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Call for Abstracts: American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2nd Global Summit

May 4-5, 2014 Dallas, Texas

Submission Time Frame: May 1 to June 30, 2013

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is pleased to announce the AAOHN 2nd Global Summit scheduled for May 4 – 5, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. The Scientific Committee on Occupational Health Nursing (SCOHN, ICOH) will hold its mid-term meeting during the Summit. The theme will be "Occupational Health Nursing Across Borders: Fostering a Global Culture of Health." Abstracts are welcomed for presentations and posters in English on the following topics:

Wellness, including Tobacco Cessation

Ethics in Global Health Promotion, including Medical Confidentiality

Core Professional Competencies for OHNs

Emerging Health Risks

Health Risk Assessments

Stress Management

Sleep Hygiene, including Circadian Rhythms and Shift Work

Health Impacts of Shift Work (e.g., breast cancer)

Depression

Resilience & Productivity

Other pertinent topics related to the Summit theme

Guidelines for Submission: All abstracts must be submitted online. You must complete the online process that includes the abstract submission form (250 words or less), biographical data form, preferred presentation format, and educational activity form. Abstract can be submitted NOW by going to the AAOHN website at www.aaohn.org.

Deadline: The call for abstracts will close at 11:59 pm (Central Daylight Time) June 30 2013. Abstracts that do not adhere to the guidelines and/or are received after the deadline will not be reviewed.

Selection Criteria: Abstracts will be reviewed by a selection committee and rated on the following criteria: Strength of Proposal (40%), Expertise of the Presenter (30%), Topic Relative to Theme and Needs of International Occupational Health Professionals (25%), and Marketability of Topic (5%).

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. provides evidence-based information related to occupational health nursing. Material presented at the international summit, national conference, on the website, or provided in any printed materials must be of professional quality, evidence-based, and demonstrate an absence of proprietary or prejudicial/biased commentary. Anecdotal observations should be limited in their scope and not presented as proven fact. It is inappropriate to endorse or imply endorsement of any specific product or service.

For further information or questions please contact Leslie Long, AAOHN Conference Manager, aaohnconv@dancyamc.com or 800-241-8014, 1-850-474-6963.

Call for Abstracts: Accelerating Translational Neurotechnology: Fourth Annual Aspen Brain Forum

September 18 - 20, 2013 Aspen Meadows Resort

Presented by The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation, Science Translational Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences

Neurotechnology encompasses electrical, chemical, and medical devices and products that can interact with or intervene in the activity of the central nervous system. These technologies include neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, neuroimaging, optogenetics, neuromodulation, and neural stem cell therapies. Translating neurotechnologies from the laboratory into clinical and commercial products has been an arduous process. Yet many of these new tools show great potential to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders including depression, pain, headache, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury.

Through a series of plenary sessions, panel discussions, and interactive breakout groups, this 2.5-day international conference shall explore innovative scientific, clinical, and organizational models for advancing the translation of neuroscience research into technology that can dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease. Participants will also examine the ethical and regulatory challenges in translating neuroscience research, and the potential economic impact of their clinical application.

This conference includes a breakout session. During registration, you will be asked to choose a work group based on your area/disease of interest. Please pick your first and second choices for this session. You may also write in an alternate topic. We will create additional groups if there is sufficient interest. Registrants will receive an email with work group details several weeks prior to the conference.

Choices include: Parkinson's Disease, Major Depression and other Mood Disorders, Chronic Pain, Alzheimer's Disease, or Traumatic Brain Injury.

Call for Abstracts

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, July 1, 2013. For complete abstract instructions, please send an e-mail to neurotech@nyas.org with "Abstract Information" in the subject line. There is no need to type a message; instructions will be forwarded automatically. Select abstracts will be chosen to participate as short oral presentations for Session 6: Cutting-Edge Innovations in Neurotechnology. Please call 212.298.8632 with any questions.

Call for Abstracts: 7th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery

February 20-22, 2014 Singapore

The deadline for abstract submission is July 15th 2013.

The 7th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery (ICGS), will be held in Singapore, from February 20-22, 2014. Over the last 12 years, the ICGS has become synonymous with the highest caliber scientific meeting in the field of Glaucoma.

We are expecting around 1000, including the virtual who’s who of the world of glaucoma: a multinational cast of key glaucoma leaders, premier guest speakers, and corporate representatives from all glaucoma-related fields. Our target audience includes glaucoma specialists, general ophthalmologists, and related professionals from all over the world.

