Promote Your Program Successes at The Forum 10 and Integrated Care Summit

Proposal Policies

Proposals appropriate for presentation at The Forum 10 and Integrated Care Summit must have the following characteristics.

• Proposals must be original, new and represent significant programming or innovations. They cannot be similar to work submitted to, or under consideration by, other organizations, conferences and journals.
• Proposals must share best practices and strategies that can be implemented by other companies; proprietary programs or products cannot be presented.
• Proposals must be free of commercial content or endorsement of a specific organization's particular product or services. Should a presentation be identified as being commercial, the presenter will not be invited back.
• Proposals cannot include more than one speaker per company, including employees of parent or subsidiary companies.
• For the Forum, proposals by health care companies must feature a co-presenter. Co-presenters bring unique perspectives to sessions and are industry experts, clients, government representatives or vendor partners. Proposals by health care companies without a co-presenter will not be considered.
• For the Integrated Care Summit, the primary presenter MUST be an employer/purchaser; proposals without an employer/purchaser will not be considered.
• All presenters must have obtained higher education credentials—master's and doctorate degrees preferred—and be clinically-, program- or researched-based (sales professionals cannot present).

Proposal Preparation

Proposals must include:

• A short title (containing no abbreviations) that indicates the nature of the presentation;
• A proposal summary, not exceeding 75 words, appropriate for inclusion in the onsite Program Guide (well-written summaries should review the session's learning objectives);
• A detailed proposal description, not exceeding 300 words;
• Disclosure of any prior presentation of the material submitted; and
• Three learning objectives. Objectives describe new skills or knowledge attendees acquire by attending the presentation.
• Proposals for the Forum must list the population size and outcomes (including accuracy levels).

All presenters must provide:

• Complete contact information (including phone, fax, e-mail, and postal address);
• Education history including degree, year, major and institution;
• Employment history relative to content area (past three (3) positions required);
• An explanation on how presenter is qualified by experience or education to teach the content area; and
• A short bio that will appear on the Web site. Bios are in paragraph form, no longer than 50 words, and highlight employment history and education.
• Presenters must also go to the DMAA CME Disclosure site to review, endorse and comply with the Statement of Disclosure prior to Friday, March 12, 2010.

Proposal Categories

Forum Educational Sessions: These educational sessions are 60 minutes in length and share best practices and strategies for chronic disease prevention and care. Each proposal should feature details on the information gathering process; treatment regimen, including tools used; and outcomes. Proposals by health care companies must feature a co-presenter. Co-presenters bring unique perspectives to sessions and are industry experts, clients, government representatives or vendor partners. Proposals by health care companies without a co-presenter will not be considered.

Integrated Care Summit Employer Case Studies: These 60 minute sessions feature employer success stories from experienced benefits professionals for: prevention, wellness or chronic disease care programs; initiatives to improve employee productivity and morale; and approaches to effectively integrate health promotion programs into health benefits plans and corporate cultures. The primary presenter MUST be an employer/purchaser; proposals without an employer/purchaser will not be considered.

Poster Presentations: Poster presentations will be either scientific or general, and authors are required to be available for a specified period of time at the Forum to discuss methods and results with interested visitors and colleagues. Scientific posters will be based on solid research principles on topics that advance knowledge in the fields of evaluation and/or health care and adhere to robust research standards. General posters highlight program initiatives, population health management program innovations or policy issues.

Presenter Policies

Each presenter must agree to the following policies:

• DMAA is unable to reimburse faculty for travel, hotel, and per diem expenses. The registration fee for the speaking event is waived for accepted, educational presenters.
• DMAA reserves the right to all video and audio recordings and photographic images of presentations at the 2010 Forum and Integrated Care Summit.
• Submit slide presentation and handouts to DMAA by Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Presentations will be shared with attendees online prior to the conference. Speakers will be able to update presentations onsite; however, attendees will not receive the changes. Failure to submit a presentation, if not justified, will jeopardize future acceptance of proposals.

Submission Policies

1. Applications must be submitted by Friday, March 12, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
2. All proposals must be submitted electronically.
3. Submissions with system status of "incomplete" cannot be processed.
4. There is a limit of one proposal per primary presenter that can be submitted.
5. You do not need to be a member to submit a proposal.
6. Proposals containing identical or nearly identical information submitted from the same company and/or individuals will be disqualified.
7. Proofread proposals carefully to avoid errors before submission. No proof pages will be sent.
8. Submission of a proposal constitutes a commitment by an individual to present it if accepted. Failure to present, if not justified, will jeopardize future acceptance of proposals.
9. We may combine presentations if there is insufficient information for the allotted time or if two proposals are similar and would compliment each other. If this occurs, only one presenter from each proposal will be asked to present.
10. Notification of proposal acceptance will be e-mailed by Friday, May 15, 2010.
11. If an accepted speaker changes his or her company of employment, the speaker will forfeit his or her speaking slot. The company that owns the research or program will be able to nominate a replacement speaker to the Program Committee for consideration.

Our Commitment to Excellence

DMAA is committed to the following principles for all educational programming:

• As a provider of continuing medical education (CME), DMAA strictly follows the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education guidelines and expects that the content will promote improvements or quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business or commercial interest.
• In order to be considered for presentations, proposals must:
  • Disclose any health care related commercial interests;
  • Be free of commercial content or endorsement (Should a presentation be identified as being commercial, the presenter will not be invited back);
  • Share best practices and strategies that can be implemented by other companies; proprietary programs or products cannot be presented.
  • Not include more than one speaker per company; and
  • Require a client co-presenter for submissions by health care companies.
• The educational programming selection process is a peer-reviewed process. DMAA members are invited to volunteer and review proposals through the convenient online judging system. A program committee, that represents all parties in the population health improvement community, will review the proposal and past speaker scores, and select the highest scoring submissions for presentation at the conference. To volunteer, contact Peggi Lewis Fu at plewis@dmaa.org or (202) 380-6357.
• Sponsors are not involved in the planning, content or execution of educational programming.
• Presenters must adhere to the following important points for their presentations:
  • Speakers must give a balanced view of therapeutic options. Use of generic names will contribute to this impartiality. If content includes trade names, trade names from several companies should be used where available, not just trade names from a single company.
  • All the recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.
  • All scientific research referred to, reported or used in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.