SAHM Virtual Education
SAHM provides year-round virtual education to support learning, collaboration, and professional development in adolescent and young adult (AYA) health. Members can access recorded Annual Meeting sessions, live and on-demand webinars, and other online educational programs covering clinical care, research, advocacy, professional development, and emerging issues. Through its expanding virtual education offerings, SAHM is increasing access to high-quality, evidence-informed education while fostering connection and advancing excellence in AYA health.
Upcoming SAHM Webinars (all categories)
- SAHM Adolescent Health and Well-Being Project (AHWP) Webinar Series
This two-part webinar series is designed to help participants transform their perspectives, evidence, stories, and experiences into effective action. Learn more about this upcoming webinar series and register today! 5th Friday Fellows Lecture: Identifying and Assessing Suicidal Behavior
Friday, October 30, 2026 – 10-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET
Virtual Education Session Recordings Library
Explore our growing library of recorded virtual educational sessions, available on demand to support your learning anytime.
SAHM General Virtual Education Sessions
SAHM General Virtual Education offers a growing portfolio of educational opportunities designed to support learning, collaboration, and professional development across the adolescent and young adult (AYA) health field. These virtual offerings provide flexible access to high-quality educational content for SAHM members throughout the year.
Information on currently scheduled 2026–2027 General Virtual Education offerings is provided below. This page will be updated regularly as additional sessions and programs are developed and announced.
- SAHM Adolescent Health and Well-Being Project (AHWP) Webinar Series
This two-part webinar series is designed to help participants transform their perspectives, evidence, stories, and experiences into effective action. Learn more about this upcoming webinar series and register today.
- SAHM Adolescent Health and Well-Being Project (AHWP) Webinar Series
Available SAHM General Virtual Education Session Recordings
The SAHM International Chapter Presents – Beyond the Diagnosis: Reframing Adolescent PMOS as a Window of Opportunity
Recorded in September 2026
Session Description: Adolescent Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) exists along a continuum between normal pubertal physiology and a complex condition with cardiometabolic, reproductive, mental health, and dermatologic manifestations. This webinar will explore recent updates in the diagnosis of adolescent PMOS and highlight life-course approaches to management. Speakers will discuss practical strategies that can be adapted across diverse global settings and varying levels of clinical resources.
Speaker: Gauri Karandikar, Karandikar Hospital
Isotretinoin for the Treatment of Acne in Adolescents and Young Adults – It’s Not Just for Dermatologists!
Recorded in February 2026
Session Description: Acne can have profound physical and psychosocial impacts on adolescent and young adult patients. With their broad, holistic training, adolescent medicine providers are uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality, patient-centered, full-scope treatment for acne, including the use of isotretinoin.
Speakers: Joshua Borus, MD, MPH, Boston Children’s Hospital and Claudia Borzutzky, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
GLP-1 Agonist Therapy in Higher-Weight Adolescents: “Weighing” the Risks and Benefits Through a Weight-Inclusive Lens
Recorded in September 2026
Session Description: Weight loss pharmacotherapy, particularly GLP-1 receptor agonists, have been explicitly recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics in their 2023 Clinical Guideline on the Management of Pediatric Obesity. GLP-1 receptor agonists undoubtedly carry great potential for benefit among youth with cardiometabolic risk factors. They may also be a lifeline for youth who lack equitable access, or the developmental capacity to respond, to lifestyle-based intervention. However, their benefits must be balanced with the risks of reduced energy availability on growth and development during adolescence, increased eating disorder thoughts and behaviors (known to be a neuropsychiatric consequence of rapid weight suppression), and perpetuation of weight stigma.
In this workshop, a multidisciplinary team of eating disorder and obesity medicine experts will recommend a thoughtful, individualized, and evidence-informed clinical approach through a weight-inclusive lens when considering GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy for an adolescent.
Neither Feast nor Famine: Weight-Inclusive Approaches to Counseling Youth with Higher BMIs
A joint webinar from the North American Society for Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG) and SAHM. Recorded in October 2025
Session Description: Youth who present for reproductive health care often are at risk for elements of metabolic syndrome and/or have higher BMIs. Providers often struggle with how to best counsel them about lifestyle modification without triggering poor body image or disordered eating behaviors. In this webinar, an adolescent medicine physician and a pediatric endocrinologist team up to present a weight-inclusive clinical approach that encourages beneficial behavioral changes without perpetuating weight stigma or disordered eating.
Speakers: Maya M. Kumar, MD, FAAP, FRCPC, University of California San Diego and Lauren Kanner, MD, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital