EPINOR Annual meeting 2016

In 2016 the EPINOR annual meeting was in Bergen on September 28th, the day after the annual NOFE Conference. We stayed at Scandic Bergen city and had an EPINOR dinner there the day before the annual meeting. Despite the terrible rain, we had a nice stay in Bergen.

The Topic for this years annual meeting was register based epidemiology and the agenda and lecturers were as following:

1. Introduction

Stein Emil Vollset, Anja Ariansen and Øystein Ariansen Haaland

a. Presentation of national research infrastructures
o Health registries for research
o Biobank Norway 2

b. A short introduction to the different registries
c. Why engage with register research?
d. What are the challenges?

2. The potential of linking

Rolv Skjærven

a. Examples of issues that cannot be investigated without linking national registries.
b. Examples of outstanding research conducted on Norwegian register data.
c. Examples of future possibilities

3. The individual registries

a. Family data and the cancer registry
Steinar Tretli

b. Family data and the birth registry
Rolv Skjærven

c. Death registry
Christian Lykke Ellingsen

d. Cardiovascular registry
Rune Kvåle

e. Multigenerational registry