Meeting/Event Information

CHRMS Winter Meeting 2026 Agenda

 Friday, February 20, 2026

Harry Caray's Lombard | 70 Yorktown Shopping Center, Lombard, IL 60148

8:00am-8:30am         Continental Breakfast

8:30am-8:45am         Opening Remarks (Brad Schneiderman, Partner, Hall Prangle)

  8:45am-9:45am          Evolving Liability Landscapes: Risk Management Challenges and Legal Exposure from the Growing Use of Locum Tenens Physicians (Dr. Nishant Shah, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs and Joe Comer, Partner, Barker Castro & Steinbeck) 

9:45am-10:00am       BREAK

10:00am-11:00am     Obstetric Risk & Litigation: Managing Clinical and Legal Challenges for Better Outcomes (Paul Greve, Senior Director, Healthcare Risk Solutions, Markel, Christine Ringler, Patient Safety and Risk Solutions                                                  Director, Candello, a division of CRICO, Brant Poling, Attorney, Poling Law)

 11:00pm-12:00pm      LUNCH

12:00pm-12:15pm      CHRMS Nominations Committee Update (Jeff Kunkel, Director, Outreach Risk Management, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago)

 12:15pm-1:15pm        Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome (MMSS) in the Era of Distrust: Supporting Clinicians in an Unsettled World (Sara Miller, Senior Vice President, Med-IQ)

1:15pm-2:15pm         Case Law Update (Dennis DeMarco, Senior Counsel, Amundsen Davis, and Jorie Johnson, Associate Attorney, Amundsen Davis)

 2:15am-2:30pm          BREAK

 2:30-3:30pm                High Reliability in Healthcare: from Principles to Practice (Christina Wasiele, Quality Manager, Ascension Saint Alexius Medical Center, Amira Concepcion, Patient Safety Specialist, Ascension Saint Alexius Medical                                                  Center, Jennifer Mcdermott, Quality Manager, Ascension St Joseph Chicago, Melissa Huckleby, Patient Safety Specialist, Ascension St Joseph Chicago, and Kristen Hayes, Director, Quality & Patient Safety,  Ascension Illinois)                        

 3:30-3:45                     Closing (Adrienne Roper, National Director Emergency Department, Risk Management, Ascension)

                              FREE ONISTE AMPLE PARKING **Approval for ASHRM continuing education credit and MCLE credit is pending.