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Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting

Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, Nov. 6-10

Learn Serve Lead is the AAMC’s premier annual gathering, where forward-thinking dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing fuel innovation and drive transformation in health, health care, research, and education. Here, leading minds reignite their passions for improving health, forge new partnerships, and shape how we train tomorrow’s doctors and scientists.

Registration is Now Open

Registration is now open for Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting, taking place November 6–10 in Anaheim, California. This year’s meeting marks the AAMC's 150th anniversary, bringing together leaders across academic medicine to reflect on a century and a half of progress and shape the future of discovery, medical education, advocacy, and care. Explore this year's program and secure your spot today.

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Future Learn Serve Lead dates and locations:

  • Nov. 12-16, 2027 | Washington, DC

Highlighted 2025 Stories

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Infectious disease physician Adam Ratner, MD, MPH, offers his insights on combating measles and other communicable diseases at Learn Serve Lead 2025.
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Outbreaks of measles are fueled by outbreaks of mistrust

The key to understanding and fighting the forces that fuel measles and other viral outbreaks is better communication with families, says infectious disease phys

  • Nov. 4, 2025
Heather Pierce, JD, MPH, AAMC’s senior director for science policy and regulatory counsel, left, speaks with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp, PhD, middle, and Ashley Velie, a Peabody Award-winning producer for 60 Minutes, right, about how to better communicate about science at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting.
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To rebuild trust in science, scientists must change who tells their story and how

Holden Thorp, PhD, the top editor at Science, and "60 Minutes" producer Ashley Velie discuss the power of conversations rather than confrontation.

  • Nov. 4, 2025
On Nov. 3, at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting, emergency physicians Christopher Cowell, MD, and Peter Antevy, MD, and trauma surgeon Lillian Liao, MD, shared insights into responding to mass shooting events.
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Mass shootings: Doctors share lessons from the front lines

Three physicians who treated victims urge academic leaders to help staff cope during the crisis and build resilience to the emotional fallout.

  • Nov. 4, 2025
AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, speaks during the Leadership Plenary at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting as, from left, ABC News journalist Linsey Davis, AAMC Board of Directors Chair Julie Freischlag, MD, and AAMC Board Chair-Elect Michael Waldrum, MD, look on.
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AAMC Leaders: Navigating today’s uncertainties requires a steadfast commitment to medicine’s core values

Caring for patients, conducting groundbreaking research, and training the next generation of physicians will remain academic medicine’s North Star.

  • Nov. 3, 2025
Allison Pugh, PhD, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, addresses the audience as moderator Susmita Pati, MD, MPH, looks on during a session entitled Seeing the Other: Human Value in the Age of AI at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov. 2 in San Antonio.
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Doctors, beware: AI threatens to weaken your relationships with patients

Author Allison Pugh, PhD, sees pressure to be more efficient as reducing “connective labor” between health care workers and patients.

  • Nov. 2, 2025
AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, chat with the audience and each other at Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov. 3 in San Antonio.
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Fractious times call for bold stances

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, emphasized the importance of taking a stand during opening plenary at Learn Serve Lead 2025.

  • Nov. 2, 2025

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