The world of glaucoma surgery is evolving at a dynamic pace that requires harmonization with research, technological advances, device innovations, and technical refinements in the surgical management of glaucoma. With laser and surgical therapy being the prime focus, the ICGS also endeavors to incorporate all aspects of glaucoma care, including epidemiology, diagnostics and medical therapy in order to be increasingly relevant to the glaucoma practitioner and researcher. This unique scientific meeting generates great enthusiasm and is renowned for garnering wide spread interest and enrolment.

Call for Papers: Altered Consciousness in Relation to Popular Culture

16-17 November 2013 Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom

Closing date for submissions: 14 June 2013

This meeting will explore the theme of altered consciousness in relation to popular culture, psychology, philosophy, religion, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980.

Many literary and popular authors and performers during the mid twentieth century represented altered states of consciousness in their work, responding to and participating in research relating to such topics as interplanetary contact, ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind-altering drugs, psychic therapies, spiritualisms, shamanism, erotics, conversion, revivals, somnambulism, precognition, distraction, group mind, multiple personality, hypnotism, lucid dreaming, Vedanta, hysteria and automatism.

What was the continuing legacy of nineteenth-century approaches to mind and spirit? How did work at the fringes of psychiatry and psychology intersect with mind sciences that consolidated their authority during the mid-twentieth century? What are the key interactions between European, North American and non-Western sources? How did investigations cross the borders between arts, sciences, religion, education and the military?

Priority will be given to submissions that show potential for sparking discussion across disciplinary boundaries, and are accessible to a non-specialist audience.

We are especially keen to hear from women contributors, and those whose work extends beyond British and North American contexts.

Please send a talk summary of approx 300 words and author bio of approx 50 words to: altconsc@qmul.ac.uk by 14 June 2013.

Speakers accepted onto the programme will have 20 minutes to speak.

This event is generously supported by: the British Society for the History of Science, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Centre for the History of the Emotions, and the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.

Call for Abstracts: Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

The IBIA International Scientific Planning Committee and National Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 19 - 22, 2014, at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco, California, USA.

The deadline for abstract submission is October 11, 2013. 

Submissions must be data-driven or assessment/treatment model descriptions.

Abstracts will  be reviewed by the Congress’s International Scientific Committee, which  will determine the most appropriate presentation format (oral  presentation or poster) for each abstract accepted.

The 2014 abstract submission categories mirror the educational themes of the Congress as follows:

Neurotrauma – basic research

Neurotrauma – prevention and public health

Neurotrauma – case reports/clinical research

Neurotrauma – health services and outcomes

Technology – basic research

Technology – clinical research/applications

Neurorehabilitation – basic research

Neurorehabilitation – case reports/clinical research

Neurorehabilitation – activities and participation

Neurorehabilitation – public policy and advocacy

Please note that submissions will be further divided into adult and pediatric research.

Abstracts accepted for the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury will be published in a supplemental issue of IBIA's official journal, Brain Injury.

Call for Abstracts: International Conference on Natural Products and Health--NPH 2013

September 5-7, 2013 School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

NPH 2013 aims to bring together scientists and clinicians from academia, industry, hospitals and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions and therapeutic targets in natural products, drug discovery and medicine. The conference will be taking place on September 5-7, 2013 at the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore.

With its unique focus and format, the conference provides participants updated information on the most recent and exciting developments in the field of natural products and health. It will examine current practices and advances of promising new generation of small molecules, peptides and protein biologics from plants and animals. Their impact on western and eastern medicine and healthcare will also be determined in the conference.

Students and researchers are encouraged to attend and submit posters or abstracts, a number of which will also be selected for poster presentation or talks.

The NPH2013 is designed to stimulate the creation, discussion and exploration of innovative and inspirational research topics in food science, drug discovery, medicine, natural products and health.

The NPH2013 organizing committee would like to invite prospective authors to submit their abstracts for oral or poster presentation based on but not limited to the following outlined themes in the conference program.

Theme

X-Omics and Chemical Biology

Advances in Health Sciences

Phytoproducts

Natural Products: Discovery to Drug

Peptides Delivery

Peptides: Design, Function and Synthesis

Natural Products and Human Diseases

Diseases and Human Health

Students and researchers are encouraged to attend and submit posters or abstracts, a number of which will be selected for poster presentation or talks.

Interested authors should note the following:

Authors should submit a 200 to 300 words abstract, type written in English.

Abstracts must be submitted online, in word format.

