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Spring Meeting 2026 - St. Louis
April 19 - 22
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark

Questions - Contact Kelly Andringa
kelly-andringa@uiowa.edu

Registration is Open!

Registration for the 2026 NCURA Region IV Spring Meeting is now open! Register by March 13 to receive the early-bird rate. Member early-bird registration is $550 and non-member is $600. After March 13, the rate increases by $50. Please note, these rates are the same as those for the 2025 spring meeting. 

Workshop registration is an additional $100 per workshop, except for Effective Presentations, which is $25.

Click Here to Register for the Meeting!

Final Program Out Now!

Hotel Reservations! 

Book your hotel room now!

The conference hotel, the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, is sold out! However, there are several hotels within a few blocks of the Hilton where you can make reservations:

2-3 blocks:

4-5 blocks:

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Volunteers Needed!

Hosting a meeting takes a lot of people power! Sign up to volunteer for various tasks through the link below. Volunteering is a great way to give back to the region and meet other members. Plus, it's a lot of fun!

Questions about volunteering can be directed to Mellani Lubuag at lubua001@umn.edu.

Meet Our
Keynote Speaker!

Philip R.O. Payne, PhD,
FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSI

Chief Health AI Officer, WashU Medicine and BJC Health

Vice Chancellor for
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, WashU Medicine

Becker Professor and Director, Institute for Informatics,
Data Science, and Biostatistics, WashU Medicine

 

From Overload to Insight: AI’s Role in Elevating Human Attention

This talk will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged not simply to process biomedical data at scale, but to meaningfully augment human insight and decision-making in information-intensive environments, including healthcare and life sciences. Amid a digital landscape characterized by cognitive overload and fragmented information, the presentation will examine AI’s potential to help humans focus, reason, and act more effectively in high-stakes clinical and research environments.
 

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Thank you to our Meeting Sponsors!

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Spring Meeting 2026 Apparel
Available Now! 

a percentage of all sales will go directly to Region IV!

Other Region IV merch available too!

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The NCURA App also has a web version, to access the NCURA App and download your handouts directly to your computer or tablet, https://ncura.clowder.com/webapp/

Your login is the same as your NCURA login.

Supervisor Memo

Download a template memorandum to use when you request approval from your supervisor to attend the Spring Meeting.

Image by Stijn te Strake

DEI Speaker Accessibility Guide

Download and review the below for best practices on presenations

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