link with Lewy body disease.

Tania Ahmed (86): The Brain’sSweet Spot

Room: København

Florence Gerakios (25): Clinical delirium subtypes and associated one-year mortality, dementia and institutionalisation.

Rachael Lawson (32): Developing a Parkinson’sDisease-Specific Delirium Diagnostic Tool: Internal Validation Using Penalised Regression

Sara Åkerman (51): CAPD-defined delirium was highly prevalent in Swedish PICUs.

Stefan Holman (60): Diagnostic accuracy and feasibility of the 4AT, including non-verbal adaptations, for delirium detection in critically ill patients: a prospective multicenter study

Matthew Luney (62): Delirium severity after hip fracture: development and validation of a UK clinical prediction model

Sophie Leroy (85): Standardizing EEG Acquisition in Delirium Research: Clinical and Technical Recommendations for Harmonization and Federated Analysis

Aline Nixon (87): Poor Physical Function, a Key Risk Factor for Development of Post-operative Delirium in Older Adults. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

XiangLu Xiao (95): PharmkGPT, a biomedical knowledge graph to support evidence-grounded question answering and literature exploration across delirium and AD.

Room: Oslo

Jian-An Su (2): Delirium as an Early Mortality Signal in Older Inpatients: A Three-Year Comparative Survival Study

Anders Aasheim (4): EEG Spectrogram- and BIS-Guided Anaesthesia Improves Emergence and Early Postoperative Cognitive Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Eva Trompetter (9): «My sister often tried to talk to the doctors about the delirium, but nothing came of it» – Care experiences and coping behaviour of relatives of older people with delirium

Christina Aggar (45): PREDICT (Prevention and Early Delirium Identification Carer Toolkit)

Sining Zeng (63): Perioperative Music Interventions for Prevention of Postoperative Delirium in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Rose Penfold (65): Delirium on admission and subsequent dementia subtype: a population-based cohort study of older adults

Sanchit Turaga (89): Delirium occurrence across dementia subtypes in older hospital patients: ORCHARD-EPR cross-sectional study

Meera Agar (AUS)  Adaptive platform trials: an innovative methodology for discovering new delirium treatments in heterogeneous hospital populations  

Alexandra Feast (UK) From exclusion to inclusion: people and community involvement to address inequalities in delirium trials

Rob Sanders (AUS) Building an early-phase (2a/b) pipeline for mechanism-targeted delirium treatments

Anita Nitchingham/ Peter Lange (AUS) The example of sleep and optimising cerebral metabolism: potential therapeutic trials of insulin and melatonin in older adults with delirium

Room: Helsinki

Alasdair MacLullich (UK) Effective large-scale delirium assessment in routine care is possible: the 4AT as an exemplar

Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, Lena Korsnes (NOR) Putting Delirium on the Agenda –  National Supervision to Support Ownership, Learning and Improvement  

More TBA

Room: København

Colm Cunningham (IR) Updating the pathophysiological picture: from medical precipitant to cellular & molecular impacts on neuronal function  

Hans Christian Boesen (DEN) Glymphatic dysfunction: a unifying hypothesis for delirium

Room: Oslo

Jacqueline Strik (NED) Recognising Paediatric Delirium Across Developmental Stages: From Clinical Observation to Daily Practice  

Husam Salamah (NED) Can Neonates Become Delirious? Diagnostic Boundaries and Prospective NICU Data  

Britney Broeders (NED) Beyond Survival: PaediatricDelirium as a Predictor of Health-Related Quality of Life After PICU Admission

Room: Helsinki

Coordinated by Anita Nitchingham (ADA) and Sikandar Kahn (ADS)

Leanne Boehm (US) An update on ADS activities and initiatives  

Sikandar Kahn (US) What’s in the blood? Biomarkers in Patients with Intensive Care Unit Delirium – A Pilot Study  

Somnath Bose (US) Personalized Communication and ICU Delirium: Lessons from the EMERGE Trial  

Anita Nitchingham (AUS) An update on ADA activities and initiatives  

Gideon Caplan (AUS)  

Room: København

Rose Penfold (UK) From delirium to dementia: insights from linked routine healthcare data

Sarah Pendlebury (UK) Establishing the infrastructure for real-world delirium research: ORCHARD portfolio studies  

Wilhelm Frich (NOR) Delirium in the population: findings from the HUNT study

Room: Oslo 

John Devlin (US) and Esther Oh (US) NIDUS-III: Opportunities for European Delirium Investigators

Emma Vardy (UK)/Meera Agar (AUS) Result of UK and Australian delirium priority setting partnership for research

Room: Helsinki

Bjørn Erik Neerland (NOR) How should we assess the effect of MBIs on delirium symptoms?

Jelena Golubovic (NOR) Live and Recorded Music Interventions for Delirium in Older Adults: Feasibility, Mechanisms, and Outcomes

Sikandar Kahn (US) When the Brain Listens: Neurobiological Effects of Slow-Tempo Music on Inflammatory Pathways and Delirium in the ICU

Babar Kahn (US) Effect of Music on Delirium in CriticallyIll Older Adults: Implications for Future ICU Delirium Studies

Room: København

Miarca ten Broeke (NED)
Thomas H. Ottens (NED)
Frank R. Halfwerk (NED

Room: Oslo