1. Industry-Supported Symposium (ISS) chairpersons must be APA members in good standing. All ISS chairpersons agree to coordinate the presentations, adhere to the time schedule, and conclude the session on time. Chairpersons will be held accountable for program content and adherence to APA guidelines.
2. Chairpersons and presenters must be representative of those in the field, and include women, minorities and young investigators. APA requires submissions to include at least one presenter who meets the APA definition of an early career psychiatrist (ECP). An ECP is according to APA’s criteria adopted by the Assembly and Board in 2001, an early career psychiatrist is one in the first 7 years after becoming eligible to be a general member. Eligibility begins after completion of residency training.
3. Chairpersons and presenters should be regarded as internationally or nationally known experts in the subject area to be presented.
4. Chairpersons and presenters should be highly regarded within the scientific and professional community as presenters, moderators or discussants.
5. All Industry-Supported Symposia chairpersons must be APA members in good standing.
6. Chairpersons and presenters must be willing to commit to availability for the entire scheduled time of the symposium.
7. Chairpersons must coordinate the presentations, ensuring that they are well balanced, offer a variety of topics and that multiple viewpoints are presented. Chairpersons will be held accountable for the overall quality of the symposia and adherence to APA and ACCME guidelines.
8. Chairpersons must agree to follow the time schedule and, if necessary, interrupt a presenter who is over his or her allotted time; ensure that 25% of the allotted time is devoted to a question and answer or audience-interaction period; and conclude the session on time. It is suggested that the question time be broken up during the symposium after each presenter with a short period of time at the end of the symposium.
9. Chairperson and presenters must agree not to solicit support of the symposium. The APA will handle all funding discussions.
10. Chairpersons and presenters must be willing to fully disclose any potential conflicts of interest per ACCME Guidelines.
11. Chairperson and presenters must disclose, at the time of submission, if they are employees of a pharmaceutical company and must include the name of the company in their disclosure. The symposium should not contain more than one full-time employee of a potential funding company.
12. Each chairperson and presenter will be limited to inclusion in no more than three (3) submissions for Industry-Supported Symposia. In addition, chairpersons and presenters must agree to limit their participation in Industry-Supported Symposia to no more than two symposia during any one APA Meeting. This participation will be limited further to serving as chairperson on only one Industry-Supported Symposium. In case of multiple presentations, the SPC reserves the right to determine which presentation will be retained.
13. Chairpersons and presenters must be willing to follow APA guidelines concerning honoraria and travel expenses for Industry-Supported Symposia.
14. Chairpersons or other faculty who are an officer of the APA defined as a nationally elected officer, voting member of the Board of Trustees: and Speaker, Speaker- Elect and Recorder of the Assembly. As an Officer of the APA one will not personally receive honoraria or travel reimbursement for participation in the industry Supported Symposia.

 Checklist of Chairperson Requirements

1. Chair Contact Information

2. Chair Disclosure & Presenter Consent Form

3. Symposium Title (limited to 150 characters including spaces; please be succinct)

4. Topic Selection - Please choose the topic that best encompasses the overall discussion of your entire presentation.

5. APA Component or Allied Group (optional) - If your symposium is presented in collaboration with an APA Component or Allied Group, please provide the name of the group.

6. Participants' E-mail Addresses - Enter the email addresses for each participant specify their role: presenters (with order of presentation), co-chair (optional), and discussant (optional). At least one presenter must be an Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP).

7. Educational Objectives (limited to 500 characters) – Learner-focused educational objectives describe the abilities and/or attitudes (learning outcomes) that complete the sentence, “At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to (e.g., demonstrate, recognize, diagnose, treat, etc…).” Be as specific as possible. Do not say what you are going to teach, say what you want participants to learn.

8. Literature References - Each proposed presentation must list four (4) relevant literature references. Follow the American Journal of Psychiatry style. For examples, see the AJP web site (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org) where older articles are available free to the public.

9. Time Schedule/Agenda - Please provide an outline of the structure of the symposium. As a rule, individual presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes with a five- to ten-minute question period after each. Per CME requirements, allow at least 30 minutes at the end of the session for audience participation.

10. Abstract (limited to 2,000 characters including spaces) - The abstract is a concise description of the specific purpose, content, methodology, results, and importance of the proposed presentation. State specific findings and inferences explicitly. Conclude with a sentence that provides a strong summary for the abstract.

Checklist of Presenter Requirements

1. Contact Information

2. Disclosure & Presenter Consent Form

3. Paper/Presentation Title (limited to 150 characters including spaces; please be succinct)

4. Secondary/Additional Author(s) -- if any -- Names and Academic Degree(s) (optional) - Enter as free text the names of any and all co-authors -- with appropriate upper and lower case and correct punctuation as the names should appear in the Program Book -- (see example below):

   Benjamin Rush, M.D., John J. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Mary Jones-Kennedy, M.D., J.D., Jane Johnson, M.B.A.

5. Abstract (limited to 2,000 characters including spaces) - The abstract is a concise description of the specific purpose, content, methodology, results, and importance of the proposed presentation. State specific findings and inferences explicitly. Conclude with a sentence that provides a strong summary for the abstract.

Checklist for Optional Co-chair and/or Discussant (s) Requirements

1. Contact Information

2. Disclosure & Presenter Consent

Note: Entries lacking any of the required elements by the established deadline can not be forwarded to the Scientific Program Committee for review and consideration per the standards and requirements for offering continuing medical education (CME) credits for scientific sessions.