Surgery calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: ACP 2012--American College of Phlebology 26th Annual Congress

November 15-18, 2012 Hollywood, Florida

Submission deadline will be June 29, 2012.

26 Years of Venous Education

The ACP recognized the need for quality venous education twenty-six years ago and continues to fulfill on its mission of providing original education for an advancing specialty.

The ACP’s 26th Annual Congress will provide vein health practitioners with the latest techniques, innovative and engaging content, interaction with respected faculty from around the world and opportunities for all levels of skill and knowledge to gain the tools needed to improve patient care.

Join us November 15-18, 2012 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, FL for this important program.

If you have questions about the 2012 ACP Annual Congress, please contact the ACP Meetings Department at:

Phone: 510.346.6800
Fax: 510.346.6808
email: meetings@acpmail.org

Address:
101 Callan Avenue
Suite 210
San Leandro, CA 94577

Call for Presentations: 2012 Medical Electronics Symposium

September 26-27, 2012 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Co-Sponsored by ASU’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

MEPTEC and SMTA are again partnering to present a two day Medical Electronics symposium which will cover a broad spectrum of topics highlighting innovative technologies and related issues in medical electronic applications and devices.

The two-day technical program titled “Medical Electronics Technology, Personal Health and the Economy -- Drivers for Positive Business Growth” will be held September 26-27, 2012 at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

There is significant economic momentum and interest in the areas of personal healthcare and the global healthcare industry in general, which continue to drive positive business trends.

This symposium will bring together technical and business professionals from the medical electronic and relevant industries to present current perspectives on the economic and industry trends as well as state-of-the-art technologies for medical applications. Current enabling technology advancements that will be utilized to improve the next generation of existing medical electronic products, along with the challenges associated with the complex regulatory and reliability requirements, will be presented by industry experts.

Deadline for abstracts is May 29, 2012.

Session topics include:

• Market Trends and Issues in Medical Electronics

• Technologies Advancing Implantable Devices

• Emerging Trends in Components

• Requirements Beyond Electronics to Bring a Product to Market

• Medical Standards, Regulatory & Compliance - meeting global requirements

• Integrating Process Excellence into Design Control

• Advanced Medical Electronics Packaging Technology

• Emerging Surgical Procedures

The abstract and presentation must be non-commercial in nature and emphasize the medical technology and not the company portfolio. Please include your contact information (address, phone number, email address) and a presentation title with your abstract submission.

Please provide an abstract of 300 words minimum on any of the topics above by email to bcooper@meptec.org (for first four topics) or patti@smta.org (for last four topics).

There is no technical paper requirement for this symposium. Presentations are due on August 31, 2012.

SMTA Headquarters:
5200 Willson Road, Suite 215
Edina, MN 55424
Phone: (952) 920-7682

Call for Abstracts: 7th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium

September 6-8, 2012 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

We invite you to submit original research relating to pediatric intestinal failure, adaptation, intestine rehabilitation, and transplantation for the 7th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific organizing committee and the top 2 "highest ranked" abstracts will be awarded a travel grant up to $1,000.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to infection and immunity in intestinal failure and transplant, long term outcomes, parenteral nutrition and morbidities, intestinal adaptation, surgical techniques, cellular and tissue engineering, immune and genetic monitoring, immunosupression, acute and chronic rejection, and management of the sensitized patient.

Abstracts of unpublished research presented recently at other meetings will also be considered. Abstracts should be 250 words or less with no more than one figure. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2012.

Questions? Please contact Sharon Mastro at sharon.mastro@chp.edu

Call for Abstracts: American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Specialty Day 2013

March 23, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

Abstract Deadline: June 8, 2012

This meeting is designed to identify areas of recent research in the field of orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery relevant to practicing physicians, surgeons, and allied health professionals. This information will be transmitted through scientific paper presentations, question and answer sessions, spotlights on surgical techniques, symposia, current concepts, journal club discussions, clinical insights and/or debates.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this meeting, learners should be able to:

Recognize and analyze key issues, recent research, current data reflecting clinical trends, emerging surgical techniques, pre- and postoperative procedures, technological innovations, knowledge and skills in the field of orthopaedic foot and ankle patient care
Integrate new treatment options into attendee practices
Compare and contrast current operative treatment strategies for foot and ankle disorders
Identify ways to avoid, analyze and manage complications of foot and ankle problems
Identify and adapt strategies to improve patient outcomes

Call for Abstracts: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons 22nd Annual Meeting

November 2-4, 2012 Dallas, Texas

Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 1, 2012

Submission Guidelines

For all inquiries relating to abstract submission or symposium proposals please contact the AAHKS staff at 847-698-1200 or by email helpdesk@aahks.org.

Abstracts will be blind reviewed by the AAHKS Program Committee review teams. Acceptance of an Abstract will be acknowledged in July via email to the Abstract submitter.

Call for Papers: American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery 2013 Annual Meeting

AACS 29th Annual Scientific Meeting January 16-19, 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada

For over 25 years, the Academy remains the leader in quality, cutting-edge education for medical professionals worldwide in all areas of cosmetic surgery. Submit your paper to present at the 2013 Annual Meeting — the following types of papers are requested:

Basic Science
Clinical Trials
Technique
Ethics
Practice Management
Posters

Peer Review Disclosure
All papers regardless of categories shall be ranked by Peer Review on a 1 -5 scale. The rankings will be based on originality, scientific content, relevance of new information, study of methodology and commercial bias.

Call for Papers Submission Deadline: May 31

For questions regarding the Call for Papers submission process, contact Amanda Diana, Education Coordinator, at adiana@cosmeticsurgery.org or 312.981.6779.

Call for Papers: MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures: From Planning to Intervention

CLIP 2012 October 5th, 2012, Nice, France

Submissions due June 8th

Scope

There has been considerable interest over the last years in the development and evaluation of new translational techniques for clinical image-based planning and interventions at the cutting edge of modern procedures in the hospital. This workshop aims to fill the gap between basic science and clinical applications by focusing on the clinical translations of state-of-the-art methods with a special emphasis on image-based planning and interventions.

Workshop Topics

--Challenges and emerging techniques in image-based procedures
--Clinical translation of image-based techniques for planning and intervention
--Error analysis in image-based procedures
--Navigation and tracking: tool tracking, organ tracking, and tumor tracking
--Computational anatomy and image analysis: modeling, segmentation, simulation
--Personalization of patient models to support interventions
--Inter- and intra-modality registration
--Visualization for operation planning
--Multimodal image-based planning and guidance
--Clinical applications in open and minimally invasive surgery
--Clinical validation of image-guided systems
 

Call for Abstracts: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII

A MICCAI 2012 Workshop, Nice, France 1 October 2012

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.

Rationale:

Mathematical modelling and computer simulation have proved tremendously successful in engineering. One of the greatest challenges for mechanists is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences, and medicine. The proposed workshop will provide an opportunity for computational biomechanics specialists to present and exchange opinions on the opportunities of applying their techniques to computer-integrated medicine. For example, continuum mechanics models provide a rational basis for analysing biomedical images by constraining the solution to biologically reasonable motions and processes. Biomechanical modelling can also provide clinically important information about the physical status of the underlying biology, integrating information across molecular, tissue, organ, and organism scales. The main goal of this workshop is to showcase the clinical and scientific utility of computational biomechanics in computer-integrated medicine.

Scope:

The following computational mechanics disciplines will be included:

1. Computational solid mechanics
2. Computational multibody systems kinematics and dynamics
3. Computational fluid mechanics
4. Computational thermodynamics (e.g. heat transfer, radiation)

We solicit papers that use methods of computational biomechanics in the following application areas:

Medical image analysis
Image-guided surgery
Surgical simulation
Surgical intervention planning
Surgical technique development
Disease prognosis and diagnosis
Injury mechanism analysis
Surgical aid design
Artificial organs
Implant and prostheses design
Medical robotics
Tissue engineering
Understanding of embryonic development
Understanding of aging

Important dates:

Deadline for paper submission: 11 June 2012
Notification of acceptance: 12 July 2012

Call for Abstracts: 6th International Conference on Ocular Infections

The 6th International Conference on Ocular Infections (ICOI) will be held on March 7-10, 2013 at the Loews Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA.

Infections of the eye continue to challenge clinicians around the world to make an accurate, rapid diagnosis, as well as providing optimal therapy given the emergence of spread of antimicrobial resistance.

The Scientific Committee encourages the submission of original Abstracts for poster presentations.

All abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee.

The accepted abstracts will be published in the book of abstracts.

If an Abstract is accepted, the presenting author must register.

Authors who submit an abstract but fail to register for the conference run the risk of having their abstracts withdrawn.

The Deadline for Abstract Submission is December 2nd, 2012.

Abstracts must be submitted via the Conference website.

Abstracts submitted by fax or email will not be accepted, If you are unable to submit them via the website, please contact the Secretariat.

Confirmations will be sent by December 13th, 2012.

Submitters that their abstract has been accepted will have to register no later than December 22, 2012.

Main Conference Topics

Surgical Strategies to Prevent Infections
Update on TASS and Preferred Instrument Sterilization Methods
Unraveling the Contact Lens-Associated Microbial Keratitis Epidemics
Antimicrobial Resistance: Strategies for Survival and Prevention
The revolution in Ocular Imaging for real - time Diagnosis of Eye Infections
Drug Delivery systems for intraocular and surface disease
The Latest Clinical Updates on External Infections, Keratitis, Endoophthalmitis, Uveitis and Retinitis
Advances in Antimicrobial Agent Research & Development
Ocular Microbiology Laboratory Techniques
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Drug Delivery

Conference Secretariat
Paragon Conventions
18, Avenue Louis-Casai, 5th Floor
1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)22 747 7930, Fax: +41 (0)22 747 7999
Website: www.ocularinfections.com

Conference Manager

Ms. Shirley Dinenson

Email: sdinenson@paragon-conventions.com

Call for Abstracts: Temporomandibular Joint Disorder Bioengineering Conference

We are inviting you to submit an abstract to the TMJ Bioengineering Conference (TMJ3), which will take place on Thursday September 20 through Saturday September 22, 2012, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Program Committee has selected the following thematic areas for this year’s Conference:

Bone, cartilage, and stem cell biology
Cell, tissue, and joint biomechanics
Biomaterials for bone and cartilage tissue engineering
Diagnosis and imaging of TMDs
Treatment and surgery of the TMJ
TMJ Pain and inflammation

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: June 23, 2012

We suggest that you please encourage your young investigators to submit abstracts on new and novel studies. Those abstracts that are based on high risk/high payoff translational research will be given priority to be accepted and presented. Please make plans and register early to join us as the attendance at the Conference will be limited to 100 participants to facilitate more discussion.

Instructions for submission and the format of the abstract can be found at the Conference website: http://tmjconference.org