12th Annual UPMC Symposium: PittMcGowan Wound Care Consortium – Poster Abstracts
October 24-25, 2025
Improving Clinical Care Through Cutting-Edge Science
This conference is designed to provide state-of-the-art information and best practice guidelines in the treatment of acute and chronic wounds. Both medical and surgical management strategies to optimize wound healing will be addressed.
Poster Guidelines
Please review the following resources from each of the categories below:
General Poster Information
Dos:
- Site at least three current references published within the last 5-7 years.
- All recommendations for patient care must be based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning, while giving a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
- All scientific research referred to, reported, in support or justification of patient care recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
- If applicable, evolving topics are presented without advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.
Don’ts:
Educational materials should not contain:
- Any marketing produced by or for an ineligible company (aka industry), including corporate or product logos, trade names, or product group messages.
- Unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing health care that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
- Any active promotion or offers to sell products or services that serve the presenter’s professional or financial interests.
- Links to any ineligible company or product website.
- Images or pictures that include products with trade or company names visible.
Common mistakes made in poster development:
- Use of company name
- HPI data included
- Use of trade names instead of generic terms (including wound care products and pharmaceuticals)
All posters will be reviewed. If errors are in place that will affect the terms outlined, you will be asked to make corrections.
Virtual Poster Upload Link
Paper Poster Set-Up
- Up to 30 abstracts in total will be selected for poster display (due to space/display limitations).
- All posters will be displayed as traditional posters.
- You will be provided with a freestanding 4 feet x 6 feet cork poster board on which to display your materials. Do not move the location of your poster. THE POSTER SHOULD BE SMALLER THAN THE 4’X6’ CORK DISPLAY BOARD.
- Materials should be on thin poster paper, cardboard, or fabric. Anything heavier will not stay in position.
- You will be provided with push pins and clips for use in attaching your poster to the cork board.
- Copies of the poster are the only handouts that will be permitted and should measure 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches.
- No materials should extend beyond the perimeters of the board (above, below, or on the sides).
- Please do not write or paint on the poster boards. Do not use double-faced tape.
- Do not leave anything on the floor near or under the poster board once it is set up. This is a safety hazard.
- Follow the established schedule for set-up and teardown times. There will be directions in the poster hall. Any losses incurred by late teardown are the responsibility of the poster presenter.
- Projection equipment, videotape recorders, and electrical outlets will not be available in the poster session area.
On-Site Schedule
- Poster set-up will be held on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 24 from 6 to 8 a.m.
- All presenting authors are required to attend the “Meet the Poster Authors” session on Friday, Oct. 24 from 12:50 to 1:20 p.m.
- Poster winners in each category will be announced during the general session on Friday, Oct. 24 from 3 to 3:10 p.m.
- Poster pick-up is Saturday, Oct. 25 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Posters must be picked up by 3 p.m. from the poster hall. Posters left after this time will be discarded!
The Symposium Planning Committee is not responsible for missing or discarded posters.
Preliminary Poster Session Dates and Times (subject to change)
Thursday, Oct. 23
7 to 9 p.m. – Poster Set-Up
Friday, Oct. 24
6 to 8 a.m. – Poster Set-Up
8 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. – Open Poster Viewing:
12:50 to 1:20 p.m. – Meet the Authors (*must be present)
3 to 3:10 p.m. – Poster Merit Awards Announced
Saturday, Oct. 25
8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. – Open Poster Viewing
1:30 to 3 p.m. – Poster Pick-up
Poster Certificates
All submitted abstracts undergo a rigorous peer review process to determine acceptance for poster presentation at the conference. The top scoring posters in each category are then peer reviewed during the event to determine winners for the categories of Case Study, Practice Innovation, Research, and People’s Choice. Announcements will be held during the General Session on Friday, Oct. 24 from 3 to 3:10 p.m.
