Nursing calls for papers / meetings & conferences

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: 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 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 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.