Opportunities to host an adjunct event in conjunction with the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Space can be used to hold a workshop, business or staff meeting, breakfast gathering, luncheon, reception, or other events. When your company utilizes AcademyHealth’s contracted meeting space, you receive discounted AV rental costs from AcademyHealth’s preferred AV vendor (AudioVisual One), and you avoid the requirement to meet a food and beverage minimum.

More information about hosting an adjunct, including fees, available times, and rules and regulations, is available here.

Submit a meeting request here.

Requests must be received by Wednesday, November 5, and are dependent on space availability.

Dissemination and Implementation in Embedded Pragmatic Trials: Science-Powered Strategies to Sustain and Spread Effective Interventions

Date: Sunday, December 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Cost: $295
Register: https://academyhealth.my.site.com/s/community-event?id=a1mPM000001JzOz 

This workshop will introduce concepts in the design, conduct, and implementation of pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems, with a focus on methods relevant to health services researchers. Embedded pragmatic trials are randomized trials that are conducted within healthcare systems and that use streamlined procedures and existing infrastructure to answer important questions for patients, clinicians, and healthcare system leaders. These trials have the potential to inform policy and practice with broadly generalizable, high-quality evidence at lower cost and with greater efficiency than traditional clinical trials. Thinking about intervention adoption and sustainment (or deimplementation) early is key to the success of these trials. The workshop will introduce the investigative opportunities for embedded pragmatic trials, including strategies for integrating implementation research methods into the design and conduct of pragmatic trials, with the goal of generating real-world evidence to inform practice and policy across systems and populations. The workshop will highlight dissemination and implementation challenges investigators face when conducting pragmatic trials in large, complex healthcare systems and will share lessons from implementation science for maximizing the ability of pragmatic trials to improve the health of individuals and communities. Firsthand experiences and case studies from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will illustrate the topics presented. The workshop will include discussion with panelists and hands-on exercises that apply knowledge from the workshop.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify areas of synergy between embedded pragmatic clinical trials and implementation research.
  2. Introduce participants to the unique characteristics and challenges of designing, conducting, and implementing pragmatic clinical trials embedded in diverse healthcare systems, and describe opportunities for integrating implementation research methods into these trials.
  3. Increase the capacity of health services researchers to address important clinical questions with embedded pragmatic clinical trials, and share lessons from implementation science for supporting intervention adoption, sustainment, scale-up, and/or deimplementation.

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Early-Career Technical Assistance Workshop

Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Time: 1:15-5:00 p.m. ET
Register (Deadline: November 1): https://vhaordfedramp.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tXHk3mfncZ0Idw 

The VA Health Systems Research/Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) is delighted to organize the 2025 Early-Career Technical Assistance Workshop, which is part of the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) in Health conference. The Workshop will take place on Wednesday, December 17 from 1:15-5:00 p.m. at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, MD. Highlights of the Workshop include discussions on D&I funding priorities and novel methods in D&I research as well as opportunities to discuss proposal ideas and receive feedback.

To register for the Workshop, complete this registration form by November 1, 2025. If you are interested in receiving feedback on an implementation science project, include a one-page abstract of your study idea and indicate the funding organization (e.g., NIH - NCI, ARHQ, VA, etc.) to which the proposed study would most likely be submitted. If the funding organization is NIH, please specify which institute. Abstracts will be used to connect applicants to potential funding agency representatives and those with similar interests for project-specific feedback. If you have any questions, contact ditaworkshop@va.gov.