The 2026 ACCP Annual Meeting keynote will explore an issue familiar to many clinicians: burnout and the challenge of sustaining a sense of purpose in demanding health care environments. Keynote Speaker Julie Haizlip, MD, MAPP, will present “Surviving & Thriving in Healthcare: The Importance of Mattering,” offering a perspective on how recognizing the ways our work makes a difference can contribute to professional well-being and help clinicians thrive.

Haizlip’s work on mattering grew in part from her own experience with burnout early in her career as a pediatric critical care physician. Her research and teaching focus on helping health care professionals recognize the ways they make a difference to their patients, colleagues, students, and others. By intentionally reflecting on meaningful and positive experiences at work, clinicians can develop a greater awareness of their impact—even amid the challenges and frustrations that can make these moments easy to overlook.

As a clinician physician with the University of Virginia (UVA) Physicians Group and chief wellbeing officer for the UVA Department of Pediatrics, Haizlip brings both clinical experience and expertise in applied positive psychology to her work. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. She completed a BS degree in pharmacy with honors, medical school, and a residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina and completed her pediatric critical care training at the University of Utah. After more than a decade of work in the UVA pediatric ICU, her clinical practice is currently with the UVA Pediatric Sedation Service.

Haizlip’s work offers a unique perspective on the connection between well-being, burnout, and the sense of purpose that can come from knowing our work matters. Her keynote will bring this perspective to the #ACCPAM26 audience as she explores what it means to survive and thrive in health care.