The 2023 International Preventing Overdiagnosis scientific conference will be held at the Hotel Scandic, Copenhagen, Denmark 14 – 16 August.

Hosted by The Danish College General Practitioners we promise to bring you a number of lively plenary debates about controversial and timely issues involving high-profile players from across the healthcare landscape.

Registration OPEN

2023 themes below. Please note we accept abstracts on all aspects of Overdiagnosis from all stakeholders.

• Clinical solutions and decision making during consultation to mitigate overdiagnosis
  Focusing on preventing overdiagnosis at an individual level.
• Overdefinition: pre-disease a driver for overdiagnosis and expanding disease definition
  What are the risks of diagnosing a disease when the screening results are borderline.
• Incentives, drivers and causes of overdiagnosis
  Political, cultural and structural mechanisms: Social Science perspectives.
• Sustainability: how is overdiagnosis contributing to healthcare’s global carbon footprint 
  Can understanding overdiagnosis through a lens of sustainability reduce harm for individuals and prevent waste of societal and environmental resources.
• Communicating about overdiagnosis including the role of mainstream journalism & social media
  How platforms that influence societal belief can encourage critical thinking.
• How does consumer testing and self-screening contribute to overdiagnosis
  The role of big data, machine learning, AI and liquid biopsies.

Confirmed speakers include –
– Professor Christopher Dowrick, University of Liverpool, UK
– Dr. Margaret McCartney, Glasgow, UK
– Thomas Lemke, Journalist DK
– Dr. Annette Pluddemann University of Oxford, UK
– Dr. Helen Macdonald, The BMJ, UK
– Professor Victor Montori Mayo Clinic, US
– Dr. Juan P. Brito Mayo Clinic, US

Early Bird Registration is OPEN until 01 MAY 2023, price increases for non-concessions thereafter.