2025 NAPCRG Annual Meeting Schedule

The following outlines the schedule for the 53rd Annual Meeting happening November 21-November 25, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia (US). Please check back frequently for any schedule updates. All times are listed in Atlanta local time, Eastern Time. 

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Helpful Information: 

  • Oral Presentations are 15 minutes each.
  • SIGs during breakfast are open to all!
  • Any events listed, unless otherwise noted, are available for all attendees.
  • Meals provided by NAPCRG are marked on the schedule below.

All rooms are located in the Hyatt Regency Atlanta—floors are indicated by LL1-LL3. 

Pre-conference Activities - Friday, November 21st

7:00am – 5:30pm
Registration
Location: Grand Hall Foyer, LL1

8:00am – 12:00pm
PR01: What does effective patient, clinician, and care team engagement in research look like? Best practices and success indicators
Location: Hanover C, LL2

  • Fee: $0
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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8:00am – 12:00pm
PR02: CASFM Complexity Science and Methods: Systemic Evaluations of High-Utilization Interventions – Concepts, Methods and Models 
Location: Hanover E, LL2

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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1:00pm – 5:00pm
PR03: From Silos to Synergy: Building Research Capacity Through Strategic Connections
Location: Hanover F, LL2

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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1:00pm – 5:00pm
PR04: Trainee Pre-conference: Exploring the Landscape of Primary Care Training—Challenges, Opportunities, and Action
Location: Hanover C, LL2

  • Fee: $0
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to trainees and mentors. 

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1:00pm – 5:00pm
PR05: Enhancing Primary Care Research through Effective Mentorship: A Workshop on Optimizing Mentor-Mentee Relationships
Location: Hanover E, LL2

  • Fee: $105
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • This pre-conference is open to all.

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5:00pm – 5:45pm
New Member & First Time Attendee Orientation
Location: Regency VI, LL1

5:30pm – 6:30pm
Opening Social Reception
Location: Foyer, LL2

Cash bar! Credit cards accepted.

Day 1 - Saturday, November 22nd

6:45am – 5:00pm
Registration
Location: Grand Hall Foyer, LL1

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings to join!

  • SIG100: Cancer Special Interest Group
    We discuss cancer related research in primary care.  Cancer research can span from prevention, diagnosis and treatment and survivorship focused scholarship. 
  • SIG101: NARIS: North American Respiratory Infection Study Group
    This meeting provides a forum for primary care researchers to provide update  on current and future research pertaining to respiratory infections, epidemiology, diagnostics, and treatments.
  • SIG102: Climate Change and Health in Primary Care
    This forum brings together primary care researchers and others with interest in the effects of climate change on health and health equity.

8:00am – 8:30am
Business Meeting & Welcome Remarks
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Join us for the NAPCRG Business Meeting, where you’ll hear important updates including a financial report from our Treasurer, Dr. Kelly Nottingham, and remarks from our President, Dr. Tim olde Hartman, on the organization's direction and achievements.

8:30am – 9:30am
Plenary Session I
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Presented by Dr. Timothy Hoff

9:30am – 9:45am
Transition Break

9:45am – 10:45am
Poster Session I
Location: Grand Hall West, LL2

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary care
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary care, Health care disparities, Healthcare services, delivery, and financing, Obesity, exercise, and nutrition, Planetary Health, Research and advocacy, Research capacity building, Research methodology and instrument development, Screening, prevention, and health promotion, Survey research or cross-sectional study, Acute Respiratory infections and other infections, and Community based participatory research, patient engaged research

10:45am – 11:00am
Transition Break
11:00am – 12:00pm
Concurrent Oral Presentations
  • OP: Research capacity building & Health care disparities 
    Location: Hanover A, LL2
  • OP: Economic and policy analysis
    Location:     Hanover B, LL2
  • OP: Population health and epidemiology
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • OP: Education and training
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • OP: Acute Respiratory infections and other infections & Health care disparities
    Location: Hanover F, LL2
  • OP: Obesity, exercise, and nutrition
    Location: Hanover G, LL2
  • OP: Late-Breaking Research
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Screening and Prevention
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Child and adolescent health
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: Health care disparities 
    Location: Learning Center, LL1

12:00pm – 1:45pm
Lunch

Concurrent Programming from 1:45pm – 5:00pm
Workshops, Forums, and Oral Presentations - Details Below

