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2024 Conference is April 11th and 12th.
Deadline: Jan 31st 2024

The Poster Session provides a great opportunity for trainees to gain valuable exposure and experience presenting at a state level meeting.  Trainees will receive direct feedback from an interdisciplinary mix of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine specialists. The Fellows Forum is a multidisciplinary case presentation session and includes case presentation by the fellow, radiographic interpretation by a guest attending radiologist and pathology review by a guest attending pathologist. The cases should be interesting, challenging or unusual pulmonary problems.

Please email your Poster Session submissions to: nystsposters@gmail.com
Please email your Fellow's Forum Abstract Submissions to: nysts.fellowsforum@gmail.com

Poster Session ELIGIBILITY:

• Case Reports should be challenging or unusual pulmonary, critical care or sleep problems, while Research Abstracts can include original investigative work, quality improvement projects or patient care initiatives that are resident/fellow driven and related to the field of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine.
• Case reports/research abstracts previously presented at national or state meetings within the past year will also be considered. Please indicate the meeting where the work was presented.
• Trainees must be in an accredited residency or fellowship program in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, and have an attending sponsor to review the work prior to submission.
• Submission of an abstract constitutes the author’s commitment to present the work as accepted, at the NYSTS2024 Annual Conference. The NYSTS reserves the right to reject abstracts for any reason, including failure to meet submission requirements.
•Include your name, contact information including email, phone number, training program and the attending physician sponsoring the case. Please ensure this information is included in the submission document and covering email.
• The title should clearly define the topic and contain no abbreviations. Standard abbreviations maybe used in the text of the abstract. On first use, spell out the full term and follow with the abbreviation in parentheses.  

Case Report format: The body of the case report should include Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, Conclusion and References.  500-word limit

Research Abstract format: The body of the abstract should include Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Clinical Implications and References. 500-wordlimit. 

• Inclusion of a table has no impact on acceptance or rejection.
• All submissions must be HIPAA compliant.
• IF SELECTED- you must register for the conference within a week of acceptance 
• Email questions to: nystsposters@gmail.com

Fellow's Forum ELIGIBILITY:
1. You must be a FELLOW in good standing in a training program in Pulmonary, Pulmonary/Critical Care or Critical Care training program in New York State, New Jersey or Connecticut and have an attending sponsor who should review the case prior to its submission. 
2. THE CASE MUST HAVE DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY SPECIMENS AND RADIOGRAPHS. 
3. In a word document, describe the case as an unknown and at the end include the diagnosis and brief discussion of the clinical entity all in 750 words or less. Electronic images of the radiology and the pathology are encouraged but should not delay the case submission. 
4. Include in the submission your name, contact information including your email, phone number, training program, your level of training and the attending sponsoring the case. 

IF SELECTED
1.  Please collect and be prepared to SEND the DIGITAL DIAGNOSTICPATHOLOGY SLIDES and reports AND DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHIC STUDIES and reports.2. You must register for the conference within a week of acceptance 
NOTE:
-The pathology slides and radiographs must be personally reviewed by the consulting attending radiologist and attending pathologist PRIOR to the meeting so they must be received in a timely fashion.
-If your slides/radiographs cannot be submitted in a timely fashion, your case may not be presented.
-If your slides/radiographs do not confirm the submitted diagnosis after review by the consulting pathologist or otherwise are unsatisfactory, the case may be withdrawn. 

Presentation of the case at the Fellows Forum:
• The fellow will present the case as an unknown with a 5–10-minute Power Point presentation. This will be followed by presentation and review of the radiographs by the consulting attending radiologist (5 min). The audience will ask questions and generate the differential diagnosis (5 min). The consulting attending pathologist will then present the pathology (5 min). The fellow concludes the presentation with a brief discussion of the disease entity using Power Point (10 min).

The Ravi Rajmane Abstract and Poster Competition

Each year, the New York State Thoracic Society (NYSTS) holds an abstract and poster competition for all residents in Internal Medicine and fellows in Pulmonary and Critical Care training programs.  The case reports should be challenging or unusual pulmonary, critical care, or sleep problems, while research abstracts can include original investigative work, quality improvement projects or patient care initiatives that are resident driven and related to the field of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  The poster session provides a great opportunity for trainees to gain valuable exposure and experience presenting at a state level meeting.  Trainees will receive direct feedback from an interdisciplinary mix of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine specialists.  The top case reports and research poster presentations will be granted a monetary reward based on scores by specially appointed judges.

In 2019 the Executive Committee of the New York State Thoracic Society named the annual abstract and poster competition in honor of Dr. Ravindra Rajmane.  

Dr. Rajmane served on the NYSTS Executive Committee first as Program Chair in 2007-2008.  His first year on the committee proved challenging as he endlessly searched for a venue to hold the annual meeting.  In 2009-2010 he stepped in a year early to serve as President when a member stepped down.  He graciously served again in 2010-2011 for his original term.  Ravi also served as the New York state Chapter Representative to the American Thoracic Society from 2015-2018.  Just prior to his death Ravi was also granted the distinction of ATS Fellow. Throughout his career, he was committed to medical education, and served as a mentor to many trainees.

In addition to the NYSTS poster session, the ATS has a session in his honor at the annual conference - Great Cases: Clinical, Radiologic, And Pathologic Correlations By Master Physicians - Ravindra Rajmane, MD Memorial Symposium.  He was not only a vital member of the NYSTS but also the ATS.

During these years, Ravi helped to ensure that our chapter remained a vital organization for pulmonary and critical care physicians throughout New York State.  His commitment he put into everything he accomplished and the passion in doing so knew no limitations. He will be missed, and he will always be remembered.