2026 ANNUAL MEETING
Death, taxes, and change may be the only certainties in life. However, how do we manage uncertainty? So much seems uncertain in these turbulent times; how can we navigate our way through it? This applies to our world at large right now, but also to psychiatric education of medical students, residents, faculty, and others. Because uncertainty is stressful (and distressing), we need to hold fast to our anchors and support one another. How we navigate together will chart the future for us and our learners and point to where the future of psychiatric education will be. Academic psychiatrists need to be equipped for the peaks and valleys, challenges, setbacks, and successes. We want to share with each other how to keep progressing through challenges and setbacks, and how to learn and share lessons from our successes. The theme for our 2026 AAP Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City is Navigating the Peaks and Valleys: Education in Uncertain Times. Let’s chart our course together, sharing guidance for teaching, learning, and mentorship when we join again at the 2026 AAP Annual Meeting.
~ Michael J Peterson, MD, PhD, 2025-2026 AAP President
Meeting Highlights & Information
Annual Meeting Agenda (Spring 2026)
AAP Annual Meeting Brochure (Spring 2026)
Traveling to Salt Lake City, UT (Spring 2026)
General Information
Our Objective
AAP’s Annual Meeting is designed for psychiatrists who are interested in learning about academic development, teaching psychiatry, and research on psychiatry education. The meeting is filled with interactive workshops designed to teach a wide array of academic topics. “How To” sessions teach academic and leadership development, use of technology in teaching, resident and faculty teacher development, and a host of other topics in resident and medical student education. The meeting is a wonderful way to interact with academic psychiatrists and psychiatry leaders in a casual and inviting setting filled with accessible workshops, informal sharing, and academic mentoring. It is an ideal venue for residents and fellows to develop an interest in education, junior faculty to launch an education-based career, and senior faculty to expand their skills and meet colleagues from across the country.
Theme: Navigating the Peaks and Valleys: Education in Uncertain Times
~ Michael Peterson, MD, PhD 2025-2026 AAP President
Annual Meeting Dates & Locations
Future Meetings
2026: September 16-19, The Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT
2027: September 22-25, The Westin Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Questions?
Lisa Hedrick, Association for Academic Psychiatry
lhedrick@academicpsychiatry.org
770.222.2265