Please submit abstract by 5th July 2013

Contact us

School of Biological Sciences
Divison of Structural Biology and Biochemistry
SBS-03S-74, Nanyang Technological University,
60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637551
Phone: (65) 6316 7042
Email: nph2013@ntu.edu.sg

Call for Abstracts: Dermatology Nurses' Association 32nd Annual Convention

Interested speakers for DNA's 32nd Annual Convention to be held May 1-4, 2014 in Orlando, FL are encouraged to submit an abstract. The abstract can be for an oral or poster presentation. Deadline for oral submissions is June 14, 2013. Deadline for poster submissions is January 24, 2014.

Call for Abstracts: National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners 35th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care

NAPNAP’s Conference Planning Committee is pleased to begin accepting abstracts for NAPNAP’s 35th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care to be held March 11-14, 2014, in Boston, MA after May 15, 2013.

Concurrent Expert Lecture Abstract (60-75 minutes) (Due Date June 15, 2013)

Concurrent Extended Session Abstract (2 - 4 hours) (Due Date June 15, 2013)

Research Poster Abstract (Due Date July 15, 2013)

Clinical Roundup Presentation Abstract (Due Date October 1, 2013)

Practice Innovation Poster Abstract (Due Date October 1, 2013)

NAPNAP’s Conference Planning Committee will begin accepting abstracts soon for NAPNAP’s 35th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care to be held March 11-14, 2014, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.   Authors will be asked what makes their session novel or distinguishes it from other similar and/or recent sessions.  It may be helpful to review the 2013 Conference Agenda and 2012 Conference Agenda to determine if your proposed topic is similar to sessions offered in recent years.

Concurrent Educational Sessions - The deadline for submission of Expert Lecture and Extended Session concurrent sessions is June 15, 2013. Results will be emailed to submitters in August.  

Clinical Roundup Presentations - The deadline for submission of Clinical Roundup presentations is October 1, 2013. 

Research - The deadline for submission of Research Projects for Podium and Poster presentation is July 15, 2013.  Results will be emailed to submitters in September. 

Practice Innovations Posters - The deadline for submission of Practice Innovations for poster presentation is October 1, 2013. Results will be emailed to submitters in November.

Intensive Workshops (IWS) - For inquiries related to the submission of Intensive Workshop applications, please contact Heather Keesing at hkeesing@napnap.org. 

Keynote Sessions NAPNAP accepts applications for KEYNOTE sessions (large sessions meant for the entire conference audience, usually inspirational, humorous, of futuristic) via an online application query process.  Unfortunately, queries that come through e-mail or promotional mailings cannot be reviewed.  Generic ("canned") topics that do not address the NAPNAP membership specifically are not considered.  All applications received are reviewed and remain on file for three years. 

NAPNAP's Conference Planning Committee considers the following factors when selecting general session/keynote speakers:

appeal to the NAPNAP audience

relevance to NAPNAP member's learning needs

fit with the conference theme

speaker's ability to attract attendees

speaker fees

speaker's location/potential travel costs

All potential General Session speakers will be reviewed by NAPNAP's Conference Planning Committee annually.  Decisions are made annually by August 1st, and only invited speakers will receive notification. 

Call for Workshop Presentations: Meanings of Madness: Critical and Creative Perspectives

Catherine Mcauley School Of Nursing And Midwifery and School Of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland in association with Critical Voices Network Ireland

13 And 14 November 2013, University College Cork, Ireland

Madness is a word that continues to invite controversy, with some perceiving it to be a derogatory term, others perceiving it as a celebration of human creativity and diversity, whilst others position themselves somewhere in the middle. This year’s conference, now in its 5th year, aims to explore these various positions by focusing on critical perspectives on the meaning of madness as a human experience and on creative responses to such an experience.

The conference offers opportunities to consider:

• Meanings of madness 

• Broadening understandings of expressions of madness

• creative approaches to engaging with and responding to madness 

Call for Oral Presentations/Workshops (45 minutes’ duration): Please submit an abstract (in Word - 250 words max) related to the conference theme and outlining its aims and intentions by 6 September 2013. Please also submit a brief bio (in Word - 150 words max). Please email abstract and bio to l.sapouna@ucc.ie. Inquiries toh.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie

The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.

Call for Abstracts: XXVI Panamerican Trauma Congress

Nov. 18-22, 2013 Santiago, Chile

Submission date extended to June 1, 2013

The Panamerican Trauma Society (SPT) encourages to all health care personnel interested in trauma care to present an abstract in trauma care. The abstract should describe an original research in trauma care, critical care, injury prevention, and burn care.