The National Forum on Sepsis
**The 2025 National Forum on Sepsis is taking place on November 6th! For information and to register, visit endsepsisforum.org.**
Each year, END SEPSIS convenes leaders from healthcare policy, government, critical care, patient advocacy and private industry at the National Forum on Sepsis. When we launched the Forum in 2013, it marked the first time all key stakeholders came together in one room to focus on the sepsis crisis. The Forum’s mission is to channel their collective expertise toward identifying challenges, exploring opportunities and advancing solutions. Past speakers have included members of Congress, CMS leadership, renowned patient advocates, leading clinicians and academics and innovators from the private sector.
Previous Speakers:
- Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)
- Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Dr. Patrick Conway, Chief Medical Officer for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Kevin Tracey, M.D. Feinstein Institute
- Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- Dr. Konrad Reinhart, Chair of the Global Sepsis Alliance
- Richard Neal (D-MA), Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee
- Jim Dwyer, New York Times
- Michael Dowling, Chief Executive Officer, Northwell Health
- Dr. Robert Valdez, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
- Dr. Kedar Mate, President & CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jean Moody-Williams, Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS
- Nancy Foster, Vice President, Quality and Safety Policy, AHA
View Previous Forums Online:
2023 National Forum on Sepsis: Watch on demand
The 2023 Forum focused on the recent gains that have been made by END SEPSIS in their effort to make sepsis the national priority it deserves to be. Achievements have included consequential new funding directives in the federal budget a newly engaged Congress and White House and the development by federal agencies of new initiatives and strategies to improve sepsis care. Additionally, exciting private sector innovations are changing how we diagnose and treat sepsis.
2020 National Forum on Sepsis: Watch on demand
The 2020 virtual Forum addressed pressing questions about the future of sepsis care and prevention, including: How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact our approach to the prevention and diagnosis of sepsis? How are the two related? What tools and policies do we need to better address both conditions? What innovations are being developed during the current COVID-19 pandemic that could advance the fight to end sepsis?
View photos of past Forums here.
Jean Moody-Williams
“Since last year, my perspective, my viewpoint, my actions have certainly changed. CMS was working in the area of sepsis, but after attending the Forum it became a compelling movement we had to get more traction on.”
