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The deadline for submission has been extended until October 14.
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2006 CDC Diabetes and Obesity Conference Call for Abstracts
CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation will convene its annual diabetes conference May 16 -19, 2006, at the Adams Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver, Colorado. This first time ever conference collaboration between CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation and CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity will discuss issues concerning both diabetes and obesity. The conference will bring together approximately 800 participants from a wide range of local, state, federal, and territorial governmental agencies and private-sector diabetes and obesity partners.
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Explore science, policy, education, program planning, implementation, and evaluation to enhance public health approaches and strategies to prevent and control diabetes and obesity. |
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Increase knowledge and awareness of successful, cost-effective, public and private diabetes and obesity programs. |
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Present innovative strategies to increase awareness of diabetes and obesity and how to prevent their complications. |
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Provide opportunities for skill-building, information-sharing, and networking. |
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The Conference Planning Committee encourages you to submit abstracts that address specific issues, approaches or strategies that contribute to diabetes prevention and control and the primary prevention of obesity or obesity treatment described below. Priority preference will be given to abstracts that describe crosscutting, programmatic activities addressing public health responses to diabetes and obesity.
Partnership/Collaboration
Abstracts describe the development, maintenance, and evaluation of partnerships and collaborations. Give examples of what constitutes an effective partnership or collaborative effort. Discuss the achievements, challenges, and lessons learned concerning partnering and collaborating.
Primary Prevention
Abstracts focus on activities that target those at high risk for developing diabetes and obesity.
Policy and Legislation
Abstracts describe policies developed and implemented to prevent and control diabetes or obesity or improve the lives of people living with diabetes and obesity.
Epidemiology - Surveillance and Research
Abstracts show strategies for developing and implementing surveillance data,
research studies, and describe the health impact. Program evaluation abstracts
evaluate multilevel or multicomponent interventions for nutrition and physical
activity for the preventing and treating obesity and preventing and controlling
diabetes.
Communication, Media, and Technology
Abstracts demonstrate effective approaches to raising awareness, improving health literacy, and reaching priority populations as they relate to diabetes and obesity.
Public Health System Improvement
Abstracts show examples of patient and provider practices and policies that improve the quality of diabetes care and treatment and obesity primary prevention and treatment.
Disparities
Abstracts demonstrate strategies and projects to improve diabetes and obesity-related health disparities among racial and ethnic minority and rural populations.
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Three options are available for presentations. Indicate your preference on the submission form or within the file that is submitted. The options are
- Oral panel presentation during concurrent breakout sessions
(15-minute presentation, and 5 minutes for question and answer) (one presenter per abstract), or
- Poster session, or
- Oral round table presentation (more discussion, handouts)
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To be considered for the program, you must prepare and submit abstracts according to the instructions by
October 14, 2005.
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| Text Formats and Requirements |
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Format (This is very important.)
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The online form will prompt you to cut and paste your abstract into the following sections: title and body. The body should include objective, methods, results, conclusion, learning objective, and key words. The maximum character limit is 1800 words. |
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Use only text. Do not use italics,
diagrams, boxes, borders, or tables. No graphics are permitted. |
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Use active voice and spell out all
abbreviations and acronyms for first reference in the text. |
Length
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Make abstract presentation titles no longer
than 15 words or 100 characters. |
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Make abstract text no more than 250 words
or 1,800 characters. |
Required Forms
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All abstracts must include a submission form, the presenter's Biographical Data Form (Bio_form.doc) (must be 250-400 words), and Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form (COI_form.doc). |
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Abstract submissions without these forms are incomplete and will not be considered. |
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Presentation should relate to one or more
of the abstract topics, meet the overall goals of the conference, and be of
significant public health importance. |
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Purpose/objectives should be clear and well
described. |
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Work should be performed using rigorous
scientific methods (scientific/epidemiologic related submissions) or should
have appropriate program planning and evaluation methods (programmatic
submissions). |
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Results or outcomes should be described in
the abstract and be relevant to conference participants. |
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Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the conference Web site no later than
October 14, 2005. An E-mail confirming receipt will be sent to the submitter.
The completed Biographical Data Form (PDF-253K) and the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form (PDF-172K) must be included with the submission. The forms are required for the presenter only.
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We will notify abstract submitters whether the abstract is accepted or rejected by
December 15, 2005. We will not accept every abstract for presentation. If the abstract is accepted, the submitter will receive a request to confirm availability to attend the conference and make the presentation. Information will be included on the type of presentation format, date, and time in that communication.
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| Presenter's Responsibilities |
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Presenters are responsible for all expenses related to participating in the conference, including transportation, registration fee, lodging, and meals. Presenters are encouraged to furnish handouts for 75-100 participants.
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