Screening Interest Group
Screening and early detection of diseases is a newly founded interest group (2024) that will connect junior and senior researchers from all fields and disease specialties to discuss screening relevant topics.
Chairs
- Mette Kielsholm Thomsen, MSPH, PhD, Department of Clinical Epidemiology
- Stine Bisgaard Greve, MD, PhD student, Department of Radiology
Aims
The “Screening and early detection of diseases”-group has two overall aims.
- To disseminate knowledge and experiences on screening and early detection methodology
- To facilitate integration between basic, clinical and epidemiological research on screening and early detection of specific diseases
As a member, you will receive inspiring information on seminars and tips for relevant conferences and lectures.
Examples of topics for seminars will include
- Lessons learned from controversies in cancer screening
- “If we test enough, everybody suffers from some disease” – when is screening applicable?
- Screening of high-risk vs. average-risk populations
- Screening as an involuntary inequality magnifier – how can we support vulnerable populations to participate in screening efforts
- Risk-stratification for personalized screening tools
- Screening specific biases in observational studies – rules of thumb and why they are not enough
- Novel biomedical, clinical and epidemiologic perspectives on early detection of x disease
Seminar May 28th 2025 - Genetic Insights in Risk Stratification: Towards More Targeted Healthcare
Our next seminar is May 28th – please share in your own networks! Everyone is welcome, and they don’t even have to join the interest group/mailing list to participate.
Sign-up is by email to screening.interest.group@au.dk
This time we offer the option of online participation (by request), so let us know if you would like to attend but are not able to join us in the university park.
The topic is genetics, with interesting insights into risk stratification delivered from the perspectives of biomedicine and epidemiology, by Professor Ditte Demontis and Postdoc Kirsten Woolpert.
At the opening seminar, we dived right into discussions, and did not have enough time to meet and discover connections across research groups or disciplines, so this time, we will start out with a short round of introductions, so we will all know who to catch during the break.
We look forward to seeing you there!
