Please find further details regarding abstracts for the 26th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting taking place at the Examination School, Oxford from Wednesday 27 – Friday 29 September 2023 

Submission categories are for

• Allied Health Professionals/CNS’
• Benign Upper GI
• Bariatrics
• Emergency Surgery
• HPB
• Upper GI Cancer 

Please note that abstracts accepted and presented at AUGIS 2023 will be published online with the British Journal of Surgery after the event.

Please contact nichola@augis.org if you have any queries.

If your abstract was accepted for presentation at the AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, you will have received and email confirmation from nichola@augis.org. Please contact nichola@augis.org if you have not received any notification with regards to your abstract submission.

Abstract accepted for submission will either be an oral presentation or poster presentation. Video presentations will either be in the Free Paper session or in the Poster Presentation session and your confirmation email will let you know further details. 

Please note that at least one of the abstract authors must register to attend the meeting. If the abstract author or co-author  does not register to attend AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, then the abstract will be withdrawn from the AUGIS 2023 Abstracts. 

Please see below for further details for presenting your accepted abstract at AUGIS. 

Please note that registration for AUGIS 2023 is mandatory for abstract presenters. 

Posters will be presented electronically on digital poster boards during the meeting and online through the AUGIS Conference App.  

Poster Presentation Information – Thursday 28 September 2023

Posters will displayed on the digital boards throughout the meeting in Room 7 (Ground Floor). Posters will also available on the AUGIS meeting app which will be available to all registered delegates.

At lunchtime on Thursday 28 September between 12:45 - 13:35 there will be a poster round. We ask the presenting author to attend the appropriate digital poster board for your category. Digital poster boards will be located in Room 7 , which is located on the ground floor of the Examination School.   

There will be 2 poster reviewers who will ask a couple of questions regarding your poster. This will not be onerous and take at most a couple of minutes. We can’t give a fixed time. If an author is not present the poster will not be considered for the prize. If you are unable to be present during Poster Review Session, the reviewers will not be able to mark your electronic poster.

Following on from the Poster Review session, the reviewers will award one poster from each category as the best poster from that category.

Submitting poster information

All posters must be submitted online via the Oxford Abstract portal. We would recommend that your poster is created in landscape format and must be saved as a one page pdf document before uploading on to the portal. The link to submit your poster is: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5503/submitter. We hope that poster presenters attend in person in Oxford and if a presenting author cannot attend in person the poster will not be considered for the Poster Prize.

Please ensure that only one author is presenting your poster and please contact nichola@augis.org if this information needs updating.

• Posters will be displayed on the online Conference App and electronically on electronic poster display boards at the meeting.
• Posters must be uploaded as PDF for display online and at the meeting.
• We would recommend that posters are in landscape format for both the online and electronic poster display boards
• The size of the digital screens are 55” - 65” and the resolution is 16:9
• There will be no requirement to bring a physical poster to the event
• Poster Presenters will be asked to be at the relevant electronic poster board during the lunch break on the Thursday 28 September.
• Poster presentations will not be considered for the poster prize if the presenter is not attending the meeting as a face to face delegate.
• Also please note that all posters will be available on the AUGIS 2023 Meeting Virtual platform and accessible to all delegates (whether attending in person or virtually). Please ensure that you tick to confirm you are happy for your poster to be available for delegates to download in the conference app.
• Click on the following link to upload your poster: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5503/submitter
• Click here to view the Poster Presentation list

Please upload your poster by Sunday 24th September 

Click on the following link to view information on which digital screen your poster will be electronically displayed in Room 7 (Ground Floor) during the meeting and for the Thursday lunchtime poster presentation session: Poster Digital Screen Information

• All presentations are to be compiled using Power Point and should be saved to a USB stick. Any video/film content should be supplied separately, either via USB or DVD and not embedded within the presentation.
• If you wish to send your presentation before the meeting, please upload to the following Dropbox folder by Sunday 24^th September 2023: https://www.dropbox.com/request/TggUroXLCJdcSflRBbuH
• If you upload your presentation beforehand please ensure you bring a copy of your presentation on the day in case of any technical issues
• Please ensure you name your presentation as follows: Surname_Day of Presentation_Category: eg: Bartlett_Thursday_HPB
• Please ensure that your presentations and/or videos are in 16:9 ratio
• Speakers will be required to provide their presentations to the Audio Visual Technician, from 12:00 on Wednesday afternoon and/or from 9am on Thursday
• Abstracts accepted for the Prize Paper Session on Wednesday 27th September will have 7 minutes for their presentation and 3 minutes for questions
• Abstracts accepted for the Free Paper Sessions on Thursday 28th September will have 7 minutes for their presentation and 2 minutes for questions.
• All presenters are asked to refer to the AUGIS Presenters Code of Conduct
• Click here to view the Free Paper and Prize Paper Session list

Video Submissions

If you would like to submit a video submission for the AUGIS 2023 Meeting, please follow the instructions below:

Please use the Abstract submission portal to submit your abstract and complete the relevant information: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5503/submitter

• Videos should be approximately 4 – 5 minutes in duration
• Non-professional productions and voice-over
• Please use a platform such as Vimeo or You Tube (private) and copy the link to your video into the relevant “Video Submissions” section on the abstract submission portal.
• Full details will follow for successful authors accepted for Video Presentations

AUGIS 2023 Abstracts