Pediatric Research, Education and Scholarship Symposium (PRESS)

What is PRESS?

PRESS is an annual event through which the Department of Pediatrics celebrates and showcases the depth and breadth of research and scholarly activities performed by Department trainees and sponsored by faculty members. PRESS uses a combination of oral and poster presentations to showcase these activities. 

PRESS 2019

PRESS 2019 will be held on Friday, April 5th, 2019. 

If you have questions regarding PRESS 2019, please contact Emily Kukacka at kukac003@umn.edu.

2019 PRESS Schedule

1:00-3:00 pm: Formal Oral Presentations: 8 oral presentations by highly-meritorious* abstracts that include a 10 minute talk and 5 minute Q&A from the audience.
*Trainees with a pediatric faculty sponsor who have an accepted oral presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) are strongly encouraged to submit their abstracts for oral presentation at PRESS and will be given priority.
3:00-4:00 pm: Poster Session A: Poster viewing includes accepted abstracts not selected for oral presentation.
4:00-5:00 pm: Poster Session B: Poster viewing includes accepted abstracts not selected for oral
presentation.
5:00-5:30 pm: Awards: Presented in the Wilf Auditorium.
NOTE: Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served during the poster sessions.

Who can submit an abstract for presentation?

Department of Pediatrics trainees (4 categories below) are invited to submit abstracts of scholarly work. All presentations must have a U of M Department of Pediatrics faculty “Sponsor”.

• Fellows
• Residents
• Postdoctoral fellows
• Graduate students, medical students, undergraduate students

Guidelines for abstracts:

• Abstracts should be no more than 300 Words
• Abstracts can also include up to 1 figure or 1 table
• A cover page that includes your name, your category (pediatric fellows, pediatric residents, postdoctoral fellows, graduate/undergraduate students), Department/Division, title of the abstract and the name of your research sponsor (must be a Department of Pediatrics faculty member)
• Your abstract and cover page must be submitted as a PDF (single spaced, Arial font size 11)

Deadline and submission requirements:

Submissions should be emailed to Emily Kukacka (at kukac003@umn.edu) by Monday, February 25th, 2019 (no later than 4:00pm). In your email please include whether it will be presented as an oral or poster at PAS or other national meetings (also include the name of the meeting).