Correlative Session Moderators

Owned by Shana Berezin
Last updated: Apr 02, 2024 by Cynthia Lagunas
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Suggestions for running an effective session:

  • Review the abstracts for your session in the ABA Annual Meeting app.

  • Arrive to 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. Please check the app to see how many abstracts will be in your correlative session. Notify the AV technician if a presentation is missing.

  • Meet the presenters prior to the beginning of the session to check pronunciation of their name.

  • Remind presenters they must 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.

  • 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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