Too
Much
Medicine

XXIX Paulo Foundation
International Medical
Symposium

15–17 August 2018
Helsinki, Finland

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Speakers

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Katso syväluotaavat artikkelit puhujien taustoista

Kim Witczak

Consumer representative and drug safety advocate

Lisa Cosgrove

Professor of Counseling and School Psychology

Peter C. Gøtzsche

MD, Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are causes for increasing concern

The XXIX Paulo Scientific Symposium will bring together a group of outstanding international scientific experts to raise awareness of problems related to medical excess and to identify the best sustainable evidence-based practices. The Symposium aims to find methods for eliminating sources of bias from clinical trials and guidelines, to advance the dissemination of accurate scientific information and to promote critical societal debate about medicine.

Too Much Medicine is organized in collaboration with the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Aug. 20-22, 2018

Programme

Wednesday 15 August

8:00 Registration opening

Welcome session

Chairs: Risto Renkonen and Teppo Järvinen

9:30 Opening words

9:40 Welcome speech

Paulo Foundation: Risto Renkonen

9:50 Winding back overdiagnosis: where are the leverage points?

Paul Glasziou

10:30 Opening speech

Annika Saarikko, Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services, Ministry of Family Affairs and Health

10:45 Coffee and refreshments

Media Session

Chair: Jussi Valtonen and Mia Pohtola

Communicating sustainability in modern healthcare - Walking the tightrope

11:15 How journalists often promote too much medicine: >3,000 lessons from HealthNewsReview.org

Gary Schwitzer

11:55 The media and overdiagnosis: Challenges and opportunities in educating the public

Alan Cassels

12:35 Lunch

Investigative journalists

Watchdogs or lapdogs

Chairs: Pertti Saloheimo and Mira Karrasch

13:35 Secret scandals: How political influence keeps doctors and surgeons from knowing the truth about the drugs they prescribe and the devices they implant

Jeanne Lenzer

14:15 Who needs investigative journalism in medicine?

Robert Whitaker

14:55 Medical reporting in the face of attack from vested interests

Deborah Cohen

15:35 Coffee and refreshments

Being artistic and less misled

Chairs: Jorma Komulainen and Samantha Craigie

16:05 Using art as a means to engage lay public in health dialogue

Malcolm Willett

16:45 How to help clinicians avoid being misled

Gordon Guyatt

17:25 Afternoon break

18:15 - 20:15 Complimentary nature trip to Seurasaari

A guided 1.5 hours walk around picturesque island of Seurasaari. Bus arrives 18:15 at Hotel Kalastajatorppa. Please, register at Too Much Medicine information desk.