Abstract Submission
If you would like to join the scientists, researchers and physicians who will present their work at the BMLA 2021 Virtual Conference, please submit the title of your talk and a 250 word Abstract via the link at the bottom of this page.
BMLA will invite accepted abstract presenters to present their clinical or scientific research based upon the abstract content and all selected presenters must register to attend the conference.
The Abstract Submission Deadline was extended by a week to Friday 5th March 2021 (midnight UK time).
Before submitting an abstract, please make sure you read the Guidelines for Review and Selection of Abstracts and the General Guidelines below:
Guidelines for Review and Selection
The Programme Chair performs an initial review of all abstract submissions. The Programme Chair may at his/her discretion, re-categorise the abstracts. Abstracts are then submitted to the individual Session Chairs who review, rank, and select abstracts for presentation at the BMLA Annual Conference. The Session Chairs also take into consideration the following criteria when reviewing abstracts:
- Abstracts should not normally have been published or presented previously (clinical series updates and reviews are an exception to this stipulation).
- All scientific research referred to, reported on, or used in the abstract must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.
- Selection of abstracts for presentation will be limited to those abstracts that report already collected data. Abstracts must contain tangible factual information and should accurately reflect work that has actually been performed. Statements such as 'results will be discussed’ are unacceptable.
- The number of patients in the study will be taken into consideration. Scientific, well-designed studies are given preference over anecdotal findings or single experiment or case, which will also be considered for presentation at the conference.
- Abstracts will be published in Lasers in Medical Science, after the conference.
- Abstracts must be of high quality and be presented with no bias toward specific companies.
- Each author of an abstract submitted to BMLA must have made a significant contribution to the research and must assume responsibility for the content of the abstract.
- Full disclosure of Conflict of Interest (COI) is expected and required of ALL presenting authors and co-authors. This should be on the slides at the start of the presentation.
(Approved by BMLA Executive, December 4th 2014)
General Guidelines
Before you begin, please gather all information necessary to complete all stages of this process including:
Presentation category:
- Aesthetics treatments and devices
- Biophotonics and diagnostics
- Education and regulations in the COVID-19 era
- Laser science and safety
- Laser surgery
- Lasers in dentistry
- Low level lasers & photo biomodulation
- My Problem Page
- Nursing and therapist session
- Photodynamic therapy
- Skin lasers
Presentation type: (Oral Presentation/ Invited Speaker/ Course Faculty)
Abstract content: (title, abstract and all contributing authors complete with first and last name, city and country. Conflicts and respective company is required).
Number of words in abstract: (Background and Objectives, Study Designs/Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion). Limited to 250 words.
Essential Information
Make sure your abstract is in on time and in the right format by following these simple steps:
• Your abstract should be no more than 250 words and should be in English.
• Keep your title concise and informative and only use capital letters for the beginning of a sentence or an acronym/name. DO NOT USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR YOUR ENTIRE TITLE.
• List all authors’ names in full and identify a presenting author. The email address supplied when you submit your abstract will be used for all correspondence pertaining to the abstract.
• Addresses should be in the following format: Department/Institute, Organisation, Town/City, Postcode, Country
• Do not include acknowledgements in your abstracts – these will be included in your word count.
• The deadline for submission is Friday 26th February 2021 (midnight UK time).
• Please ensure that the email provided when submitting the abstract will still be valid in March 2021 when the abstract notification is emailed.
• All selected abstract presenters are required to register as a paying delegate for the conference. A selected abstract presenter does not have the same entitlements as an invited speaker.
• You will be asked during the registration process to confirm that you give consent for your recorded presentation, and related recorded Q&A session, to be available on the platform for up to 3 months post-event and potentially on the BMLA website for members to access thereafter. If you don't consent, your presentation recording, and related recorded Q&A session, will be available for viewing during the conference then removed within 1 week post-conference.
• To make the most of the early bird conference registration fees it is advisable to register when submitting your abstract. If your abstract is not accepted for the conference and you decide you no longer wish to attend, there will be a £25 administration fee to cancel your registration.
• Should you need to withdraw your abstract, please contact office@bmla.co.uk and we will be able to guide you through whether this is possible, depending on the stage of the process.
What happens after you have submitted?
You will receive a confirmation email that your submission has been received. Your abstract will be sent for review after the deadline and you will be notified of the outcome by email by the end of March. Please note the notification email will be sent to the email given when you submitted your abstract.
You will then be asked to book a session with our technical team to pre-record your actual presentation in w/c 29th March 2021, as well as attend a briefing/rehearsal for the live Q&A element of your session/presentation. We are on hand to guide presenters through the whole process so if you have any queries please just Contact Us
Key Dates
- Friday 26 February 2021 (midnight UK time) - abstract submission deadline
- Friday 5 March 2021 (Midnight UK time) - abstract submission deadline extension
- Friday 5 March 2021 (midnight UK time) - Early Bird fee deadline
- March 2021 - abstract submission outcome notifications sent
- w/c 29 March 2021 - schedule pre-recording of presentations