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Schedule
Please see the conference schedule overview below to help you plan your experience. The 2026 FMM Conference will feature a dynamic mix of collaboratives, educational sessions, plenaries, posters, and networking opportunities designed to engage and inspire attendees throughout the day.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT) | FMM Board Meeting
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT) | Registration
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT) | Collaborative Sessions
COLL01: Faculty Development Collaborative
COLL02: Program Directors Collaborative
COLL03: Scholarly Activity Collaborative, Business and Planning Meeting
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (EDT) | Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM (EDT) | Collaborative Sessions, continued
COLL01: Faculty Development Collaborative
COLL02: Program Directors Collaborative
COLL03: Scholarly Activity Collaborative, Business and Planning Meeting
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT) | FMM Planning Committee Kick-off Meeting
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM (EDT) | Lunch Roundtable Discussions
RD01: Beyond Professionalism: Paradoxes to balance in today’s Family Medicine training; Andrew Slattengren, DO
RD02: Supporting Residents as Parents; Jensena Carlson, MD
RD03: Stay Alert, Not Allergic: Understanding & Choosing the Right Allergy Relief ; Afshan Dhillon
RD04: Winter Is Coming & So Is the Flu: Understanding Why We Get Sick and What Actually Helps; Tarannum Dhillon
RD05: Impact of Exposure to Substance Use Disorders in the Inpatient and Outpatient Setting in Residency; Katherine Stetkevych, MD
RD06: Integrating Evolutionary Mismatch Theory into Primary Care Conversations; Max Goodmann, MD, MS
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT) | Educational Sessions
WS01: Hands-On Osteopathic Manipulative Approaches to Chest Wall and Upper Thoracic Pain; Ryan Singerman, DO
WS02: From Loss to Options: Practical Counseling for Early Pregnancy; Jensena Carlson, MD
SM01: Not a Flaw, But a Feature: The L.Y.M.I.T.S. Method™ for Building Resilient Family Medicine Physicians; René Roberts, MD, MS, FAAFP
SM02: A More Engaging Journal Club: Teaching Critical Appraisal Through Summary‑Based Evidence Review; Richard Guthmann, MD, MPH
SM03: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Development of a Street Medicine Program Through Integration of an Interdisciplinary Team; Rhonda Verzal, MD
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM (EDT) | Educational Sessions
WS03: Alchemy in the Exam Room: Transmuting Difficult Patient Encounters into Therapeutic Gold; Marian Sassetti, MD, FAAFP
WS04: Ethnographic Interviewing; James Meza, MD, PhD
SM04: Incorporating Obstetrics into Your Family Medicine Practice; Kristina Dakis, MD
SM05: Building a Neuro-Inclusive Primary Care Clinic: A Practical Framework for Improving Care for Autistic Adults; Carl Lambert, MD, FAAFP
SM06: From Management to Remission: Practical Tools for Diabesity in Primary Care; Mahtab Ahmed, MD
3:10 PM - 3:55 PM (EDT) | Poster Session 1; Break with Exhibitors
POST01: Integrating Continuous Glucose Monitoring into Clinical Practice for Better T2DM Management; Tana Chongsuwat, MD, MPH
POST02: Patients' Perceptions of a Community Clinic Based On Social Determinants of Health; Sadie Nguyen
POST03: Will optimizing order preferences improve efficiency by decreasing time in orders per appointment?; Kylie Ranard, DO
POST05: Integrating Community Engagement Into Medical Education: The Neighborhood Health Hub Experience; Aarohi Munshi, MD
POST06: Characteristics of Acute Medical Responses Encountered at UW Health Family Medicine Clinics: An Analysis of Healthcare Event Reporting Online (HERO) Entries; Brenna Gibbons, MD
POST07: Examining the Relationship Between Civic Engagement and Patient Well-Being: A Feasibility Study in Primary Care; Mike Leasure, MD
POST08: Using Stakeholder Equity Data-Driven Implementation (SEDDI) to Advance Cancer Screening Equity: An HPV Self-Sampling Case Study; Tina Ozbeki, MD
POST09: Enhance FM residents’ skill in cardiac risk stratification: A pilot curriculum to appropriately applying the PREVENT calculator; Angela Martinez, MD
POST10: Adopting and Explaining Change in Cervical Cancer Screening; Shuai Zhang, MD
POST12: A Multisite World Café Approach to Understanding Resident Scholarship Needs; Erin Lee, EdD
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM (EDT) | Welcome & Opening Plenary
PLEN01: The Art of Noticing Unnoticed Wisdom- Why This, Why Now, Why Me (Us)?; Gary L. LeRoy, MD, DABFM, FAAFP
