The Syrian American Medical Society is pleased to announce a call for scientific abstracts for the year 2011, which will take place during SAMS 12th Annual Medical Convention July 4-7, 2011, in Aleppo, Syria.
The first day to accept submission for poster and oral presentation is January 15th, 2011. First authors are limited to 1 submission and last authors to 2 submissions. Areas of interest include all medical and surgical fields (including internal medicine sub-specialties, pediatrics, neurology, OB/GYN and Surgery).
Scientific Abstracts: Clinical or basic research in all aspects of medical and surgical fields (including internal medicine sub-specialties, pediatrics, neurology, OB/GYN and Surgery).
Case Reports: Interesting and unique reports describing a single case or multiple cases with or without literature review.
All submissions must be submitted through email (Word or Adobe files) to the following address (research.sams@gmail.com), using the attached template.
The online submission deadline is: APRIL 2, 2011 (11:59 pm USA Pacific time).
All abstracts will be reviewed and those accepted will be notified by the scientific research organizers. Abstracts will be either accepted for poster or oral presentations. Initial submission is limited to 500 words (not including headings, title and institution/address). Each abstract should have the following sequence if possible: Background, aim, method, results, and conclusion. Authors will be notified by their acceptance or rejection by May 2nd. All accepted abstracts will be judged by an independent scientific committee and best three will be selected for awards.
Please join us in Aleppo and help make this one of our most successful conferences ever!

Aref Al-kali, MD
Abdul Ghani Sankri-Tarbichi, MD, PhD
Scientific Research Organizers


Tarek Kteleh, MD
Ayman Saleh, MD
SAMS, 12th Convention, Co-chair