J.O. Watson, DO - Memorial Lecture Award Recipient
| 2011 |
Frank L. Schwartz, MD, FACE, Athens, Toll-Like Receptors as Novel Therapeutic Targets for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus |
| 2010 |
John C. Licciardone, DO, FACPM, Texas, The Rational Positioning, Promotion and Revitalization of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 2009 |
Frances Daly, PhD, Illinois, The Audacity of Teaching: Bold Approaches Using Core Concepts |
| 2008 |
Michael M. Patterson, PhD, Plantation, Florida, Research in Osteopathic Medicine: The Fifth Generation |
| 2007 |
Leonard D. Kohn, MD, Athens, Toll-like Receptors, and Wnt Signaling in Autoimmune-Inflammatory Diseases (Diabetes) and Cancer: A Potential New Paradigm of Therapy |
| 2006 |
James G. Laws, DO, FACC, MACOI, KM, Dayton, The History of Grandview Hospital |
| 2005 |
Richard A. Vincent, MBA, president, Osteopathic Heritage Foundations |
| 2004 |
John B. Crosby, JD, executive director, American Osteopathic Association |
| 2003 |
George Thomas, DO, past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations, Focus on Quality Health Care |
| 2002 |
John P. Sevastos, DO, past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations, The Health System of the 21st Century |
| 2001 |
Karen J. Nichols, DO, Arizona, Past is Prologue: Lessons Our Students
Are Teaching The Profession |
| 2000 |
Anita M. Steinbergh, DO, Columbus, past president, Ohio State Medical Board |
| 1999 |
Richard L. Sims, Columbus |
| 1998 |
Norman Gevitz, PhD, chairman, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Social Science, The Need for Osteopathic Visibility |
| 1997 |
Benjamin Cohen, DO, Texas, J. O. Watson, VI, DO, Class of 2020 |
| 1996 |
Douglas L. Wood, DO, PhD, president, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medical Education: Past-Present-Future? |
| 1995 |
George Thomas, DO, Cleveland, Managed Care Methodology in Workers' Compensation |
| 1994 |
Norman E. Vinn, DO, California, The Role of the Osteopathic Profession in Managed Care |
| 1993 |
Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, dean, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 1992 |
Robert J. Kromer, DO, Sandusky, From Here to Eternity |
| 1991 |
Eugene A. Oliveri, DO, president, Michigan Osteopathic Association |
| 1990 |
J. Jerry Rodos, DO, special assistant to the president of the Chicago Osteopathic Health Systems and former dean of the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Is There Life After Reform |
| 1989 |
Frank J. McDevitt, DO, past president, American Osteopathic Association, Legislative Challenges |
| 1988 |
Dwain L. Harper, DO, vice president of medical affairs, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Back to the Future |
| 1987 |
William G. Anderson, DO, director of government affairs,Detroit Osteopathic Hospital, Preface to Interface, Or In the Beginning |
| 1986 |
J. Richard Costin, DO, general surgeon, Columbus |
| 1985 |
Andrew Lovy, DO, director, Psychiatric Training and Education, Michigan Osteopathic Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, Osteopathy: Revolution or Reformation |
| 1984 |
Benjamin L. Cohen, DO, dean, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Crisis and Crossroads--A Glimpse at Health Care in Transition |
| 1983 |
George W. Northrup, DO, editor-in-chief, American Osteopathic Association, The Edge of the Shadow |
| 1982 |
R. Keith Simpson, DO, past president, National Council on Alcohol, Inc, The Impaired Physician |
| 1981 |
Thomas H. Rowland, Jr, LLD, president, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine in the 1980s |
| 1980 |
Dale G. Keighley, DO, Dayton, author, Proctology, Banding of Hemorrhoids and Pilonidal Cysts |
| 1979 |
George O. Faerber, DO and Carl L. Neufeld, DO, radiologists, Columbus, Introduction to Computed Tomography and Computer Tomography of the Brain |
| 1978 |
Terrence E. Hawkins, DO, ophthalmologist, Columbus, Summer Vision |
| 1977 |
J. Richard Costin, DO, Columbus, and Arthur R. Levine, DO, Detroit, Michigan, authors, Physiology, Disease and Management of the Thyroid; and New Insight to Thyroid Problems |
| 1976 |
Otterbein Dressler, DO, pathologist, former dean of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, The Purpose of Living |
| 1975 |
J. R. Forbes, DO, editor, American College of General Practitioners of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery Newsletter, The DO's Approach Toward General Practice |
| 1974 |
Myron S. Magen, DO, dean, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine's Role in the Delivery of Health Care |
| 1973 |
Theodore C. Hobbs, DO, radiologist, Columbus, A Man and His Times |
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