Call for Papers: 2008 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO

Committee Presentations

Committee Presentations are to be submitted as Miniseminars.

For the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL,the Program Advisory Committee is interested in increased member participation and new ideas for presentations. A good miniseminar is one which discusses an issue in detail, one which presents two sides of a current issue, or one which debates new ideas for disease processes or new treatment regimens. For 2008, International Societies will be required to submit their presentations as miniseminars.

Up to six of the accepted miniseminars will be selected for the morning Foundation Annual Meeting Symposia.

If you are going to request Academy funding for a guest speaker, you will need to request this at your initial abstract submission and supply an estimated budget by August 2007.  Please remember that members of our Academy do not receive reimbursement or honoraria for speaking at our Annual Meeting. We usually provide approximately $750 - $3,000 per miniseminar, but this amount varies with needs. Do not commit funding to any guest speakers before receiving proper approval from the Coordinator of the Program Advisory Committee. The Coordinator will get back to you on funding decisions at the end of March 2007.  

International Symposia

International Corresponding Societies may submit an abstract to be considered for a Miniseminar. For assistance and guidance, contact the International Affairs Department or the Scientific Program Coordinator.

Foundation Annual Meeting Symposia (FAMS)

FAMS are breakfast Miniseminars supported by our corporate partners. Submission for the Foundation Annual Meeting Symposium (FAMS) is identical to the Miniseminar. The submitter can ask that their abstract be considered for the FAMS, under comments. The ultimate decision as to which abstracts are FAMS versus Miniseminars lies with the Program Advisory Committee.

Research Forum versus Scientific Program: What’s the Difference?

Each fall, otolaryngologists hoping to present at the Foundation's Annual Meeting face this inevitable question before submitting their abstract. Unfortunately, looking for advice from Webster’s will probably not help. So, in lieu of logical definitions, we've prepared the following checklist to help you sort through the difference between a Scientific Session paper and a Research Forum paper. Please note that this coming year, more than ever, we will enforce the guideline all clinical papers must be submitted to the Scientific Program. Clinical papers submitted to the Research Forum after the deadline for the Scientific Program submission will not be reviewed.

Scientific Session	Research Forum
Oral and poster presentations on clinically-relevant topics	Oral and poster presentations on prospective, hypothesis-based basic or translational research studies with appropriate statistical analysis
Case presentations ("how-I-do-it") are not acceptable for oral presentations, but are considered for poster presentations.	Case presentations are not accepted. Additionally, clinical studies are no longer acceptable for oral presentations in the Research Forum, and should instead be submitted to the Scientific Program starting in 2007.
Example titles and abstracts: Results of a Self-Crimping Stapes Prosthesis in 79 Patients <read abstract> Outpatient Excision of HHT with the Microdebrider <read abstract> Challenges of Diagnosing Rhinosinusitis in Cystic Fibrosis <read abstract> Palatal Implants plus Nasal Surgery for the Treatment of OSA <read abstract>	Example titles and abstracts:  Cochlear Base-Apex Differences in Cell-Death Following Noise <read abstract> Salivary Soluble CD44 Levels in Head and Neck Cancer <read abstract> Biomarkers of Progression and Recurrence in Oral Carcinoma <read abstract> Immunomodulatory Genes in CMV-Related Inner Ear Injury <read abstract>
Sponsored by AAO-HNSF	Co-sponsored with ARO
Manuscript submission to Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery required for oral presentations, optional for posters	Manuscript submission to Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery optional for 2007, but required for oral presentations in 2008
Concurrent sessions on each morning of the meeting	Concurrent sessions, usually on Monday or Tuesday mornings only
Contact: Stephen G. Harner, MD Coordinator for Scientific Program	Contact: David Witsell, MD  Coordinator for Research Forum