TEACH-S - Texas Educator's Academies Collaborative for Health Professions - Southeast

The Texas Educator’s Academies Collaborative for Health Professions–Southeast (TEACH-S) hosts an annual educational symposium designed for individuals interested in sharing scholarly innovations with a regional community of health professions educators. This daylong event features keynote presentations, interactive workshops, small group discussions, and both oral and poster presentations. Each year, the hosting institution selects a central theme for the symposium and invites submissions aligned with that focus across the various session formats.

Texas Educator’s Academies Collaborative for Health Professions (TEACH-S)
May 8, 2026
Cancer Prevention Building (CPB)

1155 Pressler St., 8^th Floor (rooms 1-8)

Houston, TX 77030

Join Us for the TEACH-S Annual Symposium
(Texas Educator’s Academies Collaborative for Health Professions – Southeast)

Join us for a one-day event dedicated to advancing health professions education across Southeast Texas. The TEACH-S Annual Symposium brings together a regional community of educators to showcase scholarly innovations, share best practices, and foster meaningful collaboration.

This daylong symposium features:

• Inspiring keynote sessions

• Interactive workshops

• Small group discussions

• Oral and poster presentations

Each year, the hosting institution selects a theme and invites submissions across a variety of session formats. Whether you're presenting or attending, this event offers valuable opportunities to learn, connect, and grow as an educator.

This conference will serve as a dynamic platform for exploring innovative strategies, best practices, collaborative models, and evidence-based approaches that foster interprofessional teamwork, enhance communication across disciplines, and shape the future of healthcare education.

We welcome submissions for Poster/Oral Presentations, Workshops, and Small Group Discussions that feature creative initiatives, evidence-based practices, and research that advance interprofessional collaboration, teamwork, and shared learning in healthcare education.

Important Dates:
Call for Proposals Open: December 3, 2025
Proposals Applications Closed: February 4, 2026
Registration Portal Open: December 12, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: February 25, 2026

Poster/Oral Presentations

Abstracts describing educational innovation, educational research, or quality initiatives in education are welcome. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters or short oral presentations. Abstracts should describe work that has been implemented, and results/outcomes information must be available. Use the following headers within the abstracts:

For research abstracts: Title, Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions
For Innovation/Quality Initiatives: Introduction, Project Description, Outcomes, Conclusions
References: (up to 5) may be included.

Abstracts are limited to 350 words; title, authors, and references are not included in the word count.

Please submit your abstract here.

Registration Category Fees:

Telephone registrations are not accepted.

We accept the following forms of payment:
Credit Cards (MasterCard, VISA, and American Express)
Check (Payable to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; through U.S. banks only)

Mail checks to:
Continuing Professional Education – Unit 1781
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
P.O. Box 301407
Houston, Texas 77230-1407

When registering online a receipt (confirmation letter) will be automatically emailed to the e-mail address you list on the registration form. 

Refund/Cancellation Policy
The registration fee, minus a $50 administration-handling fee, is refundable if a written request is received on or before May 1, 2026, for activity. No refunds will be granted after these dates. The request for a registration refund must include the tax identification number of the company or institution if registration was paid by a company or institution check. 

The Department of Continuing Professional Education (CPE), reserves the right to cancel activities prior to the scheduled date, if low enrollment or other circumstances make it necessary. Each registrant will be notified by mail, e-mail, or at the phone or fax numbers given on the registration form.  In case of activity cancellation, the liability of the CPE is limited to the registration fee. CPE will refund the full registration fee. 

CPE reserves the right to limit the number of participants in an activity and is not responsible for any expenses incurred by an individual whose registration is not confirmed and for whom space is not available. 

For additional information, contact CPE at 713-792-2223 or toll free at 866-849-5866 or via e-mail:  [email protected].

Special Assitance
Contact Continuing Professional Education / Activity Management at 713-792-2223 or 866-849-5866. You may also email CPE at [email protected].  

Evaluation:
A course evaluation tool will provide participants with the opportunity to comment on the value of the program content to their practice decisions, performance improvement activities, or possible impact on patient health status. Participants will also have the opportunity to comment on any perceived commercial bias in the presentations as well as to identify future educational topics.  The survey link will be provided during the review course.

View the accessibility policy for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center adheres to the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, May 8, 2026