Events & Opportunities

Join us on July 15, 2026 from 12 - 1 p.m. ET (9 - 10 a.m. PT) for a Community Wide Webinar!

From Awareness to Action: Addressing Housing Stability, Safety, and Utility Needs in Pediatric IBD Care

This Community Wide Webinar is FREE and open to patients and parents/caregivers, along with ImproveCareNow Care Center healthcare professionals.

Join us for our first IMPACT SDoH Community Wide Webinar on July 15, 2026 at noon ET. Learn how housing and utility challenges impact disease management and patient outcomes and gain practical strategies for screening, connecting families to resources, and building effective care partnerships

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Save the Date for the Fall 2026 Community Conference on September 16 - 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. Exact time of event TBD and subject to change. 

We are excited to host our Fall 2026 Community Conference in Detroit, Michigan. We look forward to engaging with healthcare providers, patients, parents/caregivers, researchers and improvers from across ImproveCareNow to all teach and all learn, to share and develop new and innovative approaches to improve pediatric IBD care and outcomes, to further our research, and to build our community. 

Registration

Registration will open July 2026!

Plan to arrive early and join us on September 16 by 1 p.m. for an interactive workshop focused on building shared decision-making skills through real-world scenarios from the COMBINE Implementation pilot. Participants will engage in hands-on practice, small group activities, and guided discussion to explore how clinicians, patients, and families each contribute to meaningful decisions about combination therapy. This workshop is included in conference registration and is designed to build shared decision-making skills and deepen collaboration in care. Learn more about the workshop.

Cost

After lowering the cost for our Spring Live Online Conference, we’re excited to build on that success with our in-person conference this fall! Making our conferences more accessible has been a long-standing goal for ImproveCareNow, and thanks to growing support from partner organizations - along with intentional efforts to manage costs - we’re proud to deliver it.

• ICN Participating Center Physician and Advanced Practice Provider: $500 ($850)
• ICN Participating Center QI Team Member (Coordinator, Dietitian, Psychosocial, etc.): $400 ($850)
• Patients, Parents/Caregivers (Non-Scholarship): $300 ($525)
• Student / Trainee $300 ($525)
• Commercial/Industry, Non-participating Center Physician/QI, Other: $1000 ($1050)

Conference Justification Letter 

To support clinicians in making the case for local funding to participate in the Community Conference, we have created a Conference Justification Letter.  Please consider customizing this template, should you need to request funding from senior leadership at your care center. 

Continuing Education

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Cincinnati Children’s and ICN, Inc. Cincinnati Children’s is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change, with one-to-one reciprocity for dietitians. This activity is approved for continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours. Completion of this CME activity, which includes learner assessment and feedback, enables the learner to earn points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ImproveCareNow is also pursuing Social Worker CEU credit and Psychology CEU credit for this learning event.

ImproveCareNow is made up of more than 100 care centers and has a presence on three continents, with 90% of the highest ranked pediatric gastroenterology programs in the U.S., including many U.S. News and World Reports 2025/2026 Honor Roll Children’s Hospitals as members. With 1,180 pediatric gastroenterologists and more than 33,000 active IBD patients, ImproveCareNow reaches approximately 55% of IBD patients in the U.S. cared for by pediatric gastroenterologists. ImproveCareNow Community Conferences present the ideal opportunity to engage with these committed healthcare providers, patients and caregivers, and to learn about recent results in our research and improvement efforts.

💙💚 If you would like to support ImproveCareNow and these efforts, please download our Fall 2026 Community Conference Exhibitor Prospectus & Support Opportunities. 

Save the date and join us for our Spring 2027 Live Online Community Conference on Thursday, April 15, 2027. All times are eastern and subject to change until the agenda is final. 

ImproveCareNow is made up of more than 100 care centers and has a presence on three continents, with 90% of the highest ranked pediatric gastroenterology programs in the U.S., including many U.S. News and World Reports 2025/2026 Honor Roll Children’s Hospitals as members. With 1,180 pediatric gastroenterologists and more than 33,000 active IBD patients, ImproveCareNow reaches approximately 55% of IBD patients in the U.S. cared for by pediatric gastroenterologists.