Preventive Medicine calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Presenters: International Street Medicine Symposium IX

October 24-26, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

The International Street Medicine Symposium Committee is pleased to extend an open invitation for presentation proposal submissions. While we are particularly interested in exploring themes related to continuity and coordination of care across the spectrum of homelessness, streets-to-housing interventions, and integration of Street Medicine programming into local hospitals and academic institutions, submissions in any topic area related to the health care of unsheltered homeless populations are welcome. Street Medicine providers and related organizations are encouraged to submit proposals for one of the following three presentation format categories:

A. Lecture (35 min. large-group presentation + 10 min. discussion)

This format is well-suited for the dissemination of new/updated information relating to the field of Street Medicine, review of clinically-pertinent innovations and best practices, and reporting of outcomes data from field research or interventions. Research-oriented submissions may be work-in-progress. Encouraged topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Socio-environmental determinants of health (environmental threats, health care access, housing access, community building, advocacy)

Morbidity, mortality, and vulnerability assessment

Acute disease diagnosis and management

Chronic disease management and quality of care measures

Integrated management of common complicating co-morbidities (mental illness, substance abuse/addiction, and traumatic brain injury)

Comprehensive primary care and outreach models that foster continuity and coordination of care across the spectrum of homelessness (streets, shelter, hospital, respite, housing)

B. Workshop (60 min. interactive, small-group presentation)

This format is well-suited for the sharing of practical knowledge, skills, and personal/professional/organizational enrichment strategies by presenters with particular expertise in any of these or other relevant topic areas:

Creative patient engagement and motivational strategies designed to reduce barriers and enhance care access for the most marginalized individuals, especially those suffering from severe mental illness, personality disorders, addiction, or deep-seeded distrust

Medical education and training approaches related to homelessness, including curriculum development and implementation, educational resource networking, and faculty mentoring of student-led organizations

Initiating and nurturing relationships between service organizations and local hospitals, academic medical centers, and educational institutions

Creating effective inter-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration with respect to service, advocacy, and consumer involvement

Fundraising approaches, skills, and resources relevant to Street Medicine practices

Maintaining care access and quality during times of financial and/or political constraint

Ethical challenges commonly encountered in providing care to unsheltered homeless populations

Prevention of burn-out among clinicians and service agency staff

C. Poster (scientific poster format with dedicated viewing time)

This format is well-suited for clinical vignettes, highlighting program development/updates, description of service models, or exhibition of medical education approaches to service learning and outreach. Students and student organizations are particularly encouraged to submit in this format category, though non-students are also welcome to submit poster presentation proposals. (Students are not limited to this format category and may submit in a different category if more appropriate). Depending upon scheduling constraints, there may be an opportunity for selected posters to be presented orally as well.

All proposals submitted will be reviewed and judged by a panel that includes members of the Symposium Committee and other invited experts. Reviewers will evaluate proposals for presentation based upon the following three criteria:

1. Specific written learning objectives (active voice preferred)

2. A maximum 500-word abstract describing the presentation content, approach, and intended format (lecture, workshop, or poster). Abstracts will be judged relative to achievement of the following goals:

a) Target Audience – How appropriate is the topic for an audience of clinicians, outreach workers, service agency representatives, and community stakeholders dedicated to improving the health and well-being of unsheltered homeless populations?

b) Innovation – How novel is the information or approach in addressing a problem related to the health care of unsheltered homeless populations?

c) Impact – How potentially beneficial are the findings, interventions, or programs to the care of patients/clients, development of services, training of providers, or sustainability of programs?

d) Applicability – How accessible and generalizable are the findings, interventions, or programs to other practice sites around the world?

e) Knowledge Advancement – How valuable is the information or approach to the growing body of Street Medicine knowledge and clinical expertise? Have data/findings been collected, analyzed, and presented in a rigorous and scholarly way?

f)  Mission Advancement – How substantially does the information or approach promote/advance the values and vision of the Street Medicine Institute and International Street Medicine Symposium?

3. Adherence to submission guidelines:

a) Submissions must include current title, degree(s), and institutional/organizational affiliation and role for all presenters. A brief bio-sketch of presenters is welcome if available. The primary presenter should be listed first, followed by any co-presenters if applicable.

b) Submissions must include contact information for the primary presenter including e-mail, phone, and mailing address.

c) Submissions must be in Word document or PDF format.

d) Submissions must be e-mailed to pperri21@gmail.com.

e) Submissions must be received by 12:00 am EST on May 31, 2013.

