ACCRAC 2026 ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Research studies accepted for platform or poster presentation at ACCRAC 2026.
2. Studies that have not yet been submitted to a journal or published elsewhere.
3. Electronic entry completed by March 1, 2026
For eligible abstracts accepted for presentation, please complete the electronic entry. Upload the following to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AWARDS_2026_ACCRAC.
Submission of the manuscript draft will help the award committee select the most deserving studies for the awards. The competition entry will be judged on relevance to the chiropractic profession, rigor, quality, and originality of the study. Competition entries selected for the awards will be announced during the conference.
Abstracts selected for the awards with clinical or basic science research topics will be considered for publication in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) and those with educational research topics will be considered for publication in the Journal of Chiropractic Education (JCE). Within 1 month of the award announcement, authors of the selected abstracts are responsible for submitting their completed manuscripts to the assigned journal (JMPT or JCE) and abiding by the journal’s submission and peer review process. It is expected that authors will appropriately revise the manuscript as per editor and reviewer suggestions and requests. If the paper does not comply with the journal’s standards or is not accepted for publication based upon the recommendations of the peer-reviewers/editorial board, it will not be published, and the award will not be granted.
Michele Maiers , DC, MPH, PhD is Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Northwestern Health Sciences University, where she leverages high quality research to inform healthcare policy and innovation initiatives on local, regional and national levels.
She is also Co-Director of the RAND REACH Center, where she facilitates research activity both within and across institutions that train complementary and integrative health practitioners.
