Ethics calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Proposals: 2012 Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Education Forum

November 7-11, 2012 Seattle, Washington

PAEA is seeking proposals and presenters for all sessions to be offered during its 2012 Annual Education Forum in Seattle. Presenting at this meeting is a wonderful opportunity for faculty interested in scholarly activity. By facilitating critical discussions and imparting leading edge, high impact, dynamic andragogical and program-relevant content to physician assistant (PA) program personnel, PAEA is hoping to meet the needs of its membership like never before.

Please carefully read all information below as well as review the criteria, guidelines, and format descriptions before submitting your proposal. Helpful resources including frequently asked questions, archived webinars, and upcoming proposal submission conference calls are included.

*NEW* PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS

PAEA has a new online submission system. Members will find this system intuitive and user friendly. Submitters will be required to create a username and password. This system will allow users to access and edit their proposals until the final deadline.

Per the submission guidelines, only one presentation format may be chosen for each topic submitted. Multiple format submissions for the same or similar topics will not be accepted.

The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, June 4, 2012, 3:00 p.m., EDT.

TOPICS

Proposals on all topics related to PA education and preparation for practice will be considered. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Teaching and learning strategies
Curriculum design and evaluation
Research on PA education and the profession
Management and leadership
Student issues
Educational technology
Academic law or legal issues
Health care issues and other topics of general interest and practical use to the PA profession
Professional competencies
The role of the PA
The delivery of health care in connection with PAs
Interprofessional Education
Diversity in the PA Profession

Call for Abstracts: American Society of Human Genetics 62nd Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 6 through Saturday, November 10, 2012 San Francisco, California

The receipt deadline for new abstract submission is June 4, 2012 at 8:00 pm (US EDT).

The world's top scientists and clinicians in the human genetics field will gather to present their latest research findings at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), which will be held on November 6-10, 2012, in San Francisco, CA (http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting). ASHG is the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide, representing nearly 8,000 researchers, academicians, clinicians, genetic counselors, nurses, and others with a special interest in this area (http://www.ashg.org).

The ASHG Annual Meeting continues to be the largest human genetics meeting in the world, attracting more than 7,000 scientific participants each year. The ASHG 2012 Meeting will provide attendees with the latest information about cutting-edge developments in human genetics and genomics research. In addition, nearly 250 U.S. and international exhibitors at this year's ASHG Exhibitor Trade Show will offer an unprecedented opportunity to view the latest advances in genetics-related products and services derived, in part, from work presented at previous ASHG meetings.

Topics to be addressed in the scientific program for the ASHG 2012 Meeting will include: gene discovery in human genetics; new insights and challenges from next generation sequencing; advances in medical genetics and translation/applications in clinical care; progress in gene therapy; personalized medicine; cancer genetics; advances in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis; revelations about human alleles from studies of model organisms; implications of population genetic studies; modeling in statistical genetics; data centralization and its implications for our field; ethical, legal and social implications of genomics; changes in genetics education; and much more.

For more information about the ASHG 2012 Annual Meeting, or to register and/or submit an abstract for presentation at this year’s meeting, please go to: http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting.

Call for Papers: American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery 2013 Annual Meeting

AACS 29th Annual Scientific Meeting January 16-19, 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada

For over 25 years, the Academy remains the leader in quality, cutting-edge education for medical professionals worldwide in all areas of cosmetic surgery. Submit your paper to present at the 2013 Annual Meeting — the following types of papers are requested:

Basic Science
Clinical Trials
Technique
Ethics
Practice Management
Posters

Peer Review Disclosure
All papers regardless of categories shall be ranked by Peer Review on a 1 -5 scale. The rankings will be based on originality, scientific content, relevance of new information, study of methodology and commercial bias.

Call for Papers Submission Deadline: May 31

For questions regarding the Call for Papers submission process, contact Amanda Diana, Education Coordinator, at adiana@cosmeticsurgery.org or 312.981.6779.

Call for Abstracts: International Neuroethics Society 2012 Annual Meeting

The International Neuroethics Society is pleased to announce that the 2012 Annual Meeting will take place on October 11 and 12 in New Orleans as a satellite of the Society for Neuroscience meeting.

Abstracts should be up to 500 words (including title, author names and affiliations and references if applicable). At least one author must be an INS member and register for the Annual Meeting. Abstracts will be reviewed by the INS Program Committee. Work presented in abstracts must be in compliance with local IRB governance and comply with INS the Abstract Submission and Disclosure Statement at www.neuroethicssociety.org

Abstracts should be up to 500 words (including title, author names and affiliations and references if applicable). At least one author must be an INS member and register for the Annual Meeting. Abstracts will be reviewed by the INS Program Committee. Work presented in abstracts must be in compliance with local IRB governance and comply with INS the Abstract Submission and Disclosure Statement at www.neuroethicssociety.org

Five submissions will be selected for Oral Presentations. Two submissions will receive a $250 Travel Award. Twenty-five abstracts will be published in the online version of AJOB- Neuroscience.

