CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ARE NOW CLOSED
Our conference theme, Life without Limits, is about empowering families through knowledge about the rare conditions they live with, supporting clinicians and researchers to make the best choices for their patients, who are often experts on their own particular condition, and engendering tūmanako / hope.
Beneath this overall theme, three sub-themes have been developed:
- Learning from the past - current best practice for neuromuscular conditions.
- Looking to the future - the latest in neuromuscular research.
- What’s it like? – living with a neuromuscular condition. Perspectives from siblings, parents, children, carers and people diagnosed with neuromuscular conditions.
The Conference Committee is assembling an exciting programme that includes eminent international, Australian and New Zealand keynote speakers.
We are now accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations.
KEY DATES
| 1 August 2014 6 February 2015 20 February 2015 |
Call for Abstracts open
Deadline for abstract submission at 5.00pm NZ time
Authors will be notified by email of the result of their abstract submission
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DETAILS OF CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Abstracts should:
- Contain a maximum of 300 words,
- Must be submitted in English
- Include the names and affiliations of the presenting authors.
- Be submitted via this Conference website.
- All abstracts should be original research or presenting a perspective that provides information of use to other people living with a neuromuscular condition. Broadly, this could also include an audit, a case report, or a description of a new innovation in health services delivery or education; however, the onus is on the author to demonstrate the significance of any work offered for this conference.
Accepted authors must register for the Conference and pay the appropriate fees to be included in the Programme.
All abstracts will be published in the conference handbook and on the conference website.
PRESENTATION OPTIONS
Oral Presentations
Time allocated per presentation will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes question and answer time.
Poster Presentations
Each Poster Presenter will be asked to stand beside their poster during the scheduled Poster session to answer any questions.
Posters should be A0 (Portrait) in size.
Please note: posters will be on display from Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 April 2015.
PRESENTATION AWARDS
The Australian Neuromuscular Network will be presenting Inaugural Awards at the conference for
- Best Oral Presentation
- Best Poster Presentation
ABSTRACT REVIEWING
All abstracts will go through the following process:
- All abstracts will be reviewed by a panel made up of members of the Programe Committee. The Committee retains the right to accept the abstract in a different type of presentation (for example, oral paper as a poster).
- Acceptance of an abstract will be based on relative merit and the degree to which the abstract meets the aims of the programme.
