Abstracts OPEN
Early FEB 2022

Abstracts EXTENDED!
15 MAY 2022

Results ADVISED
JUNE 2022

SUBMISSION PORTAL
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Invitation to Submit

On behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association, we invite you to submit an abstract for presentation at the 45th ANZBA Annual Scientific Meeting, 13 – 16 September 2022. 

This international ASM will connect up to 300 burn care leaders and practitioners with presentations and discussions around research, innovations, and current practice with a focus on both the physical and psychological outcomes.

The theme for the 2022 ASM is “The End Game: Victories and Challenges” and we encourage you to make this significant event part of your professional development for 2022.  The ASM will be held in a hybrid format; providing you the opportunity to present and attend online if you are not in a position to join us at Luna Park in Sydney. 

You are invited to submit abstracts for Oral Presentations; Impact Presentations and ePosters in the following sub-themes:

  • Extra-Ordinary Operative Outcomes (Surgical)
  • Powerful Patient Reported Outcomes (PRMs)
  • Lasers, leaps and bounds (Scar management)
  • Super Scientific steps forward (Scientific)
  • Avenging Disaster (Disaster)
  • Marvellous Multidisciplinary Outcomes (MDT)
  • Heroing Prevention advances (Prevention)

You will also be asked to identify the award that your presentation or poster is eligible for when submitting your abstract.  Please review the categories and guidance on the Awards tab prior to submitting.

We look forward to welcoming you to the 45th ANZBA ASM in September

Diane Elfleet & Justine O’Hara

Co-Convenors and 2022 ANZBA Committee

During submission, you will be asked to choose your 1st & 2nd sub-theme preference from the list below.  This assists the program committee in assigning suitable reviewers and also for programming with other similar abstracts if your submission is successful.

 

  • Extra-Ordinary Operative Outcomes (Surgical)
  • Powerful Patient Reported Outcomes (PRMs)
  • Lasers, leaps and bounds (Scar management)
  • Super Scientific steps forward (Scientific)
  • Avenging Disaster (Disaster)
  • Marvellous Multidisciplinary Outcomes (MDT)
  • Heroing Prevention advances (Prevention)

Awards will be presented in the following categories for both Oral Presentations and ePosters.

ANZBA ASM Award Categories

Care assessment and management of burn injured persons – acute, rehabilitation, scar management, etc
Education initiative aimed at improving knowledge of clinicians to better manage burn patients
Prevention primary burn prevention initiative, aimed at reducing overall burn numbers from occurring
Research scientific work with appropriate evidence

You will be asked to select the award that your presentation or ePoster is eligible for during the submission process.

During submission, please select the presentation type from the list below.  The program committee will take this choice as your first preference, however, they may offer you an alternate option if program space and balance requires it.  All presenters of successful abstracts MUST register and pay the required registration fee to attend the ASM.

Oral Presentations

  • It is anticipated that oral presentations will be allocated 8 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions.

Impact Presentations

  • It is anticipated that impact presentations will be allocated 2 minutes for presentation (no questions).

ePosters

  • ePosters will be displayed for the duration of the meeting in the online portal, ASM App and onsite via monitor. Posters will be a single PowerPoint slide and can include video and audio.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEEDURE

  • Abstracts are to be no more than 250 words and are to be entered in a plain text format in the Presentation Portal.
  • Abstracts should be referenced using the Harvard style.  Click here for more information.
  • Initial ePoster submissions require a written abstract, once accepted you can then design your slide using the ePoster Template.
  • Enter the Submission Portal (above) and begin by entering your contact details.  You will be the contact for this submission unless you advise Conference Design otherwise
  • Enter your abstract details.  You can enter multiple abstracts with different details through this same record

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DETAILS

For each Abstract you submit you will be asked to enter the following information:

  • Presentation title
  • Preferred presentation format
  • Select the award that your presentation is eligible for
  • Name/s of authors/s
  • Affiliation/s of author/s
  • Indicate presenting author/s
  • Short 50 word biography of the presenter/s
  • 1st & 2nd preference Sub-Theme
  • Indicate if the topic has been previously presented

The successful abstract and presenter biography will also be included on the meeting website, ASM App and the online portal.

ABSTRACT REVIEW PROCESS

The Program Committee will review all submitted abstracts. As there are limited places for oral presentations some abstracts submitted for oral presentation may be offered impact presentations or ePosters.

REGISTRATION

All presenters will be required to register at the relevant rate for the meeting. Presenters will also need to meet their own travel and accommodation costs if attending onsite.

 

Publication of Presentations

Availability of presentations
Presentations will be made available to registered delegates for viewing in the ANZBA Online Portal and ASM App. Any additional files authors choose to share, as well as any live Q & A/panel discussions will also be available to view during and after the presentation. Access to the Portal and App will be password protected and limited to ANZBA registrants.

Copyright
If presentations are to be used or published in any other format or forum, your specific consent will be requested. Please ensure you have permission to use any images, music or content within your presentation. If you do not have copyright permission, your presentation will not be able to be used or published. Do not include any images copied from the internet. Getty Images and other image agencies crawl the internet looking for images that have been copied without the appropriate licences.

Copyright ownership
Consenting to have your presentation available in the portal and App or used in an alternative publication will not affect your ownership rights. The ASM committee, ANZBA or Conference Design will not acquire the ownership rights of your presentation should you agree for it to be included or used.

Will people be able to record or download my presentation?
During the registration process, delegates must acknowledge and agree to the ASM Terms & Conditions, which include strict rules around unauthorised photography and recording of meeting material. While these measures can be taken, we cannot enforce this rule in an online environment. The assumption should be made that participants may indeed take unauthorised photographs, screenshots, audio, or video recordings, therefore you may wish to adjust the content of your presentation accordingly.

Presentations in the portal and App are available only to view and cannot be downloaded.