Conference Day 1

Time: June 11 2026, 9.00 – 16.30, 19.00-22.00

9.00-10.30 Arrival and introduction

• 9.00-10.00 Registration & coffee
• 10.00-10.10 Welcome
• 10.10-10.25 Opening of the conference
• 10.25-10.30 Practical info
  

10.30-12.00 Theme 1: The bigger picture

• Fredrik Lauritzen (Anti-Doping Norway)
  

12.00-13.00 Lunch & mingling

13.00-14.20 Theme 2: Youth and Clean Fitness Program’s work in the Nordic countries

• Kasper Skat Lundgaard Krøll (Anti Doping Danmark)
• Mikko Lemettilä (A-Clinicic Foundation)
• Kristoffer Lie Loftheim (Anti Doping Norway)
• Johanna Gripenberg & Tobias Elgan (Karolinska Institutet/ STAD)
  

14.20-15.00 Coffee & mingling

15.00-16.20 Theme 3: Understanding a multifaceted phenomenon

• From Pressure to Prevention: Confronting the Modern Drivers of Performance-Enhancing Substance Use through Education and Empowerment – Brian Parker (Taylor Hooton Foundation)
• From Prohibition to Harm Reduction: Rethinking Doping Prevention in Recreational Fitness – Eric Van Breda (Dopingautoriteit)
  
  

Evening: Networking dinner

Conference Day 2

Time: June 12 2026, 9.00 – 12.30

9.00-10.20 Theme 4: New research problems

• Lambros Lazuras (University of Lincoln)
  

10.20-11.00 Coffee & mingling

11.00-12.20 Theme 5: Clinical and medical perspectives

• Recreational doping in Finland: insights from forensic autopsy studies – Paula Vauhkonen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) & Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki)
• Jukka Koskelo (A-Clinic Foundation)
  

12.20 – 12.30 Conclusion & next conference

12.30 Farewell lunch