1. Building your poster MS PowerPoint Carlos Orozco VICTR-CRC

2. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Poster Components • Title • Introduction • Objectives • Methods • Results • Conclusions • Acknowledgements

3. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Title Study title Authors Author’s Affiliation Drug A reduces cardiovascular risk in xyz diseases Drug A Reduces Cardiovascular Risk in XYZ Diseases DRUG A REDUCES CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN XYZ DISEASES Kyoko Sato1, Richard Urbano1, Chang Yu1, Fumiyasu Yamasaki2, Takayuki Sato2 1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, 2Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

4. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Format • Section headings & figure titles: bold, sentence case. • Text blocks: justify with sentence case. • Poster edges must have 1.5” of clearance.

5. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Introduction • Perspective, emphasize up to 4 points • Importance of problem • Previous studies • Main issue

6. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Objective • Study question • Hypothesis

7. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Methods • Laboratory - Experimental mode • Clinical - Study design, population, inclusion/exclusion criteria, conditions and interventions, etc… • Specific grouping and outcome measurement • Statistical methods – Sample size, analysis, significance, etc…

8. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Results • Up to 4 placards, graphs and charts are preferred • Limitations – Model and design, data, interpretation (translation)

9. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Conclusions • 3 Major points • Next step • Clinical effects • Implications

10. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Acknowledgements • Funding sources "Supported in part by Vanderbilt CTSA grant 1 UL1 RR024975 from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health" • Technical help

11. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Bitmap “dots per inch” • Tiff - Photo realistic used with scanners. • Gif - Internet graphics, up to 256 colors. • JPG – Photo realistic images, no color limit. • ALWAYS COPY AND PASTE SPECIAL ALL YOUR IMAGES IN TO YOUR SLIDE…

12. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Vector “lines & shapes” • SVG • Encapsulated Postscript • PDF • SWF • Windows Metafile

13. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE • Vector CAN convert to bitmap • Bitmap CAN’T convert to vector

14. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE bitmap

15. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE vector

16. BUILDING YOUR POSTER WITH POWERPOINT AND ADOBE Vector - bitmap

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