An estimated 200 attended Good Shepherd Rehabilitation’s third annual “DISRUPT: Health-Care Innovation Summit conference,” April 5, ArtsQuest Center, SteelStacks, Bethlehem,

“Health care is changing, and it’s changing because of people like you, people who refuse to accept, ‘This is how it’s always been done’ and instead ask, ‘How can we make it better?,’” said Emily Lyter, PT, DPT, administrative director of Good Shepherd Learns and Creates, and chair of the DISRUPT planning committee

“Let’s build on what we’ve started here and turn it into something bigger,” Lyter said.

Attending the day-long conference were speakers from throughout the United States with expertise in human-centered design, brain-computer interfaces, innovating with purpose and passion, digital health care, wearable robotics and high-impact, low-cost assistive technology.

Presenters included Gokul Krishnan, PhD; Chad Bouton, PhD; Anang Chokshi, DPT; Jeremy B. Wigginton, MD, MBA, FAAFP; Dabin Choe, PhD candidate, and Alexander Geht, MS.

DISRUPT featured two poster presentation sessions and a vendor fair with higher education, technology and professional development displays.

Attendees hailed from a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, long-term acute care, and roles, including physicians, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, social work, recreational therapy, psychology and respiratory therapy.

Sponsors included Strolll, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pa., Lifeward, and the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania.

DISRUPT is scheduled as a two-day conference, April 18 and 19, 2026, ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, Bethlehem.

Information: www.goodshepherdrehab.org/disrupt