Abstract submissions for BSEcho 2026 and the prize of Investigator of the Year 2026 are open until Sunday 7 June 2026.
Clinicians and researchers from all backgrounds are invited to submit abstracts that describe:
- Original research projects
- Interesting audit or service evaluation processes
- Novel working practice or
- Innovative service improvement programmes
Please note that we are unable to accept case studies or reports for Investigator of the Year. Please consider submission to BSE Ireland instead.
Submit an abstract
Submission guidelines
Applicants are asked to keep abstracts to a maximum of 275 words, excluding the title and authors.
- Submissions are open until Sunday 7 June 2026 at 23:59
- Authors
- The lead or supervising author is required to be a member of the British Society of Echocardiography
- Your abstract must list at least one author in order to be submitted. There is no limit to the number of abstracts an author may submit. If an abstract is accepted, the presenter must be one of the co-authors listed
- Do not list authors by initials only
- Background
- Provide a succinct rationale for undertaking the study
- Purpose
- Provide a clear aim(s) for the study, ensuring they are supported by the preceding rationale
- Methodology
- Briefly describe the study design (longitudinal, cross-sectional etc)
- Clearly describe the data source, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria
- Inclusion criteria are characteristics of the data that you want to include, for example 'all patients having a transthoracic echocardiogram between 2024-2025'
- Exclusion criteria are NOT simply the opposite/converse of the inclusion criteria, they are additional characteristics that you don’t want those meeting your inclusion criteria to have. For example, you may exclude “patients who opted out of their data being used for research” or where a key variable is missing for a certain datapoint
- Describe the procedures and key outcome variables
- Include a short statement regarding institutional and/or ethical approval for your work, as appropriate
- State the names of any statistical tests used
- Data
- Abstracts that appear to be duplicated versions of a single study will be rejected
- Abstracts containing identical or nearly identical data submitted from the same institution and/or individuals will be rejected
- Results
- In the text and tables - report numbers (percentages) for categorical data and mean (+/-standard deviation) for continuous, normally distributed data or median [interquartile range] for continuous non-normally distributed data
- In the text and tables - report statistically significant values with the p-value or other statistical measure to an appropriate number of decimal places
- Report 95% confidence intervals wherever possible. This is particularly appropriate for metrics including (but not limited to) area under the receiver operator characteristic curve and hazard/odds-ratios
- Conclusion/summary
- Include a fair and accurate statement of the main finding(s) of your work, directly related to the aims of the study
- It is often appropriate to highlight the clinical and/or operational implications of your findings
- Format
- Abstracts must contain original material neither published nor presented elsewhere. Abstracts that indicate 'work in progress' or 'the results will be announced/discussed in the presentation' cannot be accepted as the reviewing committee needs full information to grade the submission
- Submitted abstracts should not be published or under submission in any other journals and/or online publications or presented at any international congresses
- Where applicable, abstracts should follow international trials guidelines for reporting
- Use of artificial intelligence
- Generative AI technology cannot be listed as a co-author or author of any submitted abstract. If you use any content (text or imagery) produced and/or edited with generative AI technology, this must be disclosed (i.e., acknowledged in the body of the abstract as appropriate). The disclosure should include the name, version, model, and source of generative AI technology and the date the content was created and/or edited. Additionally, you, as the author, are responsible for checking the accuracy of any content created by generative AI technology (including references and any code), and that any content produced and/or edited with generative AI technology is plagiarism-free
- All submissions will be scored and shortlisted by an expert panel for originality, overall quality, significance and level of interest
- The applicants with the highest graded abstracts will be invited to provide a short presentation in person at BSEcho 2026
- The applicants for all abstracts of sufficient quality will be invited to provide a physical poster for display at BSEcho 2026 as well as an ePoster and a short audio description for publication on the hybrid conference platform
- Abstracts deemed to be of insufficient quality will be rejected
- All applicants must be available to participate in the BSEcho 2026 conference on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October 2026 in Manchester
- More information about participation requirements will be provided to successful applicants
- Successful applicants will be able to benefit from a discounted fee, more details of which will be provided to successful applicants
- Successful abstracts will be published in a conference supplement to the Society’s peer-reviewed journal, Echo Research and Practice
- The winner of the Investigator of the Year prize will be announced on Saturday 17 October 2026 at the conference