Come See Vinay Gupta, MD, at the Historic Davenport and Earn CME
On Saturday, Sept. 26, the WSMA will welcome keynote speaker Vinay Gupta, MD, as keynote for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the WSMA House of Delegates where he’ll a lead a conversation on healthcare change, featuring a robust Q&A with an audience of physicians, physician assistants, and medical students. All Spokane-area WSMA members are welcome to come and enjoy Dr. Gupta’s talk and join this discussion even if not attending the Annual Meeting.
Dr. Gupta’s presentation is scheduled for 2:30-4 p.m. This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Stick around directly after Dr. Gupta’s talk and hear Lasé Ajayi, MD, AMA board chair-elect, present “Physician Advocacy in Action: Lead. Transform. Innovate,” starting at 4:30 p.m.
For those wishing to see Dr. Gupta’s presentation with Q&A, there’s no need to register for the Annual Meeting, but please check in with our staff at the meeting registration desk outside of the presentation room when you arrive. For those wanting to experience the WSMA Annual Meeting and all it has to offer, please register in advance—it’s free. More information about Dr. Gupta and Dr. Ajayi at the jump.
About Dr. Gupta and his keynote presentation
In his presentation, “Leading Through Change: What Physicians Need to Thrive in the Future of Healthcare,” Dr. Gupta will explore how physicians can lead through a period of extraordinary change in healthcare rather than simply react to it. He’ll explore:
- The next era of clinical medicine. How AI, remote monitoring, and other emerging technologies are giving physicians better information, extending our reach, and allowing us to do more with increasingly constrained time and resources.
- Using technology to restore the human side of medicine and what it could mean if technology actually gives clinicians time back to listen, think, and care.
- The changing role of the physician as physicians increasingly serve not only as clinicians, but as trusted interpreters and guides.
- Trust and medical falsehoods and why physicians have an increasingly important role in rebuilding trust in science and medicine.
- Physician leadership and advocacy, why they matter, and why our profession needs more physicians willing to engage constructively in their communities, institutions, and the public square.
A practicing pulmonologist, Dr. Gupta has held leadership roles across the health technology sector, contributing to the development of health features for Apple Watch and serving as chief medical officer for Amazon Pharmacy and New Health Initiatives. He is currently managing director of healthcare innovation at Manatt Health, where he advises healthcare systems on digital transformation and generative AI adoption. A medical analyst for NBC News, MS NoW, and CNBC, Dr. Gupta is a trusted national voice.
About Dr. Ajayi
After Dr. Gupta’s talk and a short break, on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. the WSMA warmly welcomes Toluwalasé “Lasé” Ajayi, MD, chair-elect of the American Medical Association board of trustees, for her presentation, “Physician Advocacy in Action: Lead. Transform. Innovate.” Dr. Ajayi emigrated from Nigeria to the U.S. at the age of 7 as a political refugee. A pediatrician, Dr. Ajayi was elected to the American Medical Association board of trustees in 2022. She holds a joint faculty position as a clinical professor at UC San Diego in both the departments of pediatrics and medicine. Dr. Ajayi’s research intersects innovative digital medicine technologies with unmet needs in health disparities, maternal fetal health, pain, and palliative medicine.