National Sleep Foundation Preliminary Program Template
A preliminary program is a list of session topics, discussion leader names and speaker names. You are also encouraged to include a conference subtitle in order to better capture the cutting-edge focus of this particular meeting. The information you provide for the preliminary program will be used in National Sleep Foundation marketing materials. Please list your session topics and their respective speaker and discussion leader names in the area below. An example of a properly filled-out template is available on page 2 of this document, along with additional notes.
| Conference: |
| Subtitle (if applicable): |
| Session Topic 1: |
| Leader Name(s): |
| Speaker Names: |
| Session Topic 2: |
| Leader Name(s): |
| Speaker Names: |
| Session Topic 3: |
| Leader Name(s): |
| Speaker Names: |
| Session Topic 4: |
| Leader Name(s): |
| Speaker Names: |
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM EXAMPLE
The following is an excerpt from a properly filled-out preliminary program template:
| Conference: | Radiation Oncology |
|
Subtitle: |
Understanding the DNA Damage Response to Optimize Radiation Therapy |
| Session Topic 1: | Keynote Presentation: DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy - Exploitable or Not? |
| Leader Name(s): | |
| Speaker Names: | J. Martin Brown |
| Session Topic 2: | Increasing the Effects of DNA Damage in Tumors by Chromatin Modification |
| Leader Name(s): | Andre Nussensweig |
| Speaker Names: | Junjie Chen / Gary Kao / Xuetong Shen |
| Session Topic 3: | Modification of DNA Damage Checkpoints in Tumors and Normal Cells |
| Leader Name(s): | Helen Piwnica-Worms |
| Speaker Names: | David Cortez / Martin Lavin |
| Session Topic 4: | Adaptation From Checkpoints |
| Leader Name(s): | William Kaufmann |
| Speaker Names: | Marco Foiani / Jiri Bartek / David Toczyscki |
FORMATTING NOTES
Please try to follow the example formatting as closely as possible. Most notably, leave the “Session Topic:”, “Leader Name(s):” and “Speaker Names:” text as-is and simply fill in your information for each session. Please also keep the spacing of the speaker names consistent (one space before and after the “/” characters. Session titles should be in title case (capitalize all words except articles, prepositions and conjunctions).
IMPORTANT NOTES
It is not necessary to list “TBA” or “speakers to be selected from abstracts”, etc. in the template. If you do not yet have a discussion leader or speaker confirmed, simply leave the information for that session blank. You may send updates to the National Sleep Foundation at any time.
Please use session topic names that accurately describe the science in the session. Titles such as “opening session”, “special lecture”, “keynote speaker”, etc. by themselves do not indicate anything useful about the content of a session and as such do not make sense in the context of an advertisement. If you wish to include such titles in the ad, please qualify them with a subtitle that has appropriate meaning. For example, instead of simply listing “Keynote Presentation” as a session title, add the actual keynote topic as a subtitle (as shown in the example submission above).
