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Call for Abstracts
The Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology (SASGOG) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 13th Annual Meeting, to be held on September 11-12, 2025, All abstracts must be original work. Case reports will not be considered. All submissions are peer-reviewed and scored on: scientific merit, originality, and relevance to general obstetrics and gynecology. Outstanding abstracts will be eligible for monetary awards.
The deadline to submit an abstract for consideration is Friday, March 17th 2025, at 11:59 PM EST. Submitting authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and if accepted, oral or poster presentation, by mid-May 2025.
A limited number of meritorious abstracts will be accepted for oral presentations. The presentations are limited to 7 minutes for presentation followed by 3 minutes for questions-and-answers. For poster presentation, additional information will be provided upon acceptance of your abstract.
Submission website will be open 2/1/2025.
Women First Research Coalition (WFRC) Update
SASGOG is a financial supporter of WFRC, an organization that advocates for increased federal investment in women’s health research, including for obstetrics and gynecology, and educates federal policymakers and federal executive branch officials about the need for sustained and strengthened investment in women’s health research.
In support of the 2024 Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation and the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women 2024-2028, ORWH would like to engage scientific societies to provide names of investigators who have an expertise in and an appreciation for research relevant to women’s health but have not yet had an opportunity to serve on a study section. Investigators who would be excellent candidates for peer review should have an expertise in a) diseases or conditions that are female-specific or primarily affect women or b) diseases or conditions where the prevalence, courses, trajectories, mechanisms, or outcomes are different in women as compared to men. Peer reviewers who also understand the socioecological influences among women and other populations experiencing disparities would be important to this effort.
The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) reviews three quarters of all NIH applications and virtually all submitted R01s. Assisting CSR in identifying reviewers with expertise in women’s health will have a broad impact by ensuring the development of a more comprehensive knowledge base on diseases and disorders that affect women. Scientific societies, who are in continuous communication with the larger biomedical and biobehavioral community, have an important role to play.
To participate in this effort, review the information and instructions provided on the CSR website. Please note that a representative of the society must provide recommendations (rather than individual members submitting their own name).
Please submit reviewer suggestions by November 30, 2024; although, suggestions are welcome anytime. CSR shares these recommendations with all CSR scientific review officers.
Please direct any questions to [email protected].
Academy Health Dissemination & Implementation Conference Update
- Rebecca Hamm, MD, Assistant Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Jennifer Callaghan-Koru, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Check out more information about the NIH-funded Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence through the IMPROVE Initiative.
Lessons Learned
Dr. Rose Molina, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, is the 2023 recipient of the SASGOG Excellence in Research Award.
Dr. Molina discusses her work published in JAMA Network Open, “Comparison of Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic” and advice for producing high quality, impactful research manuscripts.
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