Abstract Submission is Open!

Call for Abstracts Abstract submission deadline is June 1, 2009.

Authors will need to have the following information available when submitting their abstract:

  1. The complete contact information for the Presenting and Corresponding Authors, including the institution of research.
  2. The abstract title and text. Authors can either type the abstract into the online form, or cut and paste it from an existing document. Please note: graphics and tables will not be accepted. Text submissions only.
  3. The author must indicate if the abstract should be considered for a paper, poster, instructional course presentation and/or workshop.

General Guidelines

  1. Persons submitting an abstract do so with the understanding that they and all the authors listed on the abstract will abide by the conditions, deadlines, policies and decisions of the Course Chairs and Program Committee.
  2. All abstracts must be submitted online via the abstract application form by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on June 1, 2009. Abstracts will not be accepted after that date. Abstracts cannot be e-mailed separately to the course office; they must be submitted via the course website through the online submission system.
  3. The author must indicate if the abstract should be considered for a paper, poster, instructional course presentation and/or workshop.
  4. Persons submitting an abstract must understand that all presenters, co-authors, faculty members, etc. attending the conference are expected to register for the meeting and pay all registration and travel costs. If attendance is dependent on outside funding, please secure financial assistance before submitting an abstract.
  5. If the abstract is accepted for podium presentation, all presenters must speak in English, and be prepared to answer questions from the audience in English.
  6. Persons submitting an abstract must agree to sign a Financial Disclosure Statement, an American Food and Drug Administration statement. The existence of disclosed interest or investments is not viewed as necessarily implying bias or decreasing the value of the presentation. These disclosures will not be seen or taken into consideration when the abstract is considered for presentation.
  7. Persons submitting an abstract must sign a copyright transfer agreement, giving the course and the course organizers the right to record, display, publish, distribute, copy and/or broadcast the submission in whole or in part in any present or future medium, including without limitation, in print, on CD-ROM, on DVD, on videotape, on audiotape, via the worldwide web or as part as an electronically searchable database.
  8. No submitted abstracts will be returned to the authors, and all authors must agree to the General Guidelines as stated above.

Instructional Course Lecture and Workshop Guidelines

Instructional Course Lectures and Workshops are approximately two and a half hours in length, providing formal instruction for continuing professional education. In the abstract submission box online, please include the following information:

  1. Course Outline
    1. Course Level (basic, Intermediate or advanced)
    2. Purpose (one or two sentences)
    3. Target Audience (physicians, allied health, scientists, etc.)
      Course Summary: Comprehensive discussion of course content. Spina bifida content is preferred. (150 words max)
    4. Proposed Faculty: Maximum of 3 faculty plus a moderator, collaboration of 2 centers is appealing
  2. Four(4) learner-based course objectives

All accepted instructional course lectures and workshops are required to provide a handout to the course office by October 15, 2009. Handouts are required, must include a 2-3 page outline and a bibliography from each speaker for publication in the course syllabus.