Oral Presentations - Talks should be no more than 10-12 minutes in length, leaving 3-5 minutes for questions and discussion. Technicians will be available in the room to assist you. In reviewing your presentation prior to your session, make sure all fonts, images, and animations appear as expected and that all audio or video clips are working properly.

• ALL Presenters will use one common laptop that will accommodate presentations made on both PC’s and Mac’s. All presentations will run from the AV tech table in the meeting room.

• You will not be able to use your own laptop at the podium. There will be no exceptions.

• All presentations must be uploaded to the conference drop box link below no later than Friday August 16th at noon PST.

DWS WORKSHOP 2024 UPLOAD LINK

• All presentations are required to be saved with the following file name.  

Presentation number_ Last Name_ Lecture Title (Example: “6_Innes_Reflections2024.pptx”)

The Platform Presentation numbers will be provided at a later date.

• Slide format is 16:9

• Logos of specific companies are not permitted on the slides (institutional logos are fine)

Posters - Poster size should be no larger than 110cm x 110cm (44 x 44) inches. The poster session will be held Saturday August 17th from 8-10pm (see workshop at a glance tab).

There is a poster printing company on campus however, it is not open on Saturdays and closes at 5pm on Fridays. Website is: www.copysmart.ca Address: 3387 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V65 0B1 tel (604) 222-3189

For folks who would prefer not to travel with their poster, you can contact the printing company, pay for your poster to be printed (the company wants a PDF submitted) and the organizers (Mike and Alison) will pick up your poster Friday August 16th in the afternoon before the store closes. If you wish to do this, you must pay in advance and upload your PDF by Monday August 12th by 9am PST.

Please email Alison (aelliott@bcchr.ca) or Mike (Micheil.Innes@albertahealthservices.ca) to let us know that you have done this so we know to pick up your poster.

Unknowns

• Limit Unknown case submissions to 1 per person (like the abstracts, present your best unknown - preferably distinctive patterns of malformation, not non-dysmorphic children with ID/autism). While priority is given to true unknows, given the educational nature of the workshop rare or instructive known diagnoses are also welcome.

• The presentation should be concise with minimal succinct text limited to one slide only and high quality images limited to 3 slides- totaling 4 slides maximum.

• Presenters will have only 3 minutes to present the case.

• Cases should preferably be submitted by August 11th, giving the moderators an opportunity to look at them ahead of time and choose the most interesting and challenging for presentation. Some cases may not be chosen for presentation.

• The purpose is to present, discuss and review the patient images. Individuals with expertise in dysmorphology, neuroimaging and skeletal disorders are attending the workshop. Where possible include high quality relevant images as opposed to a text/report.

• The Unknown Case submission should include a one-page attachment with the name of the presenter, a brief case description, and photos or other images. While not mandatory it can be useful to let us know the question you want answered or the diagnoses you are considering- particularly if it not obvious from the chosen images as it may allow us to understand the rationale for the submission.

• Please upload your case here - DWS2024 Unknowns

• If exome/genome sequencing has been done and the relevance of a specific variant is in question please provide details of variant in advance included on a powerpoint file. This will enable assessment of the gene and variant prior to the meeting.

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