First place

Efficacy of oral supplementation with collagen peptides compared with placebo in reducing pain over 6 months in adults with chronic joint pain

Anam Dharani, DO, and Hannah Curry, DO
Houston Methodist Family Medicine Residency

Second place

Point-of-Care Ultrasound as a Diagnostic Equalizer: Addressing Delayed Recognition of Critical Illness in Rural Family Medicine

Sana Anwar, MD
Texas Tech University Family Medicine Residency Program of the Permian Basin

Third place

Ready or Not: Does Return-to-Play Protocol Truly Assess Psychological Readiness After Acute Sports-Related Concussions?

Amber Campo, DO, Eloy Martinez, DO, Jonathan Bradshaw, DO, Ethan Park, MD, and Patrick Yoon, MD
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency

First place

Restoring Dignity and Safety: A Community Partnership Model to End Persistent Household Infestations From Individual Treatment to Systems Change

Anupamdeep Pannu, MD, and Vani Selvan, MD
Texas Tech University Family Medicine Residency Program of the Permian Basin

Second place

A Spoonful of Knowledge Helps the A1c Go Down: Assessing Diabetic education strategies for optimizing diabetic control

Muktha Nair, MD, Chidube Ogbonna, MD, Joshua Painter, DO, and Nitya Virippil, DO
Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program

Third place

Vaccine Confidence Despite Misinformation: A Cross-Sectional Survey in a Primary Care Population

Ashley Echeta, MD, Sami Ghozayel, DO, Sunil Joseph, DO, and Quratulanne Jan, MD
UTMB Health Family Medicine and Community Health Residency Program

First place

Recurrent Intermediate High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism While on Therapeutic Apixaban: A Case of Anticoagulation Failure and Concurrent May-Thurner Syndrome

Kim Nguyen, Gabriela E. Alvarez Perez, MD, and Nimat Alam, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine of the Permian Basin

Second place

The Use of Manual Traction Techniques for the Treatment of Spinal Pain Symptomatology

Sriharish Bellamkonda
University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine

First place

Disaster Preparedness in Primary Care: Reducing Excess Deaths After Hurricanes and Floods

Ricardo Ruiz, MPH, Raymond Sun, Lulu Xu, Summer Chavez, DO, MPH, and Omolola Adepoju, PhD, MPH
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine

Second place

Developing Physician-Leaders: A Critical Review of Leadership Education in Undergraduate Primary Care Training

Spencer T. Mullen
The University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine

First place

Missing the Liver in Texas Primary Care: Prevalence, Disparities, and the Texas-Applied Burden of Undiagnosed MASLD with Clinically Significant Fibrosis, NHANES 2017–2023

Saad Nadeem MBA, MHA, Muhammad Zain MBA, MHA, and Raka Amin, MD
Texas A&M College of Medicine, HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake

Second place

Assessment of Nutrition Knowledge, Barriers, and Educational Needs to Inform Lifestyle Medicine Interventions in an Underserved Population in Galveston, Texas

Jada Truong, Nathaniel Ferriola, Savannah McGinty, Morgan Wessels, Annie Pinchen, Andres Ramirez, Sydney Sanders, MD, and Jennifer Raley, MD
The University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine

First place

Examining the Feasibility and Benefits of Acupuncture for Medically Underserved Populations

Hasan Yasin, MD, Cutler Cannon, MSc, Andrew Janicki, MD, and Wei-Chen Lee, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch

Second place

Medical, Social, and Relational Health Risks and Childhood Asthma Severity, National Survey of Children’s Health, 2020-2024

Ikemefuna C. Okwuwa, MD, MBA, FAAFP, and Timothy O. Ihongbe, MD, MPH, PhD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of the Permian Basin