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Cases Over Cocktails Case Submissions

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This is your opportunity to stimulate meaningful discussion with your colleagues attending the 21st Annual Scientific Sessions at the 2010 SVM Annual Meeting in Cleveland. SVM is looking for two or three challenging cases to be presented and discussed during Cases Over Cocktails, Thursday, April 29, 2010. Submit your most challenging case using the outline below. A panel of SVM Fellows will select the most interesting cases for discussion.

If selected, you will be asked to make a brief presentation of the case to the audience. An esteemed panel will then lead the audience in a rousing discussion that promises to be a highlight of the Scientific Sessions. You will also be required to submit your case for publication on the SVM Web site's Interactive Case Studies.

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, April 29, 2010.
• Case Title: Capitalize all words that should be capitalized and do not use non-standard abbreviations. Commercial names may not be used. Limit titles to 250 characters.
• Case submissions are limited to 1,750 characters (including spaces).
• Cases should describe a challenging case highlighting these main areas:
  1. Primary Teaching Points
  2. History of Present Illness
  3. Clinical Examination
  4. Laboratory and Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Evaluation
  5. Angiographic Studies
  6. Treatment Plan and Follow-up
  7. Outcome
• Standard abbreviations may be used without definition. Nonstandard abbreviations must be placed in parentheses after the first use.
• Do not use commercial names or product names. No products, pharmacologic or device-based, are to serve as the focus of case discussion.
• Do not include references, credits, or grant support.
• Tables and graphs/images are permitted.
  

Presentation

• Ten minute oral presentation
• Ten minute question and answer discussion
• Use no more than 8 to 12 slides for your presentation

Presenter and Co-authors

• One presenting author and no limit on co-authors.
• Each author must supply their first name, last name and middle initial if desired, degree, institution, address, city, state, country, zip, work phone, and e-mail.
• Correspondence will be sent to the presenting author only.

Commercial Disclosure
The presenter 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: April 28, 2009 - April 27, 2010. 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.

Selection Criteria
Case submissions are scored by the committee on a scale of 1 to 5 as follows:

1 = Outstanding
2 = Superior
3 = Good
4 = Fair
5 = Poor

Updated December 30, 2009