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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.

2026 Stories

In a split-screen image, AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and AAMC Board Chair Michael Waldrum, MD are seen giving their plenary addresses at Learn Serve Lead 2026.
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AAMC leaders to academic medicine: Our legacy endures

AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and AAMC Board Chair Michael Waldrum, MD, reflect on academic medicine’s impact on their lives and careers.

  • Nov. 9, 2026
André Robert Lee, Donald Schwarz, MD, and Anthony Singleton sit in chairs on stage next to a podium with The AAMC Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead 2026 logo on it. A blue backdrop with three visible AAMC logos on it is behind the men.
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To become better health care providers, students commit their hearts to community work

A partnership between health professions students and community groups has helped build trust and understanding with patients.

  • Nov. 9, 2026
Kelly Corrigan, host of PBS’s “Tell Me More,” moderates the plenary on Nov. 8 at Learn Serve Lead 2026 with Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP, and Joel Bervell, MD.
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Transforming medicine by centering communities

Nadine Burke Harris, MD, and Joel Bervell, MD, discuss social determinants of health and how to change systems to keep humans at the forefront.

  • Nov. 8, 2026
Art Coleman, JD, founding partner of EducationCounsel, and Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, president emerita of Spelman College, speak at Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7.
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Navigating institutional risk in uncertain times

Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, and Art Coleman, JD, discuss how colleges and universities can uphold their core values while adapting to evolving constraints.

  • Nov. 7, 2026
Marc Triola, MD, Karan Singhal, and Robert Wachter, MD, discuss the role of artificial intelligence in medical education at Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov. 7.
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As AI takes on a bigger role in medical care, what should medical students learn?

Two educators and an AI expert urge school leaders to swiftly change what they teach and how, focusing on the unique human skills of physicians.

  • Nov. 7, 2026
Mikhail “Doctor Mike” Varshavski, DO, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff at Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7.
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From the Salem witch trials to social media: Exploring the past to forge the future of medicine

Mikhail “Doctor Mike” Varshavski, DO, and biographer Stacy Schiff talk about building trust, the power of placebo, and humanism in the age of AI.

  • Nov. 7, 2026

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