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Program Overview
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2026 | Virtual Sessions Only
- NAM Member Interest Group Meetings (topics listed below)
- 2026 NAM Awards Presentation
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2026 | In-Person or Virtual
- Inaugural NAM President’s Address by Monica Bertagnolli
- Scientific Symposium: Harnessing Science, Prevention, and Innovation in Chronic Disease
- NAM President’s Forum: A Conversation Among Academy Presidents
- Reception: Kicking Off the Healthy Longevity Global Innovator Summit
Registration Options
- Virtual access to all events (except Reception) — $50
- In-person attendance for all events — $150
- In-person attendance at the President’s Forum & Reception only — $50
Recordings of public sessions will be available free of charge in the weeks following the event.
Scientific Symposium | Monday, October 19
Chronic disease is the leading driver of illness, disability, and health care costs, yet rapid advances in science, technology, and policy are transforming options for prevention, detection, and management. Join leading experts to explore cutting-edge innovations—from precision medicine and biomarkers to population health strategies and implementation science—and discuss strategies to ensure these advances are accessible to everyone.
2026 Victor J. Dzau Keynote Address: The Big Challenges Ahead in Health Policy, and Where Chronic Illness Fits
This year’s keynote speaker is Drew Altman, PhD. His comments will draw on three decades of experience as President & CEO of KFF, a preeminent national organization focused on health policy analysis, journalism, and public opinion. Altman’s address is the first named in honor of Victor J. Dzau, who served as president of the NAM from 2014 to 2026.
Panel 1: Understanding Chronic Disease Development and Risk Across the Lifespan
How early-life biological, genetic, environmental, and social factors shape lifelong chronic disease risk and opportunities for early intervention.
- L. Ebony Boulware (Moderator), Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Advocate Health
- Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Aging
- Bridget Goosby, University of Texas at Austin
- Bhramar Mukherjee, Yale University
- Xiaobin Wang, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Panel 2: Advancing Chronic Disease Prevention
Sustainable lifestyle interventions, innovative nutrition and policy approaches, and environmental and social changes that can prevent chronic disease and reduce health disparities.
- Cheryl Anderson (Moderator), University of California, San Diego
- Elizabeth Frates, Harvard University
- Christopher Gardner, Stanford University
- Karen Glanz, University of Pennsylvania
- Martin Picard, Columbia University
Panel 3: Transforming Chronic Disease Treatment and Care
How breakthrough therapies, precision medicine, and health technologies — integrated with lifestyle interventions — are reshaping disease management and impacting clinicians, health systems, payers, and policy.
- John O’Shea (Moderator), National Institutes of Health
- Stephen L. Hauser, University of California, San Francisco
- Vivian Ho, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine
- Ania Jastreboff, Yale University
- Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University
NAM Member Interest Group Meetings | Sunday, October 18
Members of the public are invited to register for virtual attendance at NAM Member Interest Group (IG) meetings on Sunday, October 18. Additional topics to be announced.
Session 1 | 9:00 to 10:30 am (choose one topic)
- IG 1: Priced Out of Food, Housing, and Health Care
- IG 2: Forging a New Value Proposition for Global Health
- IG 3: Uses and Misuses of AI in Mental Health: A Look Under the Hood
- IG 7: Innovative Strategies to Address Maternal Depression — Improving Both Mother and Child Health Outcomes
- IG 10: Two Important Issues in Aging: Mitigating Homelessness, and Why Do We Age?
- IG 12: Precision Geroprevention
- IG 17: The Common Fund for Primary Care: Common Sense or Nonsense?
- IG 20: AI/Emerging Tech and Firearm Injury/Violence: Opportunities and Threats
Session 2 | 2:45 to 4:15 pm (choose one topic)
- IG 8: Beyond the Life Course: A Multigenerational Framework for Understanding American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) Health Risks
- IG 9: How Is Generative AI Changing What It Means to Learn, Create Knowledge, and Care for Patients in a Clinical Space?
- IG 15: After Healthy Longevity: Creative and Controversial Proposals for Supporting Eldercare at Scale
- IG 16: Common Cardiometabolic Medications Through the Lifespan: Are They Function-Promoting or Function-Demoting Therapies?
