10th ASOI Annual Scientific Meeting 2026
Friday 9 October 2026 | Ashling Hotel, Dublin
Join the Association for the Study of Obesity on the island of Ireland (ASOI) for its 10th Annual Scientific Meeting, bringing together clinicians, researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and people with lived experience to advance obesity research, policy, and care.
This national meeting will focus on shared learning, collaboration, and evidence-based practice across the full spectrum of obesity prevention, treatment, research, and policy. The programme will include high-quality plenary sessions, scientific presentations, and opportunities to connect with colleagues from across disciplines and sectors.
The key themes for our 2026 conference will include:
- Multidisciplinary obesity care and pharmacotherapy
- Unmet needs in mental health and obesity
- Patient-centred outcomes and priorities
Call for Abstracts
ASOI warmly invites abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations. Submissions are welcome from all backgrounds and career stages, including completed studies, protocols, service evaluations, quality improvement projects, and qualitative research.
Submission categories
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Basic and applied science
- Policy
Abstract submission deadline: 4 August 2026
Why attend?
- Hear from leading specialists in obesity research, clinical care, lived experience, and policy.
- Share research, audit, service evaluation, and innovation with a national audience.
- Build connections with a wide audience of healthcare professionals including medical doctors, nurses, dietitians, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, radiation therapists, researchers, policymakers, and people living with obesity.
- Contribute to conversations on equitable access to care, patient involvement, reducing weight stigma, and improving outcomes.
Find out more
For abstract submission, programme details, registration and updates, please visit the ASOI 2026 conference registration page which will be updated as the event planning progresses:
The abstract deadline has now CLOSED
Decisions on abstracts will be shared by email with corresponding authors by Friday 20th September 2024.
Research Challenges / Collaboration Elevator
Pitches
We invite expressions of interest for the ‘Research
Challenges / Collaboration Elevator Pitch’ session at our 9th Annual
Meeting to be held on October 11th, 2024.
The Research Challenges / Collaboration
Elevator Pitch session is designed to promote research networking. It is an opportunity for researchers, academic
educators, healthcare professionals, patients, and others to briefly outline a
specific research challenge and/or call for
collaborators in all fields related to the study of obesity. We encourage
submissions from across the spectrum of prevention to treatment, including policy
and practice.
Proposed pitches may relate to any stage
of the research process (e.g. pitching a research idea; preliminary research or
consultation; describe a challenge experienced on an existing project / service;
highlight expertise needed for an existing funded study) and evidence of
existing funding is not necessary.
Expressions
of interest (EOI) should include:
Name / Title / Professional Role (if
relevant) / Organisation / Email address:
Title (max 15 words):
Details on the research challenge or
collaboration pitch (max 150 words)
Submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Organising Committee and four applicants will
be invited to deliver their 3-minute elevator pitch the event. Details of the research challenge or
collaboration call (as per EOI details submitted by applicants) will
be published in the conference
abstract booklet. The
abstract booklet will be circulated to all registered participants and made available through the
ASOI website. Please indicate, during the EOI submission process, if for any reason you
prefer not to have your details published in the book of abstracts.
Please submit expressions
of interest with ‘Research Challenges / Collaboration Elevator
Pitch 2024’ in the subject to info@asoi.info by 17:00 on September 9th 2024.
EASO Stakeholder Session – Working Together
14th January 2022
The ASOI have been invited to share our experiences of collaborating with patients and people who live with obesity, through our joint projects with the Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity. Register now.
Overweight and Obesity…Let’s Talk!
7th October 2021
The ASOI teamed up with the National Clinical Programme for Obesity and the Irish Coalition for People living with Obesity (ICPO) for an online webinar: Overweight and Obesity…Let’s Talk! Catch up on the session below:
World Obesity Day 2021 Ireland – Online
“Addressing Obesity Together”
Part 1 – Reflections of people living with Obesity & HCP responses.
Part 2 – Roundtable discussion with Organisation & Service leaders from Ireland & Europe.
Part 3 – Looking beyond obesity- seeing people first!
