ABSTRACT EVALUATION AND SCORING
The Organizing Committee (OC) and 4-6 members of the Scientific Committee (SC) will review each abstract. The OC evaluates all submitted abstracts. Members of the SC are selected for abstract categories based upon their individual expertise.

OC and SC members are instructed to review the BLINDED abstracts for the quality and originality of the work and to score them numerically. All authors will be anonymous and the reviewers are instructed to abstain from scoring any abstract on which they are an author/co-author, have a financial or personal conflict of interest, or do not have the appropriate expertise to evaluate.

Scores for each abstract are averaged and the standard deviation is calculated to assess variability. If variability is high, outlier scores are identified and censored. Abstracts with high variability in scores are discussed individually.

ABSTRACT NOTIFICATION
Notifications of acceptance and format of presentation (oral or poster presentation) will be sent out on
May 1, 2009. Upon notification of acceptance of abstract, the presenting author must REGISTER for the Workshop. Guidelines for preparing your poster presentation will be sent if your abstract is accepted. Abstract presenters MAY NOT be changed after acceptance, without consent of the Organizing Committee.