It is common in many academic fields to have “poster sessions” at their professional conferences where a quick synopsis of research results are presented in a poster. This is the case in Computer Science and, apparently, in medicine.

Philipp Homan is an MD, Psychiatrist, and Assistant Professor at Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. For the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Homan has prepared a poster on his research into weight gain as a result of antipsychotic drugs. It’s a beautiful poster with professional production values: take a look at it and see if you don’t agree.

Most Irreal readers won’t have the background to understand the material in the poster except in a general way but another aspect of the poster that’s not obvious from looking at it is that it was produced with Beamer and Org-mode.

The poster shows the really impressive results that are possible with the Beamer/Org combination. You can tweak the results until you’re happy with them and then, presumably, take them to a print shop to convert the PDF to a full size poster.

If you’re wondering how Homan did it, here’s the Org source file. I found it very instructive to read through. If you are thinking of presenting a poster at some professional conference, you would do well to take a look at Homan’s source code.