FORMAT your abstract as follows: (1) All text left justified; (2) Title in capitals; (3) Authors' initials and surnames, with superscripts for institutional affiliations if more than one; (4) General question or issue being addressed should be stated at outset; (5) References optional and no more than 5, formatted for AJOB-N.

The deadline is 5:00 p.m. EDT on JULY 2, 2012. Submit your abstract to administrator@neuroethicssociety.org.

Presenting authors will receive notification about submission by August 1.

POSTER SPECIFICATIONS: When preparing your poster for the meeting, please keep the dimensions within 4 ft x 4 ft or 1.1 m x 1.1 m. The title should be large enough to read from several yards away. Other suggestions: include figures if applicable, use bulleted points as much as possible and avoid long sections of text.

The International Neuroethics Society is an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, clinicians and other professionals who share an interest in the social, legal, ethical and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Our mission is to promote the development and responsible application of neuroscience through interdisciplinary and international research, education, outreach and public engagement for the benefit of people of all nations, ethnicities, and cultures.

Call for Research: Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

The primary aims of biomedical peer review are to select and improve research and other academic work for funding and publication by identifying and reducing bias and increasing the validity, quality, credibility, and worth of scientific reports. This remains a difficult balance.1​ Widespread advances in technology and communications have improved the speed, efficiency, and reach of scientific publication and have transformed the ways scientists, authors, reviewers, editors, clinicians, and the public interact with information and with each other. But these same advances also threaten the very nature of peer review and scientific publication. The need to critically evaluate the purpose, foundations, developments, and future prospects of this entire enterprise—from research proposal through and beyond publication—has never been stronger.

Since the first announcement in 1986, we have held 6 Peer Review Congresses at 4-year intervals with the aim of placing peer review and scientific publication under the same evaluation that science undergoes. The success of these congresses is clear from the stimulus they have given to new research into the processes whereby scientific work is funded, presented, and disseminated, peer reviewed, edited, published, enhanced, accessed, and used by others to change practice, influence funding and policy decisions, inspire discourse and debate, and stimulate new research.2,3​,4,5​,6,7​,8,9​ This progress has been measured both in increase in the number of abstracts submitted to each congress (from 50 for the first to more than 200 each for the last 2) and in MEDLINE citations to peer review research (from 109 in 1994 to 382 in 2010).

We now announce the Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication to be held in Chicago, Illinois, September 8-10, 2013. This congress, organized by JAMA and the BMJ, will feature 3 days of presentations of original research. As with the previous congresses, the aims of the 2013 congress are to improve the quality and credibility of peer review and selection processes used by journals and funders and to help advance the quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of biomedical publication and the dissemination of scientific information throughout the world. As before, we urge scientists, editors, publishers, funders, readers, and all who are interested in the processes by which science is funded and published to get going on their research.

In addition to the topics traditionally addressed during the Peer Review Congresses, such as the effects of peer review and editorial processes on the quality of scientific reporting,10 abstracts summarizing original, high-quality research on any aspect of scientific peer review, publication, and information exchange are welcome. We also are eager to see new research on the technologic advances and innovations that continue to influence all aspects of biomedical publication and the dissemination of scientific information. The increasing sophistication of research into these issues means that preference will be given to well-developed studies with generalizable results (eg, multijournal, prospective, multiyear trials and controlled studies). Retrospective studies, systematic reviews, bibliometric and other data analyses, surveys, and other types of studies will also be considered. Abstracts that report new research and findings will be given priority.

Topics of Interest for the Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

Existence of every sort of bias and efforts to eliminate biased reporting

Editorial and peer review decision making and responsibilities

Mechanisms of peer review and editorial decision making usedby journals and funders

Evaluations of the quality, validity, and practicality of peer review and editorial decision making

Quality assurance for reviewers and editors

Editorial policies and responsibilities

Editorial freedom and integrity

Peer review of grant proposals

Research and publication ethics

Ethical concerns for researchers, authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, and funders

Authorship, contributorship, and responsibility for published material

Conflicts of interest

Research and publication misconduct

Confidentiality

Effects of funding and sponsorship on research and publication

Influence of external stakeholders: funders, journal owners, advertisers/sponsors, policy makers, legal representatives, and the news media

Evaluations of and mechanisms for improving the quality of reporting

Effectiveness of guidelines and standards designed to improve the quality of scientific publication

Evaluations of the quality of print and online information

Quality and reliability of data presentation and scientific images

Quality and use of online supplemental content

Quality and effectiveness of new forms of scientific articles

Models for peer review and scientific publication

Online publication

Open access

Open peer review

Data sharing and access

Prepublication posting and release of information

Postpublication review, communications, and influence

Changes in readership and usage of peer-reviewed published content

Presentation, enhancement, and quality of scientific information in multimedia and new media

Quality, use, and effects of publication metrics and usage statistics

Quality and influence of sponsored supplements and related media, gray literature, and other forms of publication

Quality and effectiveness of content tagging, markup, and structures

The future of scientific publication

Dissemination of scientific and scholarly information

Methods for improving the quality, efficiency, and equitable distribution of biomedical information

New technologies that affect the quality, integrity, dissemination, and access of biomedical information

The impact of social networking and new media on science critique and dissemination

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