Little Rock, Arkansas, March 28, 2009 – Edward G. Stiles, DO, FAAO was awarded the American Academy of Osteopathy’s most prestigious award, the A.T. Still Medallion of Honor, at the 2009 American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) Annual Convocation in Little Rock, Arkansas. The award recognizes Dr. Stiles’s unremitting dedication to the osteopathic profession and his reputation as a clinician and educator. The Andrew Taylor Still Medallion of Honor is award to deserving members of the Academy who have exhibited among other accomplishments in scientific or professional affairs an exceptional understanding and applications of osteopathic principles, and of the concepts which are the outgrowth of those principles.

Dr. Stiles has served the osteopathic medical profession since his graduation from KCOM in 1965 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy in 1975. Dr. Stiles completed a rotating internship in Waterville, Maine, began a private practice and then had the unique experience of learning from and taking over Perrin T. Wilson, DO's practice.

Stiles became one of the first students of Muscle Energy, learning from Fred Mitchell, Sr. directly and then teaching what he learned to countless others. Dr. Stiles established the first hospital based osteopathic manipulative service in modern times in 1973 in Waterville, Maine; and has served in numerous locations taking care of patients in private practice. Dr. Stiles has served as a Visiting Clinician for the AAO since 1970; a Clinical Professor at MSUCOM, teaching in their postgraduate CME program; and a Professor and Chairman of the OMM Departments at both Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine. He also serves as a member of the AAO’s Undergraduate Academies committee as PCSOM’s Advisor. 

He currently serves as Director of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine in the Pikeville Medical Center Family Practice Plus-One residency. Dr. Stiles has taught extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe, averaging between 15 and 25 small group seminars per year from 1980-2001.

Dr Stiles has been honored as being the Scott Memorial Lecturer in 1975, the T. L. Northup Memorial Lecturer in 1996, and the A.T. Still Memorial Lecturer for the AOA House of Delegates in 2004. Dr. Stiles received the Founder's Medal from TCOM in 1981, and an AOA Presidential Citation at the AOA House of Delegates in 2006.

CONTACT: JENNIFER TAYLOR
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OSTEOPATHY
317-879-1881
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