For the complete outline of Abstract Submission process, visit this posting on BC Centre on Substance Use site.
If you have any questions about the Abstract submission process, please contact [email protected] with “Conference Research Abstract Submission” or “Conference Community/Programmatic Abstract Submission” in the subject line.
Conference Dates: May 31st and June 1, 2024
For the 6th annual BC Substance Use Conference, we will be hosting a blended conference, with both virtual and in-person options for attendance. The in-person program will be held at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, and the audience will be a mix of researchers, health care providers, community partners, and people with lived and living experience.
The conference theme this year is From Idea to Implementation: Putting Evidence, Experience, and Ways of Knowing into Action. We hope this theme will facilitate discussions focused on ways to implement new and innovative research, clinical guidance, and accumulating clinical and lived experience into an accessible, flexible, inclusive, equitable, and person-centred system of substance use care that is able to adjust to the rapidly evolving needs of people who use substances.
To showcase the broad range of important work being done in the field of substance use care, oral and poster presentation opportunities are available to four key groups from across BC: Researchers and research teams, Regional Health Authorities (RHA), non-profit organizations, and community groups.
In order to facilitate an appropriately inclusive representation of the experience, expertise, and innovation that informs developments in substance use care in BC, we have defined two distinctive categories for work presented at the conference:
1) Community/programmatic abstracts (e.g., based on reports, evaluations, quality improvement projects or other programs/initiatives conducted within a Regional Health Authority, Community Action Team, or other similar setting/type of work)
2) Research abstracts – Research or Clinical focus (e.g., based on a systematic study or project)
Important Dates and Timeline
The call for abstracts is open!
Submission Deadline: February 26, 2024 – all abstracts must be submitted by this date via an online submission form.
Notification of Acceptance: March 8, 2024. The conference committee will review abstracts and notify all applicants by this date
Confirmation of Acceptance: March 15, 2024. Applicants will be required to confirm by email whether they will be presenting by this date.
Presentation and/or poster information to be submitted to UBC CPD by early April 2024 (more information to follow)
Conference Learning Objectives
- Identify approaches for implementing clinical guidance and public health programming that are responsive and tailored to a constantly shifting substance use landscape
- Describe strategies to assess and implement novel substance use treatments and innovative practices
- Describe emerging substance use research and strategies to advance substance use care, policy, programming, and advocacy
- Demonstrate culturally safe and humble approaches to substance use care and research that improve health and social outcomes for Indigenous people who use substances
- Practice person-centered strategies to engage people who use substances and their chosen families in the full spectrum of substance use care based on individual needs, goals, and preferences
Abstracts Must Include
- Presentation title (maximum 10 words)
- Presenter name, title, and contact details (and co-author(s), if applicable)
- Preferred presentation format: oral or poster*
- A maximum 350-word abstract
- A maximum 100-word description of how your abstract fits into the overall conference theme, “From Idea to Implementation: Putting Evidence, Experience, and Ways of Knowing into Action”.
*Note: Currently there are a limited number (~6-8) of oral presentation spots planned. If your submission is not successful for an oral presentation, it will still be considered for a poster presentation. If you would prefer a poster presentation, please indicate this with your submission.
For the complete outline of Abstract Submission process, visit this posting on BC Centre on Substance Use site.