Spring Meeting 2026 - St. Louis
April 19 - 22
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.
Draft Program Available!
The draft preliminary program is available now! Please note, this will be updated often. Check back for the latest draft.
Questions about presenting can directed to Chair-Elect, Kelly Andringa, or 2026 Program Chair, Hang McLaughlin.
Hotel Reservations!
Book your hotel room now!
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark for our conference attendees. To take advantage of the discounted rate, please make your reservation by April 3, 2026.
You can reserve your room directly through this link: https://book.passkey.com/e/51170213
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
1 South Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63102, US
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.
On April 18th during the 2026 meeting, the Research Administrators Certification Council will hold a Body of Knowledge review session. If you're interested in pursuing a CRA®, CPRA®, or CFRA® certification, this session is a must!
The purpose of the Body of Knowledge Review Sessions is to familiarize you with the outline of information upon which the certifications offered by the Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC) are based. Each Body of Knowledge Session (CRA®, CPRA®, and CFRA) is designed to assist you to identify areas of strengths and weakness so that you can learn where to focus your studies as you prepare to the exam.
Sample questions are provided throughout each session. The goal of the sample questions is to give you an idea of the question format. However, it is important to note the sample questions are not questions on the actual exam. Rather, they are a combination of retired questions and questions that were not previously used on the exam.
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.
