ISCD is pleased to offer the opportunity for individuals and teams to submit Abstracts and Clinical Cases for the 2026 Clinician and Technologist Symposiums. Abstracts selected for inclusion in the Symposia will have the poster (pdf) made available to attendees of both Symposia. Award recipients will develop a short video presentation of their abstract for all attendees to view.

• Abstracts open – November 06, 2025
• Abstracts Close – January 14, 2026
• Acceptance & Award Winner Notifications – February 13, 2026
• Deadline for Receipt of all author Disclosures and acceptance of deadlines/policies – February 24, 2026
• Abstracts/Videos due from the Primary author for placement on the symposium website – March 9, 2026

ISCD encourages anyone involved in Skeletal Health Assessment to submit an abstract or a clinical case. We are specifically encouraging Young Investigators to consider a submission. 

Clinician, Technologist, & Research Abstracts (including instrument development, other methodological studies, and research-based best practices) should describe the methods used to carry out the research, identify variables and sample size, identify protocols and instruments used for evaluation, and describe data analysis. Research must be completed before abstract submission. All Abstracts will be submitted through the online submission portal available on November 6, 2025. Submissions should include:

• Purposes/Aims
• Rationale/Conceptual Basis/Background
• Methods
• Results
• Implications

Clinical Cases are designed to show principles of quality skeletal health assessment, artifacts, issues with analysis, reporting, and interpretation. Submissions in this category should address/include the following:

• Novelty. Cases should be new or out of the usual, conveying information that meeting attendees do not frequently see in general practice.
• Images must be of high quality and resolution. Viewers must be able to see the areas of interest clearly. Labels should be used as appropriate.
• Cases that provide educational value. Viewers should be able to gain knowledge by viewing the cases even if the subject matter is not in their usual area of practice.
• Cases that demonstrate overall merit are well-written and easily understandable to all meeting attendees.
• Cases must be free of any Patient Health Information (PHI). (Any case containing such information will be destroyed).

All Clinical Cases will be submitted to the DXA Atlas Submission Portal.

Awards will be selected for the categories below, and submitters will be asked to choose one category for the committee to consider for Best in Class.  

• Best Clinician Abstract
• Best Technologist Abstract
• Best Researcher Abstract
• Best Clinical Case Submission

Those selected for awards will be asked to create a short video presentation for inclusion on the symposium website. Those selected for awards who submit a video presentation will receive complimentary registration for one of the symposiums.

Young Investigators are encouraged to submit abstracts in any category. Submitters will be asked as part of the submission if the primary author is a Young Investigator and may be considered for a Young Investigator Award within the submitted category. Young Investigators are defined as:

• Faculty members no more than 5 years out from completion of all training (fellowship or post-doc)
• Fellows
• Residents
• Other individuals involved in research aligned with the ISCD's mission who are within 5 years of completion of training

Qualifications and Eligibility

All authors must adhere to the following when submitting an abstract for the ISCD 2026 Virtual Symposium: 

• For scientific studies, the research described in the abstract complies with the guiding principles for experimental procedures written in the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association and the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 1985, and it refers to the policy established by your Institutional Review Board.
• All primary authors must provide appropriate disclosures through the submission website. Abstracts selected for presentation will require disclosures from all authors before February 24, 2026.
• The contact/lead author on the abstract must register for the Clinician or Technologist 2026 Virtual Symposium. Abstracts without a registered author by March 9, 2026, will be withdrawn.
• Authors of an abstract describing a study funded by an organization with a proprietary or financial interest must identify the organization and affirm that they had full access to all the data in the study. By doing so, the authors accept complete responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the data analysis.
• Abstracts submitted and accepted may be published in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry(JCD).
• There is no charge for the submission of abstracts, and there is no limit on the number of abstracts that an author may submit. Each abstract needs to be submitted individually via the online submission process.