Note from the Editorial Manager: Call for speakers deadline extended through Sunday, July 27!

by Karla Kozak

If you didn’t get a chance to submit your proposal for the 2026 ACDIS conference, I’ve got great news: We’ve extended the deadline through the end of the week! You now have until end of day Sunday, July 27, to apply to speak at one (or all!) of our 2026 in-person events, which will be held next April in Chicago!

Not sure where to begin? While we welcome submissions on any topic of your choosing, we are still looking for applications for the ACDIS conference related to the following:

• Clinical and coding
  
  • Sepsis
  • Burns
  • Malnutrition
  • Pediatric conditions and coding guidelines
• Leadership
  
  • Creating job descriptions and career ladders
  • Conflict resolution
  • Justifying team expansion
• Quality
  
  • HCCs
  • Patient safety indicators
  • Risk adjustment
  • Second-level reviews
  • Writing appeal letters
• Growing CDI focus areas and settings
  
  • Obstetrics and labor and delivery
  • VA hospitals
  • Critical access hospitals
  • Rehab
  • Long-term acute care

Plus, don’t forget our two events that take place directly before the ACDIS conference, our ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI and ACDIS Physician Advisor Forum! The call for speakers for these events has also been extended through Sunday, July 27, and we’re still looking for the following topics:

• ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI (April 19-20, 2026)
  
  • Building an outpatient CDI program
  • Expanding an existing outpatient CDI program
  • Value-based care
  • E/M coding
  • Conditions commonly seen in the outpatient setting
  • Pediatric conditions
  • Key performance indicators and metrics
• ACDIS Physician Advisor Forum (April 19-20, 2026)
  
  • Building or expanding a physician advisor program
  • Expanding a physician advisor program
  • Recruiting and retaining physician advisors
  • Coding for physician advisors
  • Pediatric CDI
  • Risk adjustment, HCCs, and/or outpatient CDI
  • Outpatient CDI
  • Denials and appeals

You can learn more about the application process here. When you’re ready, click here to apply. (Note: You will need to create an account to submit your proposal. The login for the application platform is separate from your ACDIS website login.)

I urge you: Do not wait. You can email any questions to info@acdis.org by 5 p.m. Eastern on Friday, July 25. After that, the ACDIS team will be unavailable to assist, so please, the sooner you can get your application in, the better! To ensure the Events Committee has ample time to review the submissions and to allow selected speakers time to prepare their materials, we are unable to offer any deadline extensions beyond this one.

We can’t wait to see how you’ll empower the ACDIS community in 2026!

Editor’s note: Kozak is the editorial manager, products & events, at ACDIS. Contact her at karla.kozak@hcpro.com.