A few key items:

• The NHPM 2007 Reception and Poster Session will be in the Serra Ballroom, 7:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M., Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

• All Abstracts will be printed in the Proceedings and available online at this web site after the meetings are completed.

• All posters must be set up on Tuesday, September 11, between 7:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M.. in the Serra Ballroom (push pins will be provided on site). Posters should be taken down by Thursday, September 13, no later than 11:00 A.M. Unclaimed posters will be discarded.

• All posters will be up for the duration of the meeting.

• At least one of the authors must be present at the assigned poster during the official poster session hours of 7:00 P.M.– 9:30 P.M., Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

• If you become unable to present your poster, please make arrangements for one of your co-authors to do so. Please contact Jen Hester, Conference Coordinator, regarding any changes in presenters.

• Individual handouts relative to poster presentations are popular and encouraged. However, compilations of posters by industry are not permitted.

Poster guidelines are the following:

• Poster boards are 4 ft.(1.2meters) tall and 8 ft.(2.4 meters) wide. Pushpins will be provided, but you may want to bring your own, just in case we run out of them.

• Poster should be easily read at a distance of 5 feet (see following section on poster layout for font sizes).

• A poster printed on one large sheet of matte or semi-gloss paper is encouraged.

• Layout:

The poster number assigned to the poster should be placed in the upper left-hand corner of the display.

Include the title of the presentation in large letters (no smaller than 72 point), the authors' names (no smaller than 36 point), and the institution(s) where the work was completed (no smaller than 26 point) at the top center of the poster.

Place your mailing and e-mail addresses and telephone and fax numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the poster.

A reproduction of the abstract placed in the upper left side of the poster is suggested as are the Introduction and Summary/Conclusions sections of your poster.

Audiovisual equipment, transparency cases, or X-ray film viewboxes cannot be used in a poster exhibit. Only text graphs, photographs, and artwork may be placed on the poster board.

Your poster must be portable: either flexible enough to be rolled or small enough to carry or pack.

Double space lines of text. Body text should be no smaller than 20 points and preferably in a serif font. For the type face, use a limited range of fonts and sizes. Two fonts, one for headings and one for blocks of text, are adequate. Continuous text or figure captions can be read more rapidly in a serif font such as Times New Roman or Garamond. Headings have more impact in a sans serif font such as Helvetica or Arial.

Data should be clear, concise, and well organized.

Captions are often necessary below each graphic to amplify its content for the detailed reader. Captions for graphics should be no smaller than 16 points and preferably in a serif font.