Awards - Distinguished Service Awards
OOA Distinguished Service Award Recipients
2024 | Paul A. Martin, DO (Dayton) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association, ACOFP, leader in Medicare policy |
2023 | Charles G. Vonder Embse, DO (Columbus) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2022 | Geraldine N. Urse, DO (Columbus) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association, leader in osteopathic medical education |
2021 |
Cleanne Cass, DO (Dayton) advocate, leader in hospice care |
2020 |
Charles D. Milligan, DO (Orrville), president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2019 |
Robert W. Hostoffer, DO (Cleveland), founder/developer Scholar Series, past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2018 | The Honorable Terry A. Johnson, DO (McDermott), state representative |
2017 | Carl R. Backes, DO (Columbus), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2016 | Robert S. Juhasz, DO (Cleveland), past president, American Osteopathic Association and OOA |
2015 | John F. Uslick, DO (Canton), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association, OOA Speaker of the House |
2014 | Alan L. Meshekow, DO (Canton), surgeon, educator |
2013 | Harold Thompson, DO (Athens), former host of Family Health Radio |
2012 | Jack Brose, DO (Athens), dean, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine |
2011 | Richard J. Snow, DO, MPH (Worthington), director of AOA Clinical Assessment Program |
2010 | Anita M. Steinbergh, DO (Westerville), member, Ohio State Medical Board |
2009 | Boyd W. Bowden, II, DO (Columbus), trustee, AOA, Osteopathic Pioneer |
2008 | George Thomas, DO (Cleveland), past president, Ohio and American Osteopathic Associations |
2007 | E. Thomas Harnish, DO (Newton Falls), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2006 | Ruth Purdy, DO (Columbus), internist and student mentor, Doctors Hospital |
2005 | Harold Thomas, DO (Cleveland), past president, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians |
2004 | Robert J. George, DO (Akron), chair of the Ohio Delegation to the American Osteopathic Association House of Delegates |
2003 | John P. Sevastos, DO (Cleveland), past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations |
2002 | Elton D. Lehman, DO (Mount Eaton), Country Doctor of the Year and physician to the Amish |
2001 | Charles V. Gemma, DO (Cleveland area), mentor posthumously |
2000 | Theodore F. Classen, DO (Cleveland), founder of Brentwood (South Pointe) Hospital |
1999 | Jack J. Brill, DO (Lorain), physician leader, St. John West Shore Hospital |
1998 | Robert J. Kromer, DO (Sandusky), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
1997 | Jerry A. Zinni, DO (Cleveland), founder and former president, Richmond Heights General Hospital |
1996 | Mary L. Theodoras, DO (Dayton), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association; trustee, American Osteopathic Association posthumously |
1995 | Gilbert S. Bucholz, DO (Sandusky), past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations |
1994 | Theodore C. Hobbs, DO (Columbus), chair emeritus, Doctors Hospital |
1993 | James E. Walker, DO (Sandusky), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
1992 | J. Richard Costin, DO, (Columbus), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association and past trustee, American Osteopathic Association |
1991 | John E. Rauch, DO (Logan), president, Ohio State Medical Board (1985-1986) |
1990 | Donald Siehl, DO (Dayton), past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations |
1989 | John W. Mulford, DO (Cincinnati), past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations |
1988 | Leonard H. Calabrese, DO (Cleveland), head, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
1987 | Philip Golding, DO (Columbus), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
1981 | Allyn W. Conway, DO (Dayton), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association (Posthumously) |
1978 | Earl C. Scheidler, DO (Cincinnati), vice president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |