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Disability Health Symposium — February 27-28, 2025
Location: Regions Field, 1401 1st Ave S, Birmingham AL 35233
Presented by: The Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS) and the National Center on Health, Physical Activity & Disability (NCHPAD).
We are excited to invite you to the second-annual CEDHARS symposium to be co-hosted with the National Center on Health, Physical Activity & Disability (NCHPAD). The “Disability Health Symposium” will feature speakers, posters and discussions on the forefront of how inclusion science feeds into programs and back into research.
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Poster and Flash Talk Abstract Submission
Deadline to submit competitive abstracts - January 3rd
Call for Abstracts - Competitive
Who can submit?
- Students and trainees from any institution are welcome to submit abstracts for poster presentation and oral presentation competition on basic, clinical, translational, and population science that are broadly related to disability health and rehabilitation science.
Poster Presentation competition:
- Abstracts selected for poster presentation competition to be held on February 27th will be announced the last week of January
Oral Presentation competition:
- A few abstracts will be selected for a flash talk competition. Selection announcements will be emailed during the last week of January. Abstracts will be reviewed and selected by faculty judges.
- Special consideration will be given to research focusing on 1) health management/secondary health conditions in disability, 2) telehealth and telerehabilitation, and 3) disability research dissemination and implementation.
- Principal authors of abstracts selected for oral presentation can also participate in the poster competition.
Awards:
- Principal authors of the winning posters and oral presentations (as determined by faculty judges) will each receive a travel award. Students and trainees from any institution are eligible for cash prizes.
Abstract Guidelines:
- Limit of 350 words in the abstract body, excluding title and authors. The abstract body should be formatted with the following headings: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Future Directions, and Acknowledgments. Use Arial, 11-point font, left justified, single line spacing, with 1-inch margins. Any embedded figures or tables must use no less than 9-point font.
- The title is limited to two lines of bold, Arial 11-point font. Immediately below the title, list all authors and their affiliations. The presenter must be the first author, and the author’s position should be listed above the abstract body.
- Please save the abstract file name in the following format before uploading to the submission form: Primary author's full name - "Abstract title" - 2025 Disability Health Symposium
Call for Abstracts - Non-competitive
Deadline to submit non-competitive abstracts - February 14th
Who can submit?
- Faculty and staff members from any institution and corporate organization representatives who wish to present their research to the symposium attendees are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations on basic, clinical, translational, and population science that are broadly related to disability health and rehabilitation science.
Abstract Guidelines:
- Limit of 350 words in the abstract body, excluding title and authors. The abstract body should be formatted with the following headings: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Future Directions, and Acknowledgments.
- Please use Arial, 11-point font, left justified, single line spacing, with 1-inch margins. Any embedded figures or tables must use no less than 9-point font.
- The title is limited to two lines of bold, Arial 11-point font. Immediately below the title, list all authors and their affiliations. The presenter must be the first author, and the author’s position should be listed above the abstract body.
- Please save the abstract file name in the following format before uploading to the submission form: Primary author's full name - "Abstract title" - 2025 Disability Health Symposium.