After five successful events, the DogRisk Evidence Based Raw Food Seminar will again be held in Helsinki this autumn!
There is evidence that diet really matters – come and listen to the latest within healthy dog nutrition. We have excellent researchers and lecturers coming sharing their knowledge. The DogRisk research group at the Department of Equine and small Animal Medicine, Veterinary Sciences at the University of Helsinki, welcomes you all to join – and this year you can also have an impact! We will have 2 days filled with the newest research on dogs’ diets plus an extra day of workshops.
Last updated 5 September 2024
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8.00-9.00 (60 min) Registration and coffee: Auditorium F3003, University of Helsinki main building, 3rd floor
9.00-9.15 (15 min) Program, Welcome - Anna Hielm-Björkman, DVM, PhD, Docent, PI, Leader of the DogRisk research group; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki (UoH).
9.15-9.55 (40 min) How do Dogs Thrive on Good Quality Low-processed Foods? – An Indian Example – Dhanu Roy, Xcellsa Kennels and Pet Prakalp Pvt Ltd. and Anna Hielm-Björkman, UH.
9.55-10.25 (30 min) New NMR-based metabolomics platform as a powerful tool for canine preventative medicine – Professor Hannes Lohi, University of Helsinki, Petbiomics.
10.25-10.45 (20 min) Coffee and interaction
10.45-11.15 (30 min) Metabolism of Canine Mammary Tumors: Nature’s Fate or Product of our Environment, Including Diet? - Robin Moore, PhD student at DogRisk, UoH.
11.15-11.45 (30 min) How Does Diet at Young Age Impact Future Obesity? Dry Versus Raw – Manal Hemida, Post Doc, DogRisk group, UH.
11.45-12.15 (30 min) The speakers panel will discuss and answer questions on this morning’s topics.
12.15-13.15 (60 min) Lunch (find your own lunch place nearby or BYO)
13.15-13.45 (30 min) The Effect of a Kibble Diet Versus a Raw Food Diet on Energy Metabolism biomarkers in dogs – Sarah Rosendahl, PhD, DogRisk, UoH
13.45–14.30 (45 min) Yeast Wars: How Infections Hijack your Metabolism and Natural Ways to Fight Back – Dr. Conor Brady, BSc. PhD. Anim. Behav.
14.30-15.00 (30 min) A Cat Questionnaire Suggests that a Raw Diet is Protective for Cat Osteoarthritis – Student work (Inka-Mariia Rissanen, now DVM) Presented by Anna
15.00-15.20 (20 min) Coffee and interaction
15.20-15.45 (25 min) Meal timing and risk of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases in humans : insights from the Nutrinet-sante’ cohort – Prof. Jr. Bernard Srour, PharmD, PhD, MPH, INRAE, oordinator of NACRe (Nutrition And Cancer Research), Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), Université Sorbonne Paris, CNAM, Center of Research in Epidemiology and StatisticS (CRESS)
15.45–16.30 (45 min) Nutrition Emergencies and Their Solutions – Dr Barbara Royal, DVM, Chicago, USA. The Royal Treatment Veterinary Center, Co-founder Royal Animal Health University, Adjunct Prof. California State University, CEO of College of Integrated Veterinary Therapies & co-owner of the Animal Diet Formulator. (Via ZOOM)
16.30-17.00 (30 min) The speakers panel will discuss and answer questions on this afternoon’s topics.
19.00 For those who have signed up, dinner at Megaeläin pet-store, ITIS shopping mall. Take Metro to the east, jump off at Itäkeskus.
8.00-9.00 (60 min) Registration, coffee: Lecture hall “Pieni Juhlasali”, Uni of Helsinki main building, 4th floor
9.00-9.10 (10 min) Program, Welcome, etc. - Anna Hielm-Björkman, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UoH
9.10-9.30 (20 min) Showing off our Pain Alert Dogs – Nona Borgström, project planner, master student
9.30-10.10 (40 min) Food additives exposure and risk of chronic diseases in the Nutri-sante’ cohort (humans) - Prof.Jr. Bernard Srour, PharmD, PhD, MPH, Université Sorbonne Paris (see more above).
10.10-10.30 (20 min) Coffee and interaction
10.30-11.05 (35 min) Bridging the Gap: Raw Feeding Hygiene and Best Practices for Pet Owners and Professionals – Sarah Hormozi, MSc Animal Nutrition, Head of Science and education, UK Pet Food, UK.
11.05-11.50 (45 min) The Function of Functional Food – Nick Thompson, DVM, raw-feeding vet, UK.
11.50-12.20 (30 min) The panel will discuss and answer questions on this morning’s topics
12.20-13.20 (60 min) Lunch (find your own lunch place nearby or BYO)
13.20-14.05 (45 min) Can Diet Change your Genes? The Expression of Key Breakthroughs in Human functional Medicine for our Dogs and Why it Doesn’t Always Follow the Plan – Brendan Clark, DVM, UK
14.05–15.05 (60 min) From Label to Bowl: Navigating Pet Food Regulations and Guidelines for Raw Feeding – Sarah Hormozi, MSc Animal Nutrition, Head of Science and Education, UK Pet Food, UK.
