CONFERENCE DATES: 3 - 8 NOV 2019 // Chicago, IL USA

TO BEGIN YOUR SUBMISSION:

DID YOU PRESENT AT THE 2018 ACRM CONFERENCE? IF YES: Use your speaker portal login information as your username and password. If you don’t remember your login, please select the "Lost Your Access Key" button to be emailed your username and access key.

IF NO: If you did not present or submit for the 2018 Annual Conference System, please select the 'Join Now' button below to create your profile.

SUBMISSION TYPES:

Instructional Course: The purpose of an instructional course is to provide Training/instruction in new knowledge/skills (attendees will develop new competencies that can be applied in practice or research).

Symposium: In-depth information communication/knowledge translation (course is intended primarily to impart information).

Intensive Cross Cutting Symposium, Lightning Round or Poster Session: Cross-cutting integrated presentations with the objective of aligning a variety of disciplines across a common theme or topic.

Topics for 2019 are:

• Caregiving for Individuals with Chronic Illness or Injury
• Approaches to Sensory Motor Recovery and Function
• Changing the narrative to hope: Maximizing brain health, function and participation following Brain Injury

Scientific Poster and Papers : A scientific paper is a moderated oral presentation of 17 minutes including questions and discussion. Posters are graphic presentations of a scientific paper. Submissions must include objectives, hypotheses, methodology, and results in the abstract.

Launchpad : A Rehabilitation Technology Innovation Competition. An annual competition created to highlight innovative rehabilitation technologies developed by non-profit research and engineering labs and startup companies.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Late Breaking Research Posters: 18 June 2019 EXTENDED: 6 August 2019

Instructional Courses: 7 December 2018 EXTENDED: 15 January 2019

Symposia: 13 December 2018 EXTENDED: 13 February 2019

Intensive Cross Cutting Symposium, Lightning Round or Poster*: 13 December 2018 EXTENDED: 13 February 2019

Scientific Poster and Papers: 12 March 2019 EXTENDED: 9 April 2019

LaunchPad: 14 March 2019/p>

*Intensive Cross Cutting Lightning Round and Poster submissions will follow the same deadline dates as Intensive Cross Cutting Symposium submissions.

Please visits https://ACRM.org/call for more information.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL PRESENTERS

The following information is required for each presenter named in the proposal you wish to submit.

• Full Name
• Professional Address
• Email Address
• Credentials/Degree
• Highest Degree Earned
• Biographical Sketch
• CV*
• Presenter/Author Disclosures*

*CV and Disclosures not required for Scientific Papers and Posters

Please see submission details in the Abstract Proposal Worksheet

Please note that if your submission is accepted for the 2019 Annual Conference, each presenter will be required to register for the conference and pay the special ACRM presenter rate.

If you have problems submitting your proposal or making the deadline, please contact Maegan Criscione at meetings@acrm.org or +1.703.435.5335