EAPCCT CONGRESS 2019 39th Congress of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

21-24 May

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> Congress venue and dates

CONGRESS VENUE AND DATES

The 39th International Congress of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists will be held at the Terminal Napoli SpA, Centro Congressi, Stazione Marittima, Naples, Italy, from Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 May 2019.

LOCATION

Terminal Napoli SpA Centro Congressi Stazione Marittima 80133 Napoli Porto, Italy www.terminalnapoli.it

CONGRESS SECRETARIAT

Maria Cubi, 4 - Pral. 08006 Barcelona Spain Tel. +34 932.388.777 [email protected]

Dr Davide Lonati, General Secretary EAPCCT Pavia Posion Centre and National Toxicology Information Centre, Toxicology Unit, IRCCS Maugeri Foundation and University of Pavia, Italy [email protected]

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> Registration desk opening times

Registration desk opening times and technical secretariat schedule are outlined below:

> May 21st: from 08:00 am to 05:30 pm > May 22nd: from 07:30 am to 06:00 pm > May 23rd: from 08:00 am to 06:45 pm > May 24th: from 08:30 am to 05:30 pm

Please go to the registration desk upon arrival to the venue to collect your congress documents.

GOING PAPERLESS

The EAPCCT will prepare a printed programme overview; the full programme and abstracts will be provided on a memory stick / pen drive and published on the congress website. The educational material for the pre-congress will also be available on the memory stick / pen drive for registered pre-congress participants. Keeping printed paper to a minimum also means that a congress bag is not deemed essential and the EAPCCT has decided not to produce a bag for 2019. We trust you will support us in our aim to reduce waste and thus help the environment. Congress registration fees have been kept stable for 2019.

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> On-site registration fees during the congress

PRE-CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM

EAPCCT members €150 AACT/APAMT members €180 Non-members €200

The registration fee for the pre-congress symposium includes participation in the educational pre-congress, coffee breaks and lunch on 21 May 2019. The pre-congress booklet containing the full programme for the day and speakers’ slides will be made available to registered participants on a memory stick / pen drive.

MAIN CONGRESS

EAPCCT members €715 AACT/APAMT members €870 Non-members €925 Nurses, SPIs, students, fellows-in-training > EAPCT members * €440 > AACT/APAMT members * €530 > Non-members * €650 One-day Congress fee €290 Accompanying guest(s): > Lunches & welcome reception † €150 > Welcome reception only $ €35 Congress dinner €90

The registration fee for the main congress includes congress participation from 22 to 24 May 2019, coffee breaks and lunches from 22 to 24 May 2019 and the welcome reception on 22 May 2019. The full congress programme and abstract book (Clinical Toxicology) will be made available to registered participants on a memory stick / pen drive and can be downloaded from the website. A printed programme overview is provided on site for ease of reference.

* Students and fellows-in-training must be under 35 years of age on 31 May 2019. A letter from the Head of Department must accompany the registration, confirming the age qualification and stating that the person is still in training.

† This fee for the accompanying person includes lunches from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 May, and admission to the Welcome Reception on 22 May 2019. It does not permit attendance at any of the scientific sessions or coffee breaks.

$ This fee for the accompanying person includes admission to the Welcome Reception on 22 May 2019 only. No lunches are included.

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> Name badge

Each delegate will receive a name badge when they register. This must be worn during the Congress to gain entry to the lecture theatres, the dining hall (lunches) and at the Welcome Reception. Registered accompanying persons will also receive a name badge, which they must wear at the Welcome Reception and during lunch if this has been booked.

> Accreditation

The 39th International Congress of the EAPCCT, Naples, Italy from 21/05/2019- 24/05/2019 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/ earn-credit-participation-international-activities.

Please note that attendance of sessions will be logged as delegates will have the barcode on their badge scanned on entering and exiting each session. A summary of your attendance will be sent to you after the congress and will have to be provided to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) to claim your credits.

> Wifi

User: WifiCongressi Password: TerminalNapoli2018

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> Congress evaluation

It is very important that evaluation is provided by the participants in EAPCCT Congresses so that the EAPCCT Board can ensure that the programmes of future Congresses meet the needs of members and other attendees. An online ‘Survey Monkey’ evaluation will be sent via email to all delegates at the end of the Congress. Please take the time to fill this in and give us your valuable comments which will be reported to the Board and the Scientific and Meetings Committee.

> Technical information for contributors

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

All session rooms are connected to the Slide Center Room, and all presentations must be uploaded via the Slide Center Room in advance please. Presentations may not be uploaded directly onto the computers in the session rooms. If your presentation has special requirements that necessitate the use of your own equipment, you must still check in at the Slide Center Room to ensure their proper function.

Please check in with the Slide Center Room at least 4 hours in advance of your scheduled session. The Slide Center Room will ensure that presentations are problem-free onsite and your participation is critical to our success. Please take note that the widescreen format is 4:3.

PDFs of all PowerPoint presentations will be made available to delegates and on the closed part of the EAPCCT website after the meeting. If you would like an amended version of your presentation to be put on the website, please let the technicians in the Slide Center Room know.

Slide Center Room: Open from 08:00 to 17:00 hrs every day (Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 May 2019).

PAPER POSTERS

The recommended poster size is 90 cm wide x 110 cm high, a maximum size of 110 cm wide x 150 cm high will be possible. Velcro self-adhesive pads will be offered by the Congress Secretariat. If you would like your poster to be available on the EAPCCT website after the Congress, please e-mail a pdf of it to [email protected]. Please save your poster file using the unique identifying code advised to you by email. Contact staff at the registration desk if you have any queries.

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> Awards

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

A Young Investigator Award will again be presented this year. A shortlist was chosen by the Scientific Committee on the basis of the quality of the abstracts submitted. The winner will receive an honorarium of Euro 1000. To be considered for the award the person applying must fulfil the following criteria:

Young investigators are defined as <40 years of age on the closing date of the Congress (Friday 24 May 2019). This will be confirmed prior to the prize being awarded by passport check. The young investigator must be the principal investigator of the research being presented. This means that they have taken the lead in performing the research and are the most appropriate person to present the research at the Congress. It is acceptable for the young investigator to have research collaborators over the age of 40 and these can be listed on the abstract. This might include a research supervisor. The research submitted must be original and must not have been published or presented at another conference. Applicants do not need to be members of the EAPCCT but they must attend the Congress to present their research. Previous winners are not eligible.

Judging the winner Those on the final shortlist have been invited to make an oral presentation of their work at the Young Investigator session on Friday 24 May 2019. All oral presentations for the award will take place in this one session. The quality of presentations will be judged by three senior judges who are invited to do this by the Scientific Committee. These judges will not have relevant conflicts of interest. The judges will score each presentation and at the end of the session will come to a consensus on which presentation should receive the award. The decision of the judges is final.

TAYLOR & FRANCIS AWARDS

This year there will two awards each for Best Scientific Presentation and Best Case Report.

Eligibility Any original submission to the meeting of a) a scientific presentation or b) a single case report or a small number of cases, via the usual abstract submission process can be considered for these awards, except for invited oral (‘keynote’) or plenary presentations and those that have already been shortlisted for the Young Investigator Award. Each submission is only eligible for one of the Taylor & Francis Awards. There are no restrictions on age and authors do not have to be EAPCCT members to be considered for these

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prizes. Current members of the EAPCCT Board and Scientific Committee are not eligible if they are the presenting author, but they may appear as co-authors on the abstract.

Shortlisting process All original submitted abstracts are subject to a blinded reviewing process involving at least 8 separate reviewers. Accepted abstracts are shortlisted on the basis of the overall mean quality scores provided by the reviewers. The number of abstracts shortlisted is at the discretion of the Scientific Committee.

Shortlisted authors are informed in advance of the meeting and sent a copy of these rules.

Choosing the winner Presentations considered for these awards will either be scientific presentations or case reports/a small number of cases. The winner of the prize is chosen by a panel of 3 judges who will attend each of the presentations that have been shortlisted. These judges will have no relevant conflicts of interest. Presentations will be scored by each judge separately on the basis of:

FOR SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS: (a) Originality (20 marks) (b) Scientific quality of the study design, analysis and interpretation(20 marks) (c) Relevance to clinical toxicology or poisons centre work (20 marks) (d) Quality of the presentation including slides and handling of questions (40 marks) (TOTAL – 100 marks)

FOR BEST CASE REPORT / POSTER: (e) Originality (20 marks) (f) Scientific quality of the study design, analysis and interpretation(40 marks) (g) Relevance to clinical toxicology or poisons centre work (20 marks) (h) Quality of the poster presentation including handling of questions (20 marks) (TOTAL – 100 marks)

Once all the judges have scored each of the shortlisted presentations / posters, they will meet, combine their scores and come to a consensus on which presentation / poster should receive the awards. The judges’ decision is final.

Taylor & Francis prizes The awards will be made to the person who presents the research at the Congress, unless this person indicates in writing in advance of the meeting that another author is a more appropriate recipient.

Winners will be awarded a certificate and receive an honorarium of US Dollar 500.

Announcement of the winner The winners will be announced at the Congress dinner on Friday 24 May 2019 and can collect their certificate at that time if they are present. The winners will also be notified in writing.

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> Social programme

WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2019

19:30 hrs: Welcome Reception Included in Congress registration fee

The Welcome Reception will be held at at the Maschio Angioino- Castel Nuovo on Wednesday 22nd May 2019.

(http://www.comune.napoli. it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB. php/L/EN/IDPagina/1372)

Castle Nuovo is located close to the Congress venue. It can be reached on foot within 6 minutes from the Terminal Napoli SpA, Centro Congressi, Stazione Marittima.

FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019

20:00 hrs: Conference Dinner

The Conference Dinner will be held at The Santa Chiara Monastery on Friday 24th May 2019.

(http://www.santachiara.info)

The Santa Chiara Monastery is located in the old town. It can be reached on foot within 15 minutes from the Terminal Napoli SpA, Centro Congressi, Stazione Marittima. Welcome drinks will be served at 20:00 hrs and dinner at 20:30 hrs.

A limited number of tickets are still available and can be purchased at the registration desk.

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DISCOVER NAPLES

Naples is located in the South of Italy and is the chief town of the Campania Region. It is in an enviable geographical location, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and in close proximity to the islands of Capri and Ischia, halfway down the Italian coasts. Naples is the 3rd city in Italy after Rome and Milan in terms of number of inhabitants and it is among the oldest Italian cities, since founded by the Greeks in the VIII century BC. Its contemporary urban fabric preserves the elements of its long and eventful history.

Located near Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii ruins, you can admire beauty at every corner of the “centro storico” (old town) which was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995. There, you can feel the hustle and bustle on the streets and markets, discover exquisite palaces, find unexpected treasures and enjoy breath-taking views. Furthermore, the opportunity to taste some of its mouth-watering typical dishes should not be missed. After all, Naples is the result of a unique mixture of culture, art and gastronomy which makes it Italy’s most unexpected masterpiece.

> Further information about the city can be found at: www.visitnaples.eu/en

> Moreover you can book tours & excursions through the local travel agency of the congress: www.sistemacongressinapoli.it/tour/

INFORMATION ABOUT NAPLES

How to get to Naples from the Airport

Naples’ Airport, also known as Capodichino (NAP) is well connected to the city, so you can either take public transport or a taxi. The most recommended (and economic) option to reach the centre is taking the shuttle bus for 3€ (4€ buying from the driver).

The shuttle bus leaves the airport every 20-30 minutes from 6:30am until 11:40pm. The service has only two stops: Stazione Centrale (Central Station) and Piazza (near the main ferry port Molo Beverello). For further information check www..it/ The price of a taxi to the city centre is around 19€.

Getting Around

> Bus | ANM operates city buses in Naples. There is no central bus station, but most buses pass through Piazza . The bus service generally runs from around 5.30am to about 11pm, depending on the route and day of the week. Some routes do not run on Sunday. A small number of routes run through the night, marked with an 'N' before their route number.

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> Metro | Metro service in Naples includes three lines and 4 funicular railways. With the construction and expansion of numerous metro lines the municipality of Naples developed the project Stations of Art (also known as Hundred Stations Plan), with which it was intended to entrust the design of metro stops to well-known contemporary artists and architects.

The Art Stations, distributed along the lines 1 and 6 of the Metro network, include more than 180 pieces of art created by 90 international artists and by some young local architects, allowing them to combine different architectural styles. On November 30, 2012, the station was elected the most beautiful of Europe by the Daily Telegraph, and the Materdei station in 13th place.

Lines 1 and 2 are the main lines:

LINE 1 is the Metro line of most interest to visitors connecting Central Station and the historic centre, plus a stop close to the port, but most of the network is further out in the suburbs. The Universita station is at the southern edge of the historic centre, not too far from the ferry/cruise port and several sights. It offers a quick route to the National Archaeological Museum at Station with a stop along the way at /Toledo Station near Santa Chiara and at the western end of Spaccanapoli.

LINE 2 of the Metro is of limited use to the visitor apart from perhaps as an alternative to the bus between Central Station and the National Archaeological Museum near Cavour Station. of the Metro in its current length is of no interest for tourism, but is due to be extended into the city centre.

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The 4 funicular railways (inclined railways) take you up the hill to the Vomero district where you'll find fabulous views. Castel Sant'Elmo, and Certosa and Museum of San Martino are major attractions but for many the journey may be the memory that lingers. Funiculare Centrale, one of the longest in the world, leaves from Via Toledo by Galleria Umberto.

Further information regarding lines and timetables at: www.anm.it

> Taxi | Official taxis are white and metered and usually stand at most of the city's main squares, which makes them easy to find. To avoid last minute surprises, always ensure the meter is running. The minimum starting fare is €3.50 (€6.50 on Sunday), with a baffling range of additional charges, such as extra luggage or the airport fee.

You can book a taxi by contacting any of the following companies:

Consortaxi (+39) 081 22 22 www.consortaxi.com Taxi Napoli (+39) 081 88 88 www.taxinapoli.it Radio Taxi La Partenope (+39) 081 01 01 www.radiotaxilapartenope.it

> Car & Motorcycle | Non-resident vehicles are banned in much of central Naples, there is no need for a car as a visitor.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Currency exchange: The Italian national currency is the Euro (€). There are ATMs located in the main train stations and at Capodichino Airport. However, most restaurants and hotels accept payment by credit card.

Climate: The climate in Naples is mainly Mediterranean due to its geographical location in southern Italy, close to the Mediterranean and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The average temperature ranges from 8ºC in winter to 25ºC during the summer months. Winter in Naples is usually tempered but rainy, whereas in summer the weather turns hot and dry.

Visa Requirements: All EU citizens need to travel with a passport or national identity card. Please check the expiry date of your documents.

Visa Requirements: Non EU citizens can check visa requirements on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en

Security: Just like in any other big city in world, the advice is to act cautiously and to take care of your personal belongings.

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