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.

How do we achieve this goal?

A combination of oral and poster presentations that serve as a forum for research/scholarly activities performed by trainees in the Department.

What is the typical schedule for PRESS?

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

Deadline and submission requirements:

The deadline for 2019 has not yet been determined.

Submissions should be emailed to Thea Hall and include:

• Your Name
• Category (Pediatric fellows, Pediatric residents, Postdoctoral fellows, graduate/undergraduate students)
• Name of research sponsor (must be Department of Pediatrics faculty member)
• A comment about whether the work will be presented as an oral or poster at PAS or other national meeting (please include name of the meeting)