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Dysautonomia International's annual conference is the largest conference on autonomic disorders. We bring together the research community focused on autonomic disorders and their common comorbidities. We encourage researchers to submit abstracts pertaining to research on autonomic nervous system disorders and their common co-morbidities by June 1, 2026. 

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Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their poster during the poster session on Saturday, July 11, 2026, and select abstracts will be invited for oral presentation.

$500 prizes will be awarded to one outstanding abstract in each of the following categories: Innovator Award, Early Career Investigator Award, The IDEA: Inspiring Dysautonomia Equity Award, and the Patients’ Choice Award.
 

Abstract Submission Instructions
Please email text abstracts of 300 words or less to research@dysautonomiainternational.org on or before June 1, 2026. Please use the following section headers: Title, Authors (first and last name, institutional affiliation, city, state, country), Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions.

Original research is preferred, but truly novel case reports that advance our understanding of autonomic disorders will be considered. New abstracts and abstracts that have been presented at other academic conferences or published within the past 12 months (June 2025-June 2026) will be prioritized. 

Each author can submit up to four abstracts.

If your abstract is selected for presentation, you will be notified on or before June 15, 2026. You will be responsible for printing a poster version of your research abstract and hanging it up on the designated display board before the Poster Session on Saturday. We will provide a fabric display board and pushpins for the posters.

Your research team can decide which of your co-authors will be the presenting author if your abstract is selected for poster or oral presentation. If your abstract is selected, at least one of your co-authors must register to attend the conference in person to present the poster or oral presentation.

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Awards
Dysautonomia International will issue prizes of $500 each to one outstanding abstract within each of the following categories. Prizes will be awarded during the Awards Luncheon on Sunday, July 12, 2026, which is included with conference registration.
 

Innovator Award
All abstracts are eligible for this award. This award will be presented to the most innovative research abstract at the conference, as determined by a group of experienced dysautonomia researchers, with input from Dysautonomia International’s Board of Directors.

Early Career Investigator Award
Eligible investigators include any clinician or scientist who is presently in a residency, fellowship, or doctoral training program or has been in such a program within the past five years (at the time of submission), students currently enrolled in medical school, students currently enrolled in other graduate degree programs in the health professions. To be eligible for this award, an early career investigator must be the submitting author, and if chosen to present a poster or oral abstract, must be the presenting author.

The IDEA: Inspiring Dysautonomia Equity Award
Eligible abstracts include research with the goal of narrowing the racial, ethnic and socio-economic gaps in autonomic disorders clinical care and research, research conducted by or focused on individuals of racial, ethnic or socio-economic groups typically under-represented in autonomic research, research that identifies inequalities in the delivery of care, and/or research seeking solutions to inequities in autonomic disorders research and clinical care.

Patients’ Choice Award
All abstracts are eligible for this award. During the conference, we’ll ask hundreds of dysautonomia patients to vote for the abstract poster that they feel is most beneficial or informative to improving their quality of life, now or potentially in the future. The poster that receives the most patient votes before the end of the poster session will receive this award. Abstract authors are prohibited from soliciting votes from patients and all voting will be done anonymously by the patients attending the conference.

Questions?
If you have any questions about the abstract submission or presentation process, please email them to research@dysautonomiainternational.org.