Disease-Specific Research calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium

Novembe 1-2, 2013 San Diego, California

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 2, 2013, at 11:59 PM (EDT)

ASCO's Quality Care Symposium will bring together leaders in the fields of quality, health services research, and oncology outcomes to present applied practice innovations and share methods for measuring and improving the quality of cancer care. Designed to address critical questions and provide healthcare professionals with the tools needed to administer superior care, the two-day Symposium will feature applicable, patient-focused educational sessions, panel discussions, and abstract presentations. ASCO is now accepting abstracts for the scientific program, which includes Poster and Oral Abstract Sessions.

Abstracts may be submitted to the following categories:

Health Reform: Implications for Costs and Quality

■ Evolving Relationship of Payers and Providers

■ Measuring Value and Costs

■ Payment and Insurance Reform

■ The Changing Landscape of Provider Organizations

■ Specialty and Manpower Issues

Practice of Quality

■ Involving Patients in Quality Care

■ Learning from Projects Done in a Practice

■ Learning from Projects Done in a Health System

■ Patient Safety

■ Use of IT to Improve Quality

Science of Quality

■ Communication, Decision Making, and Behavior

■ HIT Analytics

■ Quality Improvement

■ Quality Measurement

■ Studies Using Registries or Combining Large Databases

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 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: 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014)

The 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) will take place on January 30 – February 1, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

The 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) follows the success of the 1st International Conference held in Paris, France in March 2012.  The purpose of the conference is to bring together pediatricians, nutritionists, neonatologists, experts in child development and other specialists to discuss the challenges of the interplay between Nutrition and Growth in the pediatric age group. The meeting will enable the exchange of ideas and knowledge between the different disciplines for facilitating research and clinical interdisciplinary collaborations focusing on nutrition and growth.

The  2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) will provide a unique platform for discussing the interplay between nutrition and growth in children and focus on cutting edge research, the latest developments and groundbreaking results.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2013

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION TOPICS

Neonatal & Prematurity

Infancy

Childhood & Adolescence

Obesity

Other

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Optimal growth of premature infants

The right diet for infants born SGA

Nutrition and the hormonal system

Macro and micronutrients

Nutrition and growth in children suffering from chronic disease

Nutrition supplements

Vitamins and hormonal system

Nutrition and diabetes

Nutrition in underprivileged countries

Bone assessment, bone health and bone status in health and disease

SYMPOSIA TOPICS

Outcome measures of nutrition and growth

Nutrition and growth in under privileged communities

Early nutrition and later growth

Nutrition and growth in childhood and adolescence

Catch up growth

Obesity and growth during childhood and adolescence

A new approach to address the stunting and adiposity challenge

Nutrition in the premature infant

Bone acquisition in health and disease

Nutrition and growth during growth hormone therapy

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2013

Please follow the instructions listed below:

Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations.

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference website only. Abstracts submitted by fax will not be accepted.

Presenting authors must be registered participants. Only abstracts of authors who have paid their registration fees by the Early Registration Deadline will be scheduled for presentation and included for publication.

Submission of an abstract acknowledges your acceptance for the abstract to be published in all printed material of the Meeting.

Abstracts must be submitted in English.

Conflicts of Interest / Disclosure: Work submitted for presentation must include an acknowledgement of funding sources of commercial nature and/or consulting or holding of significant equity in a company that could be affected by the results of the study.

The presenting author is expected to attend the pediatric conference and present the poster or oral presentation. The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the content of the abstract before submission.

Abstracts must be allocated to a specific category and topic area for the Scientific Program. You will need to select the category and topic most suited to your abstract.

The conference organizers may be contacted for further information:

c/o Kenes International
1-3 Rue de Chantepoulet
P.O. Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 04 88, Fax: + 41 22 906 9140
E-mail: ngc@kenes.com

Call for Abstracts: 4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013)

17th November 2013 Mumbai, India

The 4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013) will be held in the city of Mumbai, India on 17th November 2013. The conference provides an opportunity for pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, critical care physicians, oncologists and post graduate students from around the world to receive the latest research, perspectives and treatments of pediatric infectious disease from principal experts in the field. This PID conference features a high-caliber and multi-disciplinary scientific programme featuring groundbreaking information and in-depth examination of the most essential topics that are needed in practical management of children with infectious diseases.

The scientific programme will cover a thorough and detailed journey through emerging infections, travel related infections for children returning from abroad, common problems of infestation and eosinophilia, recurrent infections, surgery related infections. Upcoming dilemmas in vaccinations such as intussusception and rotavirus vaccine, re-emerging pertussis, update in immunization in pregnant women will be discussed in depth. Prevention of emerging MDR infections with antibiotic stewardship, biofilms and catheter care will be addressed. The entire programme is in form of interactive case discussions, panel discussions and state of the art lectures.

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting abstracts for PIDC 2013.

Participants wishing to make original research and case presentations at this meeting are invited to submit their abstract online by Monday, October 1, 2013.

Call for Abstracts: Grand Challenges in Parkinson's Disease

The Role of Inflammation

September 18-19, 2013 Grand Rapids, Michigan

Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2013

Eligibility: Any student, postdoc, faculty, or research staff is welcomed to submit an abstract.

Call for Abstracts: 4th International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group Annual Meeting (ITMIG 2013)

September 6 - 7, 2013 Bethesda, Maryland

(Submission Deadline: June 14, 2013 @ 23:59 PST)

This important Conference will highlight the latest scientific and clinical developments related to the management of thymic malignancies and will bring together established scientists and clinicians from all over the world who have interest in the field of thymic cancers research.

Research work should be original and innovative. Work can be presented prior to the ITMIG 2013 Conference, but should also include new information not presented before

The Committee allows Clinical Trial abstracts, but will not accept Case Reports

Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the Conference website.

Contact

For inquiries regarding abstract submission, please contact the Conference Secretariat at itmig2013@icsevents.com.

Call for Papers: 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research. GENSIPS 2013 will also provide best paper awards to students with outstanding technical contributions.

Papers on original research in computational biology and bioinformatics are solicited. Abstracts for poster presentation are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Deep sequencing data analysis

Methods for analyzing SNP/genotype/epigenetic data

LC/MS data analysis and proteomics

Cancer genomics and cancer drug screening

Functions of microRNA and non-coding RNAs

Differential analysis of molecular regulatory networks

Functional meta-genomics and biomolecular dynamics in microbial communities

Dynamics and control of genetic regulatory networks

Modeling of cancer evolution and intra-tumoral heterogeneity

Modeling of genetic networks and signaling pathways

Travel and best paper awards sponsored by National Science Foundation will be provided to student/post doctoral authors of papers with exceptional quality.

Paper Submission: All submitted papers (up to 4 pages) will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings that will be archived in IEEE Xplore. Authors of papers of exceptional quality will be invited to submit a journal version to a special issue of a high-quality journal.

Important Deadlines

Aug. 2, 2013 Full papers due; proposal for special session due

Sep. 9, 2013 Notification of Acceptance

Oct. 21, 2013 Poster abstract due

Oct. 28, 2013 Camera Ready paper due and early registration

Nov. 17-19, 2013 GENSIPS 2013

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.