EAST MANUSCRIPT /
PRESENTATION WEBINAR
Stanley J. Kurek, DO, FACS
Chair, Program Committee and Recorder
Juan Duchesne, MD, FACS
Chair, Publications Committee
Christine Eme, CAE, CMP
EAST Executive Director
CONGRATULATIONS!
PARTICIPANTS
▲ Sharven Taghavi
▲ Joshua Marks
▲ Valerie Sams
▲ Gal Levy
▲ David Morris
▲ Maryam Tabrizi
▲ Carol Reese
▲ Victor Ferraris
▲ Yamaan Saadeh
▲ Jane Hoff
▲ Hesham Ahmed
▲ Constantine Saites
▲ Jennifer Bishop
▲ Augustine Obirieze
▲ Pamela Young
▲ Serena Harris
▲ Thomas Chirchella
▲ Melanie Rose
▲ Tabitha Pederson
INTRODUCTION
▲ Registration:
• Information available on the EAST website
www.east.org
• Both Oral and Poster presenters are expected to
register for the meeting
• Please plan to attend the Awards Ceremony on
Friday January 13, 2012 at 11:30am
• All Alexander and Templeton contestants will be
recognized
• Winner of these competitions as well as Best
Manuscript will be announced
PRESENTATION TIPS
▲ Oral Presentations:
• Bring your slides on a CD of Thumb Drive. Personal
computers not allowed on the podium.

Must be provided to our AV associate no less than one
hour prior to your scheduled presentation time
• A Disclosure Slide is required to be shown at the
start of the presentation.
PRESENTATION TIPS
▲ Oral Presentations:
• Presentations are limited to 10 minutes. If you
exceed that time the session moderator may cut you
short.
• Invited discussants will then make their comments
from a separate podium.
• You will then have a brief opportunity to respond to
the discussants questions (have a pen available)
• Questions from the floor then accepted
• Total presentation/discussion is limited to 20
minutes
PRESENTATION TIPS
▲ Poster Presentations:
• Poster Professor Walk Rounds to be held on Friday,
January 13, 2012 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm.
• Setup
Poster Boards are 4 ft. high and 8 ft. wide
 You may set up your poster between 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
on Thursday, January 12, 2012. Must be up by 3:00pm.

PRESENTATION TIPS
▲ Poster Presentations:
• Please provide a succinct overview of your poster to
the team of Professors.
• The Professors will then lead a brief informal
discussion.
• Each Poster Professor needs to cover about 6
posters during the 90 minute session. So don’t rush.
You have about 15 minutes at your poster.
• When finished with the rounds please promptly
remove your poster. Unclaimed posters will be
discarded.
Journal of Trauma (JoT)
JoT 2012…………?
Manuscript Preparation Tips
▲ In 2012, JoT will be known as the Journal of Trauma and Acute
Care Surgery and edited by Dr. Ernest Moore. With a new editor
comes new editorial policies…
● Original articles are limited to 3000 words with 40 references
and a six tables and/or figures.
● Clinically-oriented papers must include a level of evidence at
the end of the abstract.
● JoT asks that all studies are reported in accordance with
international standards (i.e. CONSORT for clinical trials, PRISMA
for systematic reviews, MIAME for microarray studies, etc.)
● All articles require a detailed author contribution statement
placed after the manuscript’s main text.
For more information, please consult the Journal’s author
instructions online (http://edmgr.ovid.com/jt/accounts/ifauth.htm)
How to START your PROJECT?
▲ What is the PROBLEM?
▲ What is your HYPOTHESIS?
▲ What MEASUREMENTS are you going to take to
proof your hypothesis?
▲ Once the data is collected WHO is going to do your
STATISTICAL work?
▲ What the RESULTS SHOWED?........DO THEY MAKE
SENSE!!!!
▲ How they CORRELATE with MY HYPOTHESIS?
▲ How this results are going to change MY PRACTICE?
▲ FUTURE STUDIES
How to WRITE your PROJECT?
▲ HAVE A PLAN to do this……day /weekend/
night/music/bathroom???........FIND
INSPIRATION!!
▲ BRAINSTORM……TEAM EFFORT…..
DIVIDE and CONQUER!!!!
 TIMING TO WRITE A MANUSCRIPT
 4 WEEKS to write EAST MANUSCRIPT
▲ INTRODUCTION……2 DAYS
▲ METHODS…….2 DAYS
▲ RESULTS…….2 DAYS
▲ DISCUSSION……..7 DAYS
How to SUBMIT your PROJECT?
1)
Authors will be required to submit their manuscripts to JoT’s
online submission system (www.editorialmanager.com/jt ) and to EAST by
Thursday, December 1, 2011.
2)
3)
Manuscripts submitted to JoT’s online system and designated 2012
EAST Podium Paper or 2012 EAST Poster Paper will be assigned to
Dr. Duchesne as guest editor.
a.
Upon receipt, Dr. Duchesne (with the help of JoT Staff)
will send the manuscript to members of the EAST
Publications Committee pre-assigned to the manuscript.
b. Publications Committee members will review and
provide feedback using the JoT online system.
Once EAST Publications Committee members have filed their
reviews, Dr. Duchesne will issue a final recommendation to authors.
Manuscript s will be flagged in the system to indicate that they have
undergone EAST pre-review, and they will then be processed
as official submissions to the Journal.
Manuscript Review Deadlines
1)
Ten days before the Dec. 1st submission deadline, JoT will provide
Dr. Duchesne and Christine with a list of those who have not
submitted their manuscript to the online system. Dr. Duchesne will
contact corresponding authors (Podium presenters only) who have not
submitted their manuscript to JoT.
2)
The Publications Committee will not review any manuscripts submitted
after December 10, 2011. Manuscripts submitted after Dec. 10th will be
processed by JoT staff as regular original articles.
3)
Publications Committee Members will receive an email invitation to
review a manuscript. They will have 3 days to accept the invitation and
14 days to complete the review. JoT will monitor acceptance of
invitations and timely submission of reviews.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are
made by hard effort, which is the price which all of
us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never
falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes
before work. Hard work is the price we must pay
for success. I think you can accomplish anything if
you're willing to pay the price.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the
greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that
moment when he has worked his heart out in a
good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle
- victorious.
YOU…………..HERE!
EAST's 25th Annual Scientific Assembly January 10–
14, 2012 at Disney's Contemporary Resort
EAST's 25th Annual Scientific Assembly January 10–
14, 2012 at Disney's Contemporary Resort
Special Thanks
EAST acknowledges the Journal of Trauma and their
contributions to this presentation.
Ernest E. Moore, MD – Editor, Journal of Trauma
Jennifer Crebs – Managing Editor, Journal of
Trauma – jennifer.crebs@dhha.org