Preliminary Program 2026

Location: Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114

6:00 pm | Encounters in the Intensive Care Unit
Speaker: Wes Ely, MD

Location: Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114

9:30 am | Hands, Heart, and Mind in Action: Case-Based Session

11:00 am | Learning at the Bedside
Speakers: Abraham Nussbaum, MD, and George Usmanov, MD

Lunch

2:00 pm | The Anatomy of Hope
Speaker: Dan Sulmasy, MD

4 pm | Caring in the Community
Speakers: Stephen Hwang, MD, and Nancy Oriol, MD

Concert "Medicine and Music" (additional details forthcoming)

Location: Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114

9:30 am | Hands, Heart, and Mind at the Bedside
Speakers: Siv Sjursen, RN, and Kristin Collier, MD

11:30 pm | Concluding remarks, followed by lunch and departure