AAMC

06/17/2026

Introducing the Learn Serve Lead 2026 program tracks! This year's program features six curated tracks designed to guide you through the meeting based on your interests, specialty, and goals — so every session, conversation, and connection counts.

Explore the tracks:
🔹 Advocacy and the Current Policy Environment
🔹 Biomedical Research and Discovery in Changing Times
🔹 Care Transformation and Workforce Development
🔹 Institutional Leadership and Governance
🔹 Learner Access, Support, and Transitions
🔹 Medical Education Curriculum, Assessment, and Research

Which track do you plan on using to make the most of your experience?

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Learn, connect, and collaborate with the academic medicine community at —4000+ professionals all under one roof! Gain insights into the latest innovations, lessons learned, and experiences elevating driving the future of medicine.

06/17/2026

“Community health and a strong democracy rise and fall together. The work of building both belongs to all of us.”

That’s Philip Alberti, PhD, founding director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice, in “Built to Thrive,” a landmark report by CHC: Creating Healthier Communities.

75% of U.S. adults support health equity, and 80% or more — across geography, ideology, and demographics — agree that humane housing, freedom from violence, and high-quality health care are essential to community health, Alberti writes. We have broad public agreement, so how can we build the civic infrastructure to turn that agreement into action?

Read his chapter (p.32) and the remainder of the report:

06/16/2026

When Aubree Harts was around 10 years old, what seemed like a run-of-the-mill stomach bug turned out to be something far more serious. After testing, the family turned to UF Health, where the health care team explained that Aubree had cardiomyopathy, a chronic heart disease that would require a transplant. Her sister Londyn was later diagnosed with the same condition.

Understanding that the hospital can be an overwhelming place for children, the UF team cared for the sisters’ emotional needs alongside their physical ones. “We do day-to-day activities that help them express their emotions and feelings,” said Sarah Meurer, a certified child life specialist. “We help them understand what's going on with their bodies. ‘Why am I sick? Why do I have to take this medicine?’”

Aubree had a successful heart transplant, and Londyn made history as the youngest patient at the time to receive a dual-chamber leadless pacemaker. Today, thanks to their dedicated care team, the sisters are back to doing the things they love: watching movies, playing board games, and just being kids.

Academic health systems like the UF Health Congenital Heart Center and the UF College of Medicine are crucial in ensuring that families like the Harts access the very best care amid the worst moments of their lives.
https://ufhealth.org/stories/2026/a-heart-from-the-harts-uf-health-congenital-heart-center-changes-siblings-lives

Aubree and Londyn Harts sit in their living room and show off their souvenirs. Aubree, 11, holds a cannula from a Berlin Heart — an external device that helps…

06/16/2026

America’s academic health systems are where expert patient care meets cutting-edge innovation. According to a study in JAMA, patients treated at major teaching hospitals have up to 20% higher odds of survival compared to nonteaching hospitals.

That’s the value of academic medicine in action: expert care, better outcomes. — and a system designed to advance treatments while improving lives every day. Learn how academic medicine is shaping high-quality, accessible clinical care: https://www.aamc.org/about-us/clinical-care

The AAMC works with our member organizations to make clinical care safer, more affordable, and more accessible.

06/16/2026

Scientific breakthroughs that save lives — like treatments for childhood leukemia and cystic fibrosis or cancer immunotherapy — were made possible by federal research funding: an effective system where scientists evaluate proposals on their scientific merits.

A proposed federal rule would let politics outweigh expertise and evidence in research funding decisions, posing a threat to the research ecosystem and all who benefit from it. Learn more about the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed rule to upend grantmaking from David J. Skorton, MD's op-ed in STAT.

“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

06/15/2026

“My interest in neurosurgery was sparked in high school, when two neurosurgeons visited my biology class and I got to hold a brain for the first time. Being raised in Newark, NJ, as a son of a taxi driver, I had never been exposed to anything like it until that point. It was like a new world opened up to me. I knew then that I wanted to study the brain in some capacity,” says Phabinly Gabriel, MD, a neurosurgery resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In this Specialty Perspectives interview, read about Dr. Gabriel’s experience as a neurosurgery resident and his advice and recommended resources for premeds and medical students. https://students-residents.aamc.org/specialty-perspectives/phabinly-gabriel-md-neurosurgery

This interview is one of many in our Specialty Perspectives series! After you read Dr. Gabriel’s story, check out our other interviews, where physicians share their experiences across specialties to help premeds find the right path.

06/15/2026

“What does it mean to a child to have their parent live 10 years longer? For a community to have access to new diagnostic strategies? For a student to have finally accomplished their dream of becoming a doctor?”

These are the questions that drive academic medicine, and they’re at the heart of a reflection on the AAMC’s 150th anniversary by our chief public policy officer Danielle Turnipseed. With a career at the intersection of health policy and academic medicine, Turnipseed writes from rare vantage point — one that’s just as focused on the halls of Congress as it is on the halls of a hospital.

What does it mean to a child to have their parent live 10 years longer? For a community to have access to new diagnostic strategies? For a student to have finally accomplished their dream of becoming a doctor? What does it mean for a patient to hear, “You're cancer free”? In academic medicine, t...

06/15/2026

The AAMC is the leading voice and advocate for the nation’s medical schools and academic health systems. Explore our work with federal policymakers to ensure that the perspectives of our member organizations are incorporated into federal legislation and regulation.

The AAMC regularly partners with and advocates before the federal government on behalf of academic medicine.

06/12/2026

From lifesaving research to training the physician workforce, strengthening our economy, and expanding patient access to care—academic medicine . Thank you for joining us in celebrating Academic Medicine Week! We encourage you to share the value of academic medicine all year long using .

Learn more about how academic medicine saves lives: https://academicmedicine.aamc.org/

06/12/2026

What improves access to care. Curtis J. Donaldson, executive director of the Rural Medicine Program at AAMC member institution TAMU Medicine shares how their rural medicine program is working to create a healthier future for patients by strengthening the rural physician pipeline. This Academic Medicine Week and beyond, we’re grateful for our member institutions’ commitment to building and sustaining healthy communities!