PNHP

2025 Annual Meeting

Building Community, Building Power

Register for the conference HERE!

Join hundreds of PNHP and SNaHP members as we gather in Washington, D.C. to build community with like-minded colleagues and to build power in the nation’s capital.

NOTE: to accommodate our advocacy day on Monday, Nov. 3, this year’s conference has a new structure and days/times. Please be aware of these changes when making your travel arrangements.

PNHP Annual Meeting & SNaHP Summit

Detailed conference schedule available HERE

Saturday, Nov. 1

  • SNaHP Summit (students only), 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
  • PNHP Annual Meeting, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Reception, Dinner & Keynote, 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 2

  • PNHP Annual Meeting, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Lunch, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
  • Small group meetings and advocacy day preparations, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 3

  • Advocacy Day & Rally at the U.S. Capitol, 8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Location & Hotel

The SNaHP Summit and PNHP Annual Meeting will be held at American University’s Washington College of Law, located at 4300 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016. The location is accessible via Metro (AU-Tenleytown red line).

Sleeping rooms are available at the Embassy Suites Washington DC Chevy Chase Pavilion, 4300 Military Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015, for $179/night for a king suite or $189/night for a double suite. The location is accessible via Metro (Friendship Heights red line, 1 stop from the meeting venue).

  • Reservations may be made online here.
  • If you would like to book a room with arrival prior to Oct. 31 or departure after Nov. 3, please contact Matt Petty at matt@pnhp.org.

Sleeping room reservations must be made by Friday, Oct. 10.

Speakers

Keynote: Uché Blackstock, MD, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine

Meeting Chair: Diljeet Singh, MD, DrPH, PNHP president, women’s health advocate, and integrative gynecologic oncologist

Welcome (Sunday): Robert Weissman, JD, Co-President, Public Citizen

Health Policy Update (Saturday): Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, past president of PNHP, pulmonologist at Cambridge Health Alliance, and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; Gita Lakshminarayanan, MD student at the University of Florida College of Medicine; and Amelia Smith, MD student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago

Building Community, Building Power Panel Discussion (Saturday): Jamila Headley, PhD, Executive Director, Be A Hero; Rob Davidson, MD, MPH, emergency physician and Executive Director, Committee to Protect Health Care; Hayden Rooke-Ley, JD, Senior Fellow for Healthcare, American Economic Liberties Project and Senior Fellow, Brown University School of Public Health; and Philip Verhoef, MD, PhD, pediatric and adult intensivist and immediate past president, PNHP (moderator)

PNHP’s Medicare Advantage Equity Report Panel Discussion (Sunday): Donald Moore, MD, MPH, retired general medicine physician and board member, PNHP NY Metro; Claudia Fegan, MD, PNHP national coordinator and former Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Health; Rachel Madley, PhD, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Center for Health and Democracy, former Health Policy Advisor to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and former SNaHP Executive Board Member; Belinda McIntosh, MD, psychiatrist and national board member, PNHP (presenter and panelist); and Ed Weisbart, MD, retired family physician and national board secretary, PNHP (moderator)

Sounding the Alarm on Physician Moral Injury (Sunday): Anand Habib, MD, MPhil, assistant professor and attending physician in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and moral injury researcher, PNHP

This conference will not be livestreamed in its entirety. Recordings of select sessions will be made available after the meeting.

Student and Resident Scholarships

Scholarships are available to students and residents to cover a portion of the cost of travel and lodging. More information will be available this summer.

PNHP members and the public can support PNHP’s student outreach programs by making a GIFT to the Nicholas Skala Student Fund.

Previous Annual Meetings

Click HERE to access archival material from last year’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Click HERE to view photos from the conference.

Attending the 2025 PNHP Annual Meeting and SNaHP Summit is entirely voluntary and requires attendees to abide by any applicable rules of conduct, or local or state laws, that may be announced at any time. Attendees acknowledge the highly contagious and evolving nature of Covid-19 and voluntarily assume the risk of exposure to, or infection with, the virus by attending the Meeting, and understand that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, disability, and/or death. Attendees release and agree not to sue any persons or entities responsible for coordinating or organizing the PNHP Annual Meeting and SNaHP Summit in the event that they contract Covid-19. Attendees agree to comply with all Covid-related procedures that may be implemented at the Meeting, including mask-wearing.