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 09.00 | EDA executive committee meeting | ||
| 08.30 to 09.30 | Registration | ||
| 09.30 to 09.45 | Welcome, practical info | ||
| 09.45 to 10.45 | Keynote 1 – Liz Sampson (UK) How can we get the message across to politicians and bureaucrats who plan health care services? | ||
| 10.45 to 11.15 | Coffee break and posters | ||
| 11.15 to 12.30 | Parallel 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 13.30 | Lunch and posters | ||
| 13.30 to 15.00 | Best abstracts Oral presentations, 8 x 10 minutes Parallel sessions | ||
| 15.00 to 15.30 | Coffee break and posters | ||
| 15.30 to 16.30 | Maeve Leonard Award Lecture Winner 2025: Meera Agar (AUS) Two Vulnerabilities, One Imperative: Research for Better Delirium and Palliative Care | ||
| 16.30 to 17.15 | General assembly | ||
| 17.15 to 17.30 | Walk to Oslo City Hall | ||
| 17.30 | Check in and distribution of admission passes at Oslo City Hall | ||
| 18.00 to 19.30 | Reception at Oslo City Hall | ||
| 19:30 | Social dinner at Oche | ||
Friday 6 November
| Time | ||||||
| 08.00 to 08.45 | EDA board meeting | |||||
| 08.50 to 09.00 | Welcome and information | |||||
| 09.00 to 10.00 | Keynote 2 – Robert D. Sanders (AUS) Network dysfunction in delirium | |||||
| 10.00 to 10.30 | Coffee 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 12.45 | Lunch | |||||
| 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 14.30 | Coffee 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 16.00 | Break | |||||
| 16.00 to 16.30 | Wind up and farewell – prize winners | |||||