2026 Preliminary Agenda - AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
APSA Business Meeting

Jessica Ding, APSA President Elect

 
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Interviewing an Icon: Paul Negulescu

Paul Negelescu, PhD
Lasker laureate & Senior Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceutical

 

 
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM
A physician-scientist’s journey from lab to labyrinth

Joshua A. Gordon
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

 
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Scientific Showcase (4 minute oral abstract presentations)
 
 
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
APSA Presidential Address

Rohini Guin
APSA President, Stony Brook University

 

 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Mentorship Lunch
 
 
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Plenary Session I: The relationship between academia-federal government-industry: current trends and future directions

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Scott Gottlieb, MD
American Enterprise Institute

1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
Robert Califf, MD
Duke University

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Discussion with Q&A

 
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Trainee Oral Abstract Presentation

Myeloid IL-1 signaling drives the precancer-to-cancer evolution of human pulmonary nodules

Matthew D. Park
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

 
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
AAP Helen M. Ranney Award Lecture

Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSCS
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

 

 

Talk Title: Catalyzing Healthcare Policy Change: Expanding Access to Care for Underserved Populations

 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
 
 
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
AAP Meet & Greet the Speakers and a Taste of Chicago
 
 
3:30 PM - 5:35 PM
Plenary Session II: ASCI Awards

Moderators: TBD

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM    
The ASCI/Harrington Prize Lecture 

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM    
ASCI Presidential Address  

4:10 PM - 4:25 PM    
The ASCI / Seldin~Smith Award Lecture  

4:25 PM - 4:40 PM    
The ASCI / Ropes Award Lecture  

4:40 PM - 4:55 PM    
The ASCI / Sullivan Award Lecture  

4:55 PM - 5:20 PM    
The ASCI / Korsmeyer Award Lecture  

5:20 PM - 5:35 PM    
The ASCI / Scharschmidt~Crawford  Distinguished Lectureship 
 

 
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Near-Peer Mentorship Hour

Strengthen peer mentorship by empowering trainees at all stages to both give and receive advice, fostering cross-institutional connections that extend beyond the Joint Meeting.

 
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
ASCI President's Reception
 
 
7:00 PM - 9:45 PM
AAP Past President’s Reception/Dinner

By Invitation Only

 
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
APSA Welcome Reception

Offsite Event at Spin Chicago

 
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM
ASCI Dinner and New Member Induction Ceremony
 
 
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
APSA Board Meeting
 
 
AAP Council Meeting
 
 
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Plenary Session III: Long COVID – Fireside Chat/Gene Editing State of the Art

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Michael Peluso, MD, MHS
University of California, San Francisco

Ezra Spier
Patient Advocate

 

 

 


8:30 AM -  9:00 AM 

Gene Editing State of the Art

David R. Liu PhD
Broad Institute

Rebecca Ahrens Nicklas, MD, PhD
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

 

Dr. Alonzo Plough Ezra Spier
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Resident/Fellow Oral Abstract Presentation

Spatial Human Kidney Map Highlights B cell driven Kidney Disease Subgroup

Bernhard Dumoulin, MD
University of Pennsylvania

 
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
APSA x Lasker Speaker

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD
Lasker laureate & Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA

 
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
FNIH Trailblazer Prize Lecture - A new stem cell basis for skeletal pathology

A new stem cell basis for skeletal pathology

Matthew Greenblatt, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell 

 
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Break
 
 
10:15 AM - 11:20 PM
Poster Session A
 
 
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Lunch and Mentor Lunch
 
 
12:20 PM - 1:25 PM
Poster Session B
 
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Plenary Session IV: The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Philanthropic Funding of Health

Alonzo Plough, PhD, MPH
President for Research Evaluation and Learning and Chief Science Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Accelerating Discovery

Jonathan S. Stamler, MD
Harrington Discovery Institute

 

 

 

 
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
AAP Presidential Address
 
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Break
 
 
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Plenary Session V: AI and Medicine Fireside Chat

Nigam Shah MBBS, PhD
Stanford University

Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA    
Enlightening Results

Michael Matheny, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
Kober Medal Presentation

Recipient
Victor Dzau, MD
National Academy of Medicine

Presenter

Ravi Thadhani, MD

 

 
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
AAP Business Meeting
 
 
5:30 PM - 6:10 PM
APSA CORE: Building Bridges: Integrating Advocacy Into Research

Adam J. Milam, MD, PhD, MHS
Professor of Anesthesiology; Vice Chair for Health outcomes; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Johns Hopkins Medicine

 
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Should Physician-Scientists Be Advocates?: Evidence, Advocacy, and Trust in Medicine

John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc.
Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science

Moderator

Brad Ryva, PhD
APSA Advocacy Chair, Michigan State University

 
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
ASCI Food and Science Evening
 
 
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
AAP New Member Induction Ceremony Dinner

Ticketed event and black tie attire.

Rebuilding Public Trust in Science
Featured Speaker: Marcia K. McNutt, President, National Academy of Science

 
7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
APSA Founder's Award Presentation (Dessert Reception)

Paige Cooper Byas, PhD
Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

 
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ASCI/AAIM/BWF Physician-Scientist Pathways Annual Workshop

 

The workshop gathers those engaged in training physician-scientists at the pre- and post- graduate levels, including faculty, junior faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and staff, to share best practices, network, and explore the theme: How to navigate, mentor, and support physician-scientists in an evolving federal and academic environment.

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7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Registration
 
 
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Specialty Interest Breakfast

The Specialty Mentorship Breakfast offers a casual platform for physician-scientist trainees to engage directly with physician-scientist mentors from a variety of specialties and subspecialties.

 
Society Leadership Wrap Up Meeting
 
 
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Creative Collaborations & Community Engagement in MD-PhD Research: Lessons Learned from the Social Sciences & Humanities

Moderators
Arthi Kozhumam, APSA SSH Committee Member
MD-PhD student at Northwestern University

Zoe Boudart, APSA SSH MAL, MD-PhD
Anthropology Student at the University of Michigan

Speakers
Scott Stonington MD, PhD
Internal Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Michigan

Seth Holmes, MD, PhD
Medicine and Anthropology at UC Berkeley

Mayssa Rekhis MD, PhD
Medicine and Social Sciences at the University of Gothenburg

Niranjan Karnik MD, PhD
Psychiatry and Sociology at the Univerity of Illinois Chicago

 
The Courage to Pivot: Taking Big Risks, Resilience, and Defining Success

Mukesh K. Jain, MD
Senior Vice-Provost for Life, Sciences, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University

Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA
President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

 
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Advocacy From the Inside Out

Speaker Florence Chiang

 
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Residency Luncheon

The From Training to Residency Luncheon is an opportunity to gather current MD/DO-PhD and MD/DO trainees with directors and administrators of research-track residency programs. Pre-medical. trainees can also connect with program directors of MD/DO-PhD programs.