Research Day

Annual UCLA-Affiliated Multi-Campus Family Medicine Research Day

This annual event is designed to promote research on important issues related to improving care provided to patients in family medicine and primary care settings. The Multi-Campus Research Forum (affectionately referred to as "Research Day") facilitates the exchange of scholarly activities and highlights the creative work conducted by residents, fellows, faculty, staff, and medical students from UCLA-Affiliated Family Medicine Residency programs. Funding for this event is provided by all participanting campuses and the HRSA-funded UCLA DGSOM Center of Excellence (UCLA COE). Please note: due to funding and space restrictions, only UCLA-Affiliated Family Medicine programs can participate in this event.

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2026 Meeting Information

This year's Research Day event will take place in-person on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at the California Endowment (Center for Healthy Communities Los Angeles): 1000 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Please RSVP by May 15. All attendees, including authors/presenters, must RSVP in order to attend.

There is free, but limited, on-site parking at the Endowment. Please carpool or take public transportation where possible. In an effort to be more environmentally-conscious, we ask that you please wear your ID badge in lieu of us providing disposable name tags. In lieu of paper programs, this year's program will be made available online, so please bring a phone or other device to access the program website. There will be free WiFi and QR codes to the program will be posted throughout the event venue.

Please check back here closer to the event for the full program.

Lunch will be provided at the start of the afternoon session. Please plan to arrive by 11:30am, as the keynote speech will start promptly at noon, and you will need to check-in, help yourself to some lunch, and find a seat prior to the start of the keynote address.

In addition to our keynote address, we will have two lectern sessions, and two poster sessions (please see the agenda below for more information). We encourage attendees to arrive at the start of the event and stay until the end to support all presenters. We will have a gift card raffle at the end of the event to encourage attendees to stay, and you must be present to win! Research Day will end at 4pm, allowing attendees plenty of time to get on the road prior to after-work traffic.

Information for Presenters

Authors who submitted abstracts or case reports for this year's Research Day will be contacted by May 1 informing them if their submission was accepted. As a reminder, only the Contact Author listed on the submission form will receive this correspondence, and they are responsible for sharing all communications from the Committee with their teams. (If your team's Contact Author has not received an email by May 4, please contact Laura Sheehan).

This year eight submissions were selected for lectern presentations. If you were selected for a lectern, please refer to the email from the Committee for details on what is expected and to confirm your assigned presentation session/time. More guidance on preparing your lectern presentation.

There will be two Poster Sessions this year, each 40-minutes in duration. We will have three break-out rooms where both research abstract and case report posters will be displayed. Abstract and Case Report authors should refer to the email from the Committee for more details and to determine which session and room they are assigned to. Attendees are encouraged to visit all three rooms during each session to view posters and ask questions of the authors. Those authors whose research abstracts were selected for poster presentations are asked to prepare a very succinet 30- to 60-second oral summary (AKA "elevator pitch"), to be presented during their assigned Poster Session. Abstract authors should refer to the email from the Committee for more details. More guidance on preparing your abstract or case report poster.

Agenda

Faculty Development (Morning Session) (Invitation Only)

Time	Location	Event
8:00AM – 8:30AM	Breakfast
8:30AM – 9:15AM		Teaching Residents in the Era of AI - Dr. Thalia Nguyen (UCLA Clinical Informatics), Dr. Daniel Lee (UCLA APD), Dr. Anita Wong (UCLA APD)
9:15AM – 9:45AM		Providing Medical Student Feedback - Dr. Olivia Ishibashi and Dr. Thalia Nguyen (UCLA FM Clerkship Chairs)
9:45AM – 10:00AM	Break
10:00AM - 11:00AM		Clinical Reasoning Remediation - Dr. Matthew Yu (CDU PD)
11:00AM - 11:30AM		Resident Practice Reports - Dr. Denise Sur (UCLA PD), Dr. Thalia Nguyen (UCLA Clinical Informatics)

Research Day (Afternoon Session) (RSVP Required)

Time	Location	Event
11:30AM – 12:00PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall and Foyer	Research Day Check-in, Lunch, and Seating
12:00PM – 12:05PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Welcome and Introductions – by Gerardo Moreno, MD
12:05PM – 12:55PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Keynote: Carol M. Mangione, M.D., M.S.P.H. “US Preventive Task Force Guidelines: Updates, Methods, and Challenges for Addressing Health Equity”
12:55PM – 1:00PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Keynote Q&A
1:00PM – 1:40PM	Cabrillo, Catalina, and Joshua Tree	Poster Session 1 At 1:15pm abstract presenters will provide a 60-second oral summary of their projects in each breakout room. Throughout the 40 min Poster Session, we encourage attendees to visit all three break-out rooms and ask questions of the authors.
1:40PM – 2:25PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Lectern Session 1 (Moderated by Dr. Bruno Lewin)
2:25PM – 3:05PM	Cabrillo, Catalina, and Joshua Tree	Poster Session 2 At 2:40pm abstract presenters will provide a 60-second oral summary of their projects in each breakout room. Throughout the 40 min Poster Session, we encourage attendees to visit all three break-out rooms and ask questions of the authors.
3:05PM – 3:50PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Lectern Session 2 (Moderated by Dr. Parastou Farhadian)
3:50PM – 4:00PM	Dr. Beatriz Solis Hall	Closing Remarks (Dr. Parastou Farhadian) and Raffle Winners Announced