Awards - Distinguished Service Awards

OOA Distinguished Service Award Recipients

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

 

 

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