Click on the links below to access the presentations (PDF and video) given at the DELTS 2019 Conference. The presentations are listed in the order in which they appeared in the programme.
Opening Ceremony
Jukka Koskelo has worked in Dopinglinkki since 2010 and has been in charge of creating the existing stakeholder network. He has a background in exercise physiology and medical physics. Jukka has worked as a researcher in the field of exercise medicine more than ten years and given presentations in several international conferences annually. His expertise includes anti-doping education and prevention in recreational sports, and scientific research.
Dr Lambros Lazuras is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University. He has been studying the psychological drivers of performance-and-image-enhancement drug (PIED) use for more than a decade and has published more than 25 research papers, book chapters, and books about this topic. He has participated in 10 international research projects on PIEDs use and clean sport education, and his research has been funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympics Committee and the European Commission (Erasmus+ Sport). He also serves as an independent consultant to national and regional anti-doping organisations about implementing and evaluating clean sport education campaigns.
Amanda Atkinson is the lead UK researcher for the ERASMUS project. She had a key role in designing the evaluation methodology and is conducting the UK evaluation of the acceptability of the PIED e-learning modules among health care professionals.
Areas of expertise
- Young people’s substance use.
- Gender and substance use.
- Media representations and influence on substance use, related identity and policy.
Dr Jim McVeigh is the Director of the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. He has worked within health/public health for over 30 years initially as a Registered General Nurse working with people who inject drugs, before moving into academia. Jim has built an international reputation within the field of human enhancement drug use, in particular, the use of anabolic steroids and associated drugs within the general population. He has publish over 50 peer reviewed papers on the topic and been invited to present at highly respected and influential international conferences. He has contributed to UK National Drug Strategies and advised on legislation and health policy and practice. Jim collaborates with some of the leading international experts in the field and has recently co-edited the Routledge book Human Enhancement Drugs.
Dr de Ronde is a clinical endocrinologist at the Spaarne Gasthuis in Haarlem, the Netherlands. His clinical and scientific interest is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of male hypogonadism and the side effects of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) abuse. In 2010 he started an outpatient clinic dedicated to the study and treatment of side effects of AAS abuse. Over the past 10 years the clinic has treated hundreds of men and a few women. Over the years the clinic evolved into a center of expertise for AAS abuse and is still the only dedicated center in the Netherlands. Since 2015 dr de Ronde supervises the “Haarlem study”, a prospective observational cohort study of 100 AAS abusers, investigating the characteristics of AAS abusers, their way of use, the quality of the abused AAS and the health effects of abuse.
Fredrik Lauritzen is an exercise physiologist with a PhD in neuroscience from University of Oslo.After several years as a lecturer and researcher in exercise science and medicine, he got into the field of anti-doping in 2014. Since 2016, he has been the Director of the Dept. of Prevention and Public Health at Anti-Doping Norway.
Dr Katinka van de Ven is a Research Fellow as part of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), UNSW. Katinka conducts research on the use and supply of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), which includes projects surrounding PIED supply and law enforcement, harm reduction, drugs policy and improving healthcare services for people who use these substances. Katinka is a Honorary Research Fellow at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University. She is an Editor-in-Chief of Performance Enhancement & Health and the Director of the Human Enhancement Drugs Network (HEDN). Katinka regularly acts as an advisor regarding PIED policy, for example, for the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, the Police, and the Health Care Inspectorate in the Netherlands, and for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in the UK. She also provides PIED-related workshops (5, >200 attendees) to healthcare professionals in Australia and the UK.
Vassilis Barkoukis graduated from the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Vassilis finished a PhD at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a second PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. He is an Associate professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has published over 120 national (Greek) and international articles and book chapters (Google scholar h-index =30) and served as the lead editor of the first book on the Psychology of Doping in Sport (Routledge) and as co-author of the first meta-analysis on the predictors of doping use in sport. Dr Barkoukis has participated in more than 20 research grants on doping funded by WADA, IOC and European Union. His research interests involve understanding doping behavior in competitive and recreational sports and developing effective anti-doping education interventions.
Marie Lindvik Jørstad has a background in psychology, culture and communication. She has been working in the Steroid Project with research, publishing of scientific and educational articles and development of e-learning since 2016. The Steroid Project is a publicly funded project with an overarching aim to improve treatment of anabolic steroid users and make the treatment more accessible in Norway. In 2018 the Steroid Project launched a social media campaign to reach out to users of anabolic steroids in need of treatment. Marie will present the campaign, the strategy behind it, and the results following it.
For 1,5 years now Verkko-Vinkki –project (translation: “Online-Advice”) has provided anonymous health counseling with strong emphasis in harm reduction to users of the biggest online drug market in Finland called “Torilauta” (translation: “Marketboard”). Project coordinator Juho Sarvanko will give a brief introduction to the anonymous world of online drug trade in Finland and the work of Verkko-Vinkki in Torilauta.
Panel discussion with Jim McVeigh (Chair), Amanda Atkinson, Willem de Ronde, Marija Anđelković and Ian Boardley: Next steps and conclusions - education, harm reduction and co-operation in the field of anti-doping in the future.