AAO Members in the News

AOA Certifies Eleven AAO Members in NMM/OMM
Upon the recommendation of the American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, the AOA Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists approved certification in neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (NMM/OMM) for 11 osteopathic physicians. Congratulations to these uniquely qualified osteopathic physicians who successfully passed their examinations in November 2007, joining 661 of their AAO-member colleagues now certified in this discipline.

Juan Acosta, DO                                Stephen Braun, DO                            Eng Huu, DO
Charles A. Beck, DO                         Gregory Esmer, DO                          Saskia Lytle-Vieira, DO
Brooks Blake, DO                             Rebecca Giusti, DO                            David Keller, DO
Ben Booher, DO                                 Lilia Gorodinsky, DO

The next opportunity to sit for NMM/OMM examinations will be November 15-16, 2008 in Indianapolis. Avoid a lapse in your recertification and apply now for the next examinations. The application deadline is September 1, 2008 for the November test.

Donors Receive Career Giving Awards
Acting on the Investment Committee’s recommendation, the Board of Trustees voted to recognize the outstanding generosity of Golden Ram Society donors by awarding cumulative giving awards, a lapel pin with depiction of the AAO’s mascot – the Ram. Donors who have reached the $5,000 career giving level receive a pin embedded with a ruby, $10,000 a pin embedded with a diamond, and for the first time a donor contributing $20,000 a pin embedded with two diamonds.
At the 2008 Annual Business Meeting in Dallas, the Academy presented one-diamond pins to AAO President Claudia L. McCarty, DO, FAAO and President-elect Guy A. DeFeo, DO. Dr. McCarty also recognized new ruby pin award winners David R. Boesler, DO; David D. Musgrave, DO; and George J. Pasquarello, DO, FAAO.
Anthony G. Chila, DO, FAAO is the only recipient to date of the two-diamond pin. AAO members who have received the other cumulative giving awards in prior years include the following:

AAO Members in the News
The AOA is proud to nominate Sister Anne Brooks, DO, for the Institute of Medicine’s prestigious Gustav O. Lienhard Award, which recognizes individuals for outstanding achievement in improving health care services in the United States. Dr. Brooks is the founder of the Tutwiler Clinic in rural Mississippi, which has served more than 19,500 patients and has an annual budget of $1.9 million, of which only about 25% is covered by patient fees or third party payers.  Over two-thirds of Tutwiler’s patients have no health insurance. The impact of the Tutwiler Clinic on the health of the region’s residents is unparalleled. (Source: AOA Daily Report 4/10/08)
In concert with the Registro Osteopati d’Italia, Giacomo Lo Voi, President of the osteopathic college in Rome, Italy (Centro Studi Osteopatia) presented a special award to Viola M. Frymann, DO, FAAO at their March 1, 2008 conference in Rome. The Italian osteopaths recognized Dr. Frymann’s contributions to promoting osteopathy worldwide in addition to her outstanding career as an osteopathic physician and researcher. Dr. Frymann founded the Osteopathic Center for Children in San Diego and annually delivers lectures and workshops in many countries around the globe. She is a member of the Academy’s International Affairs Committee.
The Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association presented Adrian L. Woolley, DO with its “Physician of the Year Award” at the Upper Midwest Osteopathic Health Conference in Des Moines.  A 1995 graduate of Des Moines University – College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Woolley is currently an Assistant Professor at Des Moines University in the Departments of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Family Practice. She did her rotating internship and family practice residency at Des Moines General Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.  She is board certified in family medicine by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians and in neuromuscular and osteopathic manipulative medicine by the American Osteopathic Board of Neuromuscular Medicine.  She has been awarded a certificate of competency in cranial osteopathy by the Cranial Academy. IOMA selects a physician of the year only when suitable candidates are presented for consideration.  The Association presents a “Physician of the Year” Award to a member osteopathic physician who has exhibited a notable commitment to his or her profession, patients and colleagues. (Source: IOMA News Release 5/9/08)
The April 2008 Redbook magazine contained an article, “The Healing Power of Touch,” that focused on how to use touch to improve one’s health. The article described several touch-related treatments, including osteopathic manipulative treatment, providing information on the therapies and how patients can find practitioners of such treatments, including DOs, Kurt Heinking, DO, chairman of the department of osteopathic manipulative medicine at Midwestern University – Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, was consulted and quoted in this informative article about osteopathic medicine’s unique benefits and whole-body approach to treatment. Readers can access the article online at http://www.redbookmag.com/your/healing-touch-5. (Source: AOA Daily Report 5/14/08)

Trustees Nominate An Emerging Leader

        The American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) solicited from each of the 23 AOA practice affiliates one nominee for the 2008 Wyeth Emerging Leader Award. This award was established to recognize and honor outstanding osteopathic physicians who exhibit the exemplary characteristics of a future leader within the profession.  Nominees shall exhibit the following characteristics/skills: demonstrates commitment to osteopathic philosophy and the profession, strong leadership skills, noteworthy accomplishments demonstrating his/her role as a future leader, outstanding character and the drive to be a leader. The goal of this award is to promote continued leadership within the osteopathic medical profession. Through a generous grant from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the AOF will select two winners to receive a $3,000 award during the AOF’s Honors Ceremony at the AOA’s UNIFIED Convention and Scientific Seminar in Orlando.
The AAO Board of Trustees selected Lori A. Dillard, DO as the Academy’s nominee for the 2008 award and is confident that the AOF’s award committee will agree that she exceeds the eligibility criteria for this award. Dr. Dillard has a deep passion for the osteopathic medical profession and her commitment to osteopathic principles and practice is particularly strong in the critical educational arena. Her skills are evidenced by these primary leadership roles:
·      Chairperson – Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center’s Osteopathic Principles and Methods Committee;
·      Advisor – AAO’s Postgraduate American Academy of Osteopathy (the special intern/resident membership section);
·      Chairperson, Resident In-service Examination Committee of the AAO’s Postdoctoral Standards and Evaluation Committee (responsible for administration of annual written and practical examinations)
·      Lead Program Director – Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Residency Directors Committee for Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine;
·      Clinical Assistant Professor – MSU-COM Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine; and
·      Director of the NMM/OMM residency at Mount Clemens (after being approved, the hospital restructured and withdrew funding before the program started).
In addition to her educational endeavors, Dr. Dillard has participated in two important research projects, perhaps an indicator of a future dual career in research and education. Most recently, she served as the site co-principal investigator and lead OMM specialist in the Multi-Center Osteopathic Study in the Elderly (MOPSE) under the direction of Donald Noll, DO, FACOI of Kirksville. While she was a resident, she participated in a pilot study on the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Should the AOF select Dr. Dillard for this recognition, she would join four other AAO members who have been so honored over the six-year history of this award – Michael S. Carnes, DO in 2002; Douglas J. Jorgensen, DO in 2003; Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO in 2004; and Kendi Hensel, DO in 2005.

Three Receive HLM Award
The AAO Board of Governors selected three members to receive the Academy’s  Honorary Life Membership Award, the maximum permitted by the AAO Bylaws. The 2008 recipients are Andrew Berry, DO; Laurence Bouchard, DO; and Isabelle A. Chapello, DO, FAAO. The Governors may select recipients who have exhibited outstanding service to the osteopathic profession in any two of the following categories: (a) contribution to osteopathic literature; (b) development or teaching of osteopathic principles and practice; (c) service in osteopathic health care in the community; and (d) service in the fields of osteopathic education. Governors also may consider active members who have been in practice 50 years and have been members of the Academy for 25 consecutive years.
Dr. Berry is in private practice in Commerce Township Michigan and is certified in General Practice. He is a 1955 graduate of KCOM and has been a Pontiac (Michigan) osteopathic hospital staff member since 1955 and served on their Executive Committee for four years. He also has been a staff member of Huron Valley Hospital since 1986 and North Oakland Medical Center since 1994. In the latter sixties, he chaired the departments of General Practice and Manipulative Treatment and Osteopathic Principles at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Berry has served as Michigan Association of Osteopathic Physician and Surgeons’ representative to the AOA House of Delegates for many years. He remains very involved with the Historical Society and Chamber of Commerce in the West Bloomfield community where he lives and practices.
Dr. Bouchard practices family medicine in Narragansett, RI. He is a 1962 graduate of the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and certified in family practice by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. Dr. Bouchard has an exemplary leadership record within the osteopathic medical profession, the pinnacle being his term as American Osteopathic Association President in 1993-1994. AOA Delegates elected him to the office of AOA 3rd Vice President in 1992 and looked to him for strong representation of the profession’s small states. During his Presidential term he pushed for “unity” as the profession moved into its second century of existence. Dr. Bouchard was 1968-1969 President of the Rhode Island Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons and served as Secretary of the RI Board of Examiners in Osteopathy from 1977-1985. He also was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and previously served as UNECOM regional dean of clinical affairs. He also was a member of the Board of Trustees of the New England Foundation of Osteopathic Medicine, a group consisting of the founders of UNECOM.
Dr. Chapello graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1955 and completed her internship at Parkview Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, where she remained on the medical staff until the hospital closed in 1994. She has maintained a general practice of osteopathic medicine in Luna Pier, Michigan since 1956 and earned her certification in general practice in 1976. She later earned her certification and Fellowship in the American Academy of Osteopathy in 1979 and was an inaugural, two term member and Secretary of the American Osteopathic Board of Special Proficiency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine from 1990-1996. Dr. Chapello has been an active political leader in Michigan, serving in her state association’s House of Delegates for many years and representing her state at the AOA House of Delegates for 17 years. She served on the AAO Board of Governors for many years and formerly was a Trustee of The Cranial Academy. Her exemplary community service includes appointment as Monroe County’s first Chief Deputy Medical Examiner, a position she held for 28 years. Among her many awards was the Academy’s A. T. Still Medallion of Honor in 1999 and President’s Award from the National Osteopathic Women Professionals Association.