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Presenter Information
Poster Presentation Instructions
Notification of your abstract submission was circulated in September 2024, with your presentation details also included in communications. Please refer to the accepted abstracts in the email you would have received from the Meeting Organiser.
Poster Guidelines
- Prepare your poster according to the following dimensions: A0 size (841mm W x 1189mm H portrait style).
- A template has been attached for presenters to use; however, this is not compulsory.
- Upon arrival at the meeting please provide your poster to the Meeting Organisers at the registration desk (prior to morning tea on Friday 11 October 2024).
- Authors are responsible for collecting their poster upon departure from the meeting. Posters not collected will be disposed of.
- The Meeting Organisers will not accept responsibility for returning posters that have not been collected.
- Poster presenters are not required to deliver a verbal component for their presentation or stand by their poster during breaks
Please contact us at +61 9249 1249 or email us at usanz.vic@surgeons.org if you have any queries and need further assistance.
Presenter Terms and Conditions
Presenter must adhere to the following Terms and Conditions.
1. The presenter shall comply with all reasonable directions of USANZ and RACS Conference and Event Management, its officers, employees or agents.
2. The presenter shall comply with all USANZ/RACS policies and procedures as reasonably required by USANZ/RACS.
3. USANZ may cancel, terminate or postpone a presenter’s presentation at any time and without reason.
4. Where Personal Information is disclosed by a presenter or any participant in an online event, RACS shall only use that Personal Information in accordance with the RACS Privacy of Personal Information Policy.
5. The presenter shall make available copies of any materials used in connection with the presentation at such times as reasonably required by RACS Conference and Event Management.
6. The presenter shall acknowledge that all statements, analysis, opinions or conclusions made in the course of the presentation are their own.
7. The presenter shall not defame, disparage or denigrate USANZ/RACS or others involved in the Victorian Section Meeting (VSM) in any way.
8. The presenter confirms that the presentation is not plagiarised and does not infringe the intellectual property rights or moral rights of any other person.
9. The presenter shall behave in a civil and appropriate manner and not unlawfully, bully, sexually harass or discriminate against any person involved in the VSM. This includes, but is not limited to, sexualised imagery or references and prejudicial statements or actions related to a person's age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, religion, lifestyle, sexual orientation, gender identity, culture or disability.
10. USANZ/RACS may publicise the presenter as a participant in the meeting, and use the presenter’s image, logo and titles for that purpose.
11. The presenter shall not, as a result of presenting at this event, hold themselves out as having had their statements, analysis, opinions or conclusions endorsed by USANZ/RACS.
12. The presenter shall indemnify and hold harmless USANZ, RACS, its officers, employees and agents (in this clause referred to as “those indemnified”) from and against any loss (including legal costs and expenses on a solicitor/own client basis) or liability incurred or suffered by any of those indemnified arising from any claim, suit, demand, action or proceeding.
Contact Us
USANZ VSM Registration Team
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
250-290 Spring Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia
T : +61 3 9249 1249
E : usanz.vic@surgeons.org