For lecture or workshop proposals selected for presentation, the primary presenter will receive a stipend of up to $750.00 (US) to help defray (documented) travel and lodging expenses incurred by that presenter only. For student poster proposals selected for presentation, the primary student presenter will be eligible for a limited number of travel/lodging stipends of up to $600.00 (US). In addition, for each proposal accepted for presentation regardless of format category, the primary presenter and one co-presenter (if applicable) will be exempted from any relevant registration fees. Submitters will be notified of the review committee’s decision on or before June 7, 2013. Questions about the Symposium or proposal submission process can be addressed to the committee chair at pperri21@gmail.com.

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: Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

The IBIA International Scientific Planning Committee and National Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 19 - 22, 2014, at the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco, California, USA.

The deadline for abstract submission is October 11, 2013. 

Submissions must be data-driven or assessment/treatment model descriptions.

Abstracts will  be reviewed by the Congress’s International Scientific Committee, which  will determine the most appropriate presentation format (oral  presentation or poster) for each abstract accepted.

The 2014 abstract submission categories mirror the educational themes of the Congress as follows:

Neurotrauma – basic research

Neurotrauma – prevention and public health

Neurotrauma – case reports/clinical research

Neurotrauma – health services and outcomes

Technology – basic research

Technology – clinical research/applications

Neurorehabilitation – basic research

Neurorehabilitation – case reports/clinical research

Neurorehabilitation – activities and participation

Neurorehabilitation – public policy and advocacy

Please note that submissions will be further divided into adult and pediatric research.

Abstracts accepted for the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury will be published in a supplemental issue of IBIA's official journal, Brain Injury.

Call for Abstracts: 4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013)

17th November 2013 Mumbai, India

The 4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013) will be held in the city of Mumbai, India on 17th November 2013. The conference provides an opportunity for pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, critical care physicians, oncologists and post graduate students from around the world to receive the latest research, perspectives and treatments of pediatric infectious disease from principal experts in the field. This PID conference features a high-caliber and multi-disciplinary scientific programme featuring groundbreaking information and in-depth examination of the most essential topics that are needed in practical management of children with infectious diseases.

The scientific programme will cover a thorough and detailed journey through emerging infections, travel related infections for children returning from abroad, common problems of infestation and eosinophilia, recurrent infections, surgery related infections. Upcoming dilemmas in vaccinations such as intussusception and rotavirus vaccine, re-emerging pertussis, update in immunization in pregnant women will be discussed in depth. Prevention of emerging MDR infections with antibiotic stewardship, biofilms and catheter care will be addressed. The entire programme is in form of interactive case discussions, panel discussions and state of the art lectures.

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting abstracts for PIDC 2013.

Participants wishing to make original research and case presentations at this meeting are invited to submit their abstract online by Monday, October 1, 2013.

Call for Abstracts: Star Legacy Foundation Stillbirth Summit 2014

June 19-21, 2014 Eagan (Minneapolis), Minnesota

Deadline for submission: January 31, 2014                                                                                

The Star Legacy Foundation Stillbirth Summit 2014 is a major educational and networking event which is expected to draw more than 200 interdisciplinary professionals, advocates and families.  Presenters will share innovative research in the, stillbirth prevention, identification of stillbirth risk factors, risk factor management and perinatal bereavement. The 3-day conference includes two days of clinical presentations and discussions followed by one day of bereavement presentations and discussions. 

You are invited to share your successes, experiences, and research with a varied, Inter-disciplinary audience. The planning committee is seeking a range of submissions, for oral presentations and poster presentations, which reflect the four key areas of the conference theme:

Awareness & Advocacy

Prevention

Risk Identification & Management

Bereavement

The audience for the Stillbirth Summit 2014 will include clinicians (including physicians, midwives, nurses, social workers, therapists, clergy, and diagnostic sonographers), researchers, program administrators, parents and parent advocates, families, policy experts.

Applications for continuing education credit will be submitted for professional audiences.

Submission General Instructions:

Abstracts for the Stillbirth Summit 2014 will be submitted electronically. Submit completed abstracts by email to summit@starlegacyfoundation.org

All submissions will be acknowledged by email. Abstracts will be accepted through January 31, 2014.

Call for Papers: Risk, Perception, and Response Conference

March 20-21, 2014 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts

Abstracts Due: June 10, 2013

Registration Opens: December 2013

How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound of situations where individuals’ risk perceptions lead them to act in ways that appear contrary to their own interests, overreacting to or neglecting risks. How can situations in which individuals are likely to respond poorly be identified, and what can be done to improve their responses? To increase our understanding of the factors that contribute to these behaviors and to develop better options for fostering sound decisions, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is commissioning papers for presentation at a March 20-21, 2014 conference and subsequent publication.

Limited attention, emotional reactions, and difficulties in processing risk-related information, among other factors, may lead individuals to act in ways that impair their health or welfare. For example, warnings about mercury in fish can lead people to decrease their overall fish consumption and hence their consumption of healthful omega-3 fatty acids. Concerns about autism can lead to vaccine avoidance, increasing the individual’s risk of disease and the risk of transmission to others. Such behaviors may result from incomplete, inaccurate, or ineffective risk communication, or may occur even if the risk is well-communicated. Choice architecture, popularized by Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge, also affects behavior. To promote welfare-enhancing decisions, better understanding of these causal factors is needed, together with innovative approaches for overcoming them.

The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is soliciting papers to explore these issues and develop methods for effectively addressing them. Papers may be theoretically or empirically oriented; case studies are encouraged but not required. Examples of topics that may be addressed include the following.

How can we identify and assess cases where reactions to risk have led, or are likely to lead, to harmful behaviors, from an ex post or ex ante perspective?

What factors affect the likelihood and severity of these adverse outcomes? To what extent are they attributable to the nature of the risk, the characteristics of the affected population, cognitive or affective responses, social or cultural considerations, or other factors?

How can we intervene to prevent such adverse reactions? What are the implications for risk communication, choice architecture, government policies, or other actions?

For each accepted paper, HCRA will cover travel expenses (including airfare, hotel, and other expenses) of up to $1,000 for one presenter. In addition, we will pay a $3,000 honorarium. The first $1,000 will be provided upon receipt of a complete draft of the paper, due no later than January 31, 2014. The remaining $2,000 will be provided when the final manuscript is submitted for publication. Authors will have the option of submitting their paper for peer-reviewed publication as part of a special series focused on the results of the conference.

Submissions must be provided as PDFs, and must include the following information:

Title (70 characters maximum).

Complete list of authors and institutional affiliations.

Full contact information for the presenter (email, postal address, and phone number).

All correspondence will be directed to this individual.

A statement certifying that the research represents new work that will not be submitted for publication prior to the conference.

A summary of the proposed research, no longer than 1,000 words, that clearly:

indicates the relationship of the research to the goals and objectives of this project; and,

describes the issues to be addressed by the research and how it will be conducted.

A bibliography including no more than 15 references.

Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will not be considered.

Submissions must be emailed to riskperception@hsph.harvard.edu and received no later than June 10, 2013.

Completed papers must be submitted to the conference organizers no later than January 31, 2014.

Submission of an abstract is viewed as a commitment to complete the work, adhere to the schedule noted above, and attend the conference if selected.

Decisions will be provided no later than September 10, 2013.

Call for Presentations: 1st Global Conference on Suicide, Self-Harm and Assisted Dying

Monday 4th November 2013 – Wednesday 6th November 2013 Athens, Greece

This conference brings together discussion of research and practice in three complex areas – Suicide, Self-Harm and Assisted Dying.

Over one million people worldwide die from suicide each year. The incidence of completed suicide is very much higher in males than females, for all age groups and in most societies where recording occurs. A notable exception is China where female suicides equal or exceed male rates.

Risk factors highlighted in research into suicide have included poverty, abuse, gender, age, masculinity, sexuality, mental illness, situational trauma, substance misuse, homelessness, unemployment and other adverse life events. Completed suicides leave in their wake a long-lasting trail of guilt, shame and pain.

Self-harm is a direct and deliberate physically damaging form of bodily harm which may or may not be intentionally life-threatening. It is often repetitive in nature and usually socially unacceptable.

Self-harm is a risk factor in subsequent attempted suicide. Patients who deliberately harm themselves have a risk of suicide some 100 times greater than that of the general population. However it may occur as an event or pattern of behaviour with no relation to suicidal intent. The UK is estimated to have one of the highest rates of deliberate self-harm in Europe, at 400 per 100,000 population (Self-poisoning and self-injury in adults, Clinical Medicine, 2002). It is hard, however, to arrive at definitive rates since self-harm is often practised secretly. Like suicide, it carries considerable stigma.

Assisted dying or assisted suicide describes the set of actions by which an individual helps another person voluntarily to bring about his or her own death. This is a separate issue from euthanasia, which is not a topic within the remit of this Call for Papers. Assistance may include the provision of means, such as drugs, or other actions. There is currently intense public debate globally about a person’s right to achieve death in this way, with complex legal, religious, cultural, ethical and practical issues involved. Assisted suicide is legal in several jurisdictions, including Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and some American states.

Societal responses to suicide have ranged right across the spectrum, from encouragement or acceptance to outright criminalisation of the act. Suicide, assisting suicide and attempting suicide have historically been considered crimes in many societies, often because of prevailing religious doctrines, and yet some cultures and sub-cultures have advocated suicide. Currently there are on-line sites that encourage or facilitate it. There is a wide range of counselling and other therapeutic interventions and treatments associated with suicidal and self-harming states of mind, and these therapeutic approaches are also used to help deal with the painful aftermath of a completed suicide. Art and music therapies have been used to help sufferers deal with suicidal states of mind. Suicide and self-destruction have been fertile grounds for literature and art, producing a rich and poignant body of creative work.

In England and Wales, to focus on one jurisdiction only, suicide itself was decriminalised as recently as 1961. Assisting suicide, however, remains a crime. There is pressure to change the law following some test cases, so as to permit assisted dying. This presents modern medicine, law and ethics with particular complexities since it runs counter to several core principles in those bodies of knowledge and practice.

We welcome abstracts on any of the topics of Suicide, Self-Harm or Assisted Dying from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, social work, counselling, psychotherapy, philosophy, ethics, psychology, sociology, history, cultural studies, history, law, creative writing, music, art and literature.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers  and presentations will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper, if appropriate, should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013.

What to Send:

300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: SSA1 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and 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 Chair

Diana Medlicott: diana@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher: ssa1@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

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 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

Forum for Prevention: Call for Presentations--XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014--Global Forum for Prevention

24 - 27 August 2014 Frankfurt, Germany

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 30 November 2013. Late abstracts will not be considered.

The German Social Accident Insurance is proud to be the national organizer of the 2014 World Congress. Occupational safety and health has become a far-reaching task in our globalized world. People on all continents suffer under dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Each year, well over 2 million people are killed in occupational accidents. Only by means of sustainable solutions we be able to prevent occupational accidents, occupational diseases and work-related health hazards.

Discussion – debate – action: this is the focus of the 2014 World Congress. Over 4,000 experts from all over the world will be discussing the latest OSH developments and trends. Our hope is that each and every delegate will return home with new ideas and newly forged contacts. In addition, we offer you the opportunity to experience practical prevention activity on-site during visits to companies in a range of sectors, and to learn about new OSH products at the accompanying trade fair.

What is the Forum for Prevention?

Like the Symposia the Forum for Prevention provides an opportunity for the presentation of current projects, topics and problem issues. The design of the Forum for Prevention is however different: it resembles a large marketplace – with a table or poster wall for every presentation that has been accepted. The visitors to the Forum will circulate among these tables and poster walls according to a predefined schedule. This will give the presenters at the tables and poster walls successive opportunities to make their point concisely by engaging in intense discussion of their issues with a wide variety of experts in a small group environment. The Forum for Prevention also provides an opportunity for the introduction of ongoing projects and enables the experts present to share their latest activities and results. Presentations can be made in any of the four congress languages. Please note: interpretation will not be provided.

Symposia: Call for Papers--XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014--Global Forum for Prevention

24 - 27 August 2014 Frankfurt, Germany

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is November 30, 2013. Late abstracts will not be considered.

The German Social Accident Insurance is proud to be the national organizer of the 2014 World Congress. Occupational safety and health has become a far-reaching task in our globalized world. People on all continents suffer under dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Each year, well over 2 million people are killed in occupational accidents. Only by means of sustainable solutions we be able to prevent occupational accidents, occupational diseases and work-related health hazards.

Discussion – debate – action: this is the focus of the 2014 World Congress. Over 4,000 experts from all over the world will be discussing the latest OSH developments and trends. Our hope is that each and every delegate will return home with new ideas and newly forged contacts. In addition, we offer you the opportunity to experience practical prevention activity on-site during visits to companies in a range of sectors, and to learn about new OSH products at the accompanying trade fair.