Call for 2024 Proposal Submissions Now Open!

The annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), The Pregnancy Meeting™, will be held February 11 - 14, 2024 at the Gaylord National Harbor in National Harbor, MD. Click here to view the Schedule-at-a Glance. For questions or concerns, please contact Chloe’ Thomas, Director of Annual Meeting Marketing and Program at cthomas@smfm.org.
 
All proposals must be received through the submission site by Monday, May 15.
Status notifications will be sent to submitters by June 30.

The mission of the Society is to provide education and promote research that optimizes the health of high-risk pregnant individuals and their infants. The annual meeting is a centerpiece of the work of the Society, featuring postgraduate courses and workshops, roundtables and expert sessions, scientific forums, and poster presentations. The Pregnancy Meeting™ is the premier event for presenting and learning about cutting-edge science in obstetrics and provides participants the opportunity to connect with leaders and colleagues in maternal-fetal medicine.

SMFM COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY STATEMENT: As an organization representative of all maternal-fetal medicine specialists, the SMFM strives to encourage an atmosphere of inclusion. The Program Committee is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in all its forms including gender, race, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, geographic location, practice type, sexual orientation, age, and culture within our membership and especially in our leadership. It is the committee's goal to establishing programs that support these goals in an effort to build a culture that will attract the best and brightest physicians to our specialty, increase the research being conducted by a diverse population of researchers, foster the best educational exchange, and enhance patient care.

IMPORTANT: The Program Committee may suggest modifications to all portions of this proposal, including the proposed faculty in order to adhere to the Society's Commitment to Diversity Statement and/or ACCME's Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

All applications must be submitted via the Call for Proposal Submission Site and require a completed proposal intake form. The resources below should be used to prepare your submission.
 
- Download Proposal Intake Form
- Download Disclosure of Financial Relationships Form

FACULTY DISCLOSURE OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, Global Learning Collaborative (GLC) requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible company. GLC mitigates all conflicts of interest to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all educational programs. Link to Disclosure of Commercial Relationships form.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All participants (MFMs and nonMFMs) are required to register for the Annual Pregnancy Meeting scientific sessions. SMFM does not provide speaker honoraria or reimburse speaker travel expenses for faculty in the Scientific Sessions Program.

SMFM provides all postgraduate course faculty participants with complimentary registration for the postgraduate course they are presenting in addition to complimentary registration to the scientific sessions program and expo portion of the Annual Pregnancy Meeting held Monday, February 12 – Wednesday, February 14.

To qualify, speakers must present for a minimum of 20-minutes in a single course. Courses that include keynote presentations from luminaries outside of the subspecialty may apply for a special travel honoraria consideration (up to $1,000 for a half-day course and $2,000 for a full day course). Instructions on how to apply for a faculty travel honoraria exception will be provided upon course approval.

For questions or concerns, please contact Chloe’ Thomas, Director of Annual Meeting Marketing and Program at cthomas@smfm.org.  


TIMELINE
All proposals must be received by Monday, May 15 via the 2024 Call for Proposal Submission Site. Status notifications will be sent to submitters by Friday, June 30. The following are important dates planners and committee members. 

Monday, May 15: Course Chair(s) submit their Disclosure of Financial Relationships form.

Monday, July 17: All postgraduate course faculty are provided to SMFM staff to be added to the Faculty Management System.

Monday, July 31: All confirmed faculty can access the Faculty Management System.

Monday, September 11: Disclosure of Financial Relationships form due from all faculty.

Monday, November 6: Draft PPT Presentations due from all speakers for ACCME compliance review and approval.

Monday, December 4: Speakers are notified if they need to make changes to their PPTs prior to presentation.

Monday, January 29: Final presentations due from all speakers.

Friday, February 9: PPTs provided to the AV vendor – speakers will be able to update any PPTs onsite in the Speaker Ready Room.

Monday, February 19: All participants complete the faculty post meeting survey.

For questions or concerns, please contact Chloe’ Thomas, Director of Annual Meeting Marketing and Program at cthomas@smfm.org.