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IMAGINE Innovation Summit Conference Registration
Join us for the Imagine Innovation Summit 2026, a dynamic, full-day event showcasing the transformative power of innovation in healthcare. Hosted by Houston Methodist, this summit brings together thought leaders, clinicians, educators, and innovators to explore cutting-edge advancements and collaborative strategies that are shaping the future of patient care.
Highlights include:
- Inspiring Keynote Addresses
- Smart Hospitals, Smarter Care: Discover how technology—from AI-driven wound care to virtual ICU mentorship—is revolutionizing clinical practice.
- Telenursing Transformed: A panel discussion on the integration of telesitting, virtual acute care, and remote ICU support to enhance access and human connection.
- Nursing the Future: Explore recruitment, retention, and career development strategies with leaders like Shedrick Kennedy and Deepa Lalu.
- Residency Panel: Hear from residency coordinators and successful leaders who began their journey through academic outreach programs at Houston Methodist.
- Change Management & Just-in-Time Education: Learn how agile education models are supporting frontline adaptability.
- Collaborative Pathways in Maternal Care: A spotlight on interdisciplinary innovation and simulation improving maternal safety.
- Health Without Walls: Discover how HMPAQ is reducing readmissions and improving outcomes beyond traditional care settings.
- AI in Palliative Care: A look at how artificial intelligence is shaping personalized care delivery.
Whether you're a nurse, educator, administrator, or innovator, the Imagine Innovation Summit offers a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and lead the future of healthcare.
Target Audience
RNs and APRNs
Learning Objectives
- Describe how emerging technologies such as AI and predictive analytics are transforming nursing workflow, nursing education, clinical practice, and leadership.
- Analyze the impact of technology-driven nursing models on access to care, clinical outcomes, and interprofessional collaboration.
- Ascertain strategies to integrate innovative tools into professional nursing practices to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
- Identify novel and innovative evidence-based approaches to professional and workforce development, including transition-to-practice programs, residencies, fellowships, and externship models that support recruitment, retention, and career advancement.
- Demonstrate the use of change management, just-in-time education, and collaborative practices to improve recognition and response to patient change in condition, including maternal and high-acuity populations.
- Evaluate quality, safety, and system-readiness initiatives—such as audits, failure-to-rescue reviews, and virtual education programs—to inform continuous improvement and nursing professional development.
John F. Bookout Auditorium - 2nd Floor
Travel
Houston Methodist Way Finder Map
Direction from nearest parking garages:
From Garage 1:
- Take parking garage elevator to 3rd floor.
- Exit and turn left and enter doors into the hospital on the right.
- Take stairs down to ground level, walk straight past the Information Desk. This is the Crain Garden. Continue straight toward the Weiss Chapel, turn right and continue past the Gift Shop.
- Turn right before the Dunn Tower Elevator bank and then a quick left (Starbucks will be on the right). Proceed down this hall toward the Market Café.
- Turn Right, then a quick left to leave Dunn Tower and enter into the Research Institute.
- Continue straight toward exit doors.
- Turn right at the RI Information Desk. Proceed up the staircase and the John F. Bookout Auditorium will be on the right side.
- Elevators to the second floor are also available, pass the staircase and proceed to end. Elevators will be on the right.
From Garage 7:
- Take parking garage elevator to ground floor, exit and turn left to outer walkway.
- Turn left and proceed to glass double doors on left, enter Walter Tower.
- Proceed straight down hallway past the Fondren/Alkek elevators, then past the Dunn elevator bank.
- Take a left (Starbucks will be on the right) and follow the directions from above to the Research Institute.
From Garage 15 (McGovern Commons):
- located directly across the street from the Houston Methodist Research Institute
Parking will not be validated. Valet is not available at the Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Event Summary: |
Houston Methodist Imagine Conference |
Start Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
TBA
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
To be awarded 0.00 continuing professional development hours, the participant must attend the program in its entirety and complete the evaluation tool.
Available Credit
- 7.00 Attendance
- 7.00 Nursing Contact Hours
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Houston Methodist will award up to 7.00 nursing professional development contact hours for this activity.
- 0.00 Nursing PharmacotherapeuticsThis activity meets the ANCC Pharmacotherapeutics requirement for advanced practice nurses.