1:45pm – 4:45pm
Concurrent Forums

  • F01: SPARC Presentations: Strategic Plans to Advance Research Capacity by graduates of the Building Research Capacity Fellowship
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • F02: Exploring the Feasibility and Value of International Primary Health Care Research
    Location: Hanover F, LL2

1:45pm – 5:00pm
Concurrent Workshops

1:45pm - 3:15pm

  • W01: CASFM PBRN Workgroup: The Art of Top-Down Research in Primary Care Settings
    Location: Hanover A, LL2
  • W02: Proxy Creation in the EHR: Strategies for Handling Data Gaps to Inform Effective Analysis
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • W03: How to improve care for patients with complex health needs – lessons learned from The Hotspotters project in the Netherlands
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • W04: How to use research to inform primary care policy: Lessons learned from NASEM’s Standing Committee on Primary Care
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • W06: A Practical Guide to Building an Implementation Road Map in Primary Care: Lessons and Tools from a Learning Collaborative
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Transition Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

  • W07: Applying a Developmental Stages Framework to Your Practice-Based Research and Learning Network 
    Location:     Hanover A, LL2
  • W08: Orientation to the All of Us Precision Medicine Database for Primary Care Researchers
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • W09: Finding Strength in Community: Identifying Strategies to Sustain Participatory Health Research during Times of Uncertainty
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • W10: Storytelling our Research: Using Narrative to Facilitate Advocacy
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • W11: Navigating the Path to Published Research as a Trainee and Early Career Faculty
    Location: Hanover G, LL2
  • W12: Cancer Survivorship Research in Primary Care: Tips & Tools to Identify Patients and Engage Primary Care Practices
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2

1:45pm – 5:00pm
Concurrent Oral Presentations

1:45pm - 2:45pm 

  • OP: Screening, prevention, and health promotion
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Women's health             
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: COVID-19
    Location: Learning Center, LL1
  • OP: Education and training
    Location: Fairlie, LL3
  • OP: Health care disparities 
    Location: Greenbriar, LL3
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Inman, LL3

2:45pm – 3:00pm
Transition Break

3:00pm - 3:45pm

  • OP: Screening, prevention, and health promotion
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Women's health             
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Dissemination and implementation
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: COVID-19
    Location: Learning Center, LL1
  • OP: Education and training
    Location: Fairlie, LL3
  • OP: Health care disparities 
    Location: Greenbriar, LL3
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Inman, LL3

3:45pm – 4:00pm
Transition Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

  • OP: Screening, prevention, and health promotion & Big Data
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Women's health             
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Research capacity building, Obesity, exercise, and nutrition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary care
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: Dissemination and implementation
    Location: Learning Center, LL1
  • OP: Education and training
    Location: Fairlie, LL3
  • OP: Health care disparities, Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Greenbriar, LL3
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Inman, LL3
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Reception Hub
Location: Foyer, LL2

We’re reimagining our receptions this year with the launch of the Reception Hub — a vibrant, inclusive space where community, celebration, and collaboration come together! This new combined event brings the energy and spirit of several gatherings into one dynamic evening. Join us as we unite the: Global Perspectives Reception, Trainee Reception, Building Research Capacity (BRC) Fellowship Alumni Reception, Grant Generating Project (GGP) Fellowship Alumni Reception, and Survey School Fellowship Alumni Reception. Enjoy light refreshments, casual conversation, and opportunities to celebrate achievements, share experiences, and forge meaningful relationships across programs and continents.

Open to the following attendees: Students, Residents, and Fellows, Alumni from GGP, BRC, and Survey School, and all international attendees. 

Day 2 - Sunday, November 23rd

7:00am – 12:00pm
Registration
Location: Grand Hall Foyer, LL1

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings to join!

  • SIG103: Immigrant and Refugee Healthcare Research Special Interest Group
    As the Immigrant and Refugee Healthcare Research Interest Group, our discussions will focus on our patients and immigrant communities we work with, including ongoing communal projects.
  • SIG104: SDoH SIG
    Connect with the SDoH SIG to learn about ongoing work, opportunities, and collaborations in social care and health related social needs. Network, share ideas, and get involved at NAPCRG and beyond.
  • SIG105: Dementia Research in Primary Care
    This will be the first meeting of the Dementia Research in Primary Care Special Interest Group and opportunity to discuss primary care/generalist models for comprehensive dementia care.
  • SIG109: Disability
    A session for physicians & researchers who identify as Disabled; for those who work in or have an interest in Disability Health; and those who fit into both categories.

