Submission of an abstract acknowledges your consent to the following.

• If accepted, your abstract may be published in the Congress program and abstract book publication, as well as in the Haemophilia journal.
• If accepted as an oral presentation, your PPT presentation may be posted on the WFH website on-site and post conference.
• If accepted as a poster presentation, you will display your poster at the Congress.

Abstract Submission and Review Timeline
The deadline for abstract submission is January 15, 2017 at 11:59pm EST. The results of the peer review will be announced from January 27 to February 10, 2017. The submitting author will be notified by email.

Presenting Author Registration
Presenting Authors must register to attend MSK 2017. If the Presenting Author is not registered by the registration deadline of Friday, February 12, 2017, the abstract will not be included in the final program.

Author Information
At the beginning of the abstract submission process, you will be asked to enter author information and affiliations. Please make sure that you ENTER THE PRESENTING AUTHOR IN THE FULL LIST OF AUTHORS, as well as in the presenting author field.

Disclosure of potential Conflict of Interest
If an author or immediate family member has had a substantial personal financial relationship relating to the support of the abstract, this relationship must be described. Such relationships include salaries, ownerships, equity positions, stock options, royalties, consulting fees and honoraria for speaking, material support and other financial arrangements. During the abstract submission process you will be asked to disclose any potential conflicts of interest.

Language of Abstract
Your abstract must be submitted in English.

Number of Submissions
Each author may present a maximum of two abstracts at the Congress. The number of submissions is, however, unlimited. Should an author have more than two abstracts accepted a co-author must be named as presenting author for one or more abstracts.

Title and Abstract Length
The abstract title is limited to 350 words (or 2,050 characters). Please use Title Case (capital letters to start the principal words) for your abstract title instead of all CAPITAL or all small letters. Abstracts should be no more than 350 words in length, not including the title. Please note that abstracts will be truncated at 350 words in the Congress program and abstract book if they run longer. If you incorporate a data table in your abstract, the table counts as 50 words against your 350 word total.

Submission Format
Prepare your abstract in MS Word. Do not use presentation software such as PowerPoint. If you incorporate a data table in your abstract, the table counts as 50 words against your 350 word total.

Presentation Format
Please select one of the following presentation options during online abstract submission:

• Free paper (oral presentation)
• Poster

Authors selecting free paper as their preference may be offered a poster presentation if not selected for an oral.

Abstract Categories

• Surgical
• Non-Surgical