4th Biennial Conference on Caregiving Research
Reaching New Heights: Elevating Caregiving Research, Policy, and Practice
Save the Date: September 23-25, 2026
Utah is proud to host the next caregiving research conference in Salt Lake City, previously held in Pittsburgh, PA. Please come and join experts in caregiving research, policy and practice. More information to come.
For questions, please contact: fcc@nurs.utah.edu
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Upcoming Events:
Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden: A Workshop
NASEM Featured Speakers, Drs. Lynn Reinke and Ranak Trivedi, are members of the 2026 Caregiving Conference Scientific Planning Committee.
View the workshop sponsored by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), June 5-6, 2025
Scientific Planning Committee
Lee Ellington, PhD
(Chair)
University of Utah
Erin Kent, PhD
(Co-Chair)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN
(Past Chair)
University of Pittsburgh
Christine Moua, M.Ed
University of Utah
Julie Klinger, MA
University of Pittsburgh
Kelly Tan, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh
Lynn Reinke, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FPCN, ATSF
University of Utah
Megan Thomas Hebdon, PhD, DNP, RN, NP-C
University of Utah
Ranak Trivedi, PhD, FGSA, FBSM
Stanford University
Hillary Lum, MD, PhD
University of Colorado
Beth Fields, PhD, OTR/L, BCG
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julie Bidwell, PhD, RN
UC-Davis