Upcoming medical education events, Fall 2026
Take a look at our upcoming CME conferences. Lots of educational opportunities!
Liver Wellness Conference – Cirrhosis Care in Motion: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Management
Friday, September 25, 2026, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Coralville, Coralville, IA
Registration and Event Details
Cirrhosis and its clinical complexity demand coordinated care across the healthcare spectrum. As advances in the understanding and management of portal hypertension continue to evolve, there is a clear need to update clinicians on the latest evidence, guideline recommendations, and emerging therapeutic strategies. This conference aims to equip healthcare professionals with practical, up-to-date knowledge to optimize the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of cirrhosis and its complications. To achieve this, the program will bring together a multidisciplinary faculty to deliver an integrated, patient-centered perspective. Designed for a multidisciplinary audience, the sessions will highlight best practices across multiple levels of care, promote early recognition and intervention, and support more seamless, collaborative management of advanced chronic liver disease. By fostering shared understanding and communication across specialties, this initiative seeks to improve outcomes and quality of care for patients living with cirrhosis.
See also: Liver Wellness at Iowa
Progress 2026: Learning Together in the 21st Century
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 7:00 am – Friday, October 2, 2026, 3:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Coralville, Coralville, IA
Registration and Event Details
Emphasizing the interprofessional team approach to patient care, the annual Progress conference combines internal medicine and pharmacy continuing education programs into a single multi-track program offering plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and hot topics in a combined interprofessional format. This conference will discuss practice changing diagnostic and therapeutic changes in a wide range of clinical medicine.
Topics include:
Cancer in Iowa
AI and Medicine
Alzheimer’s Updates
De-Prescribing
Menopause & HRT
Health Care Access
ACP Clinical Vignettes & SHM Poster Competition
Iowa Cardiovascular Summit
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 12:00 pm – Friday, October 9, 2026, 5:00 pm
Graduate Hotel, Iowa City , IA
Registration and Event Details
Updates and topics on changes to guidelines for advanced therapy in heart failure, cardiology, electrophysiology and surgical cardiac therapies.
- Discuss multidisciplinary management in advanced heart failure
- Review guidelines to medical management for heart failure
- Identify emerging devices for treatment of heart failure
- Identify best methods for treatment of atrial arrhythmias
- Review valvular heart disease and examine therapies for treatment of valvular cardiomyopathy
- Explain the role of CRT and CCM in cardiomyopathy
- Define how palliative care is important for heart failure patients
- Identify surgical strategies in advanced heart failure
- Identify early recognition and review management of infiltrative cardiomyopathies
- Explain management of cryptogenic stroke, ASD closure, and PFO closure
- Review imaging and identify features of TTE / TEE for stroke patients
- Discuss pulmonary hypertension and management of right ventricular failure
- Explain medical and surgical management of aortic aneurysm
- Review guidelines on management of atrial fibrillation
- Describe treatment of coronary disease in a non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patient
- Review the use of GLP1 agonists in the cardiac patient
- Discuss dietary tools for weight management
- Interpret echo findings in diastolic dysfunction
- Review management of unstable heart failure patients and cardiogenic shock
- Identify best methods for treatment of ventricular arrhythmias
Heartland Lead Management Symposium
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Hilton Garden Inn (Grand Ballroom), Iowa City, IA
Registration and Event Details
This activity was designed to enhance the clinical practice through updated knowledge in electrophysiology lead and device management.
- Describe key challenges in transitioning from fellowship to independent extraction practice
- Implement risk mitigation strategies to improve procedural safety
- Outline essential components required to establish a lead extraction program
- Select appropriate rescue strategies for complex or failed extractions
- Evaluate the role of CT and intracardiac echocardiography in procedural planning
- Integrate infectious disease principles into extraction decision-making
- Develop re-implantation strategies following device extraction
- Identify clinical scenarios where lithotripsy may improve procedural success
- Identify high-risk lead types and associated complications
- Describe techniques and potential complications of device retrieval
Virtual or In-Person attendance available. A link for virtual attendees will be sent a few days prior to the activity date.
Current Topics in Allergy/Immunology 2026: Novel High-impact Tools in Allergy/Immunology
Friday, October 30, 2026, 7:30am – 4pm
Hyatt Regency Coralville, Coralville, IA
Registration and event details
This conference provides updates on emerging therapies and clinical advances in allergy and immunology. Topics include novel treatments for atopic dermatitis, oral immunotherapy, biologics in allergen immunotherapy, JAK inhibitors, STAT gain-of-function disorders, alpha-gal allergy, PFAPA, and the impact of GLP-1 agonists on allergic disease. Participants will gain practical, evidence-based insights to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with allergic and immunologic conditions.
- Describe the importance of the JAK-STAT pathway in allergy/immunology
- Explain Alpha-gal allergy and its management
- Compare and contrast different new therapies for atopic dermatitis
- Appraise the evidence for oral allergen immunotherapy in food allergy
- Examine the use of biologics in the setting of allergen immunotherapy
- Critique GLP1 agonist date in allergy/immunology
- Implement the use of JAK inhibitors in hyperinflammation
- Discuss the use of tonsillectomy for Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis, Adenitis syndrome
- Collaborate as a healthcare team to discuss complex allergy/immunology cases and apply evidence-based approaches to patient care
Advances in Diabetes and Obesity Management 2026
Friday, November 6, 2026, 8am – 4:30pm
Levitt Center for University Advancement, Iowa City , IA
This is a one-day live activity in which experts will deliver lectures and update your knowledge and skills in the management of diabetes and obesity.
Keynote by Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD, Director of the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Center
at Oregon Health and Science University.