The ISAM 2010 LOC is committed to ensuring the integrity of its scientific, educational, and research programs and offering the best continuing medical education in addiction medicine. Disclosure of conflicts of interest helps maintain the integrity of the information presented at the 2010 ISAM meeting. To help support this effort, LOC requires that all meeting presenters honour the ISAM 2010 Conflict-of-Interest Policy. This policy requires disclosure of any financial or other interest that might be construed as resulting in an actual, potential, or apparent conflict.
Additionally, ISAM 2010 abides by rules formulated by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Italian Ministry of Health, which require presenters to disclose possible conflicts both verbally and in writing. As a presenter, this means you must disclose any relevant financial relationships you or your spouse/partner has had within the past 12 months. For this purpose, "relevant financial relationships" are those from which you or your spouse/partner have received or may receive financial benefit and which are related to annual meeting CME content. Such relationships can include such things as grant/research support, employment, consulting and/or speakers’ bureau arrangements, major stock ownership, etc. within the past 12 months.
To ensure full disclosure and proper preparation of your presentation, please review the following information according to your presentation format (PowerPoint or Poster).
a. PowerPoint Presentations
ISAM 2010 rules session chairs and speakers to include conflict-of-interest disclosure slides in their presentations and inform audiences of any conflicts verbally. In addition, ISAM 2010 requires its faculty to disclose to the audience any discussion of off-label use of a drug or medical device in their presentation. This promotes transparency and understanding in practice. If these requirements are not met, the presentation may be stricken from the program.
When preparing your PowerPoint presentation, be sure to include a disclosure slide as the first slide in your presentation. Two slide templates are downloadable from the Conference website. One (disclosure template) for presenters with financial disclosure, the other (no disclosure template) for presenters with nothing to disclose. Please make sure to use one of these templates as the first slide in your presentation.
b. Poster Presentations
First authors must list conflicts of interest for themselves and all co-authors at the bottom right corner of the poster.
EACCME Guidelines require the first slide to be the disclosure slide. If you did not receive the disclosure slide templates, please contact Francesco Bartoli in the ISAM 2010 LOC office at scientificisam2010@unimib.it
Company or University logos are not permitted on any slides.
Please note that the congress computers in the session halls are being supplied with Windows XP and Office 2007.
Important note for Macintosh users:
In order to use MAC presentations on a PC compatible computer please note that you need to prepare it according to the instructions below, before bringing it to the Speakers' Ready Room:
- Use a common font, such as Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana etc. (special fonts might be changed to a default font on a PowerPoint based PC).
- Insert pictures as JPG files, 72/150 dpi (and not TIF, PNG or PICT - these images will not be visible on a PowerPoint based PC).
- Use a common movie format, such as AVI, MPG and WMV (MOV files from QuickTime will not be visible on a PowerPoint based PC).
Please note that VHS Video projection, 35 mmÕ slide projection and overhead projection (projection of transparencies) will not be available.
- Please prepare your poster on one sheet of cardboard. Presenters cannot display their material on several smaller sheets.
- Poster panels are 1 .0m wide by 1.65m tall.
- Recommended poster size is .70m wide by 1.0m tall.
- The dimensions of the poster should not exceed .90 m wide by 1.20m high.
- Posters will be secured to panels with double adhesive tape. Presenters have to bring double-sided adhesive.
- Tacks or pins are not permitted.
- Allocate the top of the poster for the title and authors as stated on the submitted abstract.
- The text, illustrations, etc. should be bold enough to be read from a distance of two meters (six feet).
- Symposium sessions will be scheduled with the assumption that all speakers agree to be available on all days of the Congress.
- Clarity of slides is vital for a successful scientific presentation.
- All the chairs and speakers are requested to keep to the time previously allotted for each.
- Audiovisual equipment available for every symposium: laptop, LCD projector, and microphone.
- If using a PowerPoint (or any other computer) presentation, please note you need to bring it on a CD, a DVD or on a "disk on key" Memory stick (using the USB port in the computer) and load it on one of the congress computers in the Speakers' Ready Room, at least 1 hour before the start of the session. You cannot supply your own laptop computer as a back-up.
- Animation and sound functions will be available. If your presentation data is in PC media, please make sure that the data is compatible with Media Players for Windows. If combining video films with PowerPoint, please make sure to check it in the session hall where your lecture is taking place during a coffee or lunch break prior to your session, at least 30 minutes before the start of the session - even after checking it in the Speakers' Ready Room.
- Please use the mouse and keyboard on the podium for your presentation. You are required to handle your data yourself, using the mouse and keyboard connected to the PC.
- Posters will be on display in one shift.
- Each poster presenter is requested to stand by his/her poster for informal discussion during the afternoon coffee break on the poster session day of presentation as well as during the proper poster session.
- Your poster presentation title, as well as name of the presenting author, will be posted on your assigned board and the poster can be attached to the board.
- Your poster may be mounted from the start of sessions on the day of your presentation and must be removed at the conclusion of sessions the same day. The congress organizers will not be responsible for posters that are not removed by the end of presentation day.
