EASD Eye Complications Study Group

This text has been approved by EASDec members at the General Assembly in Rome in May 2007.
An amendment was approved at the Oxford meeting in 2009.
Previous versions were approved at meetings in Coimbra in 2005 and Munich in 2004.

The EASDec is a study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). EASDec members include all the participants of the previous meetings.

Composition and role of the EASDec Board

The EASDec board is composed of five members: President, Vice-President, Past-President, Secretary and Treasurer. It is renewed every three years.

A Diabetologist or an Ophthalmologist should alternate as President. The Vice-President is elected every 3 years by the EASDec members during the annual General Assembly. He or she will be the future President who must be a diabetologist or an ophthalmologist in accordance with the above rule. The Secretary is elected every 3 years by the EASDec members during the annual General Assembly. The Treasurer is chosen by the President.

The EASDec board is responsible for the organisation and scientific programme of the Annual Meeting.

Annual Meeting of the EASDec Study Group

The Annual Meeting takes place every year in a European city selected by EASDec members during the annual General Assembly. The meeting is organised by a local committee approved and overseen by the EASDec board.

Scientific program

The annual General Assembly must be included in the program.

Eva Kohner Award and Lecture

At each Annual Meeting a named lecture will take place in recognition of Professor Eva Kohner, first President of EASDec. The award will be made by the EASDec board to a senior scientist in recognition of their important contribution to knowledge in the field of diabetic eye disease and its complications.

Abstract selection and publication.

Abstracts are evaluated by the EASDec board in a masked fashion. Members of the board are excluded from the evaluation of abstracts from their own department.

Text should be presented in Times Roman 12 pt, single spaced. Abstract title sections should follow the style in the example below.

HIGH GLUCOSE CONDITIONED MATRIX ENHANCES APOPTOSIS OF HUMAN RETINAL PERICYTES
E Beltramo,¹ K Nizheradze,² E Berrone,¹ S Tarallo,¹ M Porta.<sup>1

1</sup>Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Turin - Italy
²Laboratory of Biomarkers, Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, Kiev - Ukraine

The subsequent body text should be structured containing section titles: purpose/background, methods, results, conclusions.

Do not include

• references
• identifiers of the authors or institution within the body text

Abstracts will be rejected if they do not follow the submission guidelines, contain no data or comprise single case reports.

Accepted abstracts for papers and poster will be published. Submitting authors will be required to confirm that the abstract contains no data that has been previously published.

Participants whose oral presentation is accepted but who fail to attend the meeting and do not give notice of their absence will not be entitled to submit an abstract for two years.

EASDec Travel Grants

Travel grants are awarded by the EASDec Board to younger researchers whose abstracts are accepted for the meeting and deemed to be of the highest scientific quality. The following conditions apply:

• age less than 35 years at the time of the meeting
• selection of a submitted abstract for its high scientific quality
• not to have been awarded a grant previously
• only one grant to be awarded per country
• the Applicant should be the first Author and the Presenter.

Award recipients will be notified not less than 6 weeks prior to the Annual Meeting.

Awards will cover all registrations to the EASDEC meeting, hotel expenses and travel to a maximum of €1500.

Budget

The EASDec Study Group income includes registration fees, support from pharmaceutical companies and any surplus from the previous meeting. Registration fees must be as low as possible. They are reduced for participants aged less than 35 years.

At least 10000 euros should be allocated by the local organisers of each meeting for the preparation of the next Annual Meeting. 50% of any additional surplus will be transferred to an account held by the Treasurer on behalf of the EASDec. Support for the running of the website is required within the budget of each meeting.