Call for Abstracts with
Career Development Award

Deadline:  March 17, 2025 (11:59 PM CST)

The North American Artery (NAA) Society announces its call for the NAA Career Development Award. This award intends to highlight rising early career scientists within the field of arterial function, hemodynamics and other related topics.

Three early career scientists will be selected by a review panel and be invited to speak for 20 minutes (15-minute presentation, 5 minutes for questions) to present their prior and current research relevant to future planned research endeavors and highlight important achievements from their career to date at the 2025 NAA Conference. This is contrary to a regular conference abstract presentation which would be an in-depth presentation about a particular study.

All presented career development abstracts will be published in the official program of the 13th Annual Conference of the North American Artery Society, scheduled for June 27-28, 2025, on the Society’s website (www.naartery.org), but will not be published in any public journal. All previous or published information will not be considered for this award.

One winner will be selected from the participants, all three finalists will receive a monetary award and certificate at the annual meeting. 

Eligibility Criteria:

• Current NAA member;

• Early career faculty or post-doctoral fellows

• Candidates should be within 10 years of completing their PhD or medical training until promotion to Associate Professor.

• Research and publication track record in the field of arterial function/hemodynamics.

Application Process
(the applicant must provide the following information)

• Abstract of the proposed Career Development Lecture with a maximum number of words is 350 (excluding the abstract title and authors).

• Curriculum Vitae

• A brief letter detailing why you wish to be considered for the award with a maximum number of words is 350.

• A letter of support from a senior researcher in the field submitted directly to NAA.

• Submitter will submit the letter of support directly to NAA. The letter should be emailed to karen@creativeoccasions.net directly with the subject line “[Applicant Last Name] NAA Career Development Award Letter of Support”

• Abstracts should be typed single-spaced, with no space between title and body or between paragraphs. Please use Arial, Times New Roman and Symbol fonts only–with font size 11 point only.

• Abstracts must be uploaded in a PC-compatible format, preferably as a Microsoft Word or PDF together with a cover letter to the link below.

Application Content

• Type the title of the abstract and the presenting author’s name and affiliation in capital letters. Additional authors and their affiliations should be typed in title-case.

• Paragraphs should use the following subheadings:
  Introduction: Brief history of the applicant’s academic career. 

  Summary of the Major Findings of the Applicant’s Work to Date: This can represent a single study or body of work.

  Future Research Plans/Directions for the Applicant.

• Define all abbreviations the first time they appear in the abstract.

• Use only generic names of drugs.

• Proofread the abstract carefully before submitting.

Grading of Abstracts

• Abstracts will be scored by the members of the Program Committee based on scientific merit and written presentation.  Authors and institutions will be removed to allow anonymous scoring by the Program Committee.

• Notification of acceptance will be sent to the corresponding author by approximately April 1, 2025 via email.

• The presenting author is expected to attend the Annual Meeting to present the abstract and pay the registration fee.

• Three lectures will be selected for the Career Development Award.

   

Evaluation process:  The Career Development Lecturers will be selected by the NAA Executive Committee.

COVER LETTER

All abstracts must be uploaded with a cover letter indicating the name of the presenting author and corresponding author (first, middle, last), Degree, Title, Institution, Street Address, City, State, Postal Code, Telephone, and Email address.

The following statements and your signature must be included as part of the cover letter.

• "The author affirms that the material submitted has not been previously published or presented at any national or international meeting, and any experimentation has been conducted according to a protocol approved by the institutional committee on ethics or, if no such committee exists, that it conforms with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (Clinical Research.14: 193, 1966). The undersigned also certifies that all authors named in the abstract have agreed to its submission for presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American Artery Society."

• “I understand that my presentation will be included in the conference program and on the NAA website (www.naartery.org). I hereby grant NAA permission to publish my abstract as part of the conference materials and on their website for NAA members.”

*Note: If you do not wish to have your abstract published on the NAA website, then replace the above statement with the following: “I prefer not to have my abstract published on the NAA website”.

Questions pertaining to the award should be submitted through the NAA “Contact Us” link with the subject title “Career Development Award” on the NAA website at naartery.org/contact.