upcoming meetings
NORDIC OBESITY MEETING 2026, Stockholm: February 5-6, 2026
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2026: November 5-7, 2026
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2027: October 28-30, 2027
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
Educational day on Obesity: Muscle mass and physical functioning in obesity management – insights from cell to society; physiological, clinical, and psychological aspects November 13th
This year there will again be an educational day on obesity the day prior to the annual meeting in the Danish Association for the Study on Obesity (DASO). The educational day is hosted and financed by a collaboration between DASO, CAG Sustainable Health Improvements Following Obesity Treatment (SHIFT), Research Unit on Endocrinology in Esbjerg Hospital and LightCOM.
The topic of the educational day will be the management of obesity with a focus on physical activity, muscle mass and function from several angles spanning from cell to society.
See program and details about registration here
For registration, please visit dsaf.dk/tilmelding/. Registration will remain open as long as spots are available.
The price for attending the educational day including overnight stay till November 14 is 1,000 DKK. Staying overnight is recommended, as it makes it easier to attend the DASO annual meeting the following day. If you only want to participate during the day the price will be 250 DKK and include dinner but without overnight stay.
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2025
The DASO annual Obesity Meeting will take place the 14th to the 15th of November 2025 at Hotel Sinatur, Østerøvej 121, 5800 Nyborg, Denmark. The conference will bring together medical doctors, dietitians, health care professionals, and multidisciplinary researchers engaged in obesity research.
The annual Obesity Meeting will cover topics spanning from a new definition of obesity, new perspectives for the treatment of obesity, obesity and idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and guidelines for and patient perceptions of post bariatric hypoglycemia, to multidisciplinary lifestyle interventions for children with obesity. The meeting gives early career researchers the opportunity to present their research and all participants an opportunity to strengthen and expand their scientific network. Moreover, this year the “Flemming Quaade Prize for Outstanding Obesity Research” and the “Novo Nordisk Foundation Early Career Obesity Research Award” will be awarded for the first time.
Practical info
Programme: Programme DASO annual obesity meeting 2025
Venue: Sinatur Storebælt , Østerøvej 121, 5800 Nyborg
Registration: Sign up here. The deadline for registration is 25 September 2025. Early career researchers (PhD age <7 years) who have had an abstract accepted for the congress will have a reduced fee. The registration fee covers participation in the annual obesity meeting including accommodation and all meals.
Registration fees:
| Type | Rate |
| DASO member | 2100 DKK |
| Non-member | 2900 DKK |
| DASO member, early career researchers, abstract accepted (PhD age < 7 years) | 1250 DKK |
| Industry | 3800 DKK |
| Honorary member | 1250 DKK |
Abstracts: Submit your abstract (300 words) to dsaf@dsaf.dk no later than September 17, 2025. Find abstract guidelines here
Upon submission, please indicate if you are an early career researcher. Also indicate whether you are participating in the educational day on obesity, the annual meeting or both.
Poster and speaker guidelines
All presentations must adhere to the EASO person first language guidelines and use respectful images
Oral abstract presentation
The presentation should be no longer than 8 minutes long and it is important that you keep to time. All speakers are asked to include a COI statement as the second slide in their presentations. Presentations should be submitted to dsaf@dsaf.dk before the meeting.
Posters
Please note the dimensions of the Poster MUST adhere to the following requirements:
VERTICAL
Width: max 94 cm
Height: max 135 cm
exhibitors and sponsors:
DASO Summer Meeting 2025 “Ultra-processed foods and obesity” June 11th
The DASO Summer Meeting will take place the 11th of June 2025 15:30-18:00 at Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus. This year, our summer meeting will cover “ultra-processed foods and obesity” – a hot topic that has spurred a lot of attention and debate in the media this winter. We have invited four renowned speakers with different areas of expertise ranging from nutrition, epidemiology, inpatient human intervention studies and addictive properties of ultra-processed foods.
We look forward to seeing you!
Location: Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus Universitetshospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 11, Indgang A – Forum, 8200 Aarhus N. Room: Verdensrummet.
Registration: here. Deadline for registration: June 4th.
Price: Free for members of DASO. 50 dkr for non-members.
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2024: November 1-2, 2024
We are very excited to welcome you to DASO’s annual Obesity Meeting. The meeting will take place the 1st-2nd of November 2024 in Nyborg, Denmark. The conference will bring together medical doctors, dietitians, health care professionals, and multidisciplinary researchers engaged in obesity research.
The annual Obesity Meeting will cover topics spanning from the role of physical activity in weight maintenance, new perspectives on treatment of obesity, therapeutic targets and bariatric surgery, to treatment of obesity eating disorders and obesity stigma. The meeting gives early career researchers the opportunity to present their research and all participants an opportunity to strengthen and expand their scientific network.
Practical info
Programme: Programme DASO annual obesity meeting
Venue: Sinatur Storebælt , Østerøvej 121, 5800 Nyborg
Registration: Sign up here. The deadline for registration is 16 September 2024. Early career researchers (PhD age <10 years) who have had an abstract accepted for the congress will have a reduced fee. The registration fee covers participation in the annual obesity meeting including accommodation and all meals.
Registration fees:p
| Type | Rate |
| DASO member | 2100 dkk |
| Non-member | 2900 dkk |
| DASO member, early career researchers, abstract accepted | 1250 dkk |
Abstracts: Submit your abstract (300 words) to dsaf@dsaf.dk before September 8, 2024. Find abstract guidelines here
Poster and speaker guidelines
All presentations must adhere to the EASO person first language guidelines and use respectful images
Oral abstract presentation
The presentation should be no longer than 8 minutes long and it is important that you keep to time. All speakers are asked to include a COI statement as the second slide in their presentations. Presentations should be submitted to dsaf@dsaf.dk before the meeting.
Posters
Please note the dimensions of the Poster MUST adhere to the following requirements:
VERTICAL
Width: max 94 cm
Height: max 135 cm
exhibitors and sponsors:
DSAF Summer Meeting
DSAF invites you to the summer meeting in Copenhagen, where we focus on the future treatment of obesity. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM and will also be streamed online.
Read more: DSAF sommermøde 4juni 2024.
Registration: dsaf.nemtilmeld.dk – link for online participation will be sent after registration.
DSAF summer meeting August 31 2023 “Access to treatment”
The meeting is held in Aarhus. The meeting will be in Danish. See the programme here
Sign up here.
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2023: NOVEMBER 2-4 IN NYBORG
We are very excited to welcome you to DASO’s annual Obesity Meeting. The meeting will take place the 2-4 November 2023 in Nyborg, Denmark. The conference will bring together medical doctors, dietitians, health care professionals, and multidisciplinary researchers engaged in obesity research.
Preceding the annual obesity meeting, we will hold an educational day on obesity, on the topic ‘How is obesity in adolescents and adults treated in the real-world?: working on case-based examples’ will include talks on treatment in primary and secondary care facilities and participant workshops.
The annual Obesity Meeting will cover topics spanning from obesity and reproductive health, lipedema, weight maintenance to obesity in childhood and adulthood and cancer risk. The meeting also gives young investigators the opportunity to present their research findings and all researchers an opportunity to strengthen and expand their research network.
PRACTICAL INFO
The programme: dsaf.dk/annual-obesity-meeting/
Venue: Sinatur Storebælt , Østerøvej 121, 5800 Nyborg
The deadline for registrations is 17 September 2023. Early career researchers (PhD age <10 years) who have had an abstract accepted for the congress will have a reduced fee. The registration fee covers participation in the Education day and the annual obesity meeting including accommodation and all meals.
