Research Day

This year's Research Day event will take place in-person on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, from 11:30am-4:00pm, at the California Endowment (Center for Healthy Communities Los Angeles): 1000 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. There will also be a morning Faculty Development Session, by invitation only. RSVPs for this event have now closed. 

There is free, but limited, on-site parking at the Endowment. Please carpool or take public transportation if possible. To be more environmentally conscious, we ask that you please wear your ID badge in lieu of us providing disposable name tags. 

Lunch will be provided at the start of the afternoon session. Please plan to arrive by 11:30am, as the keynote speech will start promptly at noon, and you will need to check-in, help yourself to some lunch, and find a seat prior to the start of the keynote address. 

In addition to our keynote address, we will have two lectern sessions, and two poster sessions (please see the agenda below for more information). We encourage attendees to arrive at the start of the event and stay until the end to support all presenters. We will have a gift card raffle at the end of the event; you must be present to win! Research Day will end at 4pm, allowing attendees plenty of time to get on the road prior to the after-work rush. 

Throughout the two 40-minute Poster Sessions, we encourage attendees to visit all three break-out rooms to view all abstract and case report posters and ask questions of the authors. Twice per session, those presenting abstracts will provide 60-second oral summaries of their projects in each breakout room. This year all medical student posters can be found in the Mojave room, including the health disparities research posters presented by the 2024 UCLA Underrepresented in Medicine Center of Excellence (UIM-COE) Discovery Year Research Program medical students.

Please click here for our Event Flyer.

Event Program

Please click here for the unabridged Program (PDF) with the full text of all abstracts and case reports for this year's events.

Information for Presenters

Authors who submitted abstracts or case reports for this year's Research Day were contacted in April informing them if their submission was accepted. As a reminder, only the Contact Author listed on the submission form received this correspondence, and they were responsible for sharing all communications from the Committee with their teams. (If you submitted but did not receive anything from the committee, please contact Laura Sheehan).

This year eight submissions were selected for lectern presentations. If you were selected for a lectern this year, please refer to the email from the Committee for details on what is expected and to determine which session you are assigned. Click here for more guidance on preparing your lectern presentation.   

There will be two Poster Sessions this year, each 40-minutes in duration. We will have three break-out rooms where both research abstract and case report posters will be displayed. Abstract and Case Report authors should refer to the email from the Committee for more details and to determine which session and room they are assigned to. Attendees are encouraged to visit all three rooms during each session to view posters and ask questions of the authors.

Those authors whose research abstracts were selected for poster presentations are asked to prepare a 60-second oral summary (AKA "elevator pitch"), to be presented twice during their assigned Poster Session. Abstract authors should refer to the email from the Committee for more details. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear these oral summaries at the 10- and 25-minute mark of each Poster Session. (See the Agenda below for more details). 

Click here for more guidance on preparing your abstract or case report posters.