Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons 78^th Annual Meeting

June 3-7, 2025

Hilton Toronto Downtown Hotel, 145 Richmond Street West, Toronto

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW CLOSED

Deadline: February 7, 2025, midnight

Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract to our 2025 meeting! Please note that all final status will be determined before the end of March. Thank you for your patience.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto from June 3-7, 2025, for the 78^th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons to be held at the Hilton hotel.  The theme for this year’s CSPS meeting is: “Bridging the gap between Community and Academic Plastic Surgeons”.  We have an exciting program planned!

General Overview (More details to come!)

• Tuesday June 3, 2025, Canadian Society for Surgery of the Hand Meeting (CSSH) and pre-meeting hand workshops.
• Wednesday June 4, 2025, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting including the Group for the Advancement of Microsurgery (GAM) including free papers and Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Educational Foundation Symposium.
• Thursday June 5, 2025, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting including CSPS guest speaker, panel topic, Canadian expert talks, free papers, Young Plastic Surgeons symposium, Canadian Plastic Surgery Nurses’ symposium.
• Friday June 6, 2025, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting including CSPS AW Farmer Lecture, panel topic, Canadian expert talk, residents’ corner papers, resident and medical student poster competition, meet the professor talk.
• Saturday June 7, 2025, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting including panel topic, Canadian expert talks, free papers, planetary health award talk, beyond the knife talks.

This is a call for abstracts for free papers and posters in the CSPS meeting. Some important points regarding abstract submission:

• We encourage CSPS members, both in academic practice and community practice. to submit abstracts for the upcoming meeting. If you have a medical student working on your project, please consider having the Plastic surgeon as the presenter of the work.
• All abstracts are reviewed by an abstract review committee. Following up on the environmental sustainability theme of last year’s meeting, the project abstracts will be evaluated with planetary health in mind.
• You will need to indicate the category of your registration. Options include CSPS member, non member plastic surgeon which includes fellows (non-members will be required to list the name and contact information of a CSPS sponsor)  CSPS junior member (resident in a Canadian plastic surgery residency program), or a medical student/undergraduate student/post graduate student (these students will also be required to list the name and contact information of a CSPS sponsor).
• You will also be required to indicate which part of the meeting you are submitting an abstract (GAM, CSPS resident’s corner, CSPS main meeting free papers). For submissions to GAM, the category of the free paper should be microsurgery. For CSPS resident’s corner or the remaining CSPS meeting free papers, categories include Breast, Aesthetic, Burn and Wound, Pediatric and Pediatric craniofacial, Adult craniofacial and trauma, Microsurgery, Hand, General reconstruction, Other. Please check the most appropriate category.
• Plastic Surgery residents submitting an abstract to the meeting, whether to Residents Corner or to the other portions of the CSPS meeting or to GAM, must be officially enrolled and currently training in a Canadian plastic surgery residency program with CSPS Junior Member status (download the Junior Member application form). Residents are reminded that only one paper per resident can be entered for judging in the resident’s corner competition. Residents will be asked to indicate their willingness to present their work as a poster if not selected as a podium presentation.
• The CSPS program committee is inviting the program directors from each of the 13-plastic surgery residency training programs in Canada to submit the top completed project from their program to be included in the resident’s corner competition. A separate email has already been sent to the program directors. The remainder of the resident’s corner competition slots will be selected from submissions made to this call for abstracts.
• Residents who will be presenting a poster will need to be available to present their poster to the judges on the selected day.
• Medical student/undergraduate/post graduate student abstracts accepted for podium presentation or for a poster must have the sponsoring CSPS member (Plastic Surgeon) in attendance during the oral presentation or when the poster is presented to the judges.
• Podium presentations will be a maximum of 5 minutes in length.
• Posters are to be a maximum of 4 feet x 4 feet.
• Abstracts, podium and posters may be in either official language: English or French.
• Abstracts must be 300 words or less under the following 5 headings: 1. Purpose, 2. Method, 3. Results, 4. Conclusions and 5. Learning Objectives (a maximum of three sentences describing 1-3 learning objectives of your presentation, i.e. what will your audience learn from this talk, not the same as “Conclusions”. (Click for document on Writing Learning Objectives).
• Please note that the deadline of February 7, 2025 midnight is firm.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Frankie O. G. Fraulin MD FRCSC
Vice President and Program Chair
Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons