Obstetrics and Gynecology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention

Do you have something to say about the care of women and newborns? Now’s your chance! The call for presenters is open for the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, June 15-19, 2013.

Our national conference draws more than 3,000 attendees, approximately 72% have 15 or more years of experience, and 46% have a master’s degree or higher. Presenting at the AWHONN convention ensures that your talk, research, case studies or innovative programs will be heard or viewed by a highly skilled, sophisticated, and influential body of nurses.

Objectives of the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention are to

• Integrate improvement science into practice,
• Experience inspiration and professional growth, and
• Strengthen connections and enhance collaborations.

For those interested in this opportunity, there are four application options:

1. Specialty Sessions
2. Research Presentations (Papers or Posters)
3. Innovative Program Presentations (Papers or Posters)
4. Case Study Presentations (Papers or Posters)

All abstracts are due no later than September 10, 2012.

For information on criteria, further instructions, and access to our electronic submission site, go to www.awhonn.org . If you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Schick at cschick@awhonn.org.

Call for Oral Abstracts and Posters: 2013 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Annual Meeting

2013 CREOG and APGO ANNUAL MEETING

Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around

February 27 - March 2, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

The Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) invite you to contribute to the 2013 CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting. Medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty are all encouraged to submit abstracts in response to this Call for Abstracts and Posters.

We are excited about the theme of the 2013 Annual Meeting, “Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around” and want you to be a part of the meeting. All submissions of original work related to education in Obstetrics and Gynecology will be considered for inclusion as Oral Abstracts or Posters.

This year, we are especially interested in receiving submissions related to the five broad topics listed below in the context of education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Examples of what might fit into each category are also provided as suggestions.

Reaching Up – Setting and Attaining Stretch Goals for Individuals, Programs and Institutions

Reaching Out – Mentoring, Developing Philanthropy, Promoting Diversity, and Medical Arts and Humanities

Reaching Across – Handling Conflict Resolution, Interdisciplinary Learning, and the Educational Continuum of UME, GME and CME

Reaching Around – Considering Global Health and Medical Education; Working with Underserved Communities

Reaching Your Learners – Utilizing Technology in Education and Meaningful Assessment

All submissions will be blinded and scored by a group of peer judges who are members of CREOG and APGO. You must indicate on the form whether your submission should be considered as an oral presentation, as a poster, or as either. Up to forty abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation based on their educational merit, relevance and general interest. Unless otherwise indicated, the remaining meritorious submissions will be considered for inclusion in the poster sessions.

Every year, a number of awards are given to outstanding posters and abstracts presented at the meeting. The current list of awards appear at the bottom of this letter. Note that CREOG and APGO will be again offering an award for the best abstract submitted by a part-time/ volunteer faculty member. We are also pleased to announce a new award in 2013 sponsored by The Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. This $500 Award for Exxcellence will be presented to a Medical Student, Resident, Fellow or Faculty Member for the best use of the Exxcellence in Life-Long Learning (L3Ob/Gyn) or Pearls of Exxcellence programs directed by the Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. Please visit The Foundation for Exxcellence website for more information.

Submissions for the CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting have both written and electronic components. The electronic component must be sent via the CREOG website at http://classic.acog.org/creog-abstract-submission and must be complete by 8:00 a.m. EST on Monday, August 20, 2012. The paper component must be postmarked on or before August 20, 2012.

Call for Abstracts: 15th National Mother Baby Nurses Conference

Sponsored by the Academy of Neonatal Nursing and Mother Baby Education

September 5–8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The purpose of this conference is to provide current and clinically applicable information for prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care of the mother as well as infant care, both in the hospital and through transition to home. The educational sessions provide information to nurses and other health care professionals who care for the expectant and postpartum mother and her newborn. Specific objectives for each presentation will be listed in the conference program.

We are seeking poster presentations to compliment our line-up of world-class speakers. In keeping with our theme of examining current practice, we invite you to submit a poster abstract. Clinical, case study, and research posters are welcome. The topics for these posters should be relevant to the theme of the conference and the audience of mother baby nurses.

Abstracts for poster presentations are due July 2, 2012. Presenters will be notified by July 16, 2012.
 

Call for Papers: MICCAI Workshop on Perinatal and Paediatric Imaging: PaPI 2012

In conjunction with MICCAI 2012

October 1, 2012 Nice, France

MICCAI 2012, the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, will be held from 1st to 5th October 2012 in Nice, France, organised by Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics). MICCAI attracts annually world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery.

Workshop Topics

Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to:

- Imaging biomarkers from routine 2D fetal ultrasound screening

- Recent advances in 3D fetal/neonatal ultrasound and MRI

- Characterisation of developmental abnormalities

- Placental malfunction and maternal preeclampsia

- Congenital heart disease in the fetus, and effects on neurodevelopment

- Imaging lung function in the neonate

- Fetal abdominal imaging

- Intrauterine growth restriction and twin pregnancies

- Spatio-temporal atlases for organ development

- Multi-modality imaging of the fetus and neonate

- Long-term cognitive outcome

- Correlation of imaging biomarkers to functional and nutritional measurements

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the wider field of perinatal and paediatric imaging, to help bridge the gap between antenatal, obstetric, and neonatal healthcare (within the so-called perinatal period, which refers to the time immediately before and after birth), and follow-up monitoring by paediatricians, using a range of quantitative imaging techniques correlated to neurodevelopmental functional tests, that are not necessarily limited to the brain.

The link between fetal organ measurement and growth characterisation, and correlation with neonatal and paediatric outcome is still an open research topic, which this workshop is trying to address. Examples for delayed organ development are thought to be caused by (often a combination of) intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR), placental malfunction, intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia, amongst many other factors.

Monitoring developmental health, in a “womb-to-cot” approach, using perinatal imaging will enable to gain a better understanding in the interaction of these factors, develop tools to assess individual risk profiles, and provide opportunities for early intervention to improve paediatric outcome.

The target audience of this workshop will be a multi-disciplinary mix of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians.

Important Dates (tentative)

01 June 2012 Workshop paper submission deadline

01 July 2012 Notification of acceptance

14 July 2012 Early Bird registration deadline

30 July 2012 Deadline for camera ready papers

01 October 2012 Workshop (half day: AM or PM TBA)

The submission system will open in May 2012.

Workshop format

PaPI will run as a half day workshop, with oral sessions, a poster session and a keynote lecture (TBA). Full-length paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and published online, as well as on the MICCAI workshop USB stick.