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM (EDT) | Welcome Reception
7:30 AM - 3:00 PM (EDT) | Registration
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM (EDT) | Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT) | Educational Sessions; Residency Directors Meeting
QI01: Increasing the rates of diabetes screening in FQHCs; Jasmine Agyei-Poku, MD
QI02: Raising Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates through Resident-led Outreach in a Family Medicine Clinic; Amin Iehachi, MD
SC01: Large Language Models vs Expert-Curated Summaries: A Head-to-Head Evaluation of Clinical Evidence Summarization in Family Medicine; Richard Guthmann, MD, MPH
SC02: The View from the Front Row: Practices, Prioritization, and Barriers in Direct Observation; Lauren Anderson, PhD
SC03: The Flipped Classroom Model for Point of Care Ultrasound Training in a Family Medicine Residency; Amol Naik, MD
SC04: “I wish I would've thought about myself more”: A Qualitative Analysis of Postpartum Mental Health and Wellbeing; Analisa Conway, MSc
SC05: Access to Surgical Subspecialty Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Qualitative Study; Ria Sood, MPH
SC06: Patient Perspectives on Preconception Care in Medicaid: Implications for Reducing Severe Maternal Morbidity; Keianna Moyer, MPH
SC07: Community-Engaged Research with Two Chicago Doulas; Lauren Harriett, DO, MBA
SC08: Generative AI in Medical Education: Exploring Student Use and the Hidden Curriculum; Scott Renshaw, MD
9:10 AM - 10:10 AM (EDT) | Educational Sessions; Residency Directors Meeting, continued
WS05: Pain Management for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures; Sophie Chatas, MD
WS06: Dermoscopy for Residents and Students; Tara Kennedy, MD
SM07: Creative Community Connections Achieving Continuity in Street Medicine; Curt Ward, MD, MBA
SM08: Your Patient Had Cancer – Now What?; Sarah Kay Welch, DO
SM09: Lifestyle Medicine 101 Seminar; Faarina Khan, MD
SM23: Be Their Guide: How the AAFP – and You – Fuel the Future of Family Medicine; Sara Davis
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM (EDT) | Poster Session 2; Break with Exhibitors
POST11: The effect of age on long-term mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia in Louisville, Kentucky; Raveena Kataria, MBBS
POST15: Universal Prenatal Aspirin Prophylaxis: Promoting Health Equity and Reducing Missed Opportunities at an Urban FQHC; Lynna Ngo
POST16: Why Didn’t They Come? Understanding and Addressing No-Show Patterns in Primary Care Clinics; Tarannum Dhillon
POST17: Food As Medicine: Improving Biometric Health Through Fresh Produce Access in West Suburban Cook County; Kaitlyn Williams, MS
POST18: Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Wisconsin; Karly Kostman Moore
POST19: Association of major discrimination and coping with mental health among older Black adults; Jessica Dorcelien
POST20: Moms for Medicaid; Kaylynn Imsande
POST21: Disparities in Pronoun Use in Electronic Medical Records for Gender-Diverse Patients; Casey McCarthy, MS
POST23: Acute Cardiovascular Responses to Amphetamine/Dextroamphetamine Salts in Amphetamine/Dextroamphetamine Salts (ADHD medication)-Naïve Young Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial; Kiran Somers, DO
POST24: School-Based Education for Children with Asthma; Delaney Weiland, MD
POST25: CREATING A CLINIC: AN 18-MONTH ANALYSIS OF VOLUNTEER RATES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVING STUDENT PARTICIPATION; Frank Bogan, MS
POST26: Characterizing Patients with Mistrust in a Primary Care Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC); Caya Eigenmann
POST27: Characterization of people living with Parkinson’s Disease in Central and Southern Illinois regarding their resource needs, experiences with falls, and the role of their provider in resource education and fall prevention; Bala Ramaraju
POST28: Increasing POCUS usage in a Family Medicine Residency Clinic; Jake Knupp, MD
POST29: Sun Exposure Risk Assessment; Brianna Trimble
POST30: When Care Is Missed: A Distinct, Interdisciplinary Approach to Food Access for Patients in the Maywood Community; Abigail Avila
POST31: The Impact of Early MAT Exposure on Resident Education; Rebecca Camacho, DO
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT) | Educational Sessions
SM10: Stress, Blood Pressure, and Transcendental Meditation: Integrating the 2025 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Hypertension Guidelines into Primary Care; Tarannum Dhillon
SM11: Beyond the Textbook: Teaching Dermatology in Diverse Skin Tones for Family Medicine Learners; Scott Renshaw, MD
SM12: Strategic Alignment of OB Experiences within a Family Medicine Residency; Emily Gould, MD
SM13: IMPLICIT Network: Innovative care to improve birth outcomes and support families to thrive; Emily Long, MPH
II01: Disease Embeddings as a Hypothesis-Generating Framework for Syndemics and Multimorbidity in Primary Care; Sofia Kalugina
II02: The 38-second Universal Procedure Assessment; Nicolas Zúñiga-Peñaranda, MD
II03: Dry Erase Board in the Procedure Room to help complete all components of consent and time out; Suhail Shaikh, MD, FAAFP
II04: A History Unknown Will Readmit Itself: a proposal of the inclusion of the history of medicine in medical education and core competencies; Emma Jenkins
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT) | Lunch 1
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM (EDT) | Educational Sessions
WS07: PUNCH, SHAVE & EXCISIONAL BIOPSY TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP; Alicia Milan-Flanigan, MD
WS08: Osteopathic Manipulation for Tension and Migraine Headaches: A Hands-On Workshop; Sarah Kay Welch, DO
SM14: Integrating Lived Experience Educators into Medical Education: Opportunities and Lessons Learned from a Novel Pilot Program; Tayler Rodriguez
SM15: Beyond the Learning Plan: Managing Reduced insight, Resistance, and Relapse in Remediation; Jensena Carlson, MD
SM17: Negotiating Physician Contracts: A Guide for New Residents; Tom McCulloch, BE, SHRM
SM19: The Do’s and Do Not’s When Interviewing – A guide for new physician residents and first-time interviewers; Christopher Shireman, MBA, CMPE, FACHE, CPRP
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT) | Lunch 2
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM (EDT) | Educational Sessions
WS09: One Team, One Mission: Team-Based Simulations to Effectively Manage Shoulder Dystocia, Post-Partum Hemorrhage, Pre-Eclampsia; Esmeralda Rosales, MD
WS10: Nailed It: A Low-Cost Model for Teaching Hands-On Toenail Removals in Primary Care; Monica Thipparthi, MD
SM20: What Adults with Down Syndrome Request from Physicians; Brian Chicoine, MD
SM21: Redefining Family Medicine: Turning Clinical Voice into Policy Power; Gordana Krkic, CAE
SM22: Beyond the Scale and (Glucose) Meter: Multi-System Uses of GLP-1 and GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Agonists; Mark Wirtz, MD
1:50 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT) | Closing & Closing Plenary
PLEN02: AI: The Ultimate Catalyst in Advancing Equity in Medical Education, Patient Care, and Family Medicine; Lou Edje, MD, MHPE, FAAFP
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM (EDT) | Poster Session 3; Break with Exhibitors
POST32: Understanding Patient Preferences: Exploring Factors Influencing Patient Portal Adoption in Urban Clinic Settings; Aditya Vij, MD
POST33: “Listen to the needs of the person”: A medical student-elicited patient perspective on addiction care delivery; Delaney Weiland, MD
POST34: Incidence of and Risk Factors for Low Vitamin D in Pediatric Patients in a Northern Central U.S. Region; Benjamin Thompson, MD
POST35: Identifying leaders of scholarly activity and faculty development within family medicine residency programs; Sydney Anselmo
POST36: Institutional Factors in Gender Affirming Care: US Patient Perspectives; Annie Feldkamp
POST37: Group Medicare Wellness Visits to Promote Preventative Care and Wellness; Alyssa Panganiban, DO
POST38: Metformin: Do or Do Not?; Jordan Barry, DO
POST39: Prevalence of Depression in People with Epilepsy who Live in Rural Illinois; Brianna Trimble
POST40: The body-politic, the cultural body, and health outcomes; James Meza, MD, PhD
POST41: Perceived Food Affordability and Maternal Nutrition: A Low-Cost Primary Care Intervention in Chicago, IL; Afshan Dhillon
POST42: What Medical Students Learn from Survivors: Insights from a Survivor-Led Workshop Series on Gender-Based Violence Care; Tayler Rodriguez
POST43: Building Bonds, Breaking Stigma: Prenatal and Postpartum Health Education at ARC Maternal and Infant Program; Caitlin Regner, MD
POST44: Screening for Testosterone Deficiency in Combat Veterans With PTSD-Like Symptoms in Primary Care: Implications for Diagnosis and Management; Remi Rivera Rodriguez
POST45: Influence of Rural Versus Non-Rural Clerkship Settings on Medical Student Educational Experiences and Competencies; Lucas Glowinski
POST46: The Impact Therapy Dogs Have on Human Mental Wellbeing; Emma Ceaglske
POST47: Off-Service, High Stakes: How Non-Family Medicine Faculty Shape Family Medicine Resident Assessment; Katherine Stetkevych, MD
POST48: Closing the Feedback Loop: Integrating Utilization Management Findings Into Family Medicine Residency Documentation Training; MariaLiza Dalope-Isla, MD
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT) | Residency Fair