Advocacy
ACS Legislative Summit
The ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit 2024 will be held April 13-16 at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.
The Leadership & Advocacy Summit offers comprehensive and specialized sessions to provide ACS members, leaders, and advocates with topics focused on effective surgeon leadership, as well as interactive advocacy training with coordinated visits to Congressional offices.
The weekend will begin on Saturday, April 13 with educational workshops focused on the pertinent topics of media relations, practice management, and risk management. The Leadership Summit will be on Sunday, April 14, and the Advocacy Summit on Monday and Tuesday, April 15-16.
WSMA Legislative Summit
The 2025 WSMA Legislative Summit will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the state Capitol building in Olympia.
About the Legislative Summit
Attending the Summit is a great way to engage more directly with WSMA's advocacy on behalf of physicians and patients in Washington state. As WSMA's "legislative day," the Summit gives Washington's physicians, physician assistants, and medical students an opportunity to amplify WSMA’s advocacy message directly with state legislators and support those issues our members have identified as mattering most to their ability to practice good medicine.
The Legislative Summit features updates from health care policy leaders on what's happening on the ground in Olympia and why it matters to the physician community. Summit attendees will hear from WSMA's government affairs team who will detail WSMA's legislative agenda and provide their insider perspectives on the political landscape. And, each year, attendees have the (optional) opportunity to meet with their district legislators.
If you have any questions, email Chelsea Thumberg at chelsea@wsma.org.