Wisconsin Doctor
Day is a multi-specialty event bringing together Physicians and Medical
Students from nearly 20 different physician organizations annually. WAFP is proud to be a longtime participant in this collaborative event, strengthening and amplifying the voices of our nearly 3,000 members, consisting of family physicians, residents, and medical students from across the state.
Wisconsin Doctor Day 2026 brought physicians and medical students from nearly 20 specialty organizations together at the Monona Terrace in Madison on Thursday, June 25, and family medicine showed up in force.
Of the 206 physicians and students who registered, 67 were family medicine, making up 32% of attendees and the largest single specialty represented at the event.
This year's Doctor Day took a new approach. Rather than traditional legislative visits, the day centered on advocacy education, the upcoming November elections, and the issues shaping the future of medicine in Wisconsin. Dr. Karen Wong, Chief Data Scientist at Epic, opened the day with a keynote on data science and AI in healthcare. Charles Franklin, Director of the Marquette Law School Poll, followed at lunch with a look at Wisconsin's political landscape heading into the fall elections. A legislative panel, moderated by Tim Stumm of Wisconsin Health News, gave attendees a direct line to the policymakers shaping their work.
Breakout sessions covered ground that matters most to family physicians, including Wisconsin Medicaid policy, rural obstetric care access, and firearm injury prevention conversations in primary care.
With family medicine as the single largest specialty in the room, WAFP members had an outsized voice in shaping the day's conversations on the issues that matter most to our specialty and our patients.
