Register Today for the Empowering Physicians Event Featuring Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD

May 29, 2025

Registration has opened for the Empowering Physicians: A Night of Reflection and Engagement event, featuring best-selling author Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD.   

The event will be held Friday, September 26, from 4 to 9 pm at the historic Hewing Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. 

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Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD

Rosenthal is the editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of An American Sickness, a revealing investigation into America's healthcare system.   

A former ER physician, Rosenthal was an award-winning reporter at The New York Times for 22 years, gaining acclaim for her coverage of health and health policy issues. Drawing on her expertise, Rosenthal unpacks one of America's most complex and frustrating institutions with a humanist approach, and examines what physicians, patients, and providers can do to help repair it.  

Rosenthal will present a 60-minute lecture, answer questions for 15 minutes, and then be available to sign books.   

For more information on Rosenthal, please visit www.prhspeakers.com

The event will also include a networking reception, a physicians-in-training poster symposium, and an introduction to the next MMA president, Lisa Mattson, MD.  

For more details and to register, click here.   

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