| 2025 |
Jennifer L. Gwilym, DO (Athens) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association, Ohio ACOFP |
| 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
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Cleanne Cass, DO (Dayton) advocate, leader in hospice care |
2020
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Charles D. Milligan, DO (Orrville), president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
2019
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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 |
