Our 2025 Annual Conference is scheduled for Tuesday October 14 through Friday October 17, 2025!

This year we are piloting a format that is simultaneously familiar and new.

Familiar:

Conference activities will be primarily virtual, with a full day of virtual continuing education (October 14th) and two full days of virtual conference programming (October 16th-17th) that is accessible to all online.

New:

Attendees are invited to join other conference-goers at one of three official host sites in the region! Official host sites will provide a half day of specialized in-person programming for attendees on October 15th, and they will provide food, hospitality, and group viewing of the virtual conference program on October 16th and 17th.

The official host sites are:

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Official host sites will be part of the conference program as options for attendees to elect to view the virtual conference in person with a group, and to take part in an additional half-day of in-person site-specific activities before/after the virtual conference. There is no additional registration cost to the attendees to join an official host site.

Program outline:

Tuesday 10/14: virtual CE

Wednesday 10/15: morning open for travel, afternoon in-person activities at official host sites for those electing to attend

Thursday: 10/16: virtual conference (speakers/research program)

Friday: 10/17: virtual conference (speakers/research program)

The call for participation (papers/posters/lightning talks) will go out in early June, and this site will be updated as more details are confirmed.

Conference Co-Chairs:

Liz Weinfurter, eweinfur@umn.edu

Lisa McGuire, lmcguire@umn.edu