All presenting authors are required to register for the congress and pay the registration fee by 07 August 2025. Abstracts will be published in an E-Book of Abstracts. Authors who are unable to attend may ask a colleague to present on their behalf. If you or your co-authors are unable to attend, please notify the Congress Organiser chipo@eventoptions.co.za to withdraw your abstract at the earliest, so that we may give others an opportunity to present.

• Oral Presentation
• Poster Presentation (ePoster)
• Authors are requested to follow the instructions clearly.

• Adult pulmonology (including physiotherapy)
• Paediatric pulmonology (including physiotherapy)
• Thoracic surgery
• Allergy

Provision has been made for ePoster presentations.
Note: All visuals shown must have informed consent. Speakers must declare a conflict of interest before starting their presentations.

Maximum of 250 words in MS Word. Font: Arial 10pt. No graphs, figures, tables, or diagrams permitted.
Language: English (Poorly written abstracts will not be accepted)
Abstracts must contain:

• The names of all authors (first name and surname)

• Affiliations of all authors

• E-mail address of the corresponding author

• Contact address

• Contact telephone number

• The title must define the topic, be concise (excessively long titles may be shortened at the discretion of the organising committee) and contain no abbreviations

• The text should cover the background/hypothesis, objectives, method, results and conclusion. An adequate description of the methods and results are a prerequisite to be considered. Abstracts must contain results

• In the text, only standard abbreviations need not be defined. Non-standard abbreviations and acronyms must be defined on first use

Abstracts received after the cut-off date; incomplete abstracts; abstracts without affiliations of all authors, abstracts without full contact details; abstracts in excess of 250 words and abstracts containing figures or tables will not be published.

Kindly divide your abstract according to the following headings:

Research Abstract:

• Introduction

• Objective

• Methods

• Results

• Conclusion

• Please use the format provided below, e.g. use bold, sentence-case text for the title of the abstract, the corresponding author’s email address should be provided in italicised text and section headings should be bold text.
• Stick to the sections as provided and limit the abstract to 250 words, if possible.
• Please use superscript numbers to indicate author affiliations. All affiliations should contain the name of the department, faculty, university, city and country.
• Please provide abbreviations in full at first mention – e.g. menstrual hygiene management (MHM)

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee who reserves the right to accept and allocate abstracts for either ePoster or oral presentation. Presenters will be notified by the 30 June 2025. if their abstract has been accepted. All presenters of accepted abstracts must be registered as Congress delegates.

The official language of the conference is English. There will be selected oral presentations.

E-Posters to be displayed at the congress on plasma screens within the expo area at Indaba Hotel & Conference Centre. Full details for the preparation of ePoster will be included in the abstract acceptance letter.

Abstracts (with the author’s permission) will be published in the electronic Book of Abstracts. The abstract book will be available digitally on the SATS & ALLSA Congress website.

If you have difficulty, please mail the administrator on chipo@eventoptions.co.za