2009 National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence

Submission Formats:
(please click on any of the links below to see descriptions)

** Scientific Reports and innovative programs/promising practice reports will be assigned a moderator to introduce the session and ensure time limits are followed. Speakers are strongly encouraged to contact and coordinate with other session presenters prior to the conference to avoid unnecessary redundancy.

Preference will be given to presenters who utilize effective adult education techniques such as, but not limited to, interactive (practical application, etc), debate (presentation/rebuttal), media, computer/on-line based tools, and discussion techniques where applicable.

All presentations involving drug names must utilize generic drug names.

Important Information for all Abstracts Submissions:

Abstracts that do not adhere to submission guidelines or do not relate to conference goals will not be accepted for review.

Abstracts will be peer reviewed and scored based on:

Relevance to the goal of conference (see Conference Goal for full description); Specifically, does the abstract:
- explore the long term health impacts, co-occurring issues, and responses related to survivors, children, perpetrators, and communities affected by domestic violence; and/or
- describe new research on physical and mental health findings; and/or
- highlight innovative research, practices, programs, or partnerships among advocates and health professionals that improve patient safety and health status of survivors or their children; and/or
- emphasize prevention and intervention strategies relevant to diverse populations?
Clarity: Is the submission well organized and clearly written.
Specific objectives, content and appropriate learning methodologies that address the educational needs of participants.
Depending on submission type:
- For Scientific Reports: Content that is scientifically based, accurate, current and objective.
- For Innovative Programs/Promising Practice Reports: Content about a program that is evaluated and/or innovative and that presents a new or effective strategy to improve the health care response.
- For Skills-building Workshops: Ability to increase specific practical skills of participants.
- For Symposium: a submission and topic that lends itself to an in-depth and interactive presentation with discussion.
Special consideration will be given to abstracts that address diverse or marginalized populations.
Evaluated/effective/outcome-based research.
Final selection will also consider subject area, presenter, and participant balance.

Abstracts submitted to other meetings may also be submitted for consideration at this meeting. (Presenters are responsible for adhering to the submission exclusivity/primacy guidelines of those meetings.)

One presenter for each submitted abstract will receive discounted registration to the conference. (Participants will pay additional registration fees to attend pre-conference institutes.) A very small number of additional stipends to partially defer travel and hotel expenses will be available to presenters on a need basis.

All presenters are required to submit a short biography (100 words maximum), and a short description of their presentation for the program book (80 words maximum), as well as required conflict of interest disclosure form. Presenters who do not submit these documents will not be included in the conference program.

Proposals should be submitted using the online abstract submission process by clicking on the appropriate link below.

The deadline to submit all proposals is Friday, February 20, 2009 at 5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST).

For those who do not have internet access, proposals may be sent by mail, once confirmed. Please contact Vedalyn DeGuzman (see information below) for the submission format and other questions. If you are given permission to submit manually, abstracts should be typed on 8 ½ x 11- inch paper, with one-inch margins (top, bottom, and sides). Type should be 11 point or larger. All submissions by mail must also include abstracts on a CD saved as a word file. For submissions by mail, please submit the original and one copy of entire submission, the submission on CD and a self addressed stamped postcard for acknowledgement of receipt to:

Vedalyn DeGuzman
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence
Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
Phone: (415) 252-8900, x15

Requests for further information regarding abstract submissions should be directed to Vedalyn by mail, by fax to (415) 252-8991, or email: vedalyn@endabuse.org.

No abstract materials will be returned to Presenters.

Ready to submit? Click on the appropriate hyperlink below:

Submissions Closed

Once you have submitted the title of your presentation you will automatically receive an email that includes a password-protected hyperlink. If you must interrupt the submission process before finishing it, you can resume at any time by clicking on the hyperlink in that email. For help in submitting an abstract online, e-mail technical support.

Abstract submissions and revisions are no longer being accepted. But you can still view your abstract. If you can find the confirming email mentioned above (from fvpf@confex.com) then you will have found a direct link to your submission. If you remember the abstract ID# and password, enter those codes below.

Scientific or Innovative Program/Promising Practice Programs:
Abstract ID# Password