Congratulations on being invited to present your research at the 2025 Scientific Symposium. In order to help with your preparation, we have provided details about the event below.
Event Details
- Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
- Time: 8:00 AM – 11:45 AM
- Hotel: Loews Coronado
- Room: Commodore AB
- Audience: 300 – 350 Eye Bankers and Ophthalmologists
Equipment and Room Set-up:
- PC
- Slide Changer with Pointer
- Confidence Monitor (Notes will not be shown)
- Two Presentation Screens
- Podium with Microphone
- Timer (7 minutes for presentation, 2 minutes for Q&A)
- Moderators Seated on Stage at Table
Presentation Information:
- Registration: Speakers must be registered for the event. To register for the 2025 EBAA Annual Meeting, click here.
- 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
- Presentation Deadline: Presentations are due Tuesday, June 10. (Dropbox invitations will be sent to each speaker for upload)
- Slide Format:
- Slides must be formatted for 16:9 (wide screen). EBAA PowerPoint Template
- Videos can be used. Please let us know if you will be including a video.
- Presentation notes will not be visible.
- Timing:
- Abstract speakers will be given 7 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for Q&A. Note the presentation must take place within the time allotted for presentation and the 2 minutes is reserved only for questions.
- During the Q&A session for the speaker before you, please make your way to the front of the room on the side, so that you are ready to take the stage.
- 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, eye bankers, and individuals in a corneal fellowship are eligible for the Best Paper of Session Award, The award will be announced during the end of the session, if you are eligible for the award, please be sure to be in the meeting room toward the front of the room at that time. The recipient of the award will receive a plaque as well as a monetary award; the engraved plaque will be sent following the program.
Guidelines
In order to comply with CME Guidelines, please follow the presentation guidelines below:
- Each presenter, author, and co-author must complete the Financial Interest Disclosure Form.
- 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.
If you have any questions about this information, please contact Stacey Gardner.
