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ESA Newsletter: April 2003

Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne

This year's program has an exciting line-up of plenary speakers. The Harrison Lecturer is Derek LeRoith (USA), the Taft Lecturer is Terry Davies (USA), the Japan-Australia lecturer is Hitoshi Okamura and our other plenary lecturer is Christina Mitchell (Australia). Symposium topics include 'Update on Bone', 'Insulin/IGF signalling', 'Reproduction and Cancer', 'Endocrinology of Ageing' and 'Neuroendocrinology of Obesity'. Joint sessions are planned with SRB, ADS and APEG. Unopposed poster sessions were a big success last year and will be continued at this year's meeting.

Further highlights of this year' s meeting will be our joint sessions with other societies. The SRB Founder' s lecturer is Tom Fleming (UK), and we are sharing plenary lectures by Gordon Cutler (USA) with APEG and by Alan Saltiel (USA) with ADS. Additionally, Andrology Australia is sponsoring Fred Wu (USA) to participate in the symposium on 'Endocrinology of Ageing' and the Neuroendocrinology Interest Group is sponsoring Denis Baskin (USA) to participate in the 'Neuroendocrinology of Obesity' symposium.

Details of the program will appear shortly at the conference website:
http://www.esa-srb.org.au.

Call for abstracts

The abstract deadline is noon, Monday 12 May 2003. There will be no hardcopy submissions and abstracts can only be submitted by email. As well as the instructions below, the conference website has details for abstract submission, including a checklist that must be completed.

Presentation Types

Submissions will be accepted for two types of presentation: oral and poster. Although authors may indicate their preference for type of presentation, the final acceptance with regard to presentation type will be at the discretion of the ESA Program Organising Committee.
Specifically for Clinicians - Some oral and poster sessions will be devoted specifically to clinical endocrinology. Therefore clinical members are invited to submit cases for the Clinical Case Review Session (a very successful session in the past) as well as abstracts for the scientific sessions. Clinical Case Reviews can be of great value to the clinician and scientist especially if presented well and more time will be allocated to this session, as it has been so well attended in the past. Please avoid abbreviations for clinical tests, diseases, etc. Above all make sure that you actually say what has been discovered or learnt from the cases. These reports will also be refereed. Please contact the Chairman, POC, A/Prof Leon Bach for further information.

Naming your file
Use the following convention "ABSTRACT - ESA03 - Surname of first Author", for example "ABSTRACT - ESA03- Bach".

Submitting your abstract
Once the POC receives the Abstract you will receive a Confirmation that it was received. You must also complete the electronic checklist.

Acceptance of papers for presentation
A subcommittee of the Endocrine Society of Australia will independently review all abstracts. Scientific abstracts should therefore have brief aim, methods, results, discussion and conclusions. There should be sufficient information for referees to evaluate the material as sufficiently sound. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Meeting Abstract Book, in the form submitted by the author.

2003 Novartis Junior Scientist Award
The Novartis Junior Scientist Award is given for the best presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting by an advanced trainee or by a person enrolled for a higher degree (PhD, MD, FRACP). Nominees must be members of the Endocrine Society of Australia. Applicants will be judged initially on the basis of their submitted abstract and a short list of applicants will be chosen to present in a special session. Applicants will be informed of the session in which they are to present when acceptances of Abstracts are sent out. In addition to submitting their abstract to the above address (esa-srb@asnevents.net.au), applicants should email their abstract, a brief CV and a supporting letter from their supervisor as attachments to A/Prof Leon Bach, Chair, POC at l.bach@unimelb.edu.au

Please type 'Novartis award application' in the subject line. Additionally, a hard-copy declaration that the work is the applicant's own must be signed by both the applicant and supervisor and sent to A/Prof Leon Bach, University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (Austin Repat Med Centre), Austin Campus, Studley Rd, Heidelberg, Vic, 3084. Applications must be received by the abstract deadline (Monday MAY 12).

2003 Servier Award
See the details given separately.

ESA Travel grants

Applications are called for travel grants to the ASM 2003. These grants are intended to assist junior members of the society to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting, and generally amount to an Apex Airfare from the applicant's City. An application form outlining the process of application and selection is included in the ESA newsletter, and may also be found at the ESA website (www.endocrinesociety.org.au). Five copies of the applications must reach the ESA Honorary Secretary, Endocrine Society of Australia, 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000, by mail (email applications will not be accepted) by 5:00 pm Monday 12th May.

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