The details for presenting at the 2026 Cornea and Eye Banking Forum are provided below.
Presenter Agreements
If you have been selected to present an Oral Abstract Presentation or a Printed Poster, please complete the Presenter Agreement no later than August 28, 2026.
Event Details
- Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
- Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Location: Sheraton New Orleans
- Audience: 350-400 Ophthalmologists and Eye Bankers
Equipment and Room Set-up
- PC and Mac will be provided
- Slide Changer with Pointer
- Confidence Monitor (Speaker notes will not be visible)
- Two Presentation Screens
- Podium with Microphone
- Timer
- Co-Chairs Seated on Stage at Table
- Microphones in the audience for attendees to ask questions
Oral Presentation Information
- Presentation Deadline: Presentations are due Wednesday, September 23.
- Registration: Speakers must be registered for the event. To register for the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum, click here.
- Timing:
- Abstract speakers will be given 7 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for Q & A based on the instructions that were given.
- Case study presenters in Section IV will have 3 minutes to present their cases.
- Please make your way to the front of the room during Q&A session for the speaker before you, so that you are ready to take the stage.
- Slide Format: 16:9 aspect ratio (wide screen)
- Financial Interest Disclosure: All presenters and co-authors must complete the Financial Interest Disclosure Form. Presentations must include a slide about financial interests related to the presentation. There must not be any promotion of any products or services during the presentation.
- Preferred terminology:
- Recover/ recovered or procure/procured instead of harvest/ harvested
- Donor instead of cadaver (ocular donor or cornea donor also acceptable)
- Whole eye or eye instead of globe
- Note: All medical students, residents, and fellows are eligible for the Best Paper of Session Award. The award will be announced during Session IV, if you are a student, resident, or Cornea fellow who presented an abstract, please be sure to be in the meeting room during Session IV toward the front of the room. The recipient of the award will receive a plaque as well as a monetary award of $1500; the engraved plaque will be sent following the program.
Poster Presentation Information
- Each presenter is assigned one full side of a freestanding poster board measuring 4 feet high by 8 feet wide (48″ × 96″). You will not share the side with another presenter.
- You may choose any size and orientation that fits within that space. Common options that work well:
- Landscape: 48″ × 96″, 42″ × 90″, or 36″ × 72″
- Portrait: up to 48″ high; a 36″ × 48″ portrait poster fits comfortably with room to spare
- You are responsible for printing your poster and bringing it with you to New Orleans. EBAA does not provide printing services on site and cannot print or receive posters on your behalf. Mounting supplies will be provided by EBAA.
- Onsite Schedule
- Set-Up – 7:30 – 8:00 AM
- Display – 8:00 AM – 6:15 PM
- Required Presentation Attendance – 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM (Afternoon Break)
- Presenters must be standing with their poster during this window. This is the designated poster session and the time attendees are directed to the poster area. Being available during the morning break and reception is encouraged but not required.
- Tear Down – 6:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Any poster remaining after 6:30 PM will be discarded.
- Every poster must include the following required content:
- Title: exactly as it appeared on your accepted abstract. If your title has changed, notify Lindsey Sullivan at Lindsey@restoresight.org before printing.
- Authors: all authors listed in the order submitted, with degrees/credentials and affiliations.
- Financial Disclosure: Disclose any financial relationship — held by you or any co-author within the past 24 months — with a commercial entity whose products or services relate to the content of your poster.
- A digital copy of your poster must be submitted by September 23 for inclusion the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum mobile app.
Presenter Guidelines
In order to comply with CME Guidelines, please follow the presentation guidelines below:
- Presentations must include a slide about financial interests related to the presentation.
- Presentations must be free of commercial bias for or against any product.
- Presentations that include commercial products must present objective information about those products, based on scientific methods generally accepted in the medical community.
- The preponderance of slides included in the presentation should reflect original thoughts and organization of the speaker.
- It is the responsibility of the presenter to obtain written permission for print inclusion of material that is under copyright protection.
- Material presented from trial results must include information on study design, subject selection and participation/compliance, therapeutic agents administered including source/dosage, adverse effects encountered, funding source, etc.
- Must offer a balanced presentation of all available trial data that is pertinent to the topic.
- The preponderance of data presented from clinical trials should be from peer-reviewed publications.
- Presentation slides cannot include commercial company and product logos.
- Do not include identifiers for patients or donors.
- Each presenter, author, and co-author must complete the Financial Interest Disclosure Form.
