Faculty Resources

Thank you for serving as faculty for the SVIN 2024 Annual Meeting!

This site is designed to provide you all the information you need about your speaking engagement, deadlines, and ways to promote your session.

Please check back, as more information will be added as we get closer to the meeting.

General Guidelines:

SVIN requires that all of its speakers and moderators comply with the ACCME Standards of Commercial Support of CME. Disclose any RELEVANT financial interest or relationship that you and/or your spouse may have with any commercial supporter of the activity or the manufacturer(s) of any commercial interest that is discussed as part of your session. ACCME definition of relevant relationship: relationships with a commercial interest (rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership in stock, etc.) IF the products or services of the commercial interest are related to the content of the educational activity that you are presenting.

All materials for invited sessions must be uploaded through the SVIN Portal (coming soon).
If you need assistance with your login username/password or upload, please contact our SVIN Support Team at SVIN@support.ctimeetingtech.com.

Speaker Guidelines:

All presenters are required to verbally state and indicate in writing on their first slide whether they have any relevant disclosures at the beginning of each presentation.
Design a presentation that is independent, objective, scientifically rigorous, balanced and free of bias.
- Assure that patient care recommendations are acceptable to the medical community and ensure that you do not recommend any unscientific modalities or those not supported by evidenced based sources.Assure that scientific studies utilized or referenced in your presentation are from sources acceptable to the scientific and medical community.
- It is understood that presentations must give a balanced view of therapeutic options. Faculty use of generic names will contribute to this impartiality. If trade names are used, those of several companies should be used rather than only that of a single supporting company. Speakers should make every effort to ensure that data regarding the company’s products (or competing products) are objectively selected and presented, with balanced discussion of prevailing information on the product(s) and/or alternative treatments.
- When an unlabeled use of a commercial product, or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose, is discussed during an educational activity, the accredited sponsor shall require the speaker to disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational.
Slide Preparation:
- First slide MUST be the financial disclosure slide.
- Slides should be no more than 7 lines.
- Use fonts that are large enough to be legible from the back of room.
- Colors should make viewing easier (avoid light fonts and dark slides).
- Duplicate the content slides in the slide template to add additional content, ensuring consistent formatting across all slides.
- Add abbreviated citations on each relevant slide (author, year), with a complete APA style reference list on the last slide.
- All videos must be embedded into the presentation to play properly.
- All graphics used in the presentation that you do not own must be cited and receive copyright permission for use.
- Slides will NOT contain any patient names or identifying information.
- Prior to the session, speakers are urged to review their slides for material that may be offensive to some of our members on the basis of gender, body images, group caricatures or grammatical errors. NO OFFENSIVE MATERIAL WILL BE TOLERATED.
Please ensure you do not go over on time. Speakers will be given a two-minute warning prior to the scheduled end of their presentation, and they are expected to conclude without exceeding more than one minute of overtime.
Submit 3 CME questions and answer key for the Pre/Post-Test in the SVIN Portal (coming soon).
- Questions should be true/false or multiple choice with 3 to 4 answer choices and only one correct answer.
- Avoid questions written as a negative, all of the above answers, easy to guess answers and overly complex answer choices.
- If you have multiple presentations, please submit 3 CME questions for each talk.

Moderator Guidelines:

If you are moderating a session, have discrete questions that can be addressed by the panel. Make the session interactive and lively. Encourage audience participation.
As a moderator, you have a right to call attention to situations where you perceive commercial bias and question it. For example, if a speaker did not declare a bias and presents material you perceive as having commercial bias you can comment at the conclusion of that talk that SVIN had no prior knowledge of this bias. In addition, you should be prepared to stop audience members from presenting commercial material.
Begin and end the meeting session on time.
Announce the speaker’s name, institution, and the title of the talk.
Time the speakers and give a warning by lights or signify “time to summarize please” at the end of the speaker’s allotted time. Presentations will be stopped if over by more than 60 seconds.
If there is a series of platform abstract sessions, ask for questions. If there is no question, and if the moderator feels it is appropriate, have at least one question prepared ahead of time to ask the speaker.
Be sure all discussants use the microphone.
If there are problems with the meeting room, alert a SVIN staff member.
There will be a moderator computer screen to view the questions submitted by the audience. Please be sure to check for questions and ask presenters accordingly.
At the question-and-answer portion of the session, ask that the participants come to the podium. Be sure there are enough chairs and microphones.
If there is inappropriate discussion or advertising, moderators should halt that type of discussion.
Remind the attendees to fill out their critiques about the session—announce this at the beginning and end of the session.

Presentations:

Download our SVIN 2024 Annual Meeting Powerpoint Template. Please use this template for your presentation to create a cohesive effect.
The disclosure information you provided at the time of your speaker confirmation will be made available to meeting attendees on the SVIN website prior to the start of the meeting. In addition, all session presenters must provide meaningful disclosure slide at the start of each presentation.
If you make any changes after uploading your presentation or fail to upload it to the SVIN Portal by the deadline, you are responsible for bringing your powerpoint with you on a USB flash drive to the conference. You must upload your powerpoint in the Speaker Ready Room at least 60 minutes prior to the start of your session.
Speakers and sessions will be critiqued on the following:
- How well did the speaker follow the allotted in the program?
- Was the presentation free of commercial bias?
- Do you think the session helped close the practice gaps on the topic?

Important Dates:

Financial Disclosures Due:	August 30, 2024
CME Questions Due (speakers only):	October 4, 2024
Hotel Cut-Off Date:	October 28, 2024
Final Presentations and AV Requirements Due:	October 30, 2024
Faculty Conference Registration Due:	November 4, 2024
SVIN 2024 Annual Meeting:	November 20 – 22, 2024

Standard A/V Set Up for Sessions:

Each session room will be set up with the following A/V equipment for faculty:

Please note due to the short amount of time between each session, we are unable to adjust this set up.

If you will need any additional AV support, please email Shea.Sawyer@ewald.com by October 30, 2024.

Annual Meeting Registration:

If you are a SVIN Member or international speaker, you will receive a registration code for the conference. If you are a non-SVIN member who wishes to receive this discount, we invite you to join SVIN by clicking HERE. Please reach out to info@svin.org to obtain this code or if you have not received it.

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Annual Meeting Hotel Reservations:

Please visit our Annual Meeting travel page or contact the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina directly at 619-291-2900. All guestroom reservations must be received no later than October 28, 2024.

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Communication Resources:

Let your colleagues know that you’re speaking at SVIN Annual Meeting!

Social Media
SVIN Annual Meeting attendees love to stay connected. Use the sample text below as a guide to share your #SVIN24 participation on social media. Plus, review the tips below to keep up the excitement leading up to and during the conference!

Twitter 280-character limit
I’m presenting at @SVINsociety Annual Meeting, #SVIN24, November 20-22. Register today!

LinkedIn 50-word description
Join me at the SVIN 2024 Annual Meeting to learn and connect! This conference offers interactive educational sessions and networking opportunities, such as the [insert session topic] session I'm presenting. Register today!

Facebook 50-word description
Join me at the SVIN 2024 Annual Meeting to learn and connect! This conference offers interactive educational sessions and networking opportunities, such as the [insert session topic] session I'm presenting. Register today!

Tips for Using Social Media

Speaker Graphics
Use the following graphics to promote your speaking engagement at SVIN Annual Meeting on social media or in your email.

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