2026 Neuroscience Conference: THMA Neurosciences Forum
December 2-4, 2026
Irving, TX
Engage Directly with Health System Neurosciences Leaders
Neuroscience service line leaders face mounting pressure to scale across complex delivery networks — expanding access, driving innovation, and defending market position amid rising demand, specialist scarcity, and shifting care sites. Too often, they tackle these challenges alone, without peers who truly understand the complexity of leading neuroscience at the system level.
The Health Management Academy's Neurosciences Forum was built to change that. This intimate, retreat-style event convenes senior administrative and physician dyad leaders from Leading Health Systems nationwide alongside thought leaders from the most innovative healthcare companies, for strategic, peer-driven dialogue. Participants engage in confidential, high-impact conversations shaping how health systems organize, invest in, scale, and partner within the neuroscience enterprise.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
The Neurosciences Forum is hosted twice a year in thoughtfully selected locations across the country. Each event is timed to align with evolving industry priorities, providing a fresh opportunity to reconnect with peers, gain new insights, and advance your healthcare strategy.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets the Neurosciences Forum Apart
Member-Driven Content: Content is shaped by members to reflect what matters most to today's neurosciences leaders — from expanding access and care pathways to navigating specialist scarcity and scaling innovation.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include senior administrative and physician dyad leaders from organizations like Emory Healthcare, AdventHealth and Northwell Health, alongside select leaders from the most innovative healthcare companies. All participants are carefully vetted and hand-selected for their ability to contribute meaningfully.
Purposeful Industry Participation: Industry partners are thoughtfully curated to support high-value dialogue, creating an environment focused on insight generation rather than transactional networking.
Provider-Validated Intelligence: Gain unfiltered perspective on how neuroscience decisions are truly made and what drives sustainable adoption across health systems.
Relationships Built on Trust: Reception-style dinners and informal gatherings foster long-term, credible relationships that extend collaboration beyond the event itself.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The Neurovascular Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow neurosciences service line leaders and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Prospective Neurosciences Forum Topics
Building the neuroscience platform: How health systems are organizing neuroscience as an enterprise service line—governance, systemwide strategy, performance accountability, and program integration across neuro services.
The new economics of ambulatory neuro: Evaluating ambulatory growth, site-of-care shift, infusion strategy, imaging, rehab, specialty clinics, referral capture, and program economics in a high-demand, capacity-constrained market.
Access as growth strategy: How neuroscience leaders are addressing specialist scarcity, referral pathways, wait times, hub-and-spoke coverage models, and capacity redesign to improve access and patient retention.
Innovation adoption at scale: How health systems evaluate, fund, operationalize, and scale emerging therapies, devices, diagnostics, AI, digital tools, and new care models across neuroscience programs.
Complex care pathways across the continuum: Redesigning acute, ambulatory, procedural, rehab, and post-acute pathways for complex neuroscience populations—stroke, spine, movement disorders, epilepsy, and neuro-oncology.
Partnerships that expand reach: How neuroscience leaders are using partnerships, coverage models, technology, virtual care, and asset-light strategies to extend reach, improve performance, and differentiate.
The Neurosciences Forum Experience
The Health Management Academy's Fall 2026 Neurosciences Forum is a 2.5-day immersive experience convening neuroscience leaders from top health systems and innovative companies for member-led sessions on today's real-time challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
Extending Value Beyond the Neurosciences Conference
Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses trends and challenges unique to strategic planning, as well as trending CXO priorities, from large health systems across the country.
Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
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About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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