8:00am – 9:15am
Awards Ceremony
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Join us for the NAPCRG Awards Ceremony as we honor and celebrate this year’s award recipients for their outstanding contributions to primary care research. The event will also feature a special presentation from the 2025 Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research winner. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate and be inspired!

9:15am – 9:30am
Transition Break
9:30am – 11:00am
Concurrent Workshops
  • W13: N-of-1 Trials in Primary Care
    Location: Hanover A, LL2
  • W14: Building research curriculum and significance of networking for residency programs. 
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • W15: How to improve your research by working with a biostatistician
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • W17: CASFM Workshop: Crisis and Opportunity—Identifying Natural Experiments for Study by the Global PBRN Initiative
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • W18: Recipe for Making Stone Soup--Creating Your Primary Care Center from Scratch
    Location: Hanover F, LL2
  • W19: Designing and Implementing a Residency Research Track: A Practical Guide for Faculty Development
    Location: Hanover G, LL2
  • W20: The Launch of a new NAPCRG SIG on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): Joint Crafting of a Workplan and Future Directions
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • W21: The Centering Survivors and Families Project – Collaborative Research Strategies for Firearm Violence Impacted Communities 
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • W22: Beyond the Journal: Strategic Policy Writing for Primary Care Researchers
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • W23: Setting Higher Expectations for Scholarly Activity through Interdisciplinary Team Building, Focused Training, and Mentorship
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
11:00am – 11:15am
Transition Break
11:15am – 12:15pm
Distinguished Papers Session
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1
Join us for the Distinguished Papers Session, where we’ll showcase the top three highest-rated oral presentations from this year’s submissions. This special session highlights exemplary research that reflects innovation, rigor, and impact in primary care.
Featured Presentations:
DP100: Family Physicians’ Scope of Perinatal Care Across Geographic and Practice Settings
Presented by: Laura Hurley, MD, MPH
DP101: More Evidence of the Health Risks from Being Skinny Fat: The Association with Systemic Inflammation
Presented by: Rachel Liu-Galvin, MBChB 
DP102: Cervical cancer at-home self-collected screening: clinical validation and usability of a unique device and telehealth system
Presented by: Youri Hwang, PhD, APRN, FNP

12:15pm
Networking Afternoon Off

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Day 3 - Monday, November 24th

7:00am – 5:00pm
Registration
Location: Grand Hall Foyer, LL1

7:15am – 8:15am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings to join!

  • SIG106: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Research
    Join us to learn about the new POCUS Research Collaborative and how you can get involved in shaping national family medicine research on ultrasound use, outcomes, and clinical integration.
  • SIG107: Homelessness
    We will review our progress on independent homeless health projects. We will also update the group on our efforts to secure funding to support an international project/gathering.
  • SIG108: Mentoring Residents on their Scholarly Activities
    This Special Interest Group is dedicated to support members with scholarly mentorship responsibilities by sharing resources, developing innovative strategies, and mitigating potential challenges.

8:15am – 8:30am
Transition Break

8:30am – 9:30am
Plenary Session II
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Presented by: Timothy Caulfield

9:30am – 9:45am
Transition Break 

9:45am – 10:45am
Poster Session II
Location: Grand Hall West, LL2

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Acute Respiratory infections and other infections, Acute, emergency, and outpatient care, Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness, Cancer research (not screening), Cardiovascular Disease, Child and adolescent health, COVID-19, Diabetes and endocrine disease, Dissemination and implementation research, Economic and policy analysis, Population health and epidemiology, Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics, Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review, Women's health

10:45am – 11:00am
Transition Break
11:00am – 12:00pm
Concurrent Oral Presentations
  • OP: Research capacity building
    Location: Hanover A, LL2
  • OP: Child and adolescent health
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • OP: Community based participatory research, patient engaged research
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • OP: Cancer research (not screening)
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • OP: Geriatrics & Acute, emergency, and outpatient care
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • OP: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary care & Cancer research (not screening) & Community based participatory research, patient engaged research & Planetary Health
    Location: Hanover F, LL2
  • OP: Cardiovascular Disease
    Location: Hanover G, LL2
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Screening and Prevention
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Practice management and organization & Pain management
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: Qualitative research
    Location: Learning Center, LL1

12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch on Your Own

Looking for a quick bite? Check out the Peachtree City Hub—conveniently connected to the hotel!

