October 10, 2026
The day, hour by hour
Twelve hours that brought Florida’s Latino medical community together, many of us for the very first time.
- 6:21 AM
Before sunrise
The team was in the Expo Center before dawn: poster boards up, tables dressed, the backdrop ready for a day we had been dreaming about for months.
Setting up the poster hall at 6:21 AM - 8:00 AM
Doors open
Badges, ribbons, stickers and a globe full of pins. Students, residents, international medical graduates and physicians from across Florida and beyond filled the room.
Check-in: badges, ribbons and welcome bags - 8:15 AM
¡Bienvenidos!
Our Chair and Co-Chair opened the chapter’s first Annual Meeting: mentorship, education and advocacy, all in one room.
- 8:30 AM
A keynote that started at home
From Venezuelan families to global patient safety: a story of discovery that began in our own community.
- 9:30 AM
A morning of primary care essentials
Exercise in the GLP-1 era, men’s health across the lifespan, immunization updates and hereditary cancer, each with questions from a packed room.
Men’s Health Across the Lifespan - 12:15 PM
Paella, coffee & conversation
Lunch by Paella y Olé, coffee with our partners at their tables, and plenty of laughs in the poster aisles.
Lunchtime fun in the poster aisle - 12:45 PM
Careers, wellness, wealth & prevention
Match Ready advice for applicants, an honest conversation about wellness, the physician’s wealth journey, nutrition and HIV prevention.
Match Ready: questions from the room - 4:45 PM
The research competition
Posters, judges, mentors and five oral presentations: the next generation of Latino physicians showing their work.
The poster session - 5:45 PM
¡Felicidades!
Best-poster awards and Certificates of Recognition for every oral presenter.
Best-poster awards - 6:00 PM
Prizes, hugs & “nos vemos en 2027”
A prize drawing full of joy, one more photo at the backdrop, and a promise to do it again, even bigger.
