[#DIV28SUPER] 2020 APA Convention Call for Submissions

Hello All,

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2019 APA Convention and a special thanks to Meredith Berry for putting together an excellent program. With one convention ending, it is time to begin thinking about making plans to attend the next.

The 2020 APA Convention will be held in Washington, DC from August 6th to 9th 2020. It's never too early to start thinking about next year's meeting and we hope that you can set aside time to join us in DC. Our goal is to put together a strong program that highlights the many contributions of Division 28 members, especially those of you who conduct preclinical research, are early career investigators, or may have never attended convention (or placed a long post-reinforcement pause since last attending).

The first deadline for submissions is Friday October 11th 2019 for collaborative symposium. For those of you unfamiliar with collaborative symposium process, these sessions encourage the many divisions of APA to work together on highly collaborative and interactive sessions for a wide target audience. These sessions are both prestigious and advantageous for our division as they do not count against the total time we have to schedule events at convention. Recent examples of successful collaborative symposium from Division 28 include topics ranging from Psychedelic-Assited Therapy to Crowdsourcing Research to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Attached to this email is an example of one of these submissions to help guide sessions you may be considering putting together.

As a part of encouraging new members to attend convention, we have also started a Division 28 convention session planning sheet. This sheet should act as a way to facilitate communication for those of you with symposium ideas or interests, but unsure who or where to turn to next. Should anyone be interested in learning more about the submission process, feel free to contact me (jstric14@jhmi.edu). I will also reach out to individuals that express interest on overlapping topics in the hope of acting as a guide in the APA submission process and in linking up similar-minded folks.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oH-HRT-gXxqKaCykfq54saaMhiYJtCApfP30eHuCjnQ/edit?usp=sharing

For those you not currently working on a collaborative symposium submissions, don't fret! Remember that we also welcome and encourage regular symposium or poster abstract submissions for the December 2nd deadline. More information on that as well as additional opportunities for graduate students and early career investigators will be forthcoming.

APA convention is an excellent opportunity to interface with your fellow psychopharmacologists and other psychological science colleagues and I hope that everyone considers attending!

Best,

Justin Strickland

APA Division 28 2020 Program Chair

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Justin C. Strickland, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Phone: (410) 550-1975