Registration fees:
| Type | Rate |
| DASO member | 1500 dkk |
| Non-member | 2500 dkk |
| DASO member, early career researchers, abstract accepted | 1000 dkk |
Registration will open in the beginnning of August.
Abstracts: Submit your abstract (300 words) to o dsaf@dsaf.dk before September 10, 2023. Find abstract guidelines here
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2021
Awards:
1st prize: Lotte Assing Winckelmann, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass versus Sleeve Gastrectomy: Nationwide data from the Danish quality registry for treatment of severe obesity
2nd prize:Henriette H. Nerild, Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark. Liraglutide decreases postprandial fibroblast growth factor 19 and glucagon-like peptide 2, and increases postprandial cholecystokinin in individuals with obesity
Poster presentation: Emma Davidsen, Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark. Experienced weight discrimination and self-stigma among Danes with a body mass index > 30 kg/m2
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2019
Abstract awards
1st prize :
Mette Ji Riis-Vestergaard, Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital.
Glucose metabolism in brown adipose tissue determined by deterium metabolic imaging in rats
2nd prize:
Mette Søeby, Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital.
Relationship between biochemical and symptomatic hypoglycemia after RYGB. Responses to a mixed meal test
DSAF annual meeting 2019 “Obesity: From primary prevention to bariatric surgery”
november 15-16 2019 in nYBORG
Deadline for submission of abstracts is September 20 and the deadline for registration is September 27 2019.
DSAF Late summer meeting September 5 2019 “maintenance of weight loss – is it possible?”
The meeting is held in Aarhus. The meeting will be in Danish. See the programme here: DSAF_seminar_Aarhus_2019
Sign up: here
DSAF summermeeting May 8th 2018 “Childhood obesity treatment – methods and perspectives”
See the programme her: DSAF annual summer meeting 2018 programme
Sign up here
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2017
Abstract awards
1st prize :
Julie Aarestrup,Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen.
Childhood body mass index and adult ovarian cancer risk
2nd prize:
Lise Geisler Bjerregaard, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen.
Are Adverse Effects of Child Overweight on Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Reversible by Remission to Normal Weight in Early Adulthood?
Formand Sigrid Bjerge Gribsholt med de glade prisvinderne – Lise Geisler Bjergegaard (TV) og Julie Aarestrup (TH).
DSAF annual meeting 2017 ” is obesity a disease?
10-11. NOVEMbER 2017 IN nYBORG
tilmelding: under punktet MØDER og TILMELDING dsaf.dk/tilmelding/
DSAF Annual summer meeting, 2017, may. 4 th.
Programme: DSAF-Annual-summermeeting-2017-programme.-final
DSAF Annual Meeting 2016
Abstract awards
1st prize : Pernille Wismann, Gubra Aps., Hørsholm
A long-acting glucagon-like peptide -1/2 co-agonist improves body weight and glycemic control i db/db mice
2nd prize : Julie Kloppenborg, Copenhagen University Hospital, Holbæk.
Impaired fasting glucose and the metabolic profile in Danish children and adolescent with normalweight, overweight, or obesity.
De glade vindere af abstract konkurrencen 2016
DSAF ANNUAL MEETING “OBESITY AND ADIPOSE TISSUE” FREDAG DEN 7. OKTOBER -LØRDAG DEN 8.OKTOBER 2016 , HOTEL SIGNATUR, NYBORG.
se opdateret programme: dsaf-annual-meeting-2016-programme_final2_medlogo_jmb
Invitation DSAF ANNUAL MEETING 2016
Guidelines for abstract submission:
Abstract guidelines 2016
DSAF Årsmøde 2015
Præsentation af abstract – konkurrence :
1. præmie : Mette Søndergaard Nielsen
Changes in food choice following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery assessed by an ad libitum buffet meal.
2. præmie: Ulrich Rohde
The EndoBarrier® gastrointestinal liner reduces food intake in obese subjects and improves postprandial glucose metabolism acutely in obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
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