Thank you for your interest in acting as a HIMSS Annual Conference Reviewer. If you have any questions regarding involvement in this process, please feel free to email your questions to Adam Bazer, Manager of Annual Conference Education, at abazer@himss.org.
HIMSS Annual Conference Reviewers are the backbone of the entire Annual HIMSS Conference educational process. Reviewers are the first to see proposals submitted to HIMSS through the call for proposal process. Reviewers and their recommendations are incredibly important to the Annual Conference Education Committee and the role that they play in the proposal selection process. Finally, reviewers are an important resource for presentations that are selected to move forward to the annual conference; they act as coaches during the presentation preparation process and as moderators for the presentation during the conference.
See below for a list of the role/responsibilities for an Annual Conference Reviewer:
Benefits to being a reviewer:
Review and score on-line proposals:
Reviewers will review submitted annual conference on-line proposals via the HIMSS website. A reviewer may
expect to review and evaluate/score an average of 20-30 on-line proposals in a given topic area. On-line
proposals include the proposal application, content material, and the review of previous evaluation scores.
Recommend Proposals for the Annual Conference:
After reading and evaluating on-line proposals, reviewers will work with their ACEC topic category team leads in
recommending proposals to move forward to the 2009 Annual Conference
Work Directly with Accepted Speakers:
Reviewers will work one-to-one with one or two different speakers by guiding them through
the presentation materials process. This process begins after the proposal selection process. The reviewer will
be matched with a presentation that falls within their area of expertise and is responsible for assisting the
speaker in developing their presentation materials. Reviewers will act as "sounding boards" for the speaker,
provide constructive feedback and comments on the speaker's presentation materials.
Act as Moderator for Accepted Speakers:
Those reviewers who do work directly with an accepted speaker will be given the first opportunity to act as a
moderator at the 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference, and will earn advancement points towards their HIMSS Senior and Fellow Status.
Reviewers may be required to participate in 1-2 conference calls. Please keep in mind that this is a time commitment on your part. Both the speaker and HIMSS rely heavily on the reviewers to meet deadlines. Also, part of your commitment is to see the entire process through. Once sessions are selected and speakers are assigned to reviewers, the reviewers become the main source of communication with the speaker, and it is very important both the reviewers and speakers follow ALL deadline dates listed below:
April 7: Call for Annual Conference Proposal opens via Web site
May 30: Call for Annual Conference Proposal closes
June 3-July15: Reviewers read and evaluate proposals (scoresheets) via review site
August 11-September 5: Reviewers and ACEC members discuss via audioconference proposal selections
October 2: ACEC Committee members meet to schedule final program selection
October 7: Proposal submitters notified of proposal acceptance/decline status
January 12: First draft of presentation materials due to reviewer and HIMSS
January 29: Final speaker presentation materials due
April 4-April 8: 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, Chicago!
