Women's Health calls for papers / meetings & conferences

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 Papers for Health-Related Sessions at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

August 5th-August 10th, 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has the overall theme "Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds".

The Call for Papers will close on July 13, 2012. The call for papers deadline applies to both papers proposed as additions to an existing panel and also to papers proposed to the holding panel. These deadlines are final and no further proposals will be accepted after these dates.

All Panels
-- BH01 Health, nutrition and physical growth in developing nations
-- BH02 Co-evolution of humans and their foods: cross-disciplinary perspectives (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
-- BH12 Forensic anthropology; emerging issues and challenges in the 21st century
-- LD01 The vulnerable child: biological responses to life in the past
-- LD02 The role of cosmopolitan-modern medicine and its social and cultural challenges
-- LD03 Health and emerging regional demographic trends
-- LD04 The future agenda for anthropological research on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of AIDS)
-- LD05 Urbanization and reproductive health (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD06 Anthropologies in and of Public Health in the 21st century
-- LD07 Landscapes of life-and-death in India, South Arabia and Asia Minor
-- LD08 Social debate over the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation for disaster affected children
-- LD09 Anthropology of ageing
-- LD10 Menopausal woman and assisted reproduction: rights to access of ART in an ethical context (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD11 The states of welfare and wellbeing of indigenous populations?
-- LD12 Health and nutrition: changes in lifestyle in the era of globalization
-- LD13 Gender equity in nutrition and child health
-- LD14 Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
-- LD15 Status of the aged in the Third World
-- LD16 Techniques of healing in traditional societies
-- LD18 Dominant caste and their culture: health perspective of the indigenous communities in the south Asian subcontinent and beyond
-- LD19 Traditional and medicinal knowledge among the indigenous communities
-- LD22 The problems and values of old age in postmodern era
-- LD23 Tribal health: emerging consequences in the era of globalization
-- LD24 Documenting the meanings of life and death in the Americas
-- LD25 Health concerns of women during and after menopause
-- LD26 Identified skeletal collections: the testing ground of anthropology?
-- MMM10 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants I: global resource flows, political contestations and health
-- MMM11 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants II: memory, emotional sustenance and culinary practices
-- MMM18 Sanitising migration: epidemiology or medical police?
-- PE03 Food and environmental security: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge systems
-- PE06 Food security and rural development
-- PE21 Human life, enterprise and market (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
-- PE24 How women are affected by local vs. corporate food systems (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
-- PE25 Sustainable livelihood security and human development
-- PE26 Plants utility by ethnic communities of eastern India for nutritional and health security, past-present and future
-- PE28 Anthropology of food and nutrition in the globalized economy
-- PE31 Ethnomedicinal properties of traditional vegetables: the present status and future journey
-- SE23 Action anthropology, tribal medicine and development
-- SE24 Exclusion of de-notified (ex-criminal tribes) and nomadic tribes in India: issues and challenges for inclusion
-- SE25 Health activism in the context of 'global health'
-- WMW01 Medical anthropology for a better tomorrow: exploring the mind, medicine and mental health

Call for Papers: Pan Arab Psychiatric Conference (PAPC2012)

Novembe 29-December 1, 2012 Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

The theme selected for the Mental Health Changes in the Arab World (Violence, Trauma and Recovery) will address the involvement of the mental health professionals in providing services for people affected by the recent developments in the region. It is an opportunity to discuss and share development, trends, scientific research and treatments advancements in the impact of the violence on the mental health specifically and psychotrauma and Psychiatric disorders in general not forgetting Recovery.

Together with a carefully selected educational program and a group of highly renowned regional and international keynote speakers, we promise you a significant scientific enrichment for people involved hoping to benefit the region on the ground in the post period of the conference and initiate mental health programs the region needs.

The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts to make poster presentations at PAPC2012 from professionals, researchers and students in the Psychiatric field.

