Registration Opens for 2026 Empowering Physicians Event in Minneapolis

June 18, 2026

Registration has opened for the Empowering Physicians event, featuring Regina Martinez-Lorenzo, MD, the first female cross-country skier to represent Mexico in the Olympics. 

The event will take place on Friday, September 25, from 3 to 8 pm, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. 

As the featured speaker, Regina Martinez-Lorenzo, MD, a 2021 graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, and now an emergency medicine physician in Miami, will detail how she first learned to cross-country ski in Minneapolis’ Theodore Wirth Park and, five years later, competed in the 10K freestyle cross-country ski event at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy, this past February.   

The event will also include the following: 

• Networking reception; 

• Physicians-in-training poster symposium; 

• An educational session on how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the practice of medicine in Minnesota;   

• An educational session that does a deep dive into the state of medical legal affairs in Minnesota;  

• Highlight of MMA Award winners; and  

• An introduction to the next MMA president, Dania Kamp, MD.   

Here's the agenda: 

3 pm – Check-in, poster symposium, and networking  
4 pm – General Session: Medical Liability in Minnesota — Emerging Trends, Risks, and Reforms  
5 pm – General Session: The Cost of Cuts — How H.R. 1 Could Reshape Minnesota’s Health System  
5:45 pm – Networking reception   
6:30 pm – Dinner, awards, and keynote speech from Regina Martinez-Lorenzo, MD 

To register, click here.  Reach out to mma@mnmed.org with questions.  

Copic is the event’s premier sponsor.