2026 AAMC Senior Leader Fall Financial Meeting

How are senior financial leaders preparing their institutions for what comes next? They’re coming together to share strategies, test ideas, and tackle challenges at the 2026 AAMC Senior Leader Fall Financial Meeting, Sept. 16–18 in Dallas, Texas.

Academic medicine leaders are navigating increasing complexity across missions, resources, workforce needs, infrastructure, and long-term sustainability. This meeting creates a trusted space for enterprise-level financial and administrative leaders to move beyond passive learning and engage in meaningful peer exchange around the challenges shaping academic medicine today—and what comes next. 

Walk away with practical strategies, peer-tested approaches, and new connections to help navigate your institution’s most pressing challenges.

Who Should Attend

This year’s Senior Leader Fall Financial Meeting reflects a broader audience, bringing together leaders and decision-makers from AAMC member institutions, including medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic health systems and centers.

• Principal Business Officers
• Vice Deans for Finance and Administration 
• Senior Associate or Assistant Deans with enterprise financial responsibility 
• Chief Financial Officers and Chief Fiscal Officers 
• Chief Business Officers 
• Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, AVPs, and Directors overseeing finance, operations, or business strategy
• Leaders responsible for setting or influencing enterprise-level financial strategy, managing institutional budgets or funds flow, supporting decision-making across education, research, and clinical care, addressing organizational or workforce challenges, or preparing your organization and team for long-term sustainability
• Other leaders with responsibilities around finance, administration, operations, or organizational performance

What to Expect

You will have opportunities to:

• Exchange strategies and insights with peers from comparable organizations 
• Explore real-world approaches to financial and organizational challenges 
• Engage in discussions focused on sustainability, innovation, workforce planning, and enterprise strategy 
• Build meaningful relationships across institutions and leadership roles 
• Learn through discussion, reflection, and practical examples—not presentations alone 
• Interactive sessions

Bring Your Leadership Team

This year’s expanded format allows more than two attendees per institution, making it easier to bring leaders whose responsibilities intersect across finance, operations, administration, and business strategy. 

Attending together can support succession planning, deepen shared learning, and strengthen alignment across institutional leadership teams. 

Register now to secure your spot and join your peers in Dallas this September.

Location

Who Can Attend

To register for and attend an AAMC meeting, you must be affiliated with an AAMC member institution, a non-profit medical education or professional organization, or a college or university. Please note that commercial representatives are not permitted to register for the meeting unless they are approved exhibitors or sponsors.

Additional Information

The AAMC is the sole source for current email and mailing lists of AAMC meeting attendees. The AAMC is aware of individuals and companies that may be aggressively marketing such lists, however, they DO NOT have access to AAMC attendee email and mailing lists. The AAMC has NO affiliation with such third parties. Please be vigilant if approached by any service other than AAMC regarding AAMC meeting attendee email and mailing lists.

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