Cases Over Cocktails/Cases on the Web Submission

Deadline: March 1, 2012

SVM is looking for challenging cases to be presented during Cases Over Cocktails at the 2012 SVM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. A panel of SVM Fellows will select the most interesting cases for discussion. Presenters of cases selected for presentation during Cases Over Cocktails will receive a complimentary registration to the 2012 Scientific Sessions (a $350 value).

If selected, you will be asked to make a brief presentation of the case. An esteemed panel will then lead the audience in a rousing discussion that promises to be a highlight of the Scientific Sessions.

Download the submission form

NEW to the program: Share your case with colleagues across the United States and the world! Your case may appear as an interactive case on the SVM Website.

Important Dates

To be considered for Cases Over Cocktails, you must complete the entire submission form and attach appropriate information. Please note that if you are submitting your case for publication in a Medline journal following the SVM Annual Meeting, SVM will not publish your case on the website for six months following the meeting (December 31, 2012). There is a box to check on the form notifying SVM of your intent to publish.

Cases should be submitted no later than March 1, 2012, by e-mail, fax or postal mail to:

111 Deer Lake Rd., Suite 100
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
Phone: 847/480-2961 / Fax: 847/480-9282
info@vascularmed.org

Submission Requirements

• There is no fee for submitting a case.
• If your case has been presented or accepted for presentation at another national meeting or world congress, it should not be submitted to SVM.
• Submission of a case constitutes a commitment by the author(s) to register for the meeting and present the case if accepted. Failure to present and register for the meeting, if not justified, will jeopardize future acceptance of cases.
• There is no limit to the number of cases you may submit. However, cases that appear to be replicate versions of a single case will be rejected.
• Membership in SVM is not a requirement to participate.
• Cases selected for presentation will be scheduled for discussion during Cases Over Cocktails, on Thursday, June 14, 2012.
• Standard abbreviations may be used without definition. Nonstandard abbreviations must be placed in parentheses after the first use.
• No products, pharmacologic or device-based, are to serve as the focus of case discussion.
• Include references, credits, and/or grant support.
• Tables and graphs/images are permitted.

Presentation

• Ten minute oral presentation
  • Introduction
  • Primary teaching points
  • History of present illness
  • Clinical examination
  • Laboratory and noninvasive vascular diagnostic evaluation
  • Angiographic studies
  • Treatment plan and follow-up
  • Outcome
• Ten minute question and answer discussion
• Use no more than 8 to 12 slides for your presentation

Presenter and Co-authors

• For the annual meeting presentation, there should be one presenting author; there is no limit on co-authors.
• Correspondence will be sent to the presenting author only.

Commercial Disclosure

Presenters will be asked to disclose any financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any commercial organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of their presentation subject matter. Commercial relationships which occurred within the 12 months prior to the date of the meeting must be disclosed: June 14, 2012. These are typically relationships such as grants, speaker's bureau, major stockholder or other company ownership, etc. Funding from government and nonprofit sources do not need to be disclosed. Disclosure information will be published in the final program.

View Guidelines for Written Case     |     Download the submission form

Updated January 25, 2012