Welcome 2025 PDC Summit Abstract Reviewers

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Review Timeline:

• June 4- 15, 2024 - Review Abstracts
• June 18. 2024 - Top 10 List Sent Out
• June 19-27, 2024 - Track Group Conference Call

If you need any assistance, please get in touch with Senada Hidic, shidic@aha.org.

Thank you!

The International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC Summit) is the largest and longest-running event that brings together design and construction decision-makers and stakeholders, along with facility senior leadership, to plan for the future of health care to highlight the real-life collaboration that’s required to create and maintain safe healing environments. Consider the rapid pace of change in health care: technological advancements, community health, regulatory compliance and financial pressures. Only by working together, identifying common goals, and sharing best practices can we prepare ourselves and our organizations for success..

The PDC Summit is collaboratively developed by thought leaders from the following supporting organizations:

• American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association (AHA)
• American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AIA/AAH)
• American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA)
• The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• The Center for Health Design (The Center)
• Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI)
• International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS)
• Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD)

Deadline: May 31, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CT

NO Extensions. NO Exceptions.

Tips for Selection

Each year, nearly 300 abstracts are submitted for consideration with fewer than 50 spots for sessions available. The abstract selection committee is looking for abstracts that include specific concepts

throughout, regardless of topic or track, and will give preference to abstracts that:

• Provide concrete takeaways for ALL sessions: checklists, tools or other resources for attendees to apply on the job.
• Include multidisciplinary teams.
  • Panels that include hospital owner representatives.
  • Teams that include:
  • Designers (e.g., architect or engineer)
  • Builders (e.g., contractor or subcontractor)
  • Operators (e.g., facility managers, owners),
  • Users of the space (e.g., nurses, doctors or patients)
  • Those early in their careers
• Present diverse opinions.
• Motivate the pursuit of excellence.
• Share critical and leading-edge information to help attendees stay ahead of health care changes, including data-driven examples and real-life lessons learned.
• Bridge the gap between where we are today and the envisioned future, showing attendees how we can work together to provide value to our organizations for years to come.

Abstracts should be thought-provoking and demonstrate forward thinking in the health care field as well as bring value to attendees, their organizations and their communities. Please include at least two of the following concepts:

• Owner perspectives.
  • Performance improvement/Operational excellence.
  • Applicability for rural and small hospital scalability.
  • Human connection/Human experience.
  • Strategic leadership.
  • Technological advances.
  • Security/Cybersecurity.
  • Resiliency.
  • Alternate care sites
  • Financial implications
  • Behavioral health
  • Compliance
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Surge and adaptability planning
  • Mechanical and electrical design
  • Telehealth
  • Recovery

Knowledge Level

The PDC Summit planners have identified knowledge levels that address an education learning and teaching level. Please be sure that your submission clearly ties to one of these knowledge levels to help ensure that attendee needs and expectations are met:

Learning Tracks

The planners have identified topics within each main topic area to support the purpose of this conference. Be sure that your session description includes a clear tie to one of these topics to give your session the best chance for selection. Although not necessary, your session may cover multiple topic.

To learn more about each topic, please download the Download the Tips, Guidelines & Checklist.

Abstract Guidelines & Tips for Selection

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts must be submitted via the online system by May 31, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CT.
• Please notify anyone you list as a co-speaker about their involvement in this submission!
• Submissions are for an in-person presentation. Virtual options are not guaranteed.
• Selected abstract submitters will be notified by or shortly after August 1, 2024.
• You may create and submit multiple submissions.

ASHE Speaker Benefits and Terms

If your abstract submission is selected to become a conference session:

• Main speakers will receive a complimentary registration.
• Co-speakers will receive a discounted registration.
• All speakers will be responsible for their own travel, lodging and incidental expenses.

You will also be required to agree to the following speaker terms:

• I will use the Speaker Center, and follow all schedules and deadlines as requested.
• I understand that this my presentation is for an in-person event and that virtual options are not guaranteed. If I cannot attend, in-person, I understand the session may be cancelled.
• I will not present my presentation content at any other conference, seminar or elsewhere prior to the conference or within 90 days after without the written permission from the conference.
• I consent to the conference recording, editing and reproducing in any form (including but not limited to audio, video, print, computer or other technology) my written and oral presentation and remarks and using (including by selling) the same without any compensation to me.
• I understand that no individual or entity other than the conference may electronically record or copy any portion of this program for any purpose without prior written consent from the conference.
• I confirm that my presentation will not discuss specific companies and products, there by avoiding being perceived as a sales pitch.
• This information is provided by ASHE as a service to its members.
  • The information provided may not apply to a viewer’s specific situation and is not a substitute for application of the viewer’s own independent judgment or the advice of a competent professional. ASHE does not make any guarantee or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any information provided. ASHE and the authors disclaim liability for personal injury, property damage, or other damages of any kind, whether special, indirect, consequential, or compensatory, that may result directly or indirectly from use of or reliance on information from sessions at this conference.
• The conference reserves the right to cancel a session and rescind speaker benefits if these terms and deadlines are NOT met.

Future Speaker Deadlines*:

Dates:

March 9-12, 2025,

PDC Summit will be held in Atlanta, GA.

*Deadline dates are subject to change and will be finalized in the notification email.

For any issues, please reach out to Senada Hidic, shidic@aha.org. 

If you have any questions. Please contact ASHE Staff at ASHEEducation@aha.org  .