Annual Scientific Meeting
January 20–22, 2012
Four Seasons Resort, The Biltmore
Santa Barbara, CA

Call for Abstracts

The Program Committee of the Southern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons, requests your participation in the 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting. You are invited to submit an abstract on the clinical or laboratory research project of your choice. Abstracts are only accepted via email -- no longer through the mail. Abstracts must conform to the Instructions for Preparation of Abstract, and may not have been submitted to a journal for publication, published previously, or presented at a national or regional meeting prior to the 2012 Chapter meeting. Accepted abstracts will be published in the program. If your abstract is selected for presentation in the General Session, you will be required to submit a manuscript for consideration of publication in The American Surgeon. All participants will be required to register for the meeting.*

ATTENTION RESIDENTS! A cash prize will be awarded for the best paper submitted by and presented by a resident. This must be indicated on the Abstract Form if the paper is to be considered for the Residents’ Research Award, and include a letter from the Program Director stating that the abstract is primarily the work of, and will be presented by, a resident.

The Program Committee looks forward to receiving your abstract by Friday,
September 16, 2011 via email only. No abstracts will be considered for plenary presentation after Sept. 16, 2011. No abstracts will be considered without submission of the Abstract Information Form. That form, along with abstract guidelines, are posted below. Please email an information form with each abstract submitted.

• Abstract Guidelines (PDF file)
• Abstract Information Form (Microsoft Word file) To be returned via email

Ali Salim, MD, FACS
Program Chair

*There will be no Registration Fee charged to Residents or Medical Students.