Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Conference 2026

While all posters that focus on eliminating preventable harm and/or advancing health equity will be considered, this year we are especially interested in projects that:

 

• Design safety into systems, processes, environment culture,  and technologies

• Reduce reliance on individual vigilance or heroism

• Expand the ecosystem of safety partners beyond clinical teams

• Strengthen the way we identify and respond to root causes of harm

 

Submissions should focus on efforts to eliminate preventable harm and/or advance equity in patient care.  Successful proposals will demonstrate how your work is not only preventing harm and increasing health equity, but reshaping how we understand and solve its root causes.

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Priority will be given to submissions that:

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• Provide actionable takeaways that allow replication at other organizations.

• Integrate health equity in the work or specifically address a health equity topic.

• Incorporate patient safety and improvement science methods and clearly outline the method or framework used to implement practice changes.

• Identify and quantitatively address gaps in education, practice, or outcomes that impacts patient safety or quality of care.

• Project is timely, relevant, creative, and innovate

 

 

Submission Guidelines:

 

• Proposals must not include confidential information (e.g., patient-, family-, or staff-identifying details) or commercial bias (e.g., company logos, equipment photos with visible branding, taglines)

• Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

• Submission should include up to 3 authors/key contributors for the poster.  

 

 

Key Dates:

 

• Poster Submission Portal opens:  September 29, 2025

• Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

• Acceptance Notifications: December 20, 2025

• Registration Deadline for up to 2 authors/key contributors for accepted posters:  February 16, 2026

• Reception:  April 20, 2026 at the Baltimore Hilton Inner Harbor

• Conference:  April 21, 2026 at the Baltimore Hilton Inner Harbor

 

 

Important Notes:

 

• Submitting a proposal does not register you for the conference.

• Registration spots for up to 2 authors/key contributors per poster will be held until February 16, 2026.  Thereafter, registration- and thus, poster presentation- is not guaranteed.  

• There is no fee to submit, but if accepted, presenters are responsible for costs associated with printing their poster, travel, accommodations, and conference registration.

• Poster presenters will also be invited to register for our Awards Reception to be held on April 20, 2026.

 

More details about poster submission requirements can be found here. 

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For more information, please contact Programs at programs@midatlanticpatientsafety.org