2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

AAHN Board Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Speakers

Gwyneth Franck

AAHN President, University of Illinois Chicago

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

12:00pm EDT

Annual AAHM Council Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom B

Lunch @ 12pm
Council Meeting: 1pm-4pm

Speakers

Mary Fissell

AAHM President, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom B Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

12:00pm EDT

Registration

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

Coatroom

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Coatroom Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Registration

2:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Business Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

AAHN Pre-Conference Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Pearl Room

1.) Emily Barr, Narrative, Film, and Moral Agency: Teaching Ethics Through Nursing and Healthcare History
2.) Donna Curry, Teaching Healthcare History through Visual and Experiential Learning
3.) Ruth Manchester, Nurses (and Other Medical Personnel) Depicted in WPA Murals

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Danielle Glynn

Oncology Nursing Society

Speakers

Emily Barr

University at Buffalo School of Nursing

Donna Curry

Wright State University

Ruth Manchester

Montgomery College

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

Op-Ed & Public Outreach Working Session

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

The Education & Outreach Committee will hold space for the sharing of ideas, information, and best practices for reaching public audiences. Bring an idea for or draft of an op-ed for workshopping in this session. Other formats of public outreach also welcomed.

Moderators

Alexander Parry

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Workshop, Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

The Communities of Care project focuses on communities of care in Buffalo to think with study participants about the everyday ways that those impacted by disability, both caregivers and those receiving care, including poor, racialized, and disabled people, navigate and negotiate living, working, and accessing vital healthcare and other needs. The project uses “communities of care” to extend its understanding of care networks beyond formalized healthcare settings to include the vital care that takes place in the home, in neighborhoods, and in other settings. It also considers care as work – both in its more formal settings and in the informal spaces in which it most often occurs. The Communities of Care project explores the ways in which this work has been/is gendered and racialized and the implications that this has for the formation of caregiving/receiving relationships and worker organizing. At the center of the project is the creation of a permanent digital community archive, gallery and exhibition space, and research guide made available to community members, students, and researchers of all levels. In this roundtable conversation, the Communities of Care project will be put into dialogue with the innovative work being done through the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute, which focuses on abolishing health inequities.

1. Michael Rembis, Introduction and Co-Creating Stories
2. Steve Peraza, Care Doesn’t Provide Itself
3. Tabby Violet, Stories We Can't Tell: Reflections on Refusal and Possibility
4. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Unnecessary Deaths, Sacrifice Zones, and Underdeveloped Neighborhoods: How to Abolish Health Inequities

Moderators

Jim Bono

Associate Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Speakers

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in the School of Architecture and Planning, Clinical Professor, in the Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, founding director of the U.B. Center for Urban Studies, and associate director of the U.B. Community Health Equity Research Institute at the University at Buffalo., University at Buffalo