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Review the abstracts for your session in the Abstract Bookthe ABA Annual Meeting app.
Suggestions for Running an Effective Session:
Arrive in the room approximately 15 minutes prior to the session so you have time to check in with the co-moderator.
Check to make sure all abstract presenters’ PowerPoint presentations have been downloaded onto the computer in the room. There should be 8 abstracts assigned to your session. If Please check the app to see how many abstracts will be in your correlative session. Notify the AV technician if a presentation is missing notify the AV technician.
Meet the presenters prior to the beginning of the session to check pronunciation of their name.
Remind presenters they must also verbally disclose and have a disclosure slide in their presentation and also verbally disclose. If you have a financial relationship with an ACCME-defined ineligible company, you must disclose it verbally to the audience. View the ACCME Accreditation rules here: ACCME Accreditation Rules
Introduce the abstract, authors, and the presenter.
Keep the presentations on time.
Each abstract presenter has 10 minutes to present with 5 minutes for questions (You may need to cut a presenter short to be respectful of all the presenters in the session).
As a moderator, it is also your job to set the tone of the session.
Prepare at least one question for each abstract in case there are no questions from the audience
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