Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2022 (11:59 pm midnight EST)
Submit your Abstract online here
Abstract Category Choices:
Clinical Research
Basic Science
Translational Research
The ANMS is pleased to announce a unique education/mentoring program, the ANMS Young Investigator Forum on August 4-7, 2022 held simultaneously with the ANMS Clinical Course. The recipients will be chosen from a competitive abstract submission process and 15 young investigators whose scientific work will have been judged as one of the highest scoring abstracts submitted will be invited to attend the ANMS Young Investigator Forum and to also participate in the Clinical Course. The YIF program will begin Thursday, August 4 at 6:00 pm and end on Friday, August 5 at 5:30 pm.
You are expected to participate in the reception Friday evening and the Clinical Course that will end at noon on Sunday, August 7.
Awardees will receive complimentary registration, up to two nights lodging and a travel award, and have a unique opportunity to interact with world renowned faculty, and participate in a one-on-one mentoring program over 1.5 days.
To allow an opportunity for all eligible candidates to participate, if you have participated in a YIF program in the past, you are not eligible for future programs.
Eligibility: Current gastroenterology fellows, medical and PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, or junior faculty (less than 2 years on faculty at the time of the meeting and in an early stage of an independent career) in both basic science and clinical investigation). The award criteria are based on career status and the scientific quality of the abstract. Each abstract will be reviewed and scored by reviewers and the awards based on the highest scoring abstract. Submission materials: 1) Curriculum vitae; 2) Scientific abstract – The abstract submission can be a new abstract or one previously submitted to another scientific meeting, and should be 2700 or fewer characters. Email CV to Lori.Ennis@motilitysociety.org once you have submitted your abstract.
A Grant proposal is required if abstract is accepted 6 weeks prior to the meeting date. A 2-5 page NIH grant proposal or Research Aims and hypothesis). This will be used for the purposes of discussion and faculty input during the small group breakout session on grant writing skills.
We will notify you if you have been selected so that you can at that time, forward your grant proposal to Lori.Ennis @motilitysociety.org.
All participants are encouraged to bring academic-related questions on topics to be discussed and other pertinent issues.
The Forum’s objectives are:
We hope you will consider attending the meeting and look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia and sharing in this exciting meeting.