Scope of Your Talk

• Presenters at the beginning of the conference will present an overview of lipedema. This allows you to jump directly into your research and skip lipedema basics.

Disclosures

• Disclose any financial interests or relationships that could influence your presentation or research.

  • This includes funding, compensation, or any other potential conflicts of interest.

  • If you have no disclosures, please state that explicitly on a slide.

Methods & Study Design Detail

Include enough methodological detail that the audience can judge how confidently to weigh your findings.

• Describe the diagnostic criteria or protocol used to identify/classify participants.

• Specify which staging system was used, if any, and whether staging was clinician-assessed or self-reported.

• Describe the comparator or control group (e.g., healthy controls, lymphedema, obesity-only, no controls) and how it was defined.

• Note the depth of tissue samples, if applicable.

• Describe any model systems used in your research (cell line, animal model, organoid, etc.).

• Note the statistical methods used and whether findings are adjusted for likely confounders (e.g., BMI, age, hormonal status).

• If using LF infrastructure, note which source and subset and relevant enrollment criteria.

Data Reporting Standards

• Note the sample size (n) of any data referenced, and include this on the slide.

• Note whether data is published (with reference) or unpublished.

• Distinguish preliminary/pilot findings from validated results explicitly on the slide — published status alone doesn't indicate strength of evidence.

• If discussing outcomes, note whether they are patient-reported, clinician-assessed, or imaging-based.

Patient Data & Confidentiality

• Do not show identifiable patient images, quotes, or case details without documented consent — including from small cohorts where re-identification risk is high (n < 5).

• Treat registry and biobank data as confidential research infrastructure; avoid slide content that could enable re-identification of participants.

Slide Formatting

• Font size no smaller than 18pt.

• Ensure images and charts are legible at presentation resolution.

• Include slide numbers.

• Use color-blind-safe palettes for charts and figures.

Logistics

• We will confirm your talk length individually.

• Submit final slides in the requested file format by the stated deadline for A/V check.

• Note whether recording or photography of your slides is permitted, particularly if unpublished findings or patient data are shown.

Please submit your presentation to the Dropbox by October 26, 2026 (see above for Dropbox Link).

Please save and upload with the following naming convention: LastName_LFRetreat_2026.pptx

Reach out to retreat@lipedema.org if you have any questions or concerns.

LF awardee PI's are required to give a presentation at the retreat based on their granted award. 

Anyone may submit a proposal for a poster presentation. Posters are awarded on a limited basis, so not all proposals will be accepted. Please note, this is in addition to the presentation required by LF awardees.

Presentations are due October 26, 2026. 

Presentations should be created utilizing the LF Research Retreat Presentation Template. If you have a compelling reason which will not allow you to use the template provided:

• Please consider all of the Presentation Content Requirements carefully

• Use an aspect ratio of 16:9 for your slides

• Ensure you are using the current LF logo (see presentation template for updated logo and link above).

Please contact awards@lipedema.org for questions about presentation content.

Retreat policy on confidentiality of unpublished data can be found  in the LF Code of Conduct. However, all data  from the retreat should be considered unpublished, and should not be shared. If you are interested in sharing data, you must receive explicit written permission from the author.