Neuro-SysMed-seminar – Roger Strand
Velkommen til Neuro-SysMeds månedlige seminarer! Denne gangen er tema fra RRI/PPI-noden, og invitert foreleser er Roger Strand, professor ved Senter for vitenskapsteori (SVT) og CCBIO. Tittelen er "The Complexity of Medical Phenomena". Bli med i auditoriet Olavssalen i Gamle Hovedbygning kl. 11:30–13:00 (lunsj kl. 11:30–12:00).
Hovedinnhold
(Engelsk tekst videre siden seminarene er internasjonale og undervisningsspråket på seminarene er engelsk.)
Title: The Complexity of Medical Phenomena
Speaker: Professor Roger Strand, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen
Chair: Jan Reinert Karlsen from Neuro-SysMed's Responsible Research and Innovation & Patient and Public Involvement (RRI/PPI) Node
Place: NB: Other place than usual! The auditorium Olavssalen in Gamle Hovedbygning (campus Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen)
Time: Wednesday March 5, 2025, at 11:30–13:00 (lunch 11:30–12:00).
Registration: please use this link
Langage: English
Abstract: While the words "complexity" and "complex" abound in medical research, modern medicine has by and large developed by means of reductionist approaches that implicitly assume that medical phenomena are simple. This has led to some great successes and innumerable minor, partial successes, sometimes at the cost of over-treatment and inappropriate medicalization of biological and social phenomena.
In his talk, Roger Strand will clarify the terms "simple", "complicated" and "complex". Examples will be given to illustrate how medical research proceeds by disregarding complexity and arriving at results that, ironically, may give rise to treatments that produce their own complexity in clinical practice and lived experience. In fact, modern medicine only rarely develops "silver bullets" that simplify the lives of patients and clinicians. Instead, the complexity and costs of the health system increases.
Roger Strand holds an MSc and PhD in biochemistry and is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, UiB. He has studied complexity in science, nature and public policy for more than three decades. His research on the complexity of medicine has mainly focused on cancer, and he has been affiliated with the CCBIO since its inception in 2013. At the Faculty of Medicine, UiB, he has worked with several of the Faculty's greatest minds, including Torgeir Flatmark, Lars A. Akslen and Caroline Engen.
NSM seminars
The objective of the seminars at the NeuroSysMed Research School for Translational Neuroscience is to provide knowledge into the research disciplines at Neuro-SysMed and treatment strategies for patients with MS, PD, ALS and dementia. The seminars are organized in monthly meetings, and include an annual 2-day symposium. Members of Neuro-SysMed as well as invited local, national and international speakers will present during the seminars and symposium.
Participation provides ECTS for PhD candidates and is part of the Neuro-SysMed Graduate School of Translational Neuroscience. If you are a UiB student, make sure you register each term in Studentweb for the subject NEURO920 Neuro-Sysmed seminars and symposium.
