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 Abstracts: Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates 44th Annual Conference
SUNA's 44th Annual Conference will be held October 11-14, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
Share Your Expertise! Do you have a case study, best practice, or research that you would like to share with your colleagues? Here's your opportunity! The program planning committee has issued a Call for Abstracts for verbal and poster presentations at the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 12, 2013.
Call for Student Poster Abstracts: National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing 2013 Convention
NOADN: The Winning Advantage
November 8-10, 2013 Reno, Nevada
Student Poster Abstract Submission has been extended to September 6, 2013
The N-OADN Convention Planning Committee would like to invite students to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the N-OADN Convention to be held November 8-10, 2013 at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, Reno, NV. This abstract submission is open to graduate and undergraduate students. Topics should be related to one of the following:
Hot Topics
Service Learning
Evidence Based Practice Projects
Student Center Community
Social Networking Policies
Overall Selection Criteria:
The committees will review abstracts for student posters based on the following criteria:
Applicable to the theme of the convention
Originality of the topic/presentation
Organization of the poster
Application to practice
Abstracts submissions:
Abstracts must be typed and single spaced.
Abstracts must be in narrative form and not exceed 250 words.
There should be NO identifying information in the body of the abstract
Title of the abstract should appear at the top
The following should be included in the abstract:
Your submission packet should include the following:
Presenter Information Form (1 copy)
Abstract (1 copy with student(s) name, 1 copy without student(s) or educational affiliations’ name
Faculty Member Advisor Approval Form
Call for Papers: 10th Global Conference--Making Sense of Dying and Death
Thursday 7th November 2013 – Saturday 9th November 2013 Athens, Greece
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past three decades, scholarship in thanatology has increased dramatically. This particular conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore, analyze, and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about “a good death” and norms that seek to achieve it, culture also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.
Given the location of this year’s conference, a central theme in our proceedings (augmenting those listed below) will involve tracing the on-going and profound shift in contemporary attitudes toward death. In ancient Greece, for example, citizens learned about death and dying through intimate, hands-on experiences. Indeed, the same was true for most people throughout the world until the mid-20th century. Today, many people around the world maintain an increasingly passive role in caring for the dying, and supporting those who grieve a loss. Given that death, serving the dying, and caring for the bereaved has always been such an essential and unavoidable feature of life in traditional societies, a key emphasis in this year’s conference will involve an exploration of the connections between contemporary technologies, social media hubs, and modern health care delivery systems and the ways they impact current end-of-life issues and decisions, including the experience of bereavement and grief. This conference welcomes submissions that specifically assess how these factors are altering our contemporary attitudes toward death, and how patients, staff, and survivors intersect amidst newly emerging care settings and sites of memorialization.
We also welcome submissions that produce conversations engaging historical, ethnographic, normative, literary, anthropological, philosophical, artistic, political or other terms that elaborate a relationship between death and culture.
Papers, reports, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:
1: Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
Modern Health Care Delivery Systems and Care for the Dying
Palliative Care
Hospice
Elder Care/Ageing in Place Models
Trauma and Emergency Care
Nursing Homes/Skilled Facilities/Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs)/Assisted Living
Clinical Competencies in Pain Management and Symptom Control
Measurements, Incentives, Regulatory Statutes, and Recommendations
Continuity of Care Across Treatment Settings
Interdisciplinary Care
2: The Caregiver-Patient Relationship
Caregiver’s (Physician’s?) Obligations and Virtues
Medical Paternalism and Respect for the Patient, Autonomy
Truth-Telling
Informed Consent
Medicine in the West for a Multicultural Society
Contested Therapies Within the Physician-Patient Relationship
Conflicts of Interest; Problems of Conscience
Caregiver Stress/Caregiver Burnout/Compassion Fatigue
Being With Someone Who Is Dying
Assessment Challenges/Barriers
3: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions
Defining Death
Organ Transplantation and Organ Donation
The Interplay of Ethical Meta-Principles at the End of Life
Nonmaleficence
Beneficence
Autonomy
Death Anxiety
Choosing Death
Advance Directives/Advance Planning/Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST)/Do Not Resuscitate
Considering End-of-Life Issues and Decisions and Legislation
4: Relationships Between Death and Culture:
internet/social media
music
literature
film
broadcast media
religious broadcasting
journalism
athletics
comic books
novels / poetry / short story
television
radio
print media
technology
popular art / architecture
sacred vs. profane space
advertising
consumerism
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013
What to Send
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: DD10 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Nate Hinerman
Rob Fisher: dd10@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
Call for Proposals and Abstracts for 2014 National Symposium of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association
April 13-16, 2014 Anaheim, California
ANNA's 45th National Symposium will be held April 13-16, 2014, at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel & Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. The National Program Committee has issued a Call for Proposals and a Call for Abstracts for the symposium. The committee invites individuals, regardless of clinical or corporate affiliation, to share their expertise, research, or clinically based findings by submitting a proposal (60-75 minute presentation) or abstract (15 minute verbal presentation or poster presentation). The deadline for submission of proposals is July 17, 2013, and the abstract submission deadline is October 20, 2013.
Call for Research Poster Abstracts: National Hemophilia Foundation 65th Annual Meeting
October 3-5, 2013 Anaheim, California
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is pleased to announce its Call for Research Poster Abstracts for its 65th Annual Meeting, “United in Progress,” in Anaheim, CA, October 3-5, 2013.
We encourage all physicians, researchers, nurses, physical therapists, social workers, chapter organizations and other collaborators engaged in research to submit poster abstracts for this premiere educational conference of the US bleeding disorders community. The submission deadline is Friday, June 21, 2013.
A unique benefit of submitting your research poster abstract is that authors of the highest-rated abstracts will have an opportunity to give an oral presentation of their research during a special session of NHF's Annual Meeting Medical Track for Physicians and Researchers.
Please address general questions to: posterabstract@hemophilia.org.
Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges
November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal
Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013
Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.
GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics
Computational health
Software for health
Independent living technologies
ICT and health
Platform interoperability
Semantic interoperability
Diagnosis systems
Applied health informatics
User interfaces and visualization
TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics
Bio-medicine
Disease biomarker prediction
Applications of bio-nano technology
Body networks
Mobile healthcare
Ubiquitous healthcare
TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic
Long term health conditions
Ambient assisted
Genetics
Virtual reality in medicine surgery
Clinical trials
Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics
Drug design, disease diagnosis and control
PRACTICE
Nursing
Patient-centered care
Personalized medicine
Pervasive health
Homecare
Pharmaceutical services
ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine
Natural medicine
Preventive medicine
Chronic diseases following
Home surveillance
CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data
Data management in pervasive context
Data quality assurance and provenance
Patient flow models in hospitals
Clinical data analysis
Information visualization of medical data
GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives
Social medicine
Health global accessibility
Epidemic spreading and control
Health Education
Providing health in remote areas
Decision support within healthcare
Ethical aspects in eHealth
Healthcare plans and patient benefits
Synchronization of federal regulations
Availability of medication
Community health services
Call for Abstracts: Cancer in Africa: Bridging Science and Humanity
21-24 November 2013 Durban, South Africa
Abstract submissions required: 18 June 2013
The African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer is pleased to announce its 9th International Conference on Cancer in Africa. It will take place in Durban, South Africa from 21-24 November 2013 at the International Convention Centre Durban.
Held every two years, the AORTIC conferences provide a unique platform to bring together leading African and international health care professionals in cancer care, advocates, leaders in Government, and various members of the international health industry and global cancer community to meet and discuss cancer-related matters and proffer solutions to significantly reduce the impact of cancer in Africa and indeed around the world. To make a difference, AORTIC invites you, as a committed member of the international cancer control community, to contribute to and listen to world-renowned speakers, to network with colleagues and professionals from all over the world, and to be exposed to the latest research findings in the cancer arena.
The AORTIC 2013 Scientific Programme Committee invites you to contribute to the programme by submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation.
The target audience for AORTIC’s 9th International Cancer Conference is anyone interested in the cancer burden in Africa, including physicians, nurses, social workers, researchers, and representatives of NGOs and international businesses.
The programme will address cutting edge cancer management and basic science and clinical research on cancers relevant to Africa. This will include the following topics: National Cancer Control Plans (NCCPs), Cancer Registration, Basic Sciences, Genetics, Epigenetics, Site-specific Cancers, Biomarkers, Radiation, Chemotherapy, Epidemiology, HIV-AIDS-related Cancers, Haematology, Cancer Advocacy, Tobacco-related Cancers, Paediatric Oncology, Palliative Care, and Oncology Nursing.
