On Thursday, April 23, 2026 ImproveCareNow is hosting our Spring Live Online Community Conference (LOCC). Sessions will run from 10 AM ET (9 AM CT, 8 AM MT, 7 AM PT) to 5 PM ET. This isn’t just a meeting; it’s a space designed for you to connect with a national network of IBD experts and peers who truly ‘get it.’ Best of all, registration is completely free for patients and families. Whether you can join us for one hour or the full day, you’ll walk away with actionable insights and a stronger sense of community..
Preview and download the #ICNCC26S agenda to see all our sessions and make your plan to join us! Whether you can join us for one hour or the full day, you’ll walk away with actionable insights and a stronger sense of community. If you’re looking specifically for sessions that are co-produced and led by ICN patients and parents/caregivers here is a listing:
💚 Impact at Every Level: Inside ICN’s Pathway to Mastery Learning Labs
💙 Ignite Talk 🔥 by Justin Hwang from @ICNPatients
💚 Major Life Change: Adjusting to College with IBD
💙 Leaning into Discomfort and Fostering Clinical Skills to Address Weight Stigma in Pediatric IBD
💚 Deciding Together: Shared Decision-Making Fundamentals and Frontline Perspectives
ℹ️ Registration is completely free for patients and families – let us know you’re coming!
🌟 Why Your Care Center Should Join the Live Online Community Conference
Our fully virtual event is designed to be energizing, knowledge-rich and highly practical to give clinical care providers the tools, insights, and community connections they need to deliver better outcomes—right away. This is a unique opportunity to step outside the exam room and engage with the broader Learning Health System to improve outcomes for your patients. If your goal is smoother operations, better outcomes, and stronger team collaboration, this event delivers.
💚 Clinical Breakout Sessions: Participate in specialized sessions for clinicians like Fostering Clinical Skills to Address Weight Stigma in Pediatric IBD and From Montreal via Paris to Florence: Classifying IBD
💙 Maximum Convenience: Join us from your office, clinic, or home. Our virtual platform allows you to participate without the need for travel
💚 Practical Skills Building: Come away with practical tools and strategies to reduce unintended variation in care through QI best practices, strengthen multidisciplinary partnerships that support whole-person IBD care, and build efficient workflows around data management, communication and coordination
ℹ️ Registration for ICN center members is discounted to ensure your whole team can participate – let us know you’re coming!
🌟 About Live Online Community Conferences
Our annual Live Online Community Conferences are an opportunity for everyone who may be interested – patients, parents/caregivers, clinicians, researchers, collaborators, improvers, friends – to join us for a condensed and convenient virtual meeting format. Leveraging the collaborative power of our Learning Health Community, we come together to explore important and timely IBD topics, to raise awareness of the IBD lived experience, share new information and best practices, ask questions and move forward together to advance our mission of transforming health, care and costs for all children and adolescents with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
ℹ️ Registration for this Live Online Community Conference closes on April 21, 2026 at 5PM ET – let us know you’re coming!
Continuing Education at #ICNCC26S
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Cincinnati Children’s and ICN, Inc. Cincinnati Children’s is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change. This activity is approved for continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours. Completion of this CME activity, which includes learner assessment and feedback, enables the learner to earn points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ImproveCareNow is also pursuing Social Worker CEU credit and Psychology CEU credit for this learning event.
ImproveCareNow is made up of more than 100 care centers and has a presence on three continents, with 90% of the highest ranked pediatric gastroenterology programs in the U.S., including many U.S. News and World Reports 2025/2026 Honor Roll Children’s Hospitals as members. With 1,180 pediatric gastroenterologists and more than 33,000 active IBD patients, ImproveCareNow reaches approximately 55% of IBD patients in the U.S. cared for by pediatric gastroenterologists. ImproveCareNow Community Conferences present the ideal opportunity to engage with these committed healthcare providers, patients and parents, and to learn about recent results in our research and improvement efforts.
👀 Get #InTheLOOP with LOCC stories on the ImproveCareNow blog >>
Everything we do in ImproveCareNow is magnified by the efforts of thousands of improvers! No action is too small; here are some ways to get started:
💚 Join the Patient Advisory Council (patients with IBD who are 14+)
💙 Join the Parent/Family Advisory Council (parents/caregivers of young people with IBD)
💚 Participate in our Current Research Opportunities (subject to eligibility)
💙 RSVP to join us at one of our upcoming ICN events
💚 Subscribe to blog updates to stay #InTheLOOP with our IBD stories
💙 Download, use & share our free, co-produced IBD resources
💚 Connect with our welcoming & supportive pediatric IBD community and receive IBD resources, community stories, and ICN updates & opportunities
💙 Donate to ImproveCareNow – we are proud to use every dollar donated to advance our mission!
Our mission is to transform the health, care and costs for all children and adolescents with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD) by building a sustainable collaborative chronic care network.
