Call for Abstracts

Presentation Types 

Authors were able to indicate their preferred presentation format when submitting an abstract. 

The final decision on acceptances and on publication and presentation formats was at the discretion of the Organising Committee. All abstracts underwent a blind review. 

There are two types of presentation formats. Presenters could select either 'Oral' or 'Poster', or 'Oral or Poster' if they wished to be considered for either. See below for further information on each of these presentation types.  

Oral Presentation Poster Presentation Oral or Poster Presentation

Themes

The following themes are broad and inclusive. Submitters were asked to nominate their primary theme during the submission process. A secondary theme could also be chosen, if appropriate. 

• Adenomyosis
  
• Allied health, complementary and alternative management
• Behavioural health, medicine and psychosocial considerations
• Biological mechanisms
• Clinical management
• Diagnosis of endometriosis
• Digital health and artificial intelligence
• Epidemiology, co-morbidities and risk factor(s)
• Experimental models of endometriosis
• Fertility and infertility in endometriosis
• Genetic and -omics technologies
• Lived experiences and quality of life in endometriosis
• Models of care in endometriosis
• Molecular profiling and high throughput technologies
• Pain and endometriosis
• Pathogenesis and aetiology of disease
• Personalised medicine and endometriosis
• Public health policy and global challenges
• Surgical management
• Surgical videos
• Translational science/medicine
  

The Congress welcomed submissions from any other themes not mentioned above. 

WES International Travel Grants

The World Endometriosis Society (WES) has made available a limited number of international travel grants to support attendance at the Congress.  To be eligible to be considered for an international travel grant you must:

• be a current WES Member
• be an Early Career applicant (see definition below) 
• reside outside of Australia
• submit an abstract and be accepted to present in the program

If you wish to be considered for an international travel grant, you must indicate at the time of submitting your abstract.

Awards and Prizes

A number of awards and prizes will be offered to Early Career (EC) applicants who are accepted to present in the program.  

To be eligible for these awards, the lead author/presenter must be an EC at the time of the Congress. An EC is defined as 15 years FTE post medical school for clinical/10 years post PhD for all other categories. 

If you wish to be considered for these awards and prizes, you must indicate at the time of submitting your abstract. 

Rodolphe Maheux and David Healey Awards

The Rodolphe Maheux Award is applicable to Early Career Clinicians and the David Healey Award is applicable to Early Career Scientists*. The winners of these awards will be determined pre-Congress from the top scoring oral clinical abstract and top scoring oral scientific abstract. 

The winners of these awards will be invited to present in the Early Career plenary session. 

*Clinicians no longer providing clinical care can nominate for the David Healey Award. 

Presentation Awards

Presentation Awards will be judged and awarded onsite at the Congress as follows: 

• Best Oral Presentation by an EC Clinician 
• Best Oral Presentation by an EC Scientist
• Best Poster Presentation by an EC Researcher (selected from the top 24 digital poster presentations)

Abstract Template

Abstracts were required to be submitted using the guidelines in the below template. 

Abstract Submission Amendments

As the deadline for submission has passed and the review process is underway, abstracts can no longer be amended unless a direct request has been sent from the Congress Office. 

Abstract Notification and Acceptance

The details provided as the author contact should be for the nominated main contact for your abstract. Communiation relating to the submission will be directed to this person and they should in turn distribute to all co-presenters.

Abstract review results were communicated to the author contact on Tuesday 17 December 2024. 

Acceptance of offers are required to be advised to the Congress Office by no later than 5pm AEDT on Friday 17 January 2025. 

Author Registration

The invitation to submit an abstract does not constitute an offer to pay travel, accommodation or registration costs associated with the Congress. Similarly, no presenter fee is paid to successful participants. 

Presentations must be delivered in person and the ability and willingness to present in Sydney will be a condition of acceptance in the program.

The nominated presenter of successful submissions must register to attend the Congress before 5pm AEDT on Friday 14 March 2025 in order for the presentation to be included in the Congress program. Should you subsequently wish to change the presenting author to another co-author, please advise the Congress Office in advance. 

Further Enquiries

For any enquiries regarding abstract submission please contact the Congress Office.