Welcome to all Presenters of the 2025 AAST Annual Meeting of Clinical Congress & Acute Care Surgery!

Notes for all Presenters

AAST's AV Guidelines can be found here
Feel free to use AAST's PowerPoint template for your presentation
Please structure your disclosure slide to include the language here
The slides to your presentation are to be uploaded to Speaker Ready Room (Room: Provincetown)
Slides are to be uploaded in the Speaker Ready Room at least four (4) hours prior to your presentation

Speaker Ready Room Times (Room: Provincetown)

Oral Presenters

Please remember to upload your manuscript to BOTH the Cadmium Website and to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS: https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/default.aspx) by Friday, August 1st
To view the JTACS submission instructions, click here
Please note: the above are two separate submissions and you must complete both. This date is non-negotiable and failure to upload by this date will make you and your institution ineligible to present for two years (2026 and 2027). A letter will also be sent to your chairman. Please make sure you mark them in your calendar
If there is a speaker change, please let [email protected] know ASAP
You will take ten (10) minutes to complete your presentation. After your presentation is complete, the discussant will ask their questions, which will take a maximum of five (5) minutes. The remaining five (5) minutes you will respond and then take questions from the audience (if time allows)

Quickshot Presenters

Please remember to upload your manuscript to the Cadmium Website (link sent via email) by Friday, August 1st
Please note this year it is mandatory for quickshots to submit your manuscript to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS, www.jtrauma.com) by Friday, August 1st
To view the JTACS submission instructions, click here
Please note: the above are two separate submissions and you must complete both. This date is non-negotiable and failure to upload by this date will make you and your institution ineligible to present for two years (2025 and 2026). A letter will also be sent to your chairman. Please make sure you mark them in your calendar
You will have three (3) minutes to present a maximum of 5 slides (not including the title and disclosure slides). The discussant will ask two (2) very objective questions, which should take no more than two (2) minutes. You will have one (1) minute to answer your two questions. The moderator will stop you or the discussant if you go beyond the time allotted for your presentation
The two questions from your moderator will be sent to you by Friday, September 5th
If there is a speaker change, please let [email protected] know ASAP

Poster Presenters

All presenters are required to submit their poster to the designated Google Drive no later than 11:59 PM PST on Monday, September 1st. An email containing Drive access to submit your poster has been sent. Please contact Kaitlyn Sanders if not received.
Although not mandatory, AAST suggests submitting your manuscript to the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS, www.jtrauma.com) or to Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (TSACO, tsaco.bmj.com)
The poster session will be held on Thursday, September 11th from 12:30-1:30 PM EST
Format: you will present for four (4) minutes, then two (2) minutes will be allocated for questions from the poster professors/attendees

Notes

A section at the top of the poster must contain the Title, Authors, and Affiliations – feel free to use the PDF as the template for your poster
Files must be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file format
PDFs should be formatted landscape, 8.5 x 11 inches (or similar)
All posters will be shown on a ~75” TV screen. Please ensure that your poster is readable up to four feet from the screen
If there is a speaker change, please let Kaitlyn Sanders know ASAP

Military Fallen Surgeons Educational Symposium Presenters

Your presentation should be no more than seven (7) minutes. Three (3) minutes will be used for audience questions. There is no maximum/minimum number of slides required
Feel free to use the military slide template
All slides are to be uploaded to the Google Drive sent by [email protected] by noon PST on Friday, September 5th

84th Annual Meeting of AAST & Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery