FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 11, 2025

Indianapolis, IN—Stefan Hagopian, DO, FAAO, of Los Angeles, CA, was installed as the 2025-26 president of the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) on March 27 during the AAO annual Convocation in Orlando, Florida. Before becoming president, Dr. Hagopian served for one year as the president-elect of the AAO, the nation’s largest medical society devoted to fostering neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (NMM/OMM).

Stefan Hagopian, DO, FAAO was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is a 1988 graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE-COM) in Biddeford, Maine. He has operated a private practice of family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine in the Los Angeles area of California, for the past 35 years. He has remained active in research and teaching at the invitation of osteopathic schools, professional associations and academies throughout the U.S. and internationally.

His current interests range from clinical anatomy and embryology to the application of osteopathic principles and philosophy. Most of this is based on the way in which he learned most effectively from his mentors, who placed great emphasis on the principles and practices described in our profession’s literature by A.T. Still, W.G. Sutherland, and their students. Dr. Hagopian also integrates nutrition and exercise guidance into his outpatient practice and teaching.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2024

Indianapolis— William Stager DO, MPH, MS, FAAFP, FAAMA, FAAO, FACOFP dist., of West Palm Beach, FL, was installed as the president of the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) on March 9 during the AAO 2024 annual Convocation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Before becoming president, Dr. Stager served for one year as the president-elect of the AAO, the nation’s largest medical society devoted to fostering neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (NMM/OMM).

William Stager DO, MPH, MS, FAAFP, FAAMA, FAAO, FACOFP dist., is in solo private practice in West Palm Beach, practicing direct primary care and osteopathic manual medicine. Dr. Bill Stager has BA (Philosophy) and MS (Anatomy) degrees from Rutgers University, an undergraduate OPP Fellowship and DO degree from NSUCOM in 1989, and MPH from ATSU in 2009. He completed a rotating internship at Humana South Broward Hospital in 1990. He has been in holistic private practice combining NMM/OMM, Family Medicine, and Medical Acupuncture in the Palm Beach area since 1990. He is Board Certified in NMM/OMM and Family Medicine, and is a Fellow of the AAFP, AAO, AAFP, and AAMA, and distinguished fellow of ACOFP.

He is a Life Member of the AAO and Osteopathic Cranial Academy, and an active member of the AOA, FOMA, AAO, ACOFP, FSACOFP, and FAO, serving on various committees and boards, including the AOA House of Delegates, FOMA Director-at-Large, FOMA President, FSACOFP President (2008-2009), the two-term FAO President, and NSUCOM Alumni Association Executive Committee President and Trustee. His many awards include the 2008 NSUCOM Distinguished Alumni Award, 2007 FOMA Presidential Achievement Award, 2007 AOA Mentor of the Year Nominee Finalist Award, the 2010 FSACOFP Physician of the Year Award, the 2011 FAO Distinguished Service Award, the 2013 AOA Unsung Heroes Award, the 2013 AOA Guardians of the Profession Award, the 2015 NSUCOM Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award, and the 2015 NSUCOM Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dr. Stager has taught NMM/OMM all over the USA, Canada, Norway, and China and has published over 200 articles and papers in health and fitness magazines and several in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is section editor and contributing author of the 2014 2nd edition of the ACOFP textbook Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2023

MILLICENT KING CHANNELL, DO, MA, FAAO, FNAOME INSTALLED AS PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Indianapolis— Millicent King Channell, DO, MA, FAAO, FNAOME, of Philadelphia, PA, was installed as the president of the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) on March 18 during the AAO 2023 annual Convocation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Before becoming president, Dr. Channell served for one year as the president-elect of the AAO, the nation’s largest medical society devoted to fostering neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (NMM/OMM).

Dr. Millicent King Channell is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing her residencies in Family Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, she joined the faculty of the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in the Departments of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Family Medicine.

Dr. Channell has made numerous scholarly contributions to osteopathic medicine; most notably she co-authored the book The 5 - Minute Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Consult (2nd Ed Wolters Kluwer 2019). She is a graduate of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program at Drexel University College of Medicine and the Costin Institute at Midwestern University. She has served as a member of the ACGME's Osteopathic Principles Committee and the NBOME’s Board of Directors.