ACC's Cardiovascular Team Section Advocacy Committee, in collaboration with the ACC CV Administrators Work Group, is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Health Policy Poster Session, taking place at the 2019 ACC Legislative Conference, Nov. 3 – 5 in Washington, DC.

We invite policy-focused posters from all member groups within the ACC, including CV Team members across all disciplines (i.e. RNs, PAs, PharmDs, advanced practice nurses, technologists, etc.); CV Administrators; cardiovascular physicians across career stage and clinical area of expertise (i.e. FIT, Early Career, FACCs in ACPC, Heart Failure, Prevention, Interventional/SHD, Imaging, etc.); and nonclinical cardiovascular professionals.

The poster session will take place during the 11th Annual CV Team and CV Administrators Health Policy Pre-session on Sunday, Nov. 3 from noon – 4 p.m. ET.

Policy posters may include:

• Novel health policy initiatives at the institutional, local, state or federal level.
• Clinical or translational research, with a focus on policy implications related to clinical implementation considerations.
• Clinical, translational or pre-clinical research that is completed or in process, with a focus on policy implications related to the conduct of the research.

Abstract Requirements

Abstracts should be limited to 350 words and must include background, objectives, methods, results, policy implications and conclusions. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed for significance, impact and innovation, as well as implication for research, clinical practice and/or population health.

Submit your abstract by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 30. Acceptance notifications will be made by Friday, Sept. 20.

Presentations For Accepted Posters

All accepted posters will be displayed during the sessions, and the top two poster presenters will be invited to give a rapid-fire presentation. Rapid-fire presenters will have five minutes for their presentations – three minutes for a brief slide presentation and two minutes for questions from the audience.

All participants should be prepared to give a rapid-fire presentation as judging will take place during the session. Participants should bring their PowerPoint presentations on a thumb drive to the poster session.

Guidelines For Accepted Posters

We will be accepting up to 20 posters and they should be no larger than 4' x 4'. A regular poster size is about 3' x 4'. Posters must be placed in the Regency Ballroom C of the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill by 10 a.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 3.

You will be assigned a specific space when you arrive. Presentation walls and tacks will be available for you to hang your poster. Posters should be removed at the end of the day. Any remaining posters will be discarded.

Poster Judging

Posters will be judged during the lunch, prior to the pre-session – between 11:00 a.m. and noon ET, in two separate shifts (11 – 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. – noon p.m. ET) so that poster participants may break for lunch.

Their quality will be rated for criteria such as identification of a health policy issue; appropriateness of research design and of data analysis; interpretation of results; clarity of oral presentation; description of relevance of findings to public health; and overall presentation skills.

Rapid-fire poster presenters will be announced right before the question and answer part of the pre-session.