The 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society 
May 7 - May 10, 2008, Tampa, Fl.

Call for Symposia and Corporate Satellite Symposia 
**The link to the Guidelines and the submission forms for Corporate Satellite Symposia appears at the end of these instructions.**

Call for Symposia and Corporate Satellite Symposia will remain open until 11:59 pm PT on July 27th.

General Information

The APS Scientific Program Committee invites the submission of proposals for Symposia and Corporate Satellite Symposia to be presented at the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, May 7 - 10, 2008, in Tampa, Fl.

The Scientific Program Committee requests that all proposals be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, and should therefore include speakers representing varied areas of pain research and treatment. The committee will be looking for proposals which include perspectives from physicians, nurses, physical therapists, psychologists, basic scientists, pharmacists, dentists, etc. Moderators should seek participation from a varied group of faculty (the maximum number of participants per proposal is 1 moderator and up to 3 additional speakers), and several disciplines and facilities/institutions should be represented on each proposal.

Proposals for previously presented or published work may not be submitted to APS without modification. Original work must be changed or expanded, resulting in a new abstract.

Important Dates

Submission

The submittal system will remain open from June 15, 2007 to July 27, 2007. The system will close at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on July 27th, and additional submissions will not be accepted.

Notification

Applicants will be notified in October, 2007 regarding selection of their proposals.
All presenters will receive complimentary conference registration. Other terms of participation will be communicated to speakers upon acceptance of the proposal.

Information Regarding Faculty Disclosure

This is an electronic submittal system and does not require the submission of any hard copies or disks. The system is compatible with PCs and Macintosh computers. The system does require Internet access.

The adoption and approval of ACCME's Updated Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure the Independence of CME Activities has caused providers in the CME community to re-examine their policies and procedures to ensure compliance with these regulations. As an ACCME accredited provider, the American Pain Society requires full faculty disclosure from all faculty. Completed disclosure forms (see Word file sample)must be received by July 31, 2007 to be reviewed and discussed by the appropriate monitoring group, i.e. the American Pain Society's Scientific Program Committee. Please note that the submission system will close on July 27, but the disclosure forms will remain accessible to faculty until July 31. Faculty members failing or refusing to complete the disclosure form in ample time to be reviewed by the Scientific Program Committee shall be automatically disqualified as a speaker, planning committee member, or author. In addition, the American Pain Society requires that all contributions to a CME activity are based on the best available evidence (refer to Policy on Content Validation).

In accordance with the new ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure the Independence of CME Activities, all proposed speakers named on this proposal will receive an email notice which instructs each of them, individually, to visit the proposal before July 31, 2007 to complete their disclosure forms. This notice will be sent to all speakers as soon as the submission forms are complete and the "Submit to Program Officials" button has been selected. Please note that the completion of the moderator's disclosure form is a required part of the online submission. Additionally, moderators should contact the speakers named on the proposal to notify them of their inclusion in the submission, and to remind them to complete their disclosure information and speaker agreement before July 31.

**Click HERE for Corporate Satellite Symposia Guidelines and submission forms.**

Symposia

Symposia are scheduled to take place Thursday, May 8 - Saturday, May 10, 2008. All faculty must be willing and able to present on these dates. Symposia sessions are 90 minutes in length.

To submit your symposium proposal, please follow the on-line submission forms accessible via the link below. A complete symposium submission should include the following:
  • Focus statement (the focus statement should give a succinct description of what topics will be discussed during the symposium; it will be printed in the conference brochure so that attendees will be able to make decisions on which symposia they would like to attend)
  • Educational objectives (cognitive, behaviorial, or attitudinal)
  • Title
  • Moderator/Presenter information, including disclosures.
  • Abstract text of 200 words, including information about each presenter’s contribution to the symposium

Each symposium submission is limited to a moderator and up to 3 additional presenters. Only one of the presenters can be a non-member of APS.

Handout materials (including articles, references/bibliography, and copies of speakers’ PowerPoint slides) are requested of all speakers in symposia. The session moderator will be expected to assist APS staff in the collection and organization of all handout materials.

Begin a new SYMPOSIUM submission

Call for Symposia and Corporate Satellite Symposia will remain open until July 27, 2007, 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time


To Resume (or Retrieve) a Submission

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