SAHM 2026 Annual Meeting: Virtual SIG Meetings
SAHM 2026 Annual Meeting Virtual SIGs is open to all SAHM members as well as non-members registered to attend the in-person 2026 SAHM Annual Meeting.
Registration is free and requires only your name and email address. A confirmation email will be emailed to you after registering that includes your unique zoom access link.
Virtual SIG Meetings
Click on any of the SIG meetings noted below to view additional information including how register.
Adolescents with HIV/AIDS
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12-1 p.m. PT / 3-4 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Adam Leonard, PhD(c), MPH, RN, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Meeting Description: Join the HIV/AIDS Special Interest Group for a focused meeting on advancing adolescent and young adult HIV prevention and care.
We will begin with brief member ‘lightning’ updates to share recent research findings, ongoing projects, and opportunities for collaboration. Next, we will review current federal funding trends and policy developments relevant to our field, highlighting implications for programmatic work and upcoming grant cycles. A dedicated segment will be used to assess SAHM’s existing HIV-related position papers and identify priorities for revision or new statements, with a plan to form writing subgroups and timelines.
We will also open nominations and expressions of interest for SIG leadership roles. Please come prepared with a 1–2 slide update or a concise verbal summary (≤2 minutes). All career stages are welcome. To propose agenda items in advance, share slides, or self-nominate for leadership, please email the SIG organizer by February 6, 2026.
Early Career Professionals
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 – 5-7 p.m. PT / 8-9 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Julia Durante, MD, MPH, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sam Master, DO, Columbia University
Meeting Description: Early career professionals include those who completed specialty training and entered the workforce within the last 5 years. While traditional mentorship relationships often involve guidance from individuals with more experience than the mentee, this SIG leverages the power of peer mentorship and networks of collective experience and support to enrich the experience of the early career professional.
The reality of navigating the ups and downs of being an early career physician can often differ from the vision of a future career that medical trainees cultivate during training. Day-to-day dilemmas of balancing clinical output, academic expectations, and personal life lead many young physicians to feel overwhelmed and experience burnout. Fiscal wellbeing after emerging from a decade of training can feel strained when entering the job market in a financially undervalued medical specialty.
Finding your footing, creating a niche, and balancing competing priorities are all essential parts of the early career journey. To make our discussions even more relevant, we will invite SIG members to anonymously share their stories, challenges, or strategies ahead of time to serve as touchpoints for group reflection and problem-solving and help us learn from what has worked (or not worked) for others. Breakout groups will use these submissions to spark conversation, normalize the struggles of early career life, and identify approaches to building a sustainable path forward.
Electronic Health Records
Monday, February 23, 2026 – 9-10 a.m. PT / 12-1 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Jennifer Carlson, MD, UCSF, Rachel Goldstein, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Meeting Description: The EHR SIG is an opportunity to consider current challenges and successes in managing adolescent and young adult healthcare within the electronic health record. This year’s meeting will highlight recent activities of the group, as well as opportunities for ongoing collaboration and advocacy. In addition, attendees will discuss high-priority informatics topics related to AYA health.
Ethics and Legal
Wednesday February 25, 2026 – 10-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Mary A. Ott, MD, MA, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Abigail English, JD, Center for Adolescent Health and the Law, Sharon Enujioke, MD, MPH, Navy Medical Center, Catherine Shubkin, MD, HEC-C, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Meeting Description: The Ethics and Legal Issues SIG provides space for conversations about legal and ethics issues faced by adolescent health professionals, with an eye to mutual support and charting a way forward in challenging times.
The 2026 Ethics and Legal SIG will address ethical issues that adolescent health providers experience in working with public health organizations. By public health organizations, we are referring to both government agencies as well as community and non-governmental organizations whose mission is public health. Over the past year, there have been both domestic and global trends of disinvestment in public health generally, and adolescent health specifically, in a way that is potentially harmful to the health and wellbeing of adolescents and reinforces existing structural inequities. The SIG will discuss questions such as:
- What is the best way forward when trusted public health institutions are given political, rather than scientific, agendas?
- How can we as adolescent health professionals support community organizations and NGOs performing essential public health services?
- How can we address misinformation or disinformation coming from public health authorities?
