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Call For Abstracts - Annual Meeting
Calling All UHMS
Associates,
Our trial run of combining the Associates/BNA and
the main membership meeting at last year’s ASM in Maui was a major
success and received very positive feedback. It provided everyone the
opportunity to attend the main sessions and we also had a large
percentage of our abstracts accepted for oral presentation in the main
sessions. Due to this successful experience we are planning to join
forces again for the ASM in Salt Lake City, this coming June.
All abstracts are to be submitted according to
the official call for abstracts posted on the UHMS website and channeled
through the ASM Scientific Program Committee. The Program Committee
is being chaired this year by Lin Weaver, MD, and other committee
members include Jim Holm, MD, other physicians, a BNA representative,
and myself. The abstract submission deadline is February 15, 2008.
There will be a $50 late fee for late submissions and/or changes
requested after the deadline, so please submit on time. As indicated in
the call for abstracts, all abstracts must be submitted as poster
presentations and may also be invited to present orally in the main
meeting. For those of you unfamiliar with the poster presentation
format, the primary author is expected to stand by their poster during
their assigned session and be available to discuss the project with
interested viewers. Even if you are not invited to present your abstract
orally in the main meeting, all accepted Associate abstracts will be
given the opportunity to do so in one of several Associate break-out
sessions. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered for an Associates
Excellence in Presentation Award, you must present your abstract
orally in one of the breakout sessions. This is due to judging
constraints while also providing a less stressful environment in which
to present and be judged by a panel of your peers. All Associates who
submit an accepted abstract will be contacted and arrangements made to
schedule your oral presentation during one of our break-out sessions, if
that is your desire.
Never written an abstract before? Click here for more information.
The process for determining the presentation awards
will remain unchanged. All abstracts will be pre-judged by Noel
Jett's Awards Committee on the basis of content, clarity and conformity
to established abstract writing standards/guidelines. The oral
presentations will then be judged at the meeting and the scores combined
to give the total overall scores used in determining the 1st
and 2nd Place Associates Excellence in Presentation Awards. 1st
Place is awarded $750 and 2nd Place is awarded $500, so share
your research with your fellow colleagues by submitting and presenting
an abstract!
Please contact me if you have any questions. Hope
to see you in Salt Lake City!
Dick Sample, RCP, RRT, CHT
Associates Program Committee Chairperson
dsample@llu.edu |
