As 2015 Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, I am pleased to invite you to develop and submit sessions for consideration for the 2015 Annual Meeting that will take place March 22–26, 2015, in San Diego, California. This message is to remind you that the deadline to submit a proposal is April 30, 2014, 11:59 pm EDT. Please visit the SOT website to review the relevant information on the submission process, including a step-by-step submission guide, and to listen to the recording of the Scientific Program Committee’s recent webinar on Best Practices for Proposal Submission.
If you wish to submit a proposal for consideration, please begin working with your Specialty Section, Special Interest Group, or the appropriate SOT Committee or Task Force. Be advised that all intended proposal Endorsers should be contacted in advance of your submission and provided with a copy of the submission. Remember that for 2015, you may have up to three Endorsers for your proposal. This is an important step that will allow these review groups the opportunity to score and rank the submissions before they are forwarded to the Scientific Program Committee for review. The Program Committee seriously considers the review group comments in its deliberations.
We are looking forward to reviewing the proposals developed for consideration for the 2015 Annual Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, please contact the SOT Office at 703.438.3115.