15.05-15.25 (20 min) Coffee and interaction
15.25-16.10 (45 min) The Good, the Bad, and the AGEs: A Comprehensive Look at Food Processing Byproducts in Pet Foods - Nicole Cammack, MS, PhD student, Northpoint Pets & Company (Via ZOOM)
16.10-16.40 (30 min) The panel will discuss and answer questions on this afternoon´s topics
16.40-16.50 (10 min) Raffle: Chance to win some books and ticket to next year’s Dogrisk seminar!
16.50-17.00 (10 min) Thank you and see you soon – or see you tomorrow at the workshop! – Anna
19.00 For those who have signed up, dinner at Anna’s place.
10.00-14.00 WORKSHOP: Will be held at the Megaeläin pet-store in ITIS shopping mall, where we have Friday dinner: Take Metro/Underground to the east and jump off at Itäkeskus.
For more info: Anna Hielm-Björkman, Tel:-358-(0)44-3270462; anna.hielm-bjorkman@helsinki.fi
Where and when?
The workshop will be held at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine on Viikki Campus in Helsinki, or at Anna's house if there are not so many participants, on Sunday September 8th, 2024 – or at Anna’s house if we are not so many. The 2-day lectures will be held at the University of Helsinki main building (päärakennus), Fabianinkatu 33, 00100, in Helsinki city center on Friday and Saturday, September 6-7, 2024. The Auditorium on Friday is F3003 and on Saturday “Pieni juhlasali”. Same entrance, different floors. The room will take up to about 200 persons but those who are late in registering, might not fit in so please be early. All three days 9.00 AM to 5 PM, but doors are open all day! If you fly in, it is Helsinki Airport (HEL), Finland.
For whom? Veterinary and human health practitioners and nutritionists, nurses, students, dog owners - anybody with an interest in multidisciplinary research on the relationships between diet and disease, in dogs, pets, humans. The course is part of the Veterinary study curriculum course “Eläinten pidon perusteet, etologia ja eläinsuojelu II” and for PhDs at the Clinical Veterinary Medicine doctoral school.
Language: English.
Cost: Seminar fees (covers lectures and coffees, but NO TRAVELING OR ACCOMODATION).
If you are UoH staff, faculty or a student from any school or university, the seminar is free for you.
All others: 50 € per day (100 € + VAT for 2 days). (Please ask for reduced prices if the price is too high for you: sarah.rosendahl@helsinki.fi).
If you are a company and would like a table and/or a roll-up outside the lecture hall: 500 € + VAT, including 2 persons that may attend the lectures.
The organized dinner on Friday we try to get partly sponsored and charge you only 30 € (food only) or 40 € (with wine). Please enter this in the registration form when you register through the link above. Saturday: a restaurant where everybody pays but we make the reservation.
OBSERVE: The University is slow so you might get your invoice before the seminar, or after. This is not our fault, and we invite you to come anyway and then just pay after the seminar, when you get the invoice. Sorry for the inconvenience. Our seminar fee pays for the lecturer, the lecture hall, the coffees etc., we never make a profit. But in case we someday would, all extra revenues would go to sponsoring the nutrition research done by the DogRisk research group at the University of Helsinki.
For more info: Anna Hielm-Björkman, Tel:-358-(0)44-3270462; anna.hielm-bjorkman@helsinki.fi
Yes. All the ones that we are allowed to share afterwards (this is up to individual lecturers), we will share to those who registered and paid (where applicable) for the seminar. Once we get the lecture recordings and other materials ready, you will get a link to access them.
Unfortunately, not. But you can just register as usual and we will send everybody that has registered and that has paid a link to access the materials as soon as we have the materials (lecture recordings, etc.) ready.
The seminar will not be available to view for free, at least not for quite some time. We released the previous seminar about 2 months before this year's in part to let people see what the seminar is like. It would also not be fair to the people who paid to attend the seminar to give it for free for everyone immediately afterwards.
For more info: Anna Hielm-Björkman, Tel:-358-(0)44-3270462; anna.hielm-bjorkman@helsinki.fi
Registration has closed.
Please, only one name per registration! If you register many from your firm/team/association, they all have to be done separately as we need to know dietary restrictions, titles and names for nametags etc. The paying info can be completed in the first and the next ones can be filled in with “as A. Smith”.
Did you know that Finns have been voted as the happiest people on earth for at least 4 times in a row now? That Helsinki is one of the most secure and clean capitals to live in? That we Finns are curious and love nature? And that more than every second family has a dog… or many? So, it’s a great place to visit and the DogRisk seminar is even a better reason!
The lectures will be in the University of Helsinki main building (preliminary plan), Fabianinkatu 33, 00100, Helsinki
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We are happy if you can spread the link as much as possible so that all those that are interested in a healthy diet can take part!
See you in September in Helsinki!