Annual Explore & Serve Poster Presentation Day

Thursday, April 9, 2026

9:00 AM-3:30 PM

Explore & Serve Poster Presentation Day provides students with the opportunity to showcase the projects in which they have been engaging at Drexel, both in research and in community service. Biomedical research enables our students to develop their analytical and critical thinking skills, to become better diagnosticians and practitioners of evidence-based medicine. Likewise, community service allows our students to harness and strengthen their service orientation, compassion, interpersonal skills, and cultural competence, to better serve patients, their families and the community. Both research and community service empower our students, as future health care practitioners, to continue developing and actualizing their commitment to learning and growth.

Schedule:

9-11 a.m.: Welcome/Introduction & Student Oral Presentations

11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Keynote Address, "Just Show Up!: The Power of Presence, Perspective, Privilege, & Partnership"

12-1 p.m.: Lunch

1-2 p.m.: Poster Session 1

2-3 p.m.: Poster Session 2

3-3:30 p.m.: Presentation of Douglas Baird Award for Healthcare Equity

Keynote Speaker:
Annette Gadegbeku, MD, associate professor and chief, Division of Community Health in the Department of Family, Community & Preventive Medicine; senior associate dean of the Office of Community Health and Inclusive Excellence; medical director, Healing Hurt People, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the Dornsife School of Public Health; assistant director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson Health