🌍 ICGMV 2025 Annual Conference: 5th Annual Conference on Group Medical Visits
📅 September 12, 2025 | 🕙 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST | 💻 Virtual Event
The Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits (ICGMV) is thrilled to announce its Fifth Annual Conference on Group Medical Visits!
Now in its fifth year, the ICGMV Conference brings together clinicians, educators, researchers, and trainees to share the latest evidence-based practices and experiential insights into group medical visits (GMVs). This year’s event will showcase dynamic sessions and workshops that explore holistic, community-centered approaches to care that reduce isolation and promote well-being across the lifespan.
What to Expect
The 2025 ICGMV Conference will include:
Over 20 presentations, panels, and workshops on GMVs.
A virtual exhibit hall, poster presentations, and interactive networking spaces.
Sessions on key themes, including:
- Getting GMVs started in diverse communities
- Financial sustainability and increasing access
- Policy and implementation frameworks to support GMVs
- Technology and novel delivery models (televisits, teaching kitchens, etc.)
- Making GMV curriculum culturally competent
- GMV themes include: Pediatric, Pregnancy, Menopause, Elderly, Oncology, Lifestyle Medicine, Long Covid, Group Facilitation
Connect with professionals from around the globe! The conference will include virtual networking spaces designed to foster collaboration, share best practices, and spark new partnerships across disciplines and geographies.
Spotlight Speakers
We are honored to feature pioneers and thought leaders in the field of GMVs, including:
- Sharon Schindler Rising, CNM, MSN Founder, Centering Healthcare Institute; creator of CenteringPregnancy; Global Group Care advocate
- Edward Noffsinger, PhD Founder of DIGMA & PSMA models; international GMV consultant and author
- Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD Pediatrician, Social epidemiologist; Director of the Vital Village Network
- Clare Viglione, MPH, RDN Director, GROWBABY Research Network
- Michelle Clausen, CNM, PhD Midwife, trauma-informed care expert, and postdoctoral fellow at GWU
- Jeff Geller, MD Family physician and nationally recognized expert in group visit care models.
Conference Co-chairs
- Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH
- Paula Tomczak, DNP, RN, LMT
Whether you're new to group medical visits or a seasoned practitioner, this event is your opportunity to connect, learn, and help shape the future of collaborative, person-centered care. Recording will be available to those who register.
Register now and save with early bird pricing – spots are limited! CME credits pending – up to 7 hours available! Don’t miss this chance to connect with colleagues.
Scholarship Information
A limited number of scholarships were awarded through an application process. Scholarships may cover up to 50% of the total ticket price. Applications closed on July 13th. If you are experiencing significant financial hardship, please contact icgmv.info@gmail.com and we will work with you on a case-by-case basis.
