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E-DRUG: International Social Pharmacy Workshop 2008: Call for Abstracts
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Dear Colleagues
 
 We sincerely hope that you will be able to join us and your colleagues for four days of education, enlightenment, entertainment, networking and convivial good fun!  

The theme for the workshop is "Globalisation, Pharmacy and Medicines? and the aim is to explore everything from education and workforce issues to counterfeit drugs and internet sales.  We especially invite critical perspectives and commentary.

 The Programme Committee has come up with some suggestions for presentation topics that you might like to be thinking about (see below).

The University of Auckland extends a warm welcome for visitors to New Zealand to visit the School of Pharmacy en route to the Workshop in Queenstown.  The School is co-located on the University's Grafton Campus with Medicine and Nursing, and is very close to the City Centre and 30 minutes taxi ride from the airport.  There will be opportunities to see the School's facilities and interact with staff.  If you want to stop over in Auckland, there's plenty to see and do, and we can advise where to stay.  Contact one of the Auckland team for further information (j.shaw@auckland.ac.nz).  

We invite pharmacists from all over the world to participate in the Workshop, to share their knowledge, meet up with old friends, make new friends, strengthen the social pharmacy network and to experience New Zealand's unique environmental, cultural and academic heritage.  We will leave one afternoon free for you to explore Queenstown - the adventure capital of the world - and its environs.  If  bungy jumping, jet boat riding, white water rafting, hang gliding or skiing do not appeal then how about a cruise on the lake in the vintage steamship, TSS Earnslaw, or a tour of the popular Central Otago wineries, or just relax on the balcony of your 4-star hotel overlooking the lake and snow-capped mountains.

 Please forward this message to anyone whom you think might be interested.  Further conference information such as calls for workshop, oral presentation and poster abstracts, and venue, registration and programme details will be posted on the new Social Pharmacy website at http://socialpharmacy.otago.ac.nz .  This is an interactive website that allows you to enter your own information including research interests, contact details and course materials for sharing with social pharmacy colleagues.

We are confident that your trip to New Zealand will be unforgettable and we look forward to seeing you in Queenstown in July 2008.  

Kind regards
Kath Ryan, John Shaw, Janie Sheridan and Fiona Kelly
Organising Committee
cdikecoglu@bournemouth.ac.uk
j.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz

Complete description and instructions follow

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/hsc/ispw.html

Introduction
The School of Health and Social Care (formerly the Institute of Health and Community Studies), Bournemouth University, UK and The School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, NZ are delighted to be hosting the 15th International Social Pharmacy Workshop at the Copthorne Hotel & Resort in Queenstown, New Zealand from Tuesday 8 July to Friday 11 July, 2008.  

http://socialpharmacy.otago.ac.nz

The following instructions will help you submit your abstract. 

Key Dates
Monday 1st October, 2007:  On-line abstract submission opens
Friday 18th January 2008:  On-line abstract submission closes
Friday 29th February, 2008:  Authors will be notified by email of the outcome of their abstract submission
Monday 17th March, 2008:  Authors to confirm attendance by registering for the conference before this date

The conference will welcome submissions about the following:

The theme for the conference is "Globalisation, Pharmacy and Medicines? and the aim is to explore everything from education and workforce issues to counterfeit drugs and internet sales:  Medicines as social phenomena including the place of medicines in society; medications as products and as representations; medication narratives and lay perceptions of medicines; the role of medicines in non-western health care (e.g. Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, indigenous health models such as those of the NZ Maori, Australian Aborigine, North American Indian, African); medicines in the medicalisation of social problems?
   
-	Pharmaceutical policy and access to medicines including everyone from the producers to the distributors of medicines.  Topics might include national and international medicines policies and issues such as ethics, economics, political systems, regulation, subsidisation, pricing, trade barriers, WTO (in full) influences/agreements, patent protection, intellectual property issues? 
-	The rise of the Internet including governance of health technologies; virtual learning environments; provision of consumer health and medicines information, the expert patient and the resistant consumer; the growing body of subjective knowledge? 
-	Pharmaceutical industry including industry perspectives, influences and responsibilities; research agendas, marketing activities (including direct-to-consumer advertising), factors influencing medicines? research and development ? 
-	Workforce recruitment & utilisation - developing country shortages, competency/reciprocity/portability of qualifications; interdisciplinary and international initiatives 

PRESENTATION OPTIONS
There will be four modes of presentation.

Posters - Posters will be displayed during the conference.

Oral Presentations (Research, Education, Policy and Opinion) - Oral presentations will be for 15 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion.

Oral Presentations (New and Emerging Researcher Abstracts) - Oral presentations will be for 10 minutes followed by a 10 minute discussion.

Workshops

Workshops will be for 2.5 hours.  There will be three categories:  
1.	Education Day workshops (July 8th);
2.	Methodological workshops (July 9th-11th). These workshops will include workshops on methodologies for social pharmacy research and also methodological issues for new and emerging researchers;
3.	Conference theme workshops (July 9th-11th).  These workshops should address the conference themes.

Please indicate your preferred mode of presentation at the end of your abstract. 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
There will be five categories of abstracts for ISPW 2008.  
1.	Research 
2.	Education (for Education day only)
3.	Policy and Opinion
4.	New and Emerging Researcher
5.	Workshop 

All abstracts will be independently peer-reviewed by two reviewers.  
At the end of your abstract, please indicate your category preference.  

ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED AFTER THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

1.  Research Abstracts
Your abstract should contain the following headings:
-	Introduction (including aims)
-	Method
-	Results
-	Discussion
Maximum abstract length: 500 words (excluding title and authors). Abstracts will not be accepted if no data or results are presented in the Results section.  Abstracts accepted for oral research presentations will be published in a supplement of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.  

2.  Education Abstracts
Your abstract should contain the following headings:
-	Introduction (including aims)
-	Method
-	Results
-	Discussion
Maximum abstract length: 500 words (excluding title and authors).
Abstracts accepted for oral education presentations will be published in Pharmacy Education.  

3.  Policy and Opinion Abstracts (oral presentation only)
There are no guidelines regarding the content or structure of these abstracts, however, the length should not exceed 500 words. Abstracts in this category could explore issues relating to policy and opinion associated with social pharmacy and social pharmacy research.  These abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee for relevance to the conference themes.  These abstracts will not be published.

4.  New and Emerging Researcher Abstracts (oral presentation only)
These abstracts should be from individuals who are starting out on their social pharmacy research, where support is needed for further development.  These abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee.  These abstracts will not be published.  The abstract length should not exceed 500 words. Abstracts should provide the following information:
-	Background
-	Research question
-	Current stage of research
-	Issues that the researcher would like to discuss with regard to their research 

5.  Workshop Abstracts 
These abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee.  The abstract length should not exceed 500 words. These abstracts will not be published.  Your abstract should contain the following headings:
-	Introduction
-	Aim of the Workshop
-	Learning Objectives
-	Description of workshop activities
-	Names of workshop leaders

You will be asked to indicate which type of workshop this abstract represents: Education; Methodological; or, ISPW 2008 Theme.

Abstract review process: 

Research and Education Abstracts
Each abstract will be anonymised and peer reviewed by two reviewers independently.  
A score of 0 to 5 will be assigned to each of the following components of the abstract: introduction (and aims), method, results, discussion, and alignment with conference themes. A global rating score of 0 to 5 will also be assigned.  The total maximum score will be 30.  
Authors will be notified of their abstract results by Friday 29th February 2008.  

Policy and Opinion, New and Emerging Researchers, and Workshop Abstracts 
Each abstract will be reviewed by the programme committee.  
The submitting author will receive notification of the abstract results via email.  If you have not received notification of your abstracts results by the due date, please contact the conference organisers on cdikecoglu@bournemouth.ac.uk
If successful, you will be required to confirm your acceptance of the invitation to present by 17th March 2008 and provide the name of the presenter, who must have registered for the conference.

Further instructions regarding presentation requirements will be provided in the invitation letter.

Contact

cdikecoglu@bournemouth.ac.uk or j.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz