Lodging Booking Info

We are pleased to offer two convenient lodging options nearby the conference space. The Village at Breckenridge directly adjacent to the conference space (labeled Peak 9 Inn on the map in the FAQ). Gravity Haus is a short walk away from the conference space as well. To book rooms in the Village or in Gravity Haus, please use the following links:

-Village at Breckenridge: link

- Gravity Haus: link

The most convenient way to travel to the conference venue is by flying into Denver International Airport. From the airport, attendees may choose to rent a car or take a shuttle directly to the conference location. We are pleased to offer a discounted shuttle rate available through the booking link below:

link (Code: CUANSCHUTZ26JULY)

Attending Physician-Scientist Training Programs (PSTPs)

Internal Medicine:

University of Colorado, Internal Medicine PSTP
University of California Los Angeles, Internal Medicine PSTP
University of North Carolina, Internal Medicine PSTP

Pathology:

Washington University in St. Louis, Pathology & Immunology PSTP

Pediatrics:

University of Colorado, Pediatric PSTP
University of North Carolina, Pediatric PSTP

Anesthesiology:

Columbia University, Virginia Apgar Scholars Anesthesia PSTP

Emergency Medicine:

University of Iowa, Emergency Medicine PSTP
Yale University, Emergency Medicine PSTP

Psychiatry:

University of Washington, Psychiatry Residency Research Program

Surgery:

Ohio State, Department of Surgery Research Training Program
Yale University, Surgical Scientist Training Program

Welcome to the 40th Annual MD-PhD National Student Conference!

Breckenridge Resort (9,600 feet)

July 10-12, 2026

RAZA NYP Portrait 2 Azra Raza, MD, is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the Edward P. Evans Foundation MDS Center at Columbia University. A practicing oncologist seeing 30-40 cancer patients weekly, she also directs a cancer research lab. The recipient of three serial endowed chairs, Raza has collected >60,000 longitudinally drawn blood and marrow samples from thousands of her patients with preleukemia and acute myeloid leukemia. She met with President Biden to plan the Cancer Moonshot and with President Bill Clinton for 3-day Breakthroughs in Science and Technology Retreat. Describing her groundbreaking ideas in the highly acclaimed bestselling book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last, Raza is bent upon shifting the treatment focus from trying to kill every last cancer cell to finding the first and preventing cancer from developing altogether. Raza is the Founder and Director of the Scientific Advisory Board of The First Cell Therapeutics Inc (TFCTx). The owner of thousands of books in Urdu and English, she co-authored GHALIB: Epistemologies of Elegance, dedicated to translation and interpretation of poetry.

Alexander J Mentzer is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, and a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. He is a recognised leader in understanding the genetic basis of human susceptibility to infectious disease, having published over 200 peer-reviewed articles over the last ten years in major journals including Nature, Science, Nature Medicine and Cell and was recently awarded the BIA Barnett-Christie Prize for the most promising infection research in the UK.

His research group spearheads innovative methods to disentangle the interactions of host genetics, infection exposure and disease outcomes using data from massive biobanks and bespoke Multiplex Serology platforms. Much of his work centres on understanding the molecular mechanisms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variation and disease outcomes, a problem that has puzzled scientists for decades. Then, through his regular management of patients on the wards, he strives to take discoveries from large scale genomic and transcriptomic datasets, through to improved patient benefit either through near-patient diagnostic testing, or monoclonal antibody development.

He is also deeply committed to genomic capacity building in Low-to-Middle Income Country settings, collaborating with new and established scientists in countries like Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, and Indonesia, where he helps train teams in bioinformatics and establish funding and systems for genomic research important to local scientists and communities. He is also passionate about education locally, leading several teaching modules for medical and science Masters courses, integrating concepts of host genetic variability into course content to inspire the clinicians of tomorrow for novel ways to approach science.

Dr Mentzer undertook an early degree and Masters in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in Imperial, before completing Medicine in University College London and combining his clinical training with a Wellcome-funded DPhil/PhD with Professor Sir Adrian Hill forming collaborative networks around the world. He spends much of his spare time outdoors keeping fit, or travelling with his family.

Dr. Christopher Barley Dr. Christopher Bartley is an early career Principal Investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) where he serves as the Chief of the Translational Immunopsychiatry Unit (TIU) and a member of the editorial board of Biological Psychiatry.

Dr. Bartley received his PhD with distinction from Yale University and subsequently graduated cum laude from Yale School of Medicine, where he was awarded the Selma and Karl Folkers Prize for excellence in biomedical research. During his residency in Adult Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), he was awarded the Outstanding Resident Award by the NIMH. Upon completion of his residency training, he was awarded the Edwin F. Alston Award for Leadership in Psychiatry by the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.
He continued at UCSF as a research fellow in behavioral immunology supported by a Hanna H. Gray Fellowship (Howard Hughes Medical Institute). During his research fellowship, he was an inaugural recipient of the Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain Award (Foundation of the National Institute of Health) to support the development of his immunopsychiatry research program.

In 2022, he joined NIMH and founded the TIU, a reverse translational research program that employs basic, translational, clinical, and bioinformatic approaches to identify molecules, cells, and circuits implicated in neuropsychiatric illness.

Psychiatric illnesses appear to arise from distributed network dysfunction rather than focal lesions of the brain. Accordingly, one focus of the TIU is antibody repertoire profiling, as antibodies are capable of inducing precise yet distributed neural lesions. By integrating antigen identity with single-cell, anatomic, and circuit expression data, the TIU is working to uncover and model the neurophysiological processes that underlie neuropsychiatric illness—starting with psychotic spectrum disorders.

Joshua A. Gordon Headshot Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. This is his second stint at Columbia, having been a member of the faculty from 2004 to 2016, where he conducted research, taught students and residents, and maintained a general psychiatry practice. Immediately prior to re-joining Columbia, Dr. Gordon served as the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2016 until 2024, where he oversaw the principal US Government agency responsible for mental health research. Dr. Gordon received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed a psychiatry residency and research fellowship at Columbia University prior to joining the faculty in 2004.

Dr. Gordon’s research employs an integrative systems approach towards understanding the neurobiology underlying working memory and its disruption by genes of relevance to schizophrenia. Utilizing a range of modern neuroscience techniques, including in vivo neurophysiology and optical and pharmacological circuit manipulation, his lab has demonstrated a crucial role for oscillatory neural dynamics in the long-range functional connectivity in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit in rodents. Through studying mice carrying mutations that, in humans, confer risk for schizophrenia, he has developed and tested causal hypotheses for how genetic variants confer risk for disease. By disrupting these processes and then testing pharmacological and neuromodulatory approaches to reversing this disruption, his work has laid the groundwork for potential translation.

Dr. Gordon is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. His work has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation; the Rising Star Award from the International Mental Health Research Organization; the A.E. Bennett Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Daniel H. Efron Research Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Disability in Medicine

Chris Moreland Headshot Chris Moreland, MD, MPH

Dr. Moreland practices at Dell Seton Medical Center and Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin in addition to his faculty roles at Dell Medical School.

He earned his M.D. from UTHealth Houston (McGovern Medical School) in 2005 and completed his internal medicine residency (primary care track) at the University of California, Davis, in 2008, followed by a generalist fellowship in primary care outcomes research and an MPH. He served as an academic hospitalist at UT Health San Antonio for a decade before joining Dell Med in 2020. A University of Texas at Austin Plan II Honors graduate (Class of 2000), his interdisciplinary background continues to shape his work.

Moreland’s career spans clinical service, medical education, faculty development and improving access for patients and the healthcare workforce. At UT Health San Antonio, he held undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education roles, including associate program director. He led the creation of the Program Evaluation Committee, co-developed the institution’s first Resident as Teacher elective, the internal medicine clinician educator track and the internal medicine medical Spanish elective. At Dell Med, he continues as an associate program director, overseeing recruitment and scholarship, with strong match outcomes. His teaching has earned multiple awards, including the Society for Hospital Medicine’s Excellence in Teaching Award and UT Health San Antonio’s Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award.

Since 2023, he has led the Division of Hospital Medicine, overseeing 30-plus clinicians working with learners across two hospitals and a transition-of-care clinic. The division collaborates across service lines and with hospital leadership at Dell Seton, Ascension Seton and Central Health, while preparing for the University of Texas Austin Medical Center.

As a deaf physician, Moreland’s research focuses on disability in medicine. His 2013 study was the first national examination of deaf and hard of hearing physicians’ career pathways. He co-designed the inclusion of disability items in Association of American Medical Colleges surveys, enabling further research in this area. He has served as president and board member of the Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses, advisory board member for the Docs With Disabilities Institute, and co-chair of the AAMC’s Disability and Access Workgroup. He has contributed to Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Medical Association educational resources and served on committees for Society of Hospital Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine. He has authored 50-plus peer-reviewed publications and 10-plus book chapters, and he has delivered numerous invited talks on health care access, medical education and health disparities affecting the deaf and other communities

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS CAREERS IN INDUSTRY

Antoni Ribas Headshot Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine, surgery, and molecular and medical pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) and director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) Center at UCLA. He earned his medical degree from the University of Barcelona. He conducted his internship and residency in medical oncology at Hospital Vall d’Hebron, then held a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at UCLA School of Medicine. He earned his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Recent work includes laboratory and clinical translational research in adoptive cell transfer therapy with T-cell receptor engineered lymphocytes; examining the antitumor activity of PD-1-blocking antibodies; testing novel targeted therapies blocking oncogenic events in melanoma; and studying primary and acquired resistance to melanoma therapies. He has been instrumental in the clinical development of several agents approved by the FDA, including the first anti-PD-1 pembrolizumab (Keytruda), the anti-CTLA-4 tremelimumab (Imjudo), two combinations of BRAF and MEK inhibitors vemurafenib (Zelboraf) and cobimetinib (Cotellic), dabrafenib (Tafinlar) and trametinib (Mekinist).

He is the recipient of the AACR Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, the William B. Coley Award from Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology, two NCI Outstanding Investigator Awards and several other awards, and is a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Buenos Aires and the Free University of Brussels. In 2017, Ribas was ranked #12 of the Highly Cited Researchers of any field by Clarivate Web of Science, was named one of the five Visionaries in Medicine by the New York Times (May 27, 2018) and a 2018 Great Immigrant by the Carnegie Foundation. He is a past president of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), an elected Fellow of the AACR Academy, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the US National Academy of Medicine.

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM	Registration	Atrium
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gordan *Sponsored by the CU Cancer Center*	Elevation Ballroom
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM	Oral Presentations: Immunology & Microbiology General Medicine & Physiology	Elevation Ballroom Blue Spruce/Aspen
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Coffee Break	Atrium
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM	Disability in Medicine: Dr. Meeks Careers in Industry: Dr. Ribas (Session A)	Disability in Medicine: Elevation Ballroom Bioethics: Blue Spruce/Aspen
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM	PSTP Panel (Session A) *Sponsored by the CU Division of Medical Oncology*	Elevation Ballroom
5:45 PM – 7:15 PM	Dinner Keynote Speaker: Dr. Raza *Sponsored by the CU Department of Radiation Oncology*	Elevation Ballroom
7:15 PM – 7:30 PM	Poster set up	Forest/Atrium
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM	Poster Session I & Happy Hour *Sponsored by the CU Department of Anesthesiology*	Forest/Atrium

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM	Breakfast	Elevation Ballroom
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM	Funday Activities	Various
11:30 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch PSTP Networking *Sponsored by the CU Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery*	Elevation Ballroom
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM	PSTP Panel (Session B)	Elevation Ballroom Blue Spruce/Aspen
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM	Keynote: Dr. Mentzer	Elevation Ballroom
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	ASPA Presentation	Elevation Ballroom
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Coffee Break	Atrium
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Disability in Medicine: Dr. Moreland Careers in Industry: Dr. Ribas (Session B)	Disability in Medicine: Blue Spruce/Aspen Bioethics: Elevation Ballroom
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM	Poster Session II & Happy Hour *Sponsored by the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI)*	Forest/Atrium
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM	Dinner Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gordon *Sponsored by FAER*	Elevation Ballroom

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM	Breakfast	Elevation Ballroom
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Oral Presentations: Bioengineering & Medical Imaging Cancer Biology	Blue Spruce/Aspen Elevation Ballroom
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM	Oral Presentations: Neuroscience Molecular Biology & Pharmacology	Blue Spruce/Aspen Elevation Ballroom
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch & Closing Remarks	Elevation Ballroom

Please see the REGISTRATION highlight box on the left-hand side of this website for links, information, and cost. The DEADLINES highlight box also gives information on important dates.

Administrators can pay for attendees through the multiple registrants' page. They must email their confirmation email to the conference committee to receive a promotion code. The attendees then must complete the registration form individually to register and can use the provided promotion code at checkout to waive the registration fee.

Following registration, attendees must still fill out the MD-PhD Attendee survey (required) for NIH reporting. This form is also how attendees will submit an abstract to be considered for an oral/poster presentation, and/or a diversity travel award.

Finally, attendees should fill out the Saturday Morning Activities form to help coordinate activities and transportation.

This information, the forms, and more information can all be found on the left-hand side of this website, or in the registration confirmation email.

Please check with the person who paid for your registration to get your code. When someone (e.g., a program administrator) fills out the multiple registrants form to pay for attendees, we ask that they reach out to us to ask for a discount code. We then create a discount code specific to the people that have been paid for, and send that code to the person who filled out the multiple registrants form. From there, the program administrator should then tell the attendees that they paid for (i.e., you) what code to use to waive your fee at registration check out.

There are a few common reasons for this that may be helpful to check for:

Confirmation was sent to junk: Please check your junk folders.
Someone else registered for you: Confirmation emails are sent to the email provided at registration. If someone else (e.g., a program administrator) registered for you, it is likely the confirmation email was sent to their email. If so, check to see if they have it, and can forward it to you.
Wrong email address: Sometimes people have provided an alternative email address when registering, and then checked a different email address for their confirmation. Please check other email addresses of yours.
The registration website had a bug and failed to send the confirmation: Unfortunately, our registration website is not perfect, and has sometimes failed in the past to successfully send a confirmation email. Please feel free to email us at the contact email provided elsewhere on the website so we can work on sending you another copy of your registration confirmation!

Posters and oral presentation selection will be based on the abstract submission from the MD-PhD Attendee Survey provided in your registration email confirmation.

If you have been emailed that you have been selected for an oral presentation, please email us your finalized powerpoint before the conference begins!

Abstracts (2000 total character limit) can be submitted through the required MD-PhD Attendee Survey provided with your registration email confirmation. You must submit an abstract to be considered for an oral presentation, poster, or Travel Award. You can select your abstract to be considered for both an oral presentation and a poster.

Abstracts are due by May 16th to be considered for an oral presentation and/or a Travel Award. Abstracts are due by June 1st to be considered for a poster presentation.

Yes! Please do not hesitate to register. Abstract submission does not occur at the time of registration. Rather, abstract submission occurs when submitting the MD-PhD Attendee Survey.

The MD-PhD Attendee Survey is required before attending the conference. We do ask that you wait to submit the MD-PhD Attendee Survey until you also have your abstract ready to submit with it (if you decide to submit an abstract). If you submit the Attendee survey and then later want to submit an abstract, please resubmit the MD-PhD Attendee Survey form and email us at the email shown in the Contact Us section. The email will help us track the double submission properly! Thank you!

Yes. You can fill out the Student Attendee Survey (found on the website) before completing registration. Some students may find this helpful for several reasons. For example, it may be easier for some to wait to see if they receive a Travel Award so that they can waive their registration fee. Or, a student may wish to wait to see if their abstract is selected for an oral presentation before paying for registration.

However, if it is equally convenient for you, we prefer that you register before submitting the Student Attendee Survey. This will help us in managing the conference. If you pay for registration and either later need to cancel registration (before the final day of registration), or receive a Travel Award, we will reimburse you (see more information in the FAQ with Travel Award reimbursement).

If you are presenting a poster, the maximum allowable poster size is 40x60 inches. There is no minimum size, but we suggest that you make sure it large enough for people to easily read from a slight distance. You can have your poster oriented in landscape (most common) or vertical format. The material needs to be able to be pinned on a board. We will provide an easel, poster board, and pins.

For many, it works best to fly in the day before the conference and fly back either very late on the last day of, or during the day after, the conference. While flying in the morning of the conference is possible, it may take 3-4.5+ hours from landing time at Denver International Airport to arrival time at Breckenridge Resort.

If you fly into Denver the day before the conference but plan on traveling to Breckenridge the morning of the conference (e.g., your flight arrives late the day before), we suggest booking a night at either the Westin Denver International Airport Hotel (this would help with transport from the airport in the morning since the hotel is connected to the airport), or in a hotel closer to downtown (e.g., someplace close to Denver Union Station, where one may be able to connect to shuttles that travel towards Breckenridge). A similar idea would apply if you were planning to fly out of Denver the day after the conference.

Getting between Denver International Airport and Breckenridge Resort will take several hours. Given that, there is a strong chance you may want to fly into Denver the day/night before the conference and fly back either late Sunday or on Monday. Therefore, you might consider booking at Breckenridge Resort (or another hotel closer to Denver) the night before, and/or after, the conference.

There are several options to get to Breckenridge Resort (especially from Denver International Airport or Union Station in Downtown Denver).

Ground transportation options include:

Car Rental from Denver Airport: Options for car rentals have the potential to be cheaper than shuttles. This may also help offer attendees increased flexibility (e.g., getting to and from Saturday Activities).
Shuttles from Denver Union Station (i.e., Colorado Department of Transportation: Snowstang, Pegasus, Bustang West): This is by far the cheapest option. The Denver Light Rail will take you directly from Denver Airport to Denver Union Station. Pegasus or Bustang West will take you to the Frisco Transit Center where you can take the free Summit Stage Bus to Breckenridge Resort. It is highly recommended to check schedules, download relevant apps, and purchase tickets ahead of time where relevant (Denver Light Rail, the shuttle option of your choice, and Summit Stage Bus), to make this option as seamless as possible. Follow the provided link above, or google these options, for more information.
Shuttles from Denver Airport to Breckenridge Resort (e.g., Summit Express or Peak 1 Express)

More general information on getting to Breckenridge Resort can be found here.

Here is a general checklist of major action items to have completed before the conference to help make sure things are not missed. Note: More information on any of these steps can be found on the website here, and on the website FAQ.

Getting Ready Checklist:

Registration has been completed (confirmation email for your personal individual registration has been received).
MD-PhD Attendee Survey has been submitted (with abstract if desired)
Saturday Activity Survey has been submitted
Flights have been booked
Travel to and from the conference to the airport has been booked/planned-for
Hotel/Accommodations (e.g., Breckenridge Resort) have been booked
If selected for an oral presentation, your final PowerPoint has been emailed to us
Socio app is downloaded, and you have joined the event (Coming in early July)
You are well-prepared for Colorado high elevation weather - especially if you are doing a Saturday Activity (e.g., hats, sunglasses, strong sunscreen, hiking shoes, rain coat)
ENJOY THE CONFERENCE :)

Learning from the best with 4 Keynote Speakers with live Q&A sessions
Addressing diversity and discrimination in school and in your career with a diversity speaker (including a presentation and an opportunity to speak more with the diversity speaker over lunch)
Preparing for your next potential steps, with a PSTP Residency panel and showcase to meet directly with PSTP directors in small groups
Tackling integrity in science with an ethics discussion
Chances to present your work and connect with the research of MD-PhD students across the country with Poster Sessions and Oral Presentations
Saturday mountain activities, food (including all meals, snacks, and coffee), and breaks throughout the conference allow for ample time to connect with others and take in the fresh mountain air
Conference Swag, including 2024 conference water bottles
And so much more!

The annual national MD-PhD conference is dedicated to making the event available for all MD-PhD students nationwide. We believe that ensuring broad participation from students across the country will benefit every student in training. To lower barriers to participation in the conference, we are providing travel awards to students from groups traditionally underrepresented in health-related sciences, including but not limited to those described in the Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity.

Attendees can apply for a travel award through the required MD-PhD Attendee Survey emailed to them with their registration confirmation. On the MD-PhD Attendee Survey, attendees must submit an abstract before the oral presentation abstract deadline, select yes to be considered for a travel award, and must submit a short document stating how their background and/or unique lived experiences contribute to our conference culture of diversity and inclusive excellence. Travel awards will be selected based on scientific merit of abstracts.

Decisions on the travel award will be emailed to attendees before mid-June and will be posted on the website (unless requested otherwise). If selected, attendees who are granted a travel award will receive a $1000 award which they can put toward their travel and registration costs.

The conference will be held at Breckenridge Resort. We strongly encourage making lodging accommodations at Breckenridge Resort. Booking at Breckenridge Resort helps support the conference. We have blocked off a certain number of rooms for the resort with reduced pricing.

When you are ready to book room(s) for yourself and/or others, a limited selection of rooms can be found at this link. The Group Code BBRMST26 has been applied for a discounted rate. If you are interested in other options, additional lodging is available to book by phone.

The meeting space is located within the Village at Breckenridge building, and Gravity Haus is the adjacent building. Other options are a short walk from the meeting space, with River Mountain Lodge located 0.3 miles away and Mountain Thunder Lodge located 0.6 miles away.

If you have any issues booking a room or questions in general, please email the committee at the email provided on the left-hand side of the website (Contact Us highlight box).

Please fill out the Saturday activities form (which will be sent by email) before the start of the conference if you plan to join one of the activities. This will help us coordinate the groups for the activities, and transportation.

Potential Saturday Morning Activities include: Moderate Hike - Hoosier Pass. 11 mile drive from Breck (20 minutes or less). "Leisure time on Main Street" Activities at Base of Peak 8 - mountain biking rentals, mini-golf, rock climbing, ride the chair lift up to top.

Please keep in mind when planning your activity that we will be at a very high altitude.

Please make a plan for your luggage ahead of time, especially if you have to check out on Sunday morning as well (see related FAQ about luggage, check out, and Sunday morning activities).

If you booked your room to end on Sunday, check-out time is historically 10AM. Breckenridge has said that they will have a luggage storage room available to attendees on Sunday to hold luggage after checkout during the final hours of conference programming. Breckenridge and the MD-PhD planning committee is not responsible for lost or stolen items.

An email telling you if you won a TA or are giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster should have been sent out to you before late-June. We will send the email to the email address you listed on registration.

Travel Awards and oral and poster presentations will be displayed elsewhere on this website following selection.

There is complimentary parking behind the conference spaces available on a first come first serve bases. Additionally, each of lodging properties have their own parking options as well:

Gravity Haus – Valet Only $40
Village at Breckenridge – Underground self-serve parking garage $25
River Mountain Lodge – Included for 1 car
Mountain Thunder Lodge – First come, first serve

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Welcome to the 40th Annual MD-PhD National Student Conference!

Breckenridge Resort (9,600 feet)

July 10-12, 2026

Welcome to the 40th Annual MD-PhD National Student Conference!

Breckenridge Resort (9,600 feet)

July 10-12, 2026

How do I register?

My program paid for my registration, but I do not have a code to waive my fee when I go to register myself?

I have a discount code for registering, but it looks like it is still having me pay on the first page of registration?

The registration website is giving me an option to either make an account or checkout as guest. What do I do?

I registered, but do not see my confirmation email. How can I find it?

How do I submit my poster or oral presentation?

How do I submit an abstract?

Can I register first, and then submit an abstract later?

Can I submit an abstract first, and then register later?

What are the poster requirements (e.g., size)?

What time/dates should I fly to and from the conference?

How do I get to the Breckenridge Resort?

How do I find where to go? Are there any maps to help?

Am I ready for the conference (checklist)?

What will I get out of this conference?

What is a travel award and how do I apply?

How and when do I book my room(s) for the conference?

How do we navigate Saturday morning activities?

What should I do with my luggage after checkout on Sunday if I have plans to stay at the resort later in the day?

How do I know if I won a Travel Award, or if my abstract was selected for a poster presentation?

Where do I park?