Event Information
ACRM 102nd Annual Fall Conference #ACRM2025
Progress in Rehabilitation Research: Translation to Clinical Practice
Location: Hilton Chicago
CORE CONFERENCE: 27 – 30 OCT 2025
Plenaries, hundreds of educational symposia, papers, posters, ACRM community group meetings, receptions & ACRM EXPO
PRE-CON: 25 – 27 OCT 2025
Dozens of Instructional Courses (ICs), ACRM Development Courses (Leadership and Career) and Brain Injury rehabilitation courses
Rehabilitation professionals or teams who:
All proposals/abstracts and LaunchPad applications must be submitted online via the ACRM Conference System according to the submission deadlines. To see an outline of the information you will need to enter during the submission process, please download the Proposal Worksheets below.
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Please note that if your submission is accepted for the 2025 Annual Fall Conference, each presenter will be required to register for the conference and pay the special ACRM presenter rate.
Therefore it is important that submitters appropriately identify the role of presenters and moderators and confirm their intent to register and attend in person.
The ACRM Annual Fall Conference: Progress in Rehabilitation Research is the premier educational conference for evidence-based learning in rehabilitation medicine. The 2025 Program Committee invites proposals focused on research evidence and its translation into clinical practice.
Proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, or include international or early career presenters are encouraged!
Avoidance of Commercialism
All presentations must avoid commercialism. Presentations that constitute promotion and advertising will be prohibited. This includes pervasive and inappropriate use of logos. No advertising matter of any kind may be distributed. No material may be displayed that in any way directly promotes the commercial interest of any company or enterprise, or of the author(s)/presenter(s). If the cost of presentation has been underwritten to any extent, a clear acknowledgment stating support and identifying the particular source should be included (e.g., “The support of [name of corporation/institute] for this project is gratefully acknowledged.”) Statements made in presentations are the sole responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s). Any statement made should not be viewed as, or considered representative of, any formal stance or position taken on any product, subject, or issue by ACRM.
Accreditation Requirements
At the time of online submission, submitters must provide complete contact information (e.g., name, credentials, title, institution, mailing address, email, and phone) for all authors/presenters associated with the submission. Further, all submitters, authors, and presenters must submit a current CV or resume and electronically sign a continuing education (CE) agreement and disclosure form. Failure to do so prevents acceptance of a submission. An electronic copy of presentations must be held on file with ACRM.
Conference Attendance and Presenter Expenses
Presenters for all accepted proposals are required to register for the conference, and are fully responsible for all of their expenses related to the conference (e.g., registration, airfare, hotel, meals).
Each complete submission received by the published due date will be independently peer reviewed.
Each proposal for a symposium will be reviewed for the following elements: (1) contribution to state of the art of rehabilitation science, including scientific rigor and the presentation of new findings (2) Clinical and/or translational relevance (3) Pertinent to the interests of the ACRM membership; (4) Expertise and qualifications of the presenters; (5) timeliness of the topic; (6) overall impact and quality.
Contribution to state of the art of rehabilitation science, including scientific rigor and the presentation of new findings | 15% |
Clinical and/or translational relevance | 12.5% |
Pertinent to the interests of the ACRM membership | 7.5% |
Expertise and qualifications of the presenters | 7.5% |
Timeliness of the topic | 7.5% |
Overall impact and quality | 50% |
2. Interdisciplinary: To what degree are the concepts presented in the abstract relevant to a large number of health professionals and researchers that comprise the ACRM membership? ACRM audiences include: rehabilitation medicine researchers, physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language professionals, disability management specialists, healthcare executives, dieticians and others.
EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PRESENTERS
TIMELINESS OF THE TOPIC
Impact | Score | Descriptor | Additional Guidance on Strengths/Weaknesses |
High | 9 | Exceptional | Exceptionally strong with essentially no weaknesses |
8 | Outstanding | Extremely strong with negligible weaknesses | |
7 | Excellent | Very strong with only some minor weaknesses | |
Medium | 6 | Very Good | Strong but with numerous minor weaknesses |
5 | Good | Strong but with at least one moderate weakness | |
4 | Satisfactory | Some strengths but also some moderate weaknesses | |
Low | 3 | Fair | Some strengths but with at least one major weakness |
2 | Marginal | A few strengths and a few major weaknesses | |
1 | Poor | Very few strengths and numerous major weaknesses |
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