2026 CLIME Together Symposium
2026 CLIME Together Symposium
The CLIME Together Symposium is an annual event bringing together members of the UW School of Medicine to build community, gain skills as educators, and enhance health sciences education. The Symposium features abstract presentations from the School of Medicine community. See more information below.
This year’s CLIME Together Symposium will focus on the theme of Community and Collaboration in Medical Education. We are delighted to feature Dr. Anna Cianciolo as our keynote speaker. Dr.Cianciolo is a medical education researcher and journal editor with a passion for empowering medical educators to practice reflectively and, in so doing, make their world a better place for themselves, their learners, and their patients.
Join us for a day of learning, connection, and celebration of the innovative work of our community!
Date & Time:
Friday, June 5, 2026
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PT)
Location: UW Waterfront Activities Center, Seattle, WA
While there will be no Zoom option, the plenary and panel will be recorded and available to view after the symposium
Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/HS8T5j150j
CLIME Together Symposium Call for Abstracts
We invite you to submit an abstract and share your educational project with the CLIME community! We welcome work that is in progress, preliminary results, and projects presented at other conferences. Abstracts on the theme of “Community and Collaboration” are encouraged, but all medical education topics are welcome.The submission deadline is April 24, 2026.
Selected authors will be invited to share brief small or large group oral presentations at the Symposium – no poster printing required!
Submit an abstract: https://bit.ly/4ryMi7g
Anna Cianciolo, PhD
Dr. Cianciolo is a Full Professor of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Editor in Chief of Teaching and Learning in Medicine. She comes to medical education with PhD training in engineering psychology (2001 – Georgia Institute of Technology), 12 years’ experience conducting performance-based training research and development for the U.S. Army, and a lifelong passion for understanding the nature of expertise and its development.
She works at an institution that is internationally recognized for educational innovation, where the curriculum offers a rich, “living laboratory” for studying the social and technological aspects of medical education collaboratively with faculty and students. Her role as Editor also allows special observability on the development of scholarly expertise, particularly the cultivation of individual voice and advancement of community understanding. Her research interests include small-group collaborative and peer-assisted learning, clinical teaching, learning, and assessment, clinical reasoning, and scholarly professional development.
Dr. Cianciolo’s work has been funded by the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education (SDRME), the Harvard Macy Foundation, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been published in Academic Medicine, Medical Education, and Medical Teacher, among other journals. She has served one and a half terms as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Central Region Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA) Chair of the Medical Education Scholarship, Research, and Evaluation (MESRE) Section. She was honored as a CGEA Laureate in 2021 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society in 2025 and has been recognized by my school as Outstanding Scholar (2016) and Outstanding Educator (2018) and by the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) as a Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator (2014). Ultimately, her professional goal is to improve medical education by doing work that encourages and empowers medical educators to practice reflectively and, in so doing, make their world a better place for themselves, their learners, and their patients.