1:30pm – 2:30pm
International Plenary Session
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

The NAPCRG International Committee fosters global collaboration in primary care research through partnerships with peer organizations worldwide. As part of this effort, leading researchers from conferences held by SAPC (UK), AAAPC (Australia), and the Dutch College of General Practice are invited to present their work at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting.

2:30pm – 2:45pm
Transition Break

Concurrent Programming from 2:45pm – 4:15pm
Workshops and Oral Presentations - Details Below

2:45pm – 4:00pm
Concurrent Oral Presentations

  • OP: Survey research or cross-sectional study & Cardiovascular Disease 
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Screening and Prevention & Acute Respiratory infections and other infections
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Secondary data analysis
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing & Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review 
    Location: Grand Hall D, LL2
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease & Education and training
    Location: Learning Center, LL1

2:45pm – 4:15pm
Concurrent Workshops

  • W24: Is There a Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Navigating US health research in 2025 and beyond
    Location: Hanover A, LL2
  • W25: Mentor in Your Pocket: Leveraging Large Language Models to Support Family Medicine Research
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • W26: CASFM Complexity Science: Learning Health Systems—Concepts, Frameworks, and Best Practices 
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • W27: Publishing in Family Medicine Journals: content selection, editing processes, and steps to publication
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • W28: From research to strategy: How to develop a policy roadmap to strengthen rural and frontier hospitals in Colorado
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
  • W29: Social Care: International Approaches, Common Research Methods, and Future Directions in Primary Care
    Location: Hanover F, LL2
  • W30: Building better writers: developing academic writing systems in primary care (BRC Workshop)
    Location: Hanover G, LL2

4:15pm – 4:30pm
Transition Break

4:30pm – 5:45pm
Poster Session III
Location: Grand Hall West, LL2

This poster session focuses on research in the following categories: Big Data, Community based participatory research, patient engaged research, Education and training, geriatrics, Mixed methods research, MSK, Qualitative research, Secondary data analysis  

8:00pm – 11:00pm
All Attendee Evening Reception
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Day 4 - Tuesday, November 25th

7:00am – 10:00am
Registration
Location: Grand Hall Foyer, LL1

7:00am – 8:00 am
Breakfast (food provided)
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings to join!

  • SIG106: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Research
    Join us to learn about the new POCUS Research Collaborative and how you can get involved in shaping national family medicine research on ultrasound use, outcomes, and clinical integration.

 8:00am – 8:30am
President's Installation & Announcements
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Join us for the installation of NAPCRG’s new president, Dr. Alan Katz, and hear brief remarks from him as he begins his term of leadership.

8:30am – 9:30am
Plenary Session III
Location: Centennial Ballroom, LL1

Presented by: Pacific Research Team featuring Dr. Felicity Goodyear-Smith

9:30am – 9:45am
Transition Break

Concurrent Programming from 9:45am – 12:45pm
Workshops, Forums, and Oral Presentations - Details Below

9:45am – 12:45pm 
Concurrent Forums

  • F03: International Forum - Inclusive Research Design: What is it and how can we do it better?
    Location: Hanover C, LL2
  • F04: Widening the Net: Diverse Funding Sources for Primary Care Research
    Location: Hanover E, LL2
9:45am – 11:15am
Concurrent Workshops
  • W05: Getting Started in Educational and Training Research: A Workshop with PRiMER Editors
    Location: Hanover B, LL2
  • W31: Considerations for Successful Participation of Rural Primary Care Clinics in Practice-based Research 
    Location: Hanover D, LL2
  • W32: How To Communicate  Your Research More Effectively
    Location: Hanover F, LL2

9:45am – 12:45pm
Concurrent Oral Presentations

9:45am - 10:45am

  • OP: Big Data 
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Pain management 
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2

10:45am – 11:00am
Transition Break

11:00am - 11:45am

  • OP: Big Data
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Diabetes and endocrine disease & Qualitative research
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Healthcare services, delivery, and financing
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2

11:45am – 12:00pm
Transition Break

12:00pm - 12:45pm

  • OP: Research methodology and instrument development 
    Location: Grand Hall A, LL2
  • OP: Qualitative research & Research and advocacy
    Location: Grand Hall B, LL2
  • OP: Acute Respiratory infections and other infections
    Location: Grand Hall C, LL2

12:45pm
Conference Concludes

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