Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote
Held on the official opening day of SAEM26, the Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote is the largest gathering of our Annual Meeting, which in 2025 drew more than 4,000 attendees.
For SAEM26 in Atlanta, Georgia, the Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote will be a 30-minute presentation immediately preceding the plenary session on the morning of Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
Speaker Benefits
- Round-trip airfare
- Hotel accommodations with VIP in room amenities
- Full, complimentary SAEM26 registration
- Recognition in the digital program
- Onsite interviews and promotion
Topics
A successful keynote presentation will ideally accomplish some of the following:
- Acknowledge the diversity of scholarly activity in academic emergency medicine (not just education or just research, but both)
- Be inspiring and of broad interest to our diverse membership at various stages of their careers
- Cover topics of current interest to academic emergency physicians (autobiographical narratives are not ideal, but may be considered if they meet other criteria)
- Include historical aspects of academic emergency medicine, but point to future opportunities and/or challenges
- Describe ways our scholarly activities impact patient care – through knowledge creation and translation
Questions?
Reach out to the SAEM Education Department with your questions about the Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote.
Dr. Peter Rosen, a founding father of emergency medicine, passed away in 2019 and is widely recognized for his many contributions to academic emergency medicine. The Dr. Peter Rosen Memorial Keynote Address is intended to memorialize Dr. Rosen’s life and legacy in perpetuity and gratitude for helping craft the emergency medicine specialty into what it is today.