AAVIS - IPFDS 2008

Joint Scientific Meeting

Westin Excelsior Resort

Venice Lido

Italy

2nd- 4th October 2008

Pre-conference workshops at the University of Padua, Italy

September 30th - October 1st 2008

Abstract Submission

GENERAL POLICIES

All abstracts must be submitted to the Organising Secretariat by email.

1. All abstracts must be received on or before September 1^st 2008
Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted for inclusion in the Congress.

2. All abstracts have a 300 word limit of text (not including presenter information and title).

3. Authors are advised to insure that their abstracts meet the criteria and guidelines below. All accepted abstracts will be published as is. Acceptance of the abstract in the program and assignment to a session are determined solely by the Program Committee based on a review of the abstract and its subject matter. Decisions of the Program Committee are final. Because of the logistics of assigning abstracts to sessions and the number of abstracts received, requests for particular types of presentations, sessions, days, or times will not be considered by the Program Committee.

a. Submitting authors are required to insure that all listed co-authors have reviewed the abstract, take responsibility for its content and agree with being listed as co-author.

b. All potential conflicts of interest for each co-author must be provided. Potential conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to, commercial interest in the research, and financial or in-kind support for the research, and financial or in-kind support for the research from entities with commercial interest in research.

4. The AAVIS-IPFDS Program Committee invites the submission of research abstracts of excellent quality in all areas related to pelvic medicine, surgery and perineology. All abstracts are reviewed by the Program Committee for the quality and originality of their research, scientific content, and presentation.
Abstracts may be accepted into one of two categories:

a. Oral presentation: The presenting author will be required to make a
5 minute Powerpoint presentation that concisely summarizes the research question, the methods used, the results and their significance.

b. Poster presentation: The presenting author will be obliged to present the poster during the poster session to which it has been assigned. Abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation and a selection chosen by the delegates to the Congress will be published in the journal Pelviperineology.

FORMAT OF ABSTRACTS

1. The Program Committee has outlined the following guidelines for developing an abstract:

a. Abstracts must be based on original work.

b. It is recommended that abstracts follow a format similar to that used at other international meetings and in journals. An acceptable structure for an abstract includes:

Background: A statement of the hypothesis or research question.

Methods: An explanation of the study design and experimental methods used.

Results: A concise summary of the major findings of the experiment or study. Sufficient data must be provided to permit evaluation by the reviewers and public reading the abstracts. Statements such as "additional information to be presented at the meeting" are not acceptable.

Conclusion: Summary of the overall findings and the importance of the study.

Each abstract will be judged on its own merits without reference to other submissions.

6. All abstracts must be submitted in ENGLISH.

7. Abstracts must be submitted by email to the conference organizers at Email:info@defoe.it

8. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and a notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the submitting authors only. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to notify other co-authors of the Committee's decision.

9. By submitting an abstract the author(s) agree to transfer all copyrights to AAVIS and to allow publication of submitted information in the journal Pelviperineology. Authors of accepted oral abstracts grant permission to AAVIS to audio/video record all presentations for future distribution.

10. Instructions will be sent to the authors whose abstracts are accepted for oral or poster presentation. For each abstract accepted for presentation, at least one author must attend the Congress and present the contribution.

Payment of the Congress registration fee should accompany the abstract. If your abstract is not accepted or you are unable to attend, a refund will be made in conformity with the provisions of the Congress Refund Policy. If the registration fee of the presenting author is not received by September 1, 2008 , the abstract will not be accepted.

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