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Call for Presentations & Posters: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting

March 14-17, 2014 Orlando, Florida

The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting Program Committee invites you to submit a proposal for consideration for the 2014 Annual Meeting to be held in Orlando, Florida, March 14 – March 17, 2014. The AAGP 2014 conference theme focuses on EMPOWER AGING representing a broad array of topics that impact older adults and their mental health. We invite you to submit a proposed session, clinical case, or poster for this dynamic and exciting meeting.

There are many venues at the AAGP Annual Meeting that invite innovative and interactive programs targeted towards clinicians, researchers, and educators. Clinicians and investigators in all arenas of geriatric psychiatry, psychology, neurology, medicine, nursing, social work, and other related disciplines are encouraged to submit abstracts of original work for presentation at the AAGP Annual Meeting. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the 2014 AAGP Annual Meeting Program Committee. We request that all program proposals include some content on their applicability to clinical practice and with an interdisciplinary team approach. Please consider adding a newer member of the profession as part of your presenter panel. Additionally, submitters are encouraged to consider any special patient care needs of minority or underserved populations.             

Many people who attend the AAGP Annual Meeting do not attend any other scientific meeting. This is an important venue to present original research, new data, exciting clinical applications, service delivery initiatives, educational activities, and other pioneering work impacting our field today.

Submission Deadline.  You may save and edit your submission at any time prior to submitting it to AAGP. The submission deadlines are as follows:

General sessions:  June 11, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT.

Clinical Case presentations: June 11, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT

New Research poster abstracts: October 1, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT

Early Investigator poster abstracts:  October 15, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT

Late-breaking poster abstracts: January 15, 2013, 11:59 PM EST

Questions?  Contact AAGP at 301-654-7850 ext. 105 or meetinginfo@aagponline.org if you have questions regarding the submission criteria or the Annual Meeting.

Call for Papers: 43rd Annual Association of Black Sociologists Conference Social (In)Justice and Health Disparities: A Continuing Saga

August 8-10, 2013 New York, New York

Chronic illness and disease constitute major societal problems in the United States. These problems include, but are not limited to, obesity, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and cancer.  Marginalized populations, and people of color in particular, are disproportionately affected by chronic illness. These populations are also less likely to have access to or receive appropriate and timely care and treatment. These health disparities are socially and economically detrimental to the health of society at large. Given the gravity of growing health disparities it is without question that serious investigation by sociologists, economists, psychologists, health care workers, and scholars and practitioners from other disciplines is needed.

It is within the Black sociology tradition of engaging in applied sociological research that we welcome the submission of papers for the 2013 Association of Black Sociologists conference. We aim to bring together professionals from multiple fields to develop solutions that will impact social policy. We especially welcome submissions focusing on problem solving and social policy initiatives aimed at eliminating health disparities in the United States and beyond.  Papers that examine traditional substantive, theoretical, and methodological topics are also welcomed.  All interested individuals are invited to submit formal papers, fully constituted sessions/panels, open refereed roundtables, and poster sessions.

To be considered, all submissions must be made on the 2013 ABS Conference Submission Form. Forms can be submitted electronically on the conference web site, or can be downloaded, completed, and e-mailed to President-Elect and Program Committee Chair Thomas Calhoun. All presenters, discussants, and session organizers must be current members of ABS and must register for the conference by the early registration deadline of June 30, 2013. The final deadline for paper submissions is July 15, 2013. No paper or session submissions will be accepted after this deadline.

Name and presentation information for individuals not registered for the conference by July 15, 2013 will NOT appear in the final program.