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Empowering
Impact &
Innovation.

Physicians and founders discussing new approaches to care, health equity, and building a healthcare business.

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HCFIICHICAGO
JULY 19, 2025
Empowering Impact
& Innovation SummitPHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WHENJuly 19, 2025
WHEREHilton ChicagoContinental B · Chicago, IL
PROGRAM9 AM–1 PM CTArrival from 8:45 AM
IN COLLABORATION WITHNMA annual conference
The convening

A day for physicians
and entrepreneurs.

The Empowering Impact & Innovation Summit brought clinicians together with people developing new healthcare services and businesses.

Hosted by the Post Graduate and Physician Executives Sections in collaboration with the NMA annual conference, the program covered physician-led innovation, career paths, and entrepreneurship.

The founders invited colleagues from medicine, academia, industry, life sciences, and digital health to meet and find opportunities to work together.

Read the founders’ welcome
What we discussed
01 / LEADERSHIP

Physicians leading
new approaches to care.

Edmondo Robinson spoke about physician-led innovation and health equity.

02 / ECOSYSTEMS

Support for
healthcare founders.

Panelists discussed how healthcare ideas develop and the support founders need along the way.

03 / ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Careers beyond
clinical practice.

The program included pharmaceutical career paths, startup presentations, and investor roundtables.

Inside the program

The summit
program.

Explore the agenda from the summit.

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Session descriptions summarized from the published program.
8:45 AMArrival & coffee

An informal welcome and time to connect.

9:00 AMOpening remarks

Joy D. Calloway, Leslie Amonoo, MD, Phil Burton, and then NMA President-Elect Roger Mitchell, MD.

9:15 AMPhysician-led innovation and equity

Keynote with Edmondo Robinson, MD.

9:45 AMThe innovation pipeline

Panel with Erika Dillard, Michael Smith, and Gary C. Butts.

10:30 AMEcosystems that support impact

Garth Walker moderated a discussion with Yusuf Henriques and Kameron Matthews.

11:15 AMNetworking break

Time with vendors and fellow attendees.

11:30 AMPhysician-scientist career pathways

Tonja Wynn Hampton, MD, on pharmaceutical medicine and the Merck Physician Scientist Program.

11:55 AMFrom clinical practice to entrepreneurship

Startup spotlights with Duclas Charles, Walter Conwell, and Obi Osuji.

TO FOLLOWLunch & investor roundtables

Lunch and speed VC roundtables listed in the summit program.

Summit speakers

Meet the people
who took part.

Physicians, founders, health-system leaders, and life-sciences experts featured in the summit program.

Roles and affiliations as listed on the event website.Explore the speaker profiles
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