- What are some useful strategies for working with our own health systems around the threats to public health for adolescents?
International Adolescent Health Week (IAHW)
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 – 7:30-8:30 a.m. PT / 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Samir Shah, MD, Samir Hospital, Ngozi Oketah, MPH, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin & Connolly, Preeti Galagali, MD, Manipal Hospital
Meeting Description: Meet, greet and strengthen the bonding among old members and increase awareness among new IAHW advocates invited to join the IAHW SIG at this informal and interactive session including Youth Ambassadors. Share the experience of activities done in past and also discuss the issues faced. Sharing ideas, plans, questions and suggestions for improvement. Discuss the role and involvement of SAHM SIG and advance planning about the IAHW 2026 to celebrate more efficiently.
Internists in Adolescent Medicine
Monday, February 16, 2026 – 3:30-4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30-7:30 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Jeri Lantz, MD, FAAP, FACP, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Anne Laverty, MD, Carilion Clinic
Meeting Description: The Internists in Adolescent Medicine SIG session will be an opportunity for internists and med/peds providers to discuss unique features of providing adolescent and young adult care as an internist. We will discuss updates to ABIM certification and re-certification process.
The group will brainstorm about some continued collaborative ideas and activities to share adolescent medicine and health care transition information with our internal medicine colleagues. The SIG will provide a forum to network and discuss strategies to facilitate transition, chronic disease management and prevention opportunities for the care of complex adolescents as they become adults.
Male Adolescent and Young Adult Health
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, – 9-10 a.m. PT / 12-1 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizer: Gabriela Vargas, MD, MPH, Boston Children’s Hospital
Meeting Description: The Male Health Special Interest Group (SIG) will feature two key components.
First, participants will engage in a curated review of recent literature focused on adolescent and young adult (AYA) male health, highlighting significant research published within the past year.
Second, the SIG will provide an interactive forum for clinicians and researchers to exchange insights on best practices, discuss emerging trends and issues affecting AYA males, and address common challenges faced by health care professionals in this area of adolescent medicine.
Nutrition
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 11 a.m.-12 p.m. PT / 2-3 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Celia Framson, MPH, RD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Laura Hooper , PhD, RD, Indiana University, Courtney Batt, MD, DABOM, University Hospitals Cleveland Clinic, Laura Kester, MD, UC Davis
Meeting Description: Adolescents with high BMI may experience a range of significant adverse health outcomes. GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), which have been approved for use in adolescents to treat high BMI since 2020, show promise in improving glycemic control, reducing BMI, and addressing cardiometabolic risks. However, their use raises important questions around safety, access, mental health, and nutritional management. Specifically, there are currently gaps in the scientific literature providing guidelines for safe rates of weight loss, frequency of follow up visits, the role of interdisciplinary teams, and the potential long-term health consequences associated with use during the crucial growth and development that occurs during adolescence.
The Nutrition Committee SIG will dive deeper into some of these concerns through a brief review of the current evidence on the efficacy and safety of GLP-1 RAs in adolescents, case studies to illustrate strengths and opportunities when using these medications, and facilitated small and large group discussions. We will focus on key clinical considerations including nutritional risks and support, eating disorder screening, long-term use and monitoring, and how to broach and discuss use of these medications with adolescents and their families. We will also review central tenets of bioethics and how they might apply when considering use of GLP-1 RAs in adolescents.
Our aim for this SIG is to convene a multidisciplinary cohort of experienced and newer health care providers who work in, or are interested in working in, this space, to begin the process of developing best practice guidelines, while we await more evidence to bolster our clinical decision making.
Sports Medicine
Monday, March 9, 2026 – 10:30-11:30 a.m. PT / 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET
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SIG Organizers: Elizabeth Lewis, MD, KU Wichita, Keith Loud, MD, MSc, Dartmouth Health
Meeting Description: All are welcome to the Sports Medicine SIG!
The goal of this SIG is to establish a global network of practitioners with interest in sports medicine and adolescent medicine for relationship building, collaboration of care and coordination of sports medicine/MSK educational programming at SAHM.
Other goals include discussion about research opportunities, developing educational materials and possible position statements for SAHM about sports medicine. But we are open to where the discussion leads during our meeting!