​INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION (EASY AND FAST SUBMISSION)

Deadline: July 15, 2016, @ 11:59 p.m. (EST)

The 2016 IHBPT Meeting Abstract Submission is now open.  The Program Committee reminds the Fellowship/Residents that the material deemed appropriate for presentation before the IHBPT Symposium should have the following characteristics:

• Original, new and significant scientific work.
• Major updates and/or significant follow up on established procedures and/or research—for example, material which extends a previously presented and/or published original database (a good rule might be expansion by 50% or more) or which analyzes the original database in a different way in order to prove or disprove a different hypothesis.  Please note that follow-up studies based on previously reported databases should significantly extend the findings; follow up studies with more patients that merely confirm previous findings are not considered significant.  Furthermore, previous presentations and/or manuscripts reporting the original database must be referenced.
• Additional definition of previous studies that modify in a major way an understanding of techniques or prior research.

IMPORTANT NOTES
The submission and acceptance of an abstract constitutes a commitment by the Author(s) to present the material at the IHBPT Meeting.  The work must not have been submitted, presented, or published in abstract or manuscript form elsewhere prior to the IHBPT Meeting in April 2016.  Failure to meet this requirement cause for rejection of the submitted work and may jeopardize future acceptance of abstracts for presentation and/or publication.
All authors (up to 8)  named on an abstract must have participated in the abstract’s research, analysis of data, and writing, be familiar with the presented data, and agree with the results as stated.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION
Abstracts submitted must adhere to the following specifications to be considered for presentation at the 2016 IHBPT Meeting:

• Category type (see below)
• Title (max 20 words)
• Authors list (up to 6)
• Institutions of the authors
• Body of the abstract (aim/purpose ; methods, results, conclusions)
• Abstracts must be limited to 300 words (single word.doc, single page)
• No reference
• A table (.doc), image or figure (TIFF, JPEG, PPT) may be uploaded in your abstract (same page of the text).
• Prior presentation and/or publication of the material submitted
• Conflict of interest statement
• Arial (12), single space
• Abstract must be in english

CATEGORY INFORMATION
Abstracts should be placed in one of the following CATEGORIES:
CLINICAL SURGICAL SCIENCE (to include clinical data derived from retrospective, prospective and randomized studies regarding treatment outcomes and other types of clinical translational research)

1.  Liver Transplantation
2. Liver surgery
3. Pancreas surgery

DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
When submitting your abstract, you will be required to complete disclosure information for all authors.

Disclose any relevant financial relationships for all authors listed in the author string.  Relevant financial relationships for all authors’ spouses/partners must also be disclosed.
Be prepared to speak with the Program Committee Chair to resolve any disclosed conflicts.
In the event your work is selected for presentation, list all co-authors’ disclosed relevant conflicts on a slide placed at the beginning of your presentation.

The Meeting commette regards seriously adherence to the disclosure policy for all authors.  Any questions should be addressed to the Secretary of the IHBPT sympoiusm.  The requirement for disclosure is not intended to imply any impropriety of such relationships, but simply to identify such relationships through relevant disclosure, and to allow the audience to form its own judgments regarding the presentation.


ABSTRACT AWARDS
Two Prizes are offered to the Presenting Author of selected Abstracts as below. Only submissions conform to the given guidelines are eligible for prizes.

​SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT
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Please click on the link below and download.

Then choose a session category.
Fill in the form and send it to the Scientific Committee before the deadline.

Notifications to submitters: by May 2016 recipients will be announced on the website.
Upon the receipt of this notification, the author must register to the meeting.
Please note that your abstract will not be accepted if it contains more than 350 words or is sent after April 30th. It cannot either include illustrations, diagrams and figures.

The Congress President reserves the right of acceptance or rejection for all submitted presentations based on the review.