Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts
- Abstract submission opens: March 2025
- Abstract submission closes: Friday 16 May 2025
- Notification to authors: Third week of June 2025
If you have any questions regarding abstract submission, please contact charitha@laevents.com.au
Theme:
SHAPE the future of Breastfeeding
Support I Hormones I Advocacy I Policy I Education
Conference sessions, Friday and Saturday:
- Oral Presentations (20-minute presentation, including 5 minutes for questions)
Oral presentations will be scheduled during the concurrent sessions in the conference program within the theme they are best suited to. - Static Poster (must not exceed A0 portrait style)
Static posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference. Presenters will need to attend their poster during lunch on Friday to facilitate discussion.
Whilst you will be asked to indicate your preferred presentation format the Program Committee may request an alternative format be considered.
Pre-conference Workshops, Thursday afternoon:
- Interactive workshop 90-minute session. Presenters will need to advise if there is a maximum number of session participants.
The intention is that these Workshops will provide information as well as practical skills. It is possible that several people offer to team up to present one workshop together.
Follow a LCANZ member survey, the topics of interest are, but not limited to:
- Counselling skills
- Breast Issues: eg lymphatic drainage; breast massage; mastitis, therapeutic ultrasound, large breasted women
- Nipple Issues: eg nipple pain; managing damaged nipples; laser treatment; shield use
- Supply Issues: eg galactogogues, pumps, managing slow/ fast letdown, managing low supply, medical conditions impact on supply
- Baby oral Issues: eg clefts, suck training, laryngomalacia, oral dysfunction, assessing suck-swallow-breathe
- Baby Body Issues: infant massage, body work, torticollis, top to toe infant assessment
REVIEW PROCESS
All abstracts will undergo a peer-review process by the Program Committee who will then allocate abstracts to the program taking into account the quality of each abstract and the balance of the program.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Lactation consultants (IBCLC), doctors, midwives, nurses, allied health professionals, Maternal Child
Health nurses, public health staff, childbirth educators, community breastfeeding support group
volunteers and others providing care for mothers, infants and their families.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Preparing your Abstract
- The abstract word limit is 250 words.
- Your abstract is to be text based only.
- Use a descriptive presentation title. Use title case (upper and lower case).
Please read the following instructions before you submit your abstract.
1. You may select an oral presentation, poster presentation or workshop presentation as your preference, however it will be at the discretion of the Program Committee to determine which presentation type, if accepted, will be allocated to an abstract
2. Abstracts may only be submitted online and will not be accepted by fax, email or post.
3. The LCANZ 2025 Conference will notify all abstract submitters of acceptance via email in late June 2025
4. All authors accepted for any presentation type must register for the conference and pay the applicable registration fee by 16 August 2025
5. The submitting author (if different from the presenting author) will be the contact linked to the abstract and will receive all relevant information via email. It is the submitting author’s responsibility to ensure that all correspondence relating to the abstract submission is circulated to all presenting authors.
6. All accepted abstracts will be published in conference collateral exactly as the final version is submitted. Abstracts will not be edited by the conference secretariat or program committee. It is the responsibility of the presenting author to ensure that the abstract is submitted correctly.
A SUCCESSFUL ABSTRACT
i. Must not exceed 250 words, excluding the title, authors and institutions.
ii. Will include a personal biography (up to 50 words) for each presenting author.
iii. Will clearly state the aims of the presentation and how it relates to the theme.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT
i. Visit the abstract submission portal HERE
ii. Create a user account profile for the abstract submission portal and fill in required information.
iii. Select Abstract Submission tab.
iv. Enter all presentation details including title, themes and authors.
v. Paste or type in your abstract text in the text box provided (note that formatting will not be carried across).
vi. Review submission, accept Terms and Conditions and press ‘submit’.
vii. Amendments can be made to abstract submissions up until the abstract submission close date. To do this, log back into the submission portal and select “Edit Abstracts”.
viii. More than one abstract can be submitted within a user account profile.
WHO INTERNATIONAL CODE OF MARKETING OF BREASTMILK SUBSTITUTES
LCANZ is the peak professional body for lactation consultants with the primary purpose to support protect and promote breastfeeding. LCANZ supports the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and World Health Assembly’s Subsequent Resolutions.
With the aim of being transparent and ensuring there is a delineation between education and marketing, all speakers who submit an abstract are requested to include a declaration of all present or past conflict of interest inclusive of involvement with all companies/institutions if they are/were WHO code violators are not. If you do not have any conflicts of interest this must also be stated. Abstracts will not be reviewed unless the declaration is completed when submitting an abstract online.
About LCANZ
Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand Ltd (LCANZ) is the professional organisation for International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC®) and others who have an interest in lactation and breastfeeding. Our core business is to provide members with information and educational opportunities to enable them to continue to advance their practice as lactation consultants and enhance the profession of Lactation Consultancy generally in Australia and New Zealand.
LCANZ acknowledges the traditional custodians across the lands on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.