Deadline
Deadline for abstract submission is 30 August 2012, 8 pm Dubai time.

Abstract Topics
1....Psychological trauma and recovery.
2....Resilience and recovery after psychological trauma.
3....Disaster psychiatry
4....Role of NGPs in developing mental health services
5....Violence and mental health (Domestic Violence, Violence among psychiatric population)
6....Recent advances in psychopharmacology of major mental illnesses
......(schizophrenia, bipolar, depression etc)
7....Addiction, personality and deliberate self harm available services and different managements.
8....Co morbidity of physical and psychiatric disorders
9....Special populations (Women's, child, adolescent and old age)
10..Community psychiatry and post discharge services & managements.
11..Psychiatry and the law
12..Cultural issues of psychiatric practice in the Arab world
13..Bridging the gap between psychology and psychiatry in the Arab world
14..Psychiatry and spirituality
15..Recruitment into psychiatry & Postgraduate training in psychiatry
16..Arab Psychiatrists experience abroad, prospects & challenges

Meeting Minds Experts
PAPC2012 Professional Conference Organisers

pco@papc2012.com

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 Abstracts: 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

September 19-22, 2012 Windhoek, Namibia

The Scientific Committee of the 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is pleased to invite Abstracts (oral presentations and posters) exploring the overall theme of the conference – “Sexual Health and Rights in Africa – Where Are We?” and through the following sub-themes:

- Adolescent and Youth Sexuality
- Women’s and Girls Sexuality
- Disabilities and Sexual Rights
- Sexual Rights and Sex Work
- HIV/AIDS and Sexuality
- Sexuality, Culture and Religion
- Sexual and Reproductive Rights (Legal, Policy and Programme Issues- financing, equity, access, implementation, enforcement and redress)
- Sexual Orientation, Sexual/Gender Identity and Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Capacity building and Knowledge Management

Abstract Format
1. 15-minute oral presentations (10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for questions).

2. 5 minute oral poster presentations (3 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for questions).

Authors may choose among the following abstract formats:

- Standard format (Introduction and objectives, Method(s), Results and Conclusion).

- Qualitative Research Studies (Introduction, Method(s), Findings and discussion, Recommendations and References)

- Experiential & Practice Samples (Introduction, Action. Outcome, Discussion, Recommendations and References).

- Historical Survey (Introduction, Approach, Findings and discussions and References).

Abstracts Submission & Evaluation Criteria
- Abstracts should be submitted for poster and podium presentations.

- All abstracts must be submitted online at www.africasexuality.org/abstract/openconf.php

- Abstracts can be submitted in English, French or Portuguese.

- Abstracts will be printed as submitted. It is the author’s responsibility to submit the abstract in the correct order with no spelling or grammar errors.

- Abstracts that are not received in the proper format will not be considered for review by the Scientific Committee.

- The Abstract should include a summary of not more than 200 words and an extended abstract of 2-3 pages (Arial font 11, spacing 1.5).

- The abstract should provide as much relevant information as possible and should follow the one of the 4 formats highlighted above.

- The title should be in capital letters.

- For multiple submissions, consistency in authors’ names should be maintained to avoid duplication in the Author index of the final Program.

- The presenting author’s name should be listed first and underlined.

- Authors must indicate the name of the funders (if any) of research being presented.

- Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest for their research.

- PowerPoint presentations using a PC data projector will be the standard method of visual data presentation.

- Authors should indicate whether they prefer a podium or poster presentation.

- The final decision on the presentation format will be made by the Scientific Committee.

- Receipt of all abstracts will be acknowledged by e-mail.

- All accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings, online and may be reproduced in relevant scientific journals.

- Submitted Abstracts will be treated with utmost confidentiality.

For further information and questions, contact conference@africasexuality.org

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

Conference Host
Namibia Planned Parenthood Association
P.O. Box 10936
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 230250
Fax: +264 61 230251
Email: conference@africasexuality.org
www.nappa.com.na