CMEpalooza Spring is a 1-day event scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, that will feature a series of sessions relevant across the CME/CE spectrum. Broadcasts will stream live on the LIVE page of this website and be available for viewing shortly after their conclusion on the Archive page. There is no charge to view or participate in any of these sessions.
CMEPALOOZA SPRING AGENDA
9 AM ET
Breakfast Session Sponsored by Med Learning Group
More details to come
10 AM ET
Around the Pyramid: A Game Show on How Change Actually Happens
Session Sponsored by Healio CME
Moore’s outcomes framework gave our field rigor and a common language. But here’s the problem: real practice change doesn’t climb a neat ladder. It loops. Clinicians learn, try, hit friction, adapt, and try again—inside workflows, policies, team dynamics, and very human beliefs. If we only measure “pre/post + confidence + intent,” we often get beautiful data that still can’t answer the questions everyone actually asks: What changed because of the education? Why didn’t it stick? What blocked adoption? What do we change next?
Join this fun, fast-paced debate/game where panelists pitch outcomes “takes,” the host (and/or audience) awards points, and the audience helps rebuild an outcomes approach that goes beyond a linear ladder—toward loops, context, and sustainability.
Panelists
William Mencia, MD, FACEHP, Vice President, Educational Design & Impact, Global Learning Collaborative (GLC)
Beth Brillinger, FACEHP, Associate Director, Immunology Grants, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Caroline Pardo, PhD, CHCP, FACEHP, Consulting Advisor/Co-Founder, IAS LLC
Ryan Fuller, RPH, CHCP, Medical Education Grant Officer, Cardiometabolic Health, Eli Lilly and Company
11 AM ET
Learners with Opportunities: Getting Your Activities to the Right Learners
Session Sponsored by CME Outfitters and Global Education Group
With the recent push towards the application of real-world-evidence, this session will explore various strategies to identify, distribute, and measure the reach to the right clinicians, putting each strategy into context with real-world-examples. The discussion will address the following questions:
- Are all of our learners real?
- Which learners are appropriate to include in a PI/QI analysis?
- How do you deal with learners outside of your target audience?
- Is the supporter always right, or is it OK to push back based on experience?
- Do we use the “how many patients do you see” question to include others who are misclassified?
- How many of our learners are directly involved in patient care in the disease state the education addressed?
- Is there any benefit to supplemental audience generation?
- Did our initiative reach learners across the various regions in the United States?
- Is there a difference between learners with and without opportunities?
Moderator
Steve Bender, President, FACTORx
Panelists
Angelo Carter, Senior Director, Emerging Markets/Regional Team Leader, Pfizer
Derek T. Dietze, MA, FACEhp, CHCP, Owner, Metrics for Learning, LLC
Amanda Glazar, PhD, CHCP, FACEHP, President, Alpine Group Consultants
Noon ET
Focusing on the Trees but Missing the Forest: Rethinking Educational Impact
This interactive 60-minute session ー marking a global premiere from first-time CMEpalooza presenters! ー will challenge audiences to rethink how educational outcomes are defined and measured. Single activities give us important detail, but to understand true educational impact, we also need to step back and see the forest, not just the trees.
Using an interview-style format, this session will actively engage attendees through live polling and provide opportunities to ask questions directly of the presenters. We’ll cover topics such as:
- Are we truly measuring educational impact or primarily activity-level success?
- Do we need to track learners across multiple activities to understand educational impact?
- Why does effect size add context beyond percentage gains?
- How do compelling stories emerge from aggregated data?
- What can cross-program analyses tell us (and what can’t they tell us?)
Panelists
Joel Turner, Head of Outcomes & Data Insight, touchIME
Hannah Fisher, Head of Medical, touchIME
Additional panelists to be announced
1 PM ET
Barrier-Free Education: Let’s Talk Accessibility
Accessibility is here to stay, and digital medical education can’t afford to sit this one out. As CME and patient education become more interactive, more visual, and more globally distributed, standards like WCAG 2.2 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; the international benchmark that defines accessibility) are quickly moving from “best practice” to baseline expectation. With the European Accessibility Act, continued ADA pressure in the United States, and established requirements across the United Kingdom and European Union, the question isn’t if accessibility will shape our work, it’s how.
Accessibility isn’t just about compliance. It’s about educational quality and fairness. If a learner can’t navigate an interactive case or can’t interpret a treatment graphic or complete an essential learning step using assistive technology, we’ve created a barrier. Accessibility is one of the most practical ways we advance health equity in digital learning.
In this session, we’ll explore accessibility expectations, where enforcement is accelerating, and how regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) intersect with digital learning experiences. We’ll share practical, real-world examples from modern formats: interactive modules, multimedia, data visualizations, and patient-facing resources, and unpack what “accessibility by design” actually looks like.
Panelists
Bhaval Shah, PhD, President and Co-Founder, Infograph-ed
James Hutton, Head of Operations, IME, Springer Health
Caroline Halford, Business Development Director, Springer Health IME
Elsbeth Headley, Global Director, Continuing Medical Education, Springer Health IME
Simon Fry, Digital Product Development Director, Springer Healthcare
2 PM ET
Independent by Design, Essential by Function: Delivering the Impact the Changing CME Ecosystem Now Expects
Session Sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb and Academic CME
The CME ecosystem is at a meaningful inflection point. Across settings, expectations for education are shifting. Knowledge is increasingly accessible at scale, alternative engagement channels are faster and more targeted, and organizations are under growing pressure to demonstrate measurable value.
In this environment, the question facing the CME community is not whether education matters, but how we can continue to deliver distinct, defensible value in ways that align with what stakeholders are now accountable. Too often, our conversations begin downstream with operational questions such as why a grant was not approved or how to improve application quality. Those are important, but they are not first-principles questions. The deeper question, and the one this session is designed to explore, is how we deliver value in a changing world and how we deliver on the true promise CME has always claimed: enabling evidence to become care.
Moderator
Nancy Paynter, Chief Strategy Officer, StitchedHealth
Additional panelists to be announced
3 PM ET
From Knowing to Doing: A Working Model for Skills-Based CME
The CME field has invested heavily in knowledge transfer and built sophisticated delivery systems. Yet evidence suggests only 11% of sustained behavior change results from traditional education. The architecture isn’t wrong, it’s just incomplete.
Standardized patient programs and simulation centers represent the field’s best attempt at bridging knowledge and performance, but they can’t reach every clinician who needs training. These include the rural prescriber, the community health center clinician without academic affiliation, or the provider who needs a safe space to practice complex or uncomfortable clinical conversations. These are the people the existing system was never built to serve at scale.
This session will walk through a working example of how to practically push the traditional architecture forward. Using a REMS-aligned safe opioid training program, we’ll show how an AI standardized patient simulation was embedded directly into a CME activity to give learners a safe space for deliberate practice. Although knowledge and confidence improved substantially across the cohort, simulation performance revealed specific, actionable gaps in applied communication skills that no post-test would have identified.
Attendees will hear directly from the CME provider on why they chose this approach, see a demo of the AI virtual human interaction and step-level feedback system, and leave with a practical framework for adding deliberate practice to their own programs.
Panelists
Boris Rozenfeld, MD, Chief Learning Officer, Xuron
Ian Nott, CEO, Xuron
Aylin Madore, MD, MEd, VP, Curriculum Development, Pri-Med
4 PM ET
CME Buzzword! (Redux)
Session Sponsored by MedLive
The most popular game show in CME is back! And it’s better-er than ever.
Sure, the concept is the same…contestants compete to identify a buzzword common in our industry based on a series of 3 clues. Once identified, a faculty guest provides a detailed definition via a two-minute, pre-recorded video. Blah, blah, blah… Most importantly, this time we’ll actually finish the game!
As you certainly remember from last Spring, the shock and awe of Canadian beatbox coupled with the seamless technical wizardry of incorporating 10 celebrity videos and shifting two contestant panels nearly broke the Internet (aka, we ran long). We’ve spent the last year sequestered in motel outside outside of Bisbee, AZ, with nothing but beef jerky and orange juice and a mission to provide the greatest, online game show experience in CME within 60 minutes. And we think we cracked the nut!
Watch us soar like eagles!
Marvel at our musical stylings!
Expand your confidence in using buzzwords to impress your boss!
Don’t be the ONE PERSON who misses out!
Moderator
Jason Olivieri, Vice President, Outcomes, MedLive
Panelist
Dave Clausen, Senior Vice President, Digital Education, MedLive
Additional panelists and contestants to be announced
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