ASHT is excited to announce the call for sessions for our 2026 Annual Meeting and Pediatric Specialty Day to be held October 7-10, 2026 in Milwaukee, WI. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge, expertise, and the latest advancements in upper extremity rehabilitation with your peers while helping to shape the agenda for the meeting.
The 2026 theme – “Bridging the Gap: Collaborating and Amplifying Our Voices” – This year, we will emphasize how small daily actions collectively sustain and strengthen our field. Together, these efforts propel our profession forward honoring our tradition of shared wisdom while ensuring lasting resilience within both the broader healthcare landscape and our communities.
We welcome content in all areas relevant to hand and upper extremity practice, innovation, advocacy, research, sustainability and education. Specific priorities within this year’s theme:
- Advancing professional excellence and resilience - Under this theme, we invite sessions that highlight strategies for maintaining high standards of care and adapting to the evolving landscape of healthcare. Topics may include cutting-edge treatment interventions, evidence-based practices and professional development opportunities that empower hand therapists to thrive. Emphasis should be placed on lifelong learning and resilience in an ever-changing field.
- Cultivating the next generation of hand therapists - This theme aims to foster mentorship and educational opportunities for emerging professionals in hand therapy. Proposals should focus on creating inclusive pathways for career development, mentorship programs and innovative educational strategies that inspire and prepare the next generation of therapists. Sessions can highlight successful initiatives, collaboration models and best practices for supporting young professionals in their journey.
- Advocating for our value - This theme highlights the actions we take to advance the value and visibility of our profession. Advocacy can seem daunting, yet we all advocate for our worth through everyday efforts that build toward lasting impact. Sessions may focus on value mindset and developing advocacy skills—whether through education, public and legislative outreach, or interprofessional collaboration that broadens our reach beyond traditional boundaries of care.
- Multidisciplinary perspectives - Under this theme, we encourage sessions that emphasize the integration of various disciplines that provide comprehensive care for our patients with upper extremity conditions. Collaboration is a key component of healthcare and sessions could focus on this dynamic and strategies to foster collaboration in our practice. This could include perspectives from physicians, psychologists, orthotists and prosthetists, engineers, artists, or holistic medical professionals, just to name a few.
Deadline to Submit is Friday, February 20, 2026!
Example of Accepted Proposals From 2025
Session Progression Infographic
Retrieving Your CE Certificate
You can complete your session evaluations and retrieve your CE certificate through the ASHT on-demand portal using the following login information:
- Visit https://www.pathlms.com/asht
- Username: Email used during registration
- Password: ASHT1977
- Click In-Person Evaluation & Certificate
- Complete the session evaluations (complete an evaluation for every session you attend before going to the overall survey)
- Complete the overall survey
- Click retrieve certificate to print/email
In-person attendees can only earn CE credits for the sessions they attended in Salt Lake City. All CE certificates must be printed/retrieved through the platform by January 31, 2026.
Virtual Registration
Missed us in Salt Lake City? You can still access recorded content and earn up to 28.75 CE hours with a virtual access pass to our 2025 Annual Meeting & Pediatric Specialty Day! View recorded plenary and concurrent sessions from our in-person event and earn CE credit at your own pace. Registration will close December 31, 2025.
Access to On-Demand Content
Virtual attendees will have access to the plenary, scientific and concurrent sessions recorded through the ASHT on-demand platform post event. Pre-Conference Institutes will not be recorded or available on the on-demand platform. Please note: While on-demand access is available through September 1, 2026, all continuing education credits from this event must be claimed by January 31, 2026.
Important Dates
- Clinical Practice & Scientific e-Posters: October 7, 2025 - September 1, 2026
- Exhibitor Virtual Directory: October 7, 2025 - September 1, 2026
- In-Person CE Evaluations and Certificate Portal: October 25, 2025 - January 31, 2026
- On-Demand Instructional Sessions: November 10, 2025 - September 1, 2026
Contact meetings@asht.org or call 856-380-6927 with questions.
Program Code of Conduct
View ASHT's Program Code of Conduct, which applies to any virtual or face-to-face event hosted or sponsored by ASHT. This policy pertains to any/all participants in ASHT events, including but not limited to employees, members, volunteers, guests, vendors, contractors, exhibitors, faculty and other attendees. By registering for an ASHT event (virtual or face-to-face), you acknowledge your registration is subject to ASHT’s Program Code of Conduct.
Future Meetings
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Pediatric Specialty Day: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Annual Meeting: Thursday, October 8 to Saturday, October 10, 2026
Milwaukee, WI
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46th Annual Meeting
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Contact meetings@asht.org or call 856-380-6927 with questions.