CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 137am APHA Annual MeetingAlcohol, Tobacco, and Other DrugsSubmission Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2009 |
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AS OF TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AT 5 PM CST, PROPOSALS FOR FULL SESSIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED; INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ARE WELCOME THROUGH THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PROGRAM CHAIR IS UNAVAILBLE TO ADDRESS QUESTION AND INQUIRIES AFTER 5 PM CST TUESDAY. NOTICE: The call for abstracts has been extended to February 20, 2009. (Please note that while this deadline has been extended, inquiries about your submission or sessions need to be submitted to Linda Bosma by 5 pm CST on Tuesday, February 17 at aphalinda@bosmaconsulting.com to ensure a reply.) Access to the website for submission or modification of abstracts will continue until February 20. Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting (Deadline extended to February 20, 2009) Each year, members of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) Section have the opportunity to present papers and research results during the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Preparations are being made now for the 2009 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abstracts are encouraged that present new research and cutting edge issues in substance abuse that are of interest to our membership. Abstracts may focus within individual topic areas of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs; however, topics that are relevant across multiple substances are also encouraged. The Section encourages members interested in health services research, media, advocacy, public policy, prevention and treatment practice to submit abstracts for 2009. Second Annual Student Poster Showcase and Award: The ATOD section also invites abstract submissions from students for the second annual student poster award. Students who submit abstracts to the Student Poster Showcase session will be considered for inclusion in a special poster session presenting selected posters, with monetary awards being given to top finalists. (Abstracts not selected for the Student Poster Showcase will be considered for other sessions as appropriate.) Topics of particular interest include:
Please follow submission guidelines carefully. Incomplete submissions may be rejected due to insufficient information to judge their merit. Abstracts may be designated “Oral Only”, “Poster Only”, or “No Preference”. Oral sessions are limited and very competitive, so you are encouraged to consider selecting “No Preference”—each year we must turn down abstracts of merit because we do not have space and authors selected “Oral Only”. Please give the Program Committee as many options as possible to accept your presentation. The ATOD Section ranks abstracts through a multi-tier peer review process. Abstracts are evaluated on 1) Importance (does the presentation provide new findings and/or innovative ideas with significant impact on policy, practice or advocacy in the ATOD field?), 2) Methodological/project soundness (is the methodology sound, clearly stated, and appropriate to the topic or project? Are the sample and data and/or the population and community recent, representative, unbiased and of adequate size?), and 3) Clarity (is the content communicated in a clear, logical and understandable way?), as well as relation to overall Section priorities. Abstracts that do not make this clear are usually ranked lower by reviewers due to incomplete information. Topical sessions are then assembled from high-ranked abstracts. Please note that APHA suggests the program include only one presentation by any individual, and the Section endeavors to abide by this guideline. Session Proposals. Session proposals are generally not encouraged due to limited space and are rarely approved as submitted. If you desire to submit a session proposal, contact the Program Chair, Linda Bosma, at aphalinda@bosmaconsulting.com to ask for a session designation. Please allow at least one week for a response to such requests. They will be ranked in competition with separately submitted abstracts, and the session topic will be weighed against the topics of interest for the Annual Meeting as well as the topics addressed in separately submitted abstracts. The Program Committee reserves the right to break session proposals apart and consider the individual abstracts separately without prior notification to the session organizer. Only session proposals which include abstracts for each presentation, an overall session abstract, and have the Confex-assigned ID numbers for abstracts in the session inserted into every abstract, will be considered. The session abstract must include the rationale, moderator, presentation titles, order and length of time for each presentation, and be clearly labeled SESSION ABSTRACT - “your proposed title” on the electronic submission. Each individual abstract should also include the session title and contact information (phone and e-mail) for the person in charge of sessions so we can contact you easily. Notification of acceptance or rejection for all abstracts submitted is sent in May or June by e-mail to the contact person designated in the abstract submission. Presenters are notified of date, time and location of their sessions during the summer. Should you withdraw an accepted abstract, the Program Chair will select a replacement; please do not provide a substitute. Information detailing the ATOD Section’s Preliminary Program and Final Program will be available on the ATOD Section Web site and copies of the Final ATOD Section Program including locations and last-minute changes will be available at the ATOD Section Booth. Continuing Education Credit APHA values the ability to provide continuing education credit to physicians, nurses and health educators at its annual meeting. Please complete all required information when submitting an abstract so members can claim credit for attending your session. These credits are necessary for members to keep their licenses and credentials. For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each presenter must provide: 1) an abstract free of trade and/or commercial product names 2) at least one MEASURABLE objective (to understand or to learn are not measurable objectives). Examples of Acceptable Measurable Action Words: Explain, Demonstrate, Analyze, Formulate, Discuss, Compare, Differentiate, Describe, Name, Assess, Evaluate, Identify, Design, Define or List. 3) A signed Conflict of Interest form with a relevant qualification statement Thank you for your assistance in making your session credit worthy. Contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.org if you have any questions. |
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