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Call for Abstracts

The 2025 Cabrini Research Forum is now accepting abstracts, we welcome submissions from all clinical and research disciplines.

Call for Abstracts

The Annual Cabrini Research Forum is an opportunity for all Cabrini researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals to promote research or quality improvement projects they are undertaking across Cabrini and/or in collaboration with other institutions.

  • We welcome submissions from all clinical and research disciplines.
  • Have you presented or published your work recently? Submit an abstract so that we can hear about your work too.
  • No matter what stage you are at in your career – novice, early career or an experienced investigator, we want to hear from you. The closing date for submitting an abstract has been extended until COB Monday 29 September.

Important dates and information to note:

  • The Cabrini Research Forum 2025 is an online research poster event. Please do not supply a printed poster. An oral presentation of the poster will be not be required.
  • Please ensure you have the appropriate HREC/RGO approval to present your project to a public facing audience.
  • A PDF file of your poster will be required by 20 October 2025.
  • The View and Vote Cabrini Research Forum event will be open online from 1 – 30 November 2025.
  • A number of Best Poster Awards are on offer in multiple categories. The event is also open to public vote. Only one vote per person will be recorded. The poster that receives the highest number of public votes will be awarded the People’s Choice Award. You are welcome to submit a vote as a presenting author.
  • Awards will be announced at the online Cabrini Research Session on Wednesday 3 December 2025.

Application process

  1. Prepare your abstract following the Abstract Guidelines detailed below.
  2. Complete the Online Abstract Submission form below and attach your abstract electronically by close of business Friday 19 September.
  3. All communications will be with the presenting author.

Abstract guidelines

  • Word count: no more than 300 words in the body of the text (i.e. not counting title, authors or institutions)
  • Format: Calibri font, size 11, left justify, single spacing, no blank lines; in word format
  • Title: Bold, lower case – Limited to less than 100 characters. No underlines or acronyms to be used in the title
  • Authors: First name followed by last name. Do not include titles and degrees. Underline submitting author. Insert institution identifying number after each author’s name if multiple institutions are involved, i.e. Mary Citizen1,2, Joe Bloggs3
  • Institution/Organisation: Include department if appropriate, institution, and city. Only add country if not Australia. Multiple institutions should be identified by a number and cross referenced with the authors (see above) i.e. 1Cabrini; 2Alfred, 3Monash University

Call for Abstracts Submission Form

  • Max. file size: 128 MB.

Questions

Emma Baker
P: 0419 593 889
E: ebaker@cabrini.com.au