The Endocrine System Across Scales: From Brain, Pregnancy and Adipose Tissue to Cardiovascular Risk and Care Pathways

Part 1: Introduction

• Daniel Berglind (Dept. of Global Public Health)
  Why endocrine disease is a society challenge

Block A

How endocrine risk begins: brain, pregnancy, childhood and adipose tissue

• Janina Seubert (Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)
  The sensory brain and metabolic behaviour: how smell, taste and perception shape eating
• Kari Johansson (Dept. of Medicine, Solna)
  Obesity Across the Reproductive Lifespan: Risks and Treatment options
• Annika Janson (Dept. of Women's and Children's Health)
  Early-life endocrine risk: childhood obesity and trajectories into adult cardiometabolic disease
• Carolina Hagberg (Dept. of Medicine, Solna)
  Adipose tissue as an endocrine–vascular organ: when storage becomes disease

Block B

How endocrine dysfunction becomes cardiovascular burden and fragmented care

• Stefan Agewall (Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital)
  Metabolic and environmental drivers of cardiovascular risk: obesity, diabetes and the vulnerable heart
• Nadia Davoody (Dept. of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics)
  Improving lipedema care: awareness, fragmented care pathways and digital support needs
• Christofer Juhlin (Dept. of Oncology-Pathology)
  Endocrine pathology and tumour biology: when endocrine organs become cancer

Part 2: Panel discussion

From mechanisms to action: what should KI North solve together?

Suggested questions:

1. What is the biggest societal failure behind endocrine and cardiometabolic disease?
2. What is the most important knowledge gap preventing better prevention, diagnosis or treatment?
3. Where do you see the most promising future collaboration across KI North?
4. If this group wrote one joint KI North grant, what would the project be?