FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 28, 2023

HUGH M. ETTLINGER, DO, FAAO, FCA, AWARDED HIGHEST HONOR BESTOWED BY NATIONAL OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Indianapolis— Hugh M. Ettlinger, DO, FAAO, FCA, of, Ossining, NY, received the American Academy of Osteopathy’s highest honor on March 18 during the AAO Convocation 2023 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Named the Andrew Tay­lor Still Medallion of Honor, the award is given to AAO members who have exhibited an exceptional understanding and applica­tion of osteopathic principles and concepts and for outstanding accomplishments in scientific or professional affairs. The award is named after Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO, the founder of osteopathic medicine.

Dr. Ettlinger is a long-standing member of the Academy and has spent his professional career dedicated to the osteopathic profession. Hugh M. Ettlinger, DO, FAAO, FCA is a 1987 graduate of the New York College of Medicine (NYCOM) after having completed an extra year of an OPP Undergraduate Fