Texas Academy of Family Physicians

12/18/2025

TAFP WRAPPED is out now! Swipe through to see our incredible year in numbers. Thank you to our members for making 2025 so wonderful, and we’ll see you in 2026 to do it again!

12/15/2025

"Our patients—and sometimes our colleagues—bring their lived experiences, fears and skepticism into the exam room. Our duty is to hold space for these feelings, to show empathy and to rebuild trust without allowing misinformation to go unchallenged."

AAFP's latest Leader Voices blog features Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, CPE, FAAFP, discussing the family doc's role in vaccinating infants against hepatitis B.

https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/aafp-voices/newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation.html

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

The role of family physicians in protecting babies with hepatitis B vaccination remains essentially unchanged despite a new ACIP recommendation, says AAFP chief medical officer Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, CPE, FAAFP.

12/12/2025

Dr. Emily Briggs recently released a new resource with familydoctor.org, explaining to patients why the Hepatitis B vaccine is important for infants.

Dr. Emily Briggs talks about why vaccinating your infant for hepatitis B is a safe, effective way to protect your child.

12/11/2025

Get to know more about TAFP President Dr. Ike Okwuwa in our December Member of the Month profile of him!

https://tafp.org/news/member-of-the-month-december-2025

Texas Tech University Health Science Center - Permian Basin Family Medicine

12/10/2025

2025 was another great year for the Texas Family Medicine Preceptorship Program! 168 pre-clinical medical students were matched with family physicians across the state for a few weeks to see real-world examples of family medicine.

Thank you to Dr. Christine Wan and all of this year's preceptors!

12/05/2025

Meet our December TAFP Member of the Month, Dr. Ike Okwuwa!

As TAFP president, he's excited to help further the Academy's mission in the upcoming year. Get to know a little more about him.

https://tafp.org/news/member-of-the-month-december-2025

12/05/2025

Proud to call Benjamin a TAFP member!

12/04/2025

Dr. Vicky Bakhos Webb does it all in Midland, Texas. She’s a great example of the breadth of family medicine and what it means to be a family doc.

12/04/2025

Congratulations to our Texas Family Physician of the Year, Dr. Emily Briggs!

Emily Briggs, MD, MPH, FAAFP, of New Braunfels was awarded the highest honor recently among Texas family doctors by the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.

12/03/2025

During last month's Annual Session and Primary Care Summit, the TAFP Member Assembly elected a new group of leaders for the upcoming year. Take a minute to get to know them!

https://tafp.org/news/members-elect-tafp-leaders-during-the-2025-annual-session-and-primary-care-summit

12/02/2025

TAFP's 2025 award winners were announced at ASPCS last month in Addison. Meet some of Texas family medicine's best and brightest including the Texas Family Physician of the Year, Public Health Award winner, our first-ever Physician Executive Award winner, and more. Congrats to you all!

https://tafp.org/news/tafp-award-winners-announced-in-addison

12/02/2025

Congratulations to TAFP Public Health Award winner, Dr. Leila Myrick!

The academy said Dr. Myrick confronted the outbreak head-on, organizing and leading town halls as well as building trust with community members.