NHF's 55th Annual Meeting

NHF’s 55th Annual Meeting
Call for Abstracts for the Posters Session

This meeting will be held at the Grand America/Little America Hotels, Salt Lake City, Utah November 6-8, 2003.
We are pleased to announce that the World Federation of Hemophilia has graciously offered to publish a number of our highest-rated abstracts in a future issue of Haemophilia. This will provide a wider exposure in a citable journal for some abstracts presented at NHF. Haemophilia required a completed and signed copyright forms from each of the authors or lead authors. The copyright forms can be downloaded at Hemophilia.com. Otherwise your abstract cannot be submitted to Haemophilia for review or publication.
For the first time submission of Poster abstract will be online. The online abstract submission provides an electronic review system, so reviewers can start and finish later as well. It will let you know where you left off. It allows for several authors, and the presenting author can be designated. It will also alert the submitter or reviewer of incomplete submissions/reviews via email as deadlines approach. Please click here to access the abstract submission site.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2003.

Please consider submitting your work as an abstract, as we believe this year’s NHF Annual Meeting will be a very exciting and informative one! It should also be noted that abstracts from among those accepted will be published in HemAware Poster Abstracts booklet distributed at the annual meeting.
As in the past years Authors of poster abstracts accepted from the annual meeting will be expected to discuss their abstracts.
If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to call Sonia Roger, at extension 3724.

NHF Poster Abstract
CATEGORIES (Check 1 box only)
INSTRUCTIONS for submitting abstracts:

1.	Please follow the submission steps, and be sure to check appropriate box for the subject area of the abstract.
2.	The abstract should be as thorough as possible, including: a) specific objective of the study b) methods used, if pertinent c) summary of results obtained d) conclusions reached (It is not sufficient to state: “results will be forthcoming.”)
3.	Include all authors and their affiliations. Indicate presenting author’s name by underlining. The abstract most be sign by the author. If the abstract is not sign it will not be review.
4.	Type carefully—single space, with an extra space between the authors/affiliations section and the text.
5.	Abstracts must fall into one of the following categories: Adolescent w/ Bleeding Disorders Collaboration/Team Models Law/Ethics/Policy Clinical Research Parent/Newly Diagnosed Outreach/Integration Psychosocial Issues in Hemophilia Women’s Issues Financial Issues/Reimbursement Peer Support Models

Abstract Selection Policy:
The listing of professional affiliations and any other pertinent affiliation is necessary for the review process because any one of the review committee members will not review abstracts from his/her own institution.