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5th International Conference Practice to Policy: Global Perspectives in Nursing: NHSRU

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Abstract submission deadline: 24 February 2006
Dates: 25-27 October 2006

Call For Abstracts for Papers, Posters and Pre-Conference Workshops

As a knowledge based discipline, nursing has enthusiastically embraced a culture of knowledge creation, transfer and uptake. Practice has been evolved and energized through research and knowledge exchange that has influenced policy at the organizational and health system levels. This conference will gather nurses and policy makers from around the globe to celebrate the individual and collective achievements of nurse clinicians, academics, researchers, and administrators. It will explore and interpret today’s nursing world with particular emphasis on health human resources and advancements in nursing across the continuum of practice to policy.

Themes & Subthemes

• Practice
  • Innovative clinical interventions
  • Workforce emergency preparedness
  • Innovations in care delivery models
  • Quality and safety
• Health Human Resources
  • Education
  • Research
  • Healthy work environments
  • Migration
  • Health of nurses
• Knowledge Exchange
  • Bridging the gap between evidence and effect
  • Interdisciplinary communication and collaborations
• Leadership And Management
  • Evolution of workload measurement
  • Simulation approaches
  • Emerging initiatives in recruitment and retention
• Policy
  • Data requirements for decision-making
  • Workforce planning and regulations

How To Apply Online: Before you begin it may be helpful to have your abstract (up to 300 words) and brief biography in MS Word (or RTF) format that you can cut and paste into the appropriate sections. All abstracts must be submitted online - all information fields requested must be completed. Please visit http://www.nhsru.com/.

Content: Your abstract should state the problem, issue or project in the first paragraph. Briefly describe the manner in which the study or problem was addressed and describe the findings, conclusions or solutions to the problem or idea. Evaluate the relevance of this study, innovations or strategy and the relevance to other settings and countries. Authors are expected to clearly outline the key learning objectives for their presentations.

Selection Process: All abstracts are subjected to a “blind” peer review. Selection criterion includes relevance to the conference theme & subthemes, scholarship and creativity.

• Pre-Conference Workshops will be 3 hours in length
• Concurrent Papers are 30 minutes inclusive of question period
• Posters will be displayed throughout the conference

Notification: All abstracts will be acknowledged as received as soon as successfully submitted. Abstracts will not be accepted after midnight EST of the deadline date. The selection process will be completed and all primary authors notified of the outcome by March 31, 2006. All presenters are responsible for all expenses incurred and must register for the conference.

For Additional Information Or Assistance: Please contact First Stage Enterprises (info.nhsru@firststageinc.com) or +1-416-426-7029

February 24, 2006: Decision-Making

February

Applications for workshops or research community development initiatives: Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR)

Location: Canada
Deadline: 17 February 2006 (5PM PST)

IHSPR is accepting applications for workshops or research community development initiatives. The application form and guidelines are now available on IHSPR’s website. The deadline for this round of applications is 5:00 pm PST February 17, 2006.

IHSPR’s Research Community Development Program is intended to support health services and policy research initiatives that contribute to the goals and objectives outlined in our strategic plan. Thematic research areas identified for priority investment are highlighted in Listening for Direction II, which is available on IHSPR’s website.

L’ISPS accepte les demandes en vue d’ateliers ou d’initiatives de développement communautaire. Le formulaire de demande et les lignes directrices sont maintenant disponibles sur le site Web de l’ISPS. La date limite pour la réception des demandes est 17 h, le 17 février 2006.

Le Programme de développement communautaire et d’ateliers de l’ISPS vise à appuyer des initiatives de recherche sur les services et les politiques de santé qui contribuent aux buts et aux objectifs énoncés dans notre plan stratégique. Les thèmes retenus à des fins de financement prioritaire sont indiqués dans À l’écoute II, disponible sur le site Web de l’ISPS.

February 17, 2006: Health Research

Annual meeting of the Canadian Health Economics Study Group (CHESG)

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 11-12 May 2006
Abstract Deadline: 17 February 2006

The next annual meeting of the Canadian Health Economics Study Group (CHESG) will take place May 11-12, 2006 at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

For those wishing to present, the deadline for submission of full papers for review is 17th February 2006. Decisions regarding acceptance will be by March 15th 2006.

Papers are invited from any area of health economics, theoretical and empirical. While papers relating to any jurisdiction will be considered, preference will be given to those papers which are directly relevant to Canada.

Please direct any inquiries to Paul Contoyannis at contoyp@mcmaster.ca

February 17, 2006: Health Economics

February

HTAi 2006 - 3rd Annual Meeting Health Technology Assessment International

Location: Adelaide, Australia
Conference dates: 2-5 July 2006
Submission Deadline: 13 February 2006

You are invited to submit abstracts for the 3rd HTAi Annual Meeting. All HTA-related topics are welcome.

• Submission must be made via the society web-site starting 31 October 2005
• Please, indicate your presentation preference (oral, poster, both) and key-words. Please note that final decisions on presentation type will be by the ISPC
• All details on the online abstract form must be completed
• Only one oral presentation per first author is allowed
• Abstracts must be received not later than 13 February 2006
• All authors will receive a notification of receipt of their abstract. Please contact the HTAi Secretariat if you do not receive any communication by 20 February 2006
• All authors will be notified of acceptance by 31 March 2006
• Authors, in order to present their work, must register for the meeting by the early registration deadline: 19 May 2006

February 13, 2006: Health Technology Assessment

February

Second North American Congress of Epidemiology

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Abstract Deadline: 3 February 2006
Conference Dates: 21-24 June 2006

Abstracts are requested for consideration for contributed oral and/or poster presentations for the Second North American Congress of Epidemiology in Seattle, WA. Accepted abstracts will be distributed at the June meeting and will also be published in a Supplement Issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE).

The following rules are AJE policies and should be adhered to precisely:

1. Abstracts are required to be submitted online
2. A letter of notification of acceptance or rejection will be emailed to the authors no later than April 30, 2006.
3. General Rules about the abstracts: Please read these instructions carefully. Do not include figures, tables or mathematical equations in the abstract. The abstract should not exceed 1,876 characters, which includes title and author information. Avoid acronyms. If you use references, provide the journal, volume, year and page numbers. Spell out abbreviations (including OR or RR) the first time you use them. If you calculate confidence intervals, specify whether they are 90%, 95%, etc. Choose a primary and up to two secondary topic areas from the list below.
4. Presentation of specific data and methodologic details assist reviewers in judging the quality of the research. New findings are of greater interest than confirmation of known relations. Clarity and brevity of writing will allow evaluation of the importance of the research. Abstracts are scored by two reviewers. An overall acceptance proportion is applied to each subject area. The allocation of papers therefore represents the number of abstracts submitted for the subject areas.

All Abstracts must be received in final form no later than February 3, 2006.

Topic Areas

• Aging
• Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease
• Co-morbidities, somatic syndromes
• Diabetes
• Diagnostic conundrums and changing epidemiologic patterns
• Environmental epidemiology
• Epidemiologic methods
• Epidemiologic training
• Epidemiology influencing policy
• Ethics
• Evolving “new” epidemics
• Evolving limitations in standardized surveys
• Exposure assessment
• Genetic epidemiology
• Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics
• Geographic Information Systems
• Health disparities
• Infectious Disease Modeling
• Injuries
• Integrating epidemiology into prevention efforts
• Intermediate outcomes as proxies?
• International health
• Mind-body connection
• New methods for monitoring population health
• Neurologic/Neurodegenerative
• North American-Developing country collaborations
• Occupational epidemiology
• Pediatric Health
• Perinatal outcomes
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Physical activity, nutrition and obesity
• Policies affecting epidemiologic practice
• Practice of epidemiology
• Problems in control selection
• Psychiatric epidemiology
• Reproductive epidemiology
• Social Epidemiology
• Spatial Epidemiology
• Statistical techniques for data mining
• Using qualitative methods to supplement epidemiologic research
• Vaccines and Global Health
• Violence and health
• Women’s health

More Submission Information Online

Co-Sponsors:

• American Academy of Pediatrics - Epidemiology Section
• Statistics in Epidemiology: American Statistical Association Statistics
• Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• International Epidemiology Association
• International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
• International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
• Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology
• Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues
• Western North American Region of the International Biometrics Association

Supporters:

• American College of Preventive Medicine
• American Diabetes Association - Council of Epidemiology & Statistics
• American Epidemiology Society
• International Genetic Epidemiology Society

February 3, 2006: Health Research

3rd Canadian Joint Therapeutics Congress - "Therapeutics Evolving: Bringing the Science of Innovative Treatments into our Everyday World"

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstract deadline: 3 February 2006
Dates: 10-13 May 2006

Hilton Toronto
145 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario
May 10-13, 2006

The Therapeutics Congress is a meeting representing three groups: Canadian Society of Clinical Pharmacology (CSCP), Canadian College of Clinical Pharmacy (CCCP), and the Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics (CAPT). Therapeutics research is the common denominator for the three groups, from basic science to bedside medicine and beyond. Congress registrants will have access to all scientific programs presented by all participating societies.

This call is for abstracts to be presented by all participating societies. Abstracts will be processed for submission in one central location and will be reviewed for scientific merit and acceptance by the scientific program committee of the society where the abstract has been submitted.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is midnight February 3, 2006

All abstracts should be submitted using the website submission process. Please submit your abstract ON-LINE. To submit your abstract please go to http://www.capt-actp.com/, http://www.cccp.ca/ or http://www.cscp.net/ and follow the links. Conference registration forms will be available at a later date.

You will receive confirmation of your submission via email and be notified by March 10, 2006 regarding your abstract acceptance.

All abstracts accepted for presentation will be published in the Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Abstracts from the 2005 Congress are available for viewing in the Volume 12 (1) Summer 2005 edition of the Journal.

February 3, 2006: Health Care

February

Health Policy Statistics Section at Joint Statistical Meetings 2006

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Conference Dates: 6-10 August 2006
Abstract Deadline: 1 February 2006 (online) or 15 January 2006 (non-electronic submission)

We are pleased to bring to your attention several Health Policy Statistics Section activities related to the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle.

1. Student travel award competition.
2. Roundtable luncheon proposals invited
3. Contributed paper submissions: time to get them in!
4. Topic contributed sessions

Information about these is included below. Questions should be directed to either the Program Chair or Program Chair-Elect as indicated for each item. For JSM 2006 these are:

Program Chair: Chris Schmid, cschmid@tufts-nemc.org
Program Chair-Elect: Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, bonnieg@rand.org

• Student Travel Award Competition
  We welcome submissions for the Health Policy Statistics Section student awards competition. Current students, or those who completed their degrees within the past year, are eligible to apply for up to $800 US to be applied toward expenses to attend the 2006 JSM. Details of the competition appear online

  This is an excellent opportunity for students to present their work and begin to launch their professional careers, and we have received submissions of very high quality. If you are in a teaching or mentoring situation, please bring this to the attention of your students and encourage them to apply. The deadline for applications is December 23, 2005. For further information contact the Program Chair-Elect to whom applications should be submitted.

• Roundtable Luncheon Proposals
  Roundtable luncheons provide a nice opportunity for informal discussion of a topic in health policy statistics with a maximum of 10 participants, including the discussion leader. They do NOT count against your limit of one presentation, so you can lead a Roundtable and also do a regular session presentation. The leader’s lunch is paid for by the Section.

  Do you have an idea for a Roundtable you’d like to attend, or might you be a discussion leader for a Roundtable, or you would like to suggest someone to serve as a discussion leader? Please send a title or brief statement of the topic for the Roundtable, and also the name of the suggested leader if it is not yourself, to the Program Chair-Elect. Roundtables need to be vetted by the program chair-elect and must be submitted on the same schedule as other contributed sessions, February 1 deadline.

• Coffee Roundtable Proposals
  For JSM 2006, ASA is also trying out some coffee roundtables in the morning before the 8:30 session. The purpose of these roundtables is to enable exhanges outside of the luncheon setting which is impractical for some attendees. As for the luncheon roundtables, ideas should be directed to the Program Chair-Elect.

• Topic Contributed Sessions
  “Topic Contributed Sessions” provide a vehicle for bringing together related papers into sessions organized around a theme. Topic Contributed Sessions offer participants a number of advantages over Regular Contributed Sessions, including better grouping of related papers, an extra 5 minutes for each presentation, the potential availability of a discussant, and time for floor discussion. A Topic Contributed Session includes five presentations of 20 minutes each, with 10 minutes reserved for floor discussion and concluding remarks by the chair. Another variant on the Topic Contributed Session is the Topic Contributed Panel, which has three to five panelists providing commentary on a topic.

  Now is the time to be pulling together your ideas for topic contributed sessions and panels. These sessions need to be fully organized by mid-January at the latest, so that the authors can submit their abstracts and registration fees to ASA by the February 1 online deadline (Deadline is January 15 if not submitting electronically). The ASA website is open as of December 1 for submissions. Note that you must register for the meeting at the time you submit an abstract, and you may only make one oral presentation (as speaker, discussant, or panelist) at the meeting (with some very particular exceptions). For a Topic Contributed Session, each author must submit their abstract by the deadline. Topic Contributed Panels require only one abstract, which is submitted—with a registration fee—by the organizer. If you think that you might like to organize a contributed session for our section, or you have some topics that you would like to suggest, please contact the Program Chair.

• Contributed Paper Submissions
  The ASA office will start accepting JSM 2006 abstracts for contributed papers on-line on their website on December 1. Note that you must register for the meeting at the time you submit an abstract, and you may only make one oral presentation (as speaker, discussant, or panelist) at the meeting (with some very particular exceptions). The deadline for submission is February 1, 2005 (January 15 if non-electronic), you can go online to JSM 2006 for information about submission

  If your topic is related to health policy statistics, it is to your benefit to specify HPSS as your sponsoring section by selecting it on the submission form. This will improve the chances that it finds a “good home” with related papers.

If you give me information in advance, I may be able to organize your paper in advance of submission into a Topic Contributed Session as described above. This has the advantage of placing your work in the same session as others with a similar focus and can bring you a more targeted (as well as bigger) audience. If you are interested, please send your paper title with a one or two sentence description as soon as you can. The lead time may even allow me to solicit additional papers to fill out a session.

Chris Schmid
Program Chair 2006, Health Policy Statistics
Associate Professor, Tufts University
Senior Statistician
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
Tufts-New England Medical Center

Phone: 617-636-5179
Fax: 617-636-5560
Email: cschmid@tufts-nemc.org

February 1, 2006: Health Research