That makes who you learn from especially important.

At the 2026 Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference, attendees will hear from nationally recognized leaders whose experience spans rural health policy, academic medicine, health-system leadership, healthcare delivery, workforce strategy, access, and health policy.

These aren’t simply keynote speakers. They bring perspectives from some of the most influential organizations and institutions in American healthcare—and they will apply that experience directly to the questions facing mobile healthcare today.

Alan Morgan, MPA, CEO, National Rural Health Association

Why We’re Excited to Hear From Alan

Rural health policy: Understand the policy and funding forces shaping rural healthcare.
Access: Explore what changing rural healthcare needs mean for how care reaches communities.
National perspective: Connect mobile healthcare to broader conversations happening across rural health.
The future of care: Consider where mobile healthcare fits as rural communities and healthcare systems evolve.

Rural Health Transformation and the Future of Access: Why Mobile Healthcare Matters Now

Alan Morgan has spent more than three decades working in health policy at the state and federal levels and is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on rural health policy. He has served as CEO of the National Rural Health Association since 2001 and has been recognized by Modern Healthcare among the 100 most influential people in healthcare. 

His experience includes work with a former U.S. Congressman and former Kansas governor, as well as healthcare advocacy and policy roles with major healthcare organizations. He has also contributed to publications on healthcare policy, rural aging, and rural populations and health. 

For mobile healthcare leaders, his perspective comes at an important time.

Where is rural healthcare headed? What is changing in policy, funding, and access? And what role can mobile healthcare play as rural communities rethink how care reaches people?

Morgan’s opening keynote will help attendees connect the work happening inside individual mobile programs to the larger forces shaping rural healthcare and access nationwide.

Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N., President, Johns Hopkins Health System & Executive Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Why We’re Excited to Hear From Kevin

Leadership perspective
Experience leading complex healthcare organizations through change and transformation.
Healthcare access
A firsthand understanding of the challenges health systems face in reaching the populations they serve.
Workforce and care delivery
Insight into the people, operations, and systems required to deliver care effectively.
Partnerships
A valuable health-system perspective on how mobile healthcare can complement and extend existing care models.

Kevin Sowers brings a rare combination of frontline clinical experience and decades of health-system leadership.

He began his career as an oncology nurse at Duke University Medical Center in 1985 and spent 32 years with the Duke University Health System, including eight years as president and CEO of Duke University Hospital, before joining Johns Hopkins Medicine. 

Today, Sowers serves as president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he oversees a six-hospital health system and helps advance strategies supporting clinical care, education, research, and discovery. He also chairs Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, which operates more than 40 primary and specialty care sites throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area. 

His experience spans care delivery, organizational change, leadership, patient experience, quality, operations, workforce, and health-system transformation.

That perspective is particularly valuable for a field increasingly looking at how mobile healthcare can become an integrated and sustainable part of the broader healthcare system.

Atul Grover, MD, PhD, Physician, Health Services Researcher & Health Policy Expert & Founder, Academic Health

Why We’re Excited to Hear From Atul

Health policy: Understand how policy decisions can shape healthcare delivery and access.
Healthcare workforce: Explore the workforce challenges influencing the future of care.
Evidence and value: Consider how healthcare programs can demonstrate their impact and make the case for investment.
System transformation: Gain a broader perspective on how new models of care can fit into the changing healthcare ecosystem.

Atul Grover brings decades of experience at the intersection of medicine, health services research, healthcare workforce, and national health policy.

Dr. Grover is an internal medicine physician, health services researcher, and nationally recognized health policy expert. He previously served as the inaugural executive director of the AAMC Research and Action Institute, where he led efforts to bring together national experts to examine critical issues affecting American healthcare and develop policy and programmatic solutions. 

His career at the AAMC included leadership in workforce research, government relations, healthcare affairs, medical education, academic affairs, scientific affairs, public policy, communications, and leadership programming. He has also worked with the U.S. Public Health Service and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. 

Dr. Grover earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and his doctorate in health and public policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

His work brings an important perspective to a central question facing mobile healthcare:

How do we build models that demonstrate value, strengthen access, address workforce challenges, and become sustainable parts of the healthcare ecosystem?

Making Mobile Healthcare Essential

A Plenary Fireside Chat with Kevin Sowers and Atul Grover

Mobile healthcare programs are trusted, flexible, and deeply rooted in the communities they serve. But their paths to partnership, sustainability, and growth can look very different.

During this plenary conversation, Sowers and Grover will explore how programs across nonprofits, community health centers, universities, health systems, and other settings can strengthen their evidence, communicate their value, build meaningful partnerships, and develop operating models designed to last.

The conversation will bring together two perspectives that rarely sit side by side: the experience of leading a major academic health system and the perspective of a physician, researcher, and national health policy expert.

Together, they will examine what it takes to move mobile healthcare from an important service model to an essential partner in the future of healthcare delivery.

Why These Conversations Matter

The value of the Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference isn’t simply being in a room with other people working in mobile healthcare.

It’s having the opportunity to learn from people who understand the larger forces shaping healthcare—and then apply those insights to your own program.

You’ll hear perspectives on the policy environment affecting access.

You’ll gain insight into how major health systems think about care delivery, partnerships, workforce, and transformation.

You’ll explore how evidence and health policy can influence the future of healthcare models.

And you’ll have the opportunity to connect those national perspectives to the practical realities of running a mobile healthcare program.

That’s what makes this conference different.

The conversations are grounded in the work you are doing today—but focused on what your program and the field need to do next.

Join Us in Kansas City

The 2026 Annual Mobile Healthcare Conference takes place September 26–28 in Kansas City.

Come learn from national leaders. Connect with peers who understand the work. Explore new ideas and practical strategies. And be part of the conversation about where mobile healthcare moves forward.