ICNA PRESIDENT-ELECT ELECTIONS 2024

ICNA President-Elect Elections 2024 are currently underway. All eligible voters (ICNA Full Members) have been emailed their unique voting credentials. All voting is done via the secure platform at https://icnapedia.org/pe2024. The voting site will remain open until 2400hrs GMT on 1 May 2024.

Creating your poster

  • The poster should cover the content of your accepted abstract
  • Authors must disclose on their poster whether the abstract has been previously published (prior to May 2014)
  • If the abstract has been previously published, authors should indicate the date and publication
  • Any gene names which are included in the study presented should be diclosed
  • If your poster contains any photos or sensitive data all presenters must have informed consent from the authority (ies) / individual(s) concerned
  • Please try to make your poster simple and legible including charts, drawings, photographs and illustrations to achieve a visual impact
  • The title heading should be at least 2 inches high
  • The names of all authors and their institutional/organizational affiliations(s) should also be included but a smaller font can be used for this
  • All lettering should be easily legible at a distance of 4 feet
  • Please include your individual QR Code Graphic provided on the poster
  • The QR Code graphic should be printed as it is and should not be enlarged
  • Please do not laminate your poster to ensure that it can be recycled

Poster size

The preferred poster size is “A0” 

Size

Width x Height (mm)

Width x Height (in)

A0

841 x 1189 mm

33.1 x 46.8 in

 

Posters should not exceed the following dimensions 120 cm (High) X 90 cm (Wide) and should be in Portrait/Vertical Mode. Landscape posters will not fit on the poster boards. 

Displaying your posters

All accepted Posters will be displayed at the conference venue in two sessions. All posters will be displayed in the space between the Cataratas and Iguazu Halls ( see floor layout below) with the opportunity to meet and engage with the poster presenters.

All poster boards will be pre-numbered. Please be certain to mount your poster on the correct board The organizers will provided double side adhesive/Velcro tape for fastening the poster to the board. You may bring your own pushpins or thumbtacks (in your checked luggage).

You must register and wear an official ICNC2014 scientific meeting badge to gain admittance at any time to the poster areas. Unregistered individuals (i.e., accompanying guests etc.) are not permitted to attend the poster sessions.

If you wish to bring electronic equipment to accompany your poster session, you must also bring a power source. No electrical outlets will be available for your use. Wireless Internet access is available in the Poster Hall. Your laptop must be equipped with a Wi-Fi or wireless network card for PCs or an Airport card for Macs.

Do not leave personal materials or belongings under poster boards or in the poster area. ASHG is not responsible for any articles left in the poster area or elsewhere Handouts You may prepare a hand-out for participants. hand-outs must be no larger than A4 and should be place in a document holder which should be fixed to the poster board.

Any hand-outs that are placed on the floor rather than in the document holder will be removed for health and safety reasons.

Online Access & QR Code

All posters will have a dedicated online page on ICNApedia which can be accessed using the below format. (The links will not be active before April 15, 2014).

On this page if you wish you may even include short video clips of yourself presenting the poster. Please email icnc@icnapedia.org if you would like to enquire about this further.

URL Format : http://icnapedia.org/xxxx where xxx is the ID of your Poster. For eg if your poster ID is "P50" the URL will be http://icnapedia.org/P50

You would be provided with a QR Code graphic to include in your poster, which would enable delegates to access the above page easily from their smart phones

You can download your QR Codes from March 25, 2014 onwards by accessing

http://icnapedia.org/qrcode/xxxx.png where xxx is the ID of your Poster.

For eg if your poster ID is P50 your QR code will be available at http://icnapedia.org/qrcode/P50.png

Schedule for your posters

The posters being presented at the ICNC2014 are split into two groups GROUP I and GROUP II.

GROUP I is scheduled for Monday & Tuesday while GROUP II is scheduled for Wednesday & Thursday.

Detailed information follows.

POSTERS

 

Scheduled Display days

GROUP I posters

P1 - P224 & P449

Cerebral palsy , Neurodisability & Neurorehabilitation
CNS infections
Development, cognition & psychiatry
Education & training
Epilepsy

Monday  May 5, 2014 0830-1730

Tuesday  May 6, 2014 0830-1730

GROUP II Posters

P225 – P448

Headache;  Metabolic disorders;  Movement disorders;  Muscle and nerve;  Neonatal and Fetal neurology;  Neurocritical care, Neurotrauma & Neuroprotection; Neuroendocrinology & Neurogenetics; Neuroimmunology; Neurooncology , Neuroradiology & Neurophthalmology

Wednesday  May 7, 2014 0830-1730

Thursday  May 8, 2014 0830-1730

Presenters must be available for at least 15 minutes during the morning session and for at least 60 minutes during the afternoon session according to the schedule above. The poster chairpersons will walk around and discuss posters during these times.

If you are not available beside your poster at other times, please leave a note on the poster board as to where you can be reached in case someone wishes to discuss your work further Signs indicating when you will be at your presentation can be picked up at the Poster Help Booth.

Removal of Posters

Remove materials promptly at the end of the session. Posters that are not removed by the designated time may be taken down by the organizers and discarded. Please be sure to remove your poster within the stated timeframe. Posters must be removed by 6:30 P.M. Posters remaining after this time will be removed and recycled.

Prizes

The Scientific Programme Committee will appoint a panel of judges to select a poster for the “Best Poster”. Award certificates are restricted to young scientists and the posters to be considered for selection will be identified by a ICNA sticker attached to the top right hand corner of the poster.

Certificates will be awarded in public at the closing ceremony. Up to 10 posters will also be denoted as “featured posters” online.

Abstract Acceptance

A first author who is unable to make the presentation in person is asked to notify ICNC2014 office immediately via e-mail (icnc2014@icnapedia.org

Instructions for Platform Presentations

Platform presentations are 15 minutes in length: 10-minute presentation, 5-minute question and answers

Audio-Visual Equipment

The following audio-visual equipment and technical help will be provided in each room

  • Notebooks (Preferred)
  • Mac book with keynote
  • Wireless microphones for the speaker
  • Lavaliere/headset Microphone for the speakers
  • Wireless Microphone for the chairman
  • Power Point Control with Laser pointer
  • Monitor of 18,5'' at the podium
  • Technical Operator

Internet connection will be available on the podium computers. If you require equipment not listed above or if you require an internet connection for your presentation, please contact the congress office at icnc@icnapedia.org before April 15, 2014.

We expect everyone to have delivered their presentations to the media desk at least 2 hours before the session. The first plenary speaker, the day before. Failing to do so might result in your slot being rescheduled or cancelled.

How to find the "Speaker Ready Room" 

The room is "Araucaria" (highlighted in yellow in the floor plan) .It will be open on Saturday May 3, 2014 from 0200 PM – 0500 PM and all other days from 0700 AM – 0600 PM.

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Presenters will not be allowed to use their own laptops. Any request to do so will be declined. All speakers should deliver their presentation at the "Media Desk". Please load your presentations into the allocated computer in the  "Speaker Ready Room" or "Media Desk". There will be a technician to assist you with this. You can bring along a CD or USB Pen Drive. Please be advised that under no circumstances you will be allowed to load your presentation at the podium.

Request for other equipment

We will be happy to try and provide you with any other technical equipment / software you may need for your presentation. However you will have to request this by emailing icnc@icnapedia.org before April 15, 2014.

In order to comply with CME accreditation requirements

  1. Corporate, academic and/or university logos may only be included on the first and last slides. Other slides may not contain logos.
  2. Authors with conflicts to disclose that may affect the content of their presentations should upload their presentations in advance before April 25, 2014.
  3. Authors must include a Conflict of Interest slide as part of their presentation, which is required in order to meet CME accreditation requirements, even when there is nothing to disclose.
  4. When presenting patient data and health information (including photos and videos), all presenters must be compliant with informed consent regarding human subjects and all applicable HIPAA or equivalent regulations.
  5. Authors must disclose on one of their slides whether the abstract has been previously published. If the abstract has been previously published, authors should indicate the date and publication.
  6. The last slide in your presentation may include acknowledgments. Authors should try to avoid using presentation time to acknowledge co-authors and collaborators

Video clips in your presentation

  1. Please prepare your videos as MPGs, WMVs, or with the following AVI codecs: MPEG-4 (Divx, Xvid, or WMVs). It is important that your movie clips do not completely fill the screen
  2. Apple Quicktime formats such as MOV, QT, MP4, or DV files are NOT supported in Windows PowerPoint.
  3. As long as you put the video files in the same folder as the .ppt file, the links will usually not break.
  4. DVDs: You won't be allowed to play DVDs or CDs as part of your presentation. All videos will have to be included individually as video files

Specialized fonts

If you are using any specialized fonts in your powerpoint template you may find that the system at Bourbon Cataratas does not have it . If you need a specialized font, it should be embedded into your PowerPoint presentation. For instructions on this process, please click on the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826832/en-us.

Information for Mac Users

  1. Keynote: Please convert all Keynote presentation files to PowerPoint.
  2. Pictures: If you use a version of PowerPoint prior to 2008, please be sure embedded pictures are not in TIFF format. These images will not show up in Windows PowerPoint. With PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac, TIFF inserted images will be compatible.
  3. Movies: Please export MOV files to Windows Media WMV with Quicktime-7 Pro. PowerPoint on Windows machines will not play MOV files. If you cannot convert the files or have a considerable number of MOV files, please check with a technician in the Speaker Presentation/Upload Room well in advance or email icnc@icnapedia.org who can make arrangements to convert the videos for you.

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Once you are at Iguazu

  1. Visit the Speaker Ready Room (Araucaria) at least two hours before your talk!. If you are speaking in an early morning session, we recommend that you visit the room the day prior to your talk.
  2. The room will be open on Saturday May 3, 2014 from 0200 PM – 0500 PM and all other days from 0700 AM – 0600 PM

On the day of your presentation

  1. Please arrive at your meeting room at least 30 minutes before the start of your session and inform the audio-visual technical operator and moderator that you are a speaker.
  2. Introduce yourself and ask the audio-visual technical operator to go over the set-up and to provide instructions on the use of the timer. It is important that all speakers stay on time.
  3. Familiarize yourself with the set-up at the lectern. At the lectern, there will be a monitor where you can follow your presentation. Simply click your session time, then click your name on the display, and your PowerPoint will launch automatically.

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Simposio Internacional de Autismo

13th International Child Neurology Congress
26 de Abril de 2014
Auditorio Juan Pablo II - UCA
A. Moreau de Justo 1600
Pto.Madero, Bs.As. Argentina

Invitado extranjero: Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen
Director del Centro de Investigaciones sobre el Autismo en el Reino Unido,
Miembro de la British Academy, Dr. en Psicologica, Prof. en la Universidad de Cambridge

Convocs: El Servicio de Neurologia Infantil del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Informes e inscripcion: MVC: 011-3221-4341 info@produccionesmvc.com.ar

Programa preliminar  
Horario Disertante
9:00 - 10:00 Dr. Guillermo Agosta: Evolución de las Neurociencias.
10:00 - 11:00 Dr. Simon-Baron Cohen: Por qué el autismo es más frecuente en varones.
11:00 - 11:15 Café.
11:15 - 12:15 Dr. Hugo Arroyo: El neuropediatra y el paciente con TEA.
12:15 - 13:15 Dr. Esteban Vaucheret: Evaluación neuropsicología en pacientes con TEA.
13:15 - 14:30 Almuerzo.
14:30 - 15:30 Dr. Roberto Pallia: Qué aporta la psicofarmacología al tratamiento de los TEA.
15:30 - 15:45 Café.
15:45 - 16:45 Dr. Esteban Vaucheret: El entorno familiar en los niños con TEA.
16:45 - 17:45 Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen: Enseñando empatía a niños con TEA.
17:45 - 18:00 Cierre

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ICNC2014 Programme Schedule
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Time/DaySundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
08:00-09:00Plenary lecturePlenary LecturePlenary LecturePlenary lectureICNA
Arnold Munnich (France)Tamar Weiss (Israel)Naila Zaman Khan (Bangladesh)Adré Jacques du Plessis (USA)EB Meeting
09:00-10:00Plenary lectureFrank Ford Award LectureSheila Wallace Award LectureJohn Stobo Prichard Award Lecture
Alan Mackay-Sim (Australia)Orvar Eeg-Oloffsson (Sweden)Sheffali GulatiSteven Miller (Canada)
(India)
10:00-10:30COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING
10:30-12:30S01S02S03S04S05S06S07S08S09S10S11S12S13S14S15S16
12:30-14:00LUNCH BREAK
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CODAGMBoard
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14:00-14:15ICNAFP01FP13FP25FP39FP51FP63FP75FP88Social ProgrammeFP100FP112FP124FP137
14:15-14:30EBFP02FP14FP26FP40FP52FP64FP76FP89Visit to Iguazu FallsFP101FP113FP125FP138
14:30-14:45MeetingFP03FP15FP27FP41FP53FP65FP77FP90Gala DinnerFP102FP114FP126FP139
14:45-15:00FP04FP16FP28FP42FP54FP66FP78FP91FP103FP115FP127FP140
15:00-15:15FP05FP17FP29FP43FP55FP67FP79FP92FP104FP116FP128FP141
15:15-15:30FP06FP18FP30FP44FP56FP68FP80FP93FP105FP117FP129FP142
15:30-15:45FP07FP19FP31FP45FP57FP69FP81FP94FP106FP118FP130FP143
15:45-16:00FP08FP20FP32FP46FP58FP70FP82FP95FP107FP119FP131FP144
16:00-16:15FP09FP21FP33FP47FP59FP71FP83FP96FP108FP120FP132FP145
16:15-16:30FP10FP22FP34FP48FP60FP72FP84FP97FP109FP121FP133FP146
16:30-16:45FP11FP23FP35FP49FP61FP73FP85FP98FP110FP122FP134FP147
16:45-17:00FP12FP24FP36FP50FP62FP74FP86FP99FP111FP123FP135FP148
17:00-17:15FP37FP87FP136
17:15-17:30FP38
17:00-19:00OpeningE01E02E03E04E05E06E07E08E09E10E11E12
Ceremony
Welcome
Reception