Nordic-Baltic PhD Hypertension Meeting

The Finnish Hypertension Society organizes the Nordic-Baltic PhD Hypertension Meeting 2025 from October 7-9, 2025, in Rovaniemi, Finland. The Nordic-Baltic PhD Hypertension meeting is held every other year in the Nordic countries, with the aim of strengthening the academic network between the countries, which further enables broader medical collaboration among the Nordic and Baltic nations. Our goals are to:

• Provide young researchers with the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from hypertension experts from both countries.
• Strengthen academic collaboration between researchers in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
• Facilitate scientific networking and collaboration that hopefully leads to joint research projects and publications in the future.

The meeting's agenda includes a scientific lectures and poster sessions, where leading hypertension experts will share information on recent research and treatment practices. In addition to the scientific program, leisure activities will support the strengthening of cooperation between the countries.

The venue will be Sky Hotel Ounasvaara. The main themes of the meeting is hypertension and overweight, divided into six sessions: (1) Overview of hypertension and treatment recommendations, (2) Hypertension in primary healthcare, (3) Overweight and hypertension, (4) Cardiorenal diseases and hypertension, (5) Diagnostics, (6) Secondary and treatment-resistant hypertension, (7) Aldosterone in hypertension. A preliminary program for the meeting is attached.

Registeration and programme will be published later in 2024. The registeration cost will be 400 €. The registeration cost will include course programme, accomodation, and served meals.