Washington Marriott
1221 22nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20037, USA
Phone: +1 202-872-1500
Toll-Free Reservation Center: +1 800-393-3053

The Washington Marriott is conveniently located near the city's West End and within walking distance of great shopping and dining in Georgetown and Dupont Circle. The Kennedy Center and two Metro stations are also within reach!

Your reservation must be received on or before 6:00pm on Monday, April 15 in order to be guaranteed the OSSD discount rate! The OSSD discounted rooms have SOLD OUT EXCEPT FOR SUNDAY NIGHT. The Marriott is now selling their Monday night for $459.

Meeting participants can make, modify, and cancel their hotel reservations online, as well as take advantage of any room upgrades, amenities or other services offered by the hotel.

If you're a poster presenter...

• Please plan to display your poster (Maximum size: 8 feet Wide x 4 feet Tall, with push pins) during the lunch break or afternoon break on the day of your session.
• ALL posters should be displayed no later than 3:15 pm. 
• Please check your presentation date and poster number on the final program.
• You are required to be present in front of your poster during the entire poster session.
• Please promptly remove your poster at 8:00 pm. Left behind posters will be discarded.

If you're an oral presenter...

• During the lunch break, please submit your presentation on a thumb drive (e.g. jump drive, flash drive, USB stick) to the Chairperson of your session, in the room where your presentation takes place. It will be pre-loaded to the conference laptop, at which time you can review your slides.
• Oral presentations should be presented by PC and projector only. For Mac users, please be sure your presentation is compatible with a PC prior to your arrival.
• Please arrive at least 20 minutes prior to your presentation. To keep our full schedule on time, it is the duty of the Chairperson to stop any speaker who is going over his/her time limit.

Awards

NEW!  IGH Travel Award Opportunity for Canadian-based trainees was just launched by the Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) for graduate and postdoctoral students (enrolled in Canadian Universities) to attend the second joint meeting of the OSSD and the IGM. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $100,000, enough to support at least 25 travel awards valued at up to $4,000 each! The IGH travel award deadline is January 14, 2019. Click here for application instructions and eligibility criteria. Apply now.

NEW!  NIH ORWH Science Policy Scholar Travel Award is a new opportunity for the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and OSSD to work together to further turn sex as a biological variable (#SABV) into policy change. This will be awarded to an applicant to support the development of junior investigators focused on women and sex/gender differences, who also has an interest in research policy. Examples include, but are not limited to: (1) studies of the effects of these policies in promoting the research, (2) identification of policy gaps that might promote such research and projection of their effects, or (3) identification of specific research disciplines and/or research topic areas where more work is needed to promote women and sex/gender differences. An ORWH award of up to $3,000 will be available to support the travel of the selected NIH ORWH Science Policy Scholar whose OSSD abstract on women or sex/gender differences policy is accepted for a poster, oral session, or symposium at the 2019 annual meeting. Application opens October 15, 2018! The deadline for NIH ORWH Science Policy Scholar Travel Award is February 8, 2019. The award recipient will be announced on March 15, 2019. See further details, instructions, and eligibility conditions. 

The Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award is awarded to an abstract presenter* whose research is of high quality and deemed worthy of an oral presentation.  These winners will present their abstract as an oral presentation in a special symposium at the annual meeting.  PLEASE NOTE: individuals that are not selected for the Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award (oral presentation) will automatically be considered for a poster presentation.  If you would like to be considered for the Elizabeth Young New Investigator Award and an oral presentation, please select this option at the time of abstract submission, on the abstract submission form. Elizabeth Young Investigators will be awarded $1,000 each. Applicants will be required to submit their CV with the application.  Awardees will be notified on February 27, 2019 of their award. 
*to be to be eligible for this award, you must be an undergrad, PhD/MD student or a Postdoctoral Fellow. Faculty (such as Assistant Professors) are not eligible for this award

A limited number of Travel Awards for OSSD 2019 will be awarded to trainee members* presenting their high-quality posters at the 2019 meeting in Washington, DC. In order to be considered for a travel award, your abstract must be submitted by February 1, 2019. Please indicate that you would like to be considered for the travel award at the time of abstract submission, on the abstract form. Applicants will be required to submit their CV with the application. Exact award amounts and numbers is dependent on funding. Awardees will be notified on February 27, 2019. 
*to be to be eligible for this award, you must be an undergrad, PhD/MD student or a Postdoctoral Fellow. Faculty (such as Assistant Professors) are not eligible for this award

The prestigious Florence B. Haseltine Best Poster Award is given to the best poster presentation by a new investigator* (see additional details). Abstracts submitted after February 1, 2019 can still be considered for the Florence P. Haseltine Best Poster Award, but cannot be considered for a travel award (see above). If the presenting author would like to be considered for the Florence B. Haseltine Best Poster Award competition, please select this option at the time of abstract submission, on the abstract form. Awardees will be awarded at the 2019 OSSD/IGM Joint Meeting Awards Reception. 
*to be to be eligible for this award, you must be an undergrad, PhD/MD student or a Postdoctoral Fellow. Faculty (such as Assistant Professors) are not eligible for this award

Congratulations to the OSSD 2019 Award Recipients!!

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2019 Program Committee

Karyn Frick, PhD, (Chair), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Doug Portman, PhD, (Past Chair), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Jacklyn Schwartz, PhD, (2020 Chair), University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Anne Murphy, PhD, (2017 Chair), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Elena Choleris, PhD, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Michael Cook, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
Jayne Danska, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hester den Ruijter, PhD, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Gillian Einstein, PhD, University of Tortonto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Liisa Galea, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Karin Humphries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nafissa Ismail, PhD, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Marjorie Jenkins, MD, Food and Drug Administration
Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, MD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Brittany Osborne (Student Member), University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, MD, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gabrielle Rune, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Patricia Silveyra, MSc, PhD, Penn State College of Medicine, Hersey, PA
Farida Sohrabji, PhD, Texas A&M Health and Science Center, College Station, TX
Natalie Tronson, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Joe Verbalis, MD, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Mia Von Euler, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
Stacey Winham, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

If you have questions regarding the OSSD 2019 scientific program, please contact Dr. Karyn Frick.

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 We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC!