Call for nominations for the 2025 Emily M. Haymes Mentoring Award
The SEACSM Mentoring Committee is excited to announce the call for nominations for the Emily M. Haymes Mentoring Award. This award formally recognizes the exemplary mentorship of an active SEACSM member who has made impactful contributions as a mentor in their profession and/or SEACSM. Designed to allow mentees and close colleagues to identify SEACSM members who embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring, this award contributes to SEACSM’s continuing efforts to cultivate a rich, supportive environment through faculty-to-student and/or faculty-to-faculty mentoring. One member will be selected to receive this honor and will be officially recognized at the 2025 SEACSM Annual Meeting.
Please see the Mentoring Award Call for Nominations document for more information. The deadline is Monday, December 2, 2024, by 5:00 pm ET. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Collins, Ph.D., Mentoring Breakfast Committee Chair, at katherine.collins791@duke.edu.
2025 SEACSM Mentoring Award Call for Nominations
Announcing the new SEACSM Mentoring Program
The SEACSM Mentoring Committee is piloting a Mentor Pairing Program this year!
Are you looking for a mentor in the SEACSM community or simply wanting to expand your network?
Do you want to facilitate mentorship and provide career advice to SEACSM students and trainees?
If so, this program is for you!
Mentees must be an undergraduate student, graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow (i.e., trainee).
- Considering a career in exercise science/physiology?
- Unsure about your next steps?
- Want to expand your mentoring team?
- Need career advice?
- Interested in research?
- Looking for networking, service, and or professional development opportunities?
Mentors must be a faculty member, clinician, or senior member of the exercise science community. Emphasis will be placed on individuals with a PhD, MD, or equivalent.
- Willing to provide career advice and guidance for SEACSM trainees
- Willing to provide networking, service, and/or professional development opportunities for SEACSM trainees
- If involved in research, willingness to discuss research interests and career advice for pursuing research in exercise science.
Duration of the Program: 1 year – primarily during the Spring semester
Registration Links:
Deadline for Registration: December 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET
Questions? Please contact SEACSM Mentoring Committee Chair, Katie Collins, at katherine.collins791@duke.edu
Sports Medicine Physician Track
The Sports Medicine Physician Track (SMPT) Program at the Annual Meeting features nationally recognized speakers and fellowship Program Directors in the field of Sports Medicine.
Clinical case studies are presented by residents and fellows in sports medicine as part of the SMPT program. Presentations include history, physical examination, differential diagnosis, diagnostic tests performed and results, final working diagnosis and treatment, and outcome for a case.
More information and instructions for submitting a clinical case abstract is in the Call for Abstracts.
The deadline for clinical case abstract submissions for the 2025 annual meeting is Friday, December 6, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET.
Graduate Program Fair
The Graduate Program Fair is an opportunity for schools to provide information to potential graduate students about their Masters and/or Doctoral programs at the annual meeting. The 2025 Graduate Program Fair will be held late afternoon on Friday, February 21. Once the program is finalized, an exact time and length of the fair will be available.
The cost of a table at the fair is $75 without electricity and $90 with electricity. If you would like to participate, please contact Michael Berry at berry@wfu.edu to reserve a spot. Please indicate whether you need a table with or without electricity, how you will be paying (credit card or check), who the contact person will be with an email address and whether an invoice is needed or not.
The deadline to apply for a Graduate Program Fair table is November 1, 2024. Spaces are limited so be sure to reach out to Michael early! Once all spots have been filled, applications will be added to the waitlist.
2025 Annual Meeting Planning Timeline
Abstract reviews and selection of Student Award Poster and Asst Prof/Post Doc What's Up Doc? finalists: NOW
Acceptance notifications to oral, poster, tutorial, and symposium presenters: early November
Applications for the Leadership and Diversity Training Program (LDTP), Student Bowl, AV Teams, Graduate Program Fair, and nominations for Executive Board elections, Service Award, and Montoye Scholar Awards: due F 11/01
Conference registration opens: early November
Notifications to finalist for Student Award Poster and Asst Prof/Post Doc What's Up Doc? presentations: early December
Hotel reservation information: early December
Mentoring Program applications and Mentoring Award nominations deadline: M 12/02 at 5:00 pm ET
Sports Medicine Physician Track (SMPT) clinical case abstract submission deadline: F 12/06 at 5:00 PM ET
Session details (day/time) to presenters: mid-December
Preview Program (schedule and presentation listing): mid-December
SMPT clinical case abstract acceptance notification: early January
Final Program (conference information, schedule and presentation listing, abstracts): Mid-January
2025 Annual Meeting in Greenville: February 20–22
Exhibitor and Sponsor Opportunities
The Southeast ACSM chapter has a variety of opportunities available for companies and organizations to market their products and services to sports medicine and exercise science professionals in the southeast and to gain local, regional, and national exposure for their company.
One of the highlights of the conference is the opportunity for one-on-one interactions with exhibitors participating in the meeting. The opportunity to learn more about the products and services that companies and organizations have to offer sports medicine and exercise science professionals is an important part of the meeting.
The sponsors and exhibitors that participate at the annual meeting are from a wide variety of industries and institutions. These vendors offer products, equipment or services that the conference attendees frequently use in their professions.
Please contact Michael Berry (
berry@wfu.edu) if you or your company or institution would like to participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, or if you know of a company or institution that you would like to see at the meeting.