SOCIETY FOR ACUPUNCTURE RESEARCH

The Status and Future of Acupuncture Research:
Ten Years After the NIH Consensus Conference

Young Investigator Awards

In order to encourage young investigators, the National Acupuncture Foundation (NAF) and the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) will award $1000 each for the three best research presentations by a student or post-doctoral fellow in acupuncture and Oriental medicine (AOM). Awards will be based on both the submitted abstract and the presentation (oral or poster) according to the following criteria:

• Is the work original?
• Does the work have scientific and/or clinical significance?
• Are the goals and hypotheses of the study clearly stated?
• Are the methods described succinctly and clearly?
• Are the presented data valid?
• Are the conclusions justified by the results?

Abstract format information and submission forms can be found on the SAR website www.acupunctureresearch.org.

Please clearly indicate your student or post-doctoral status and email your abstracts to helene.langevin@uvm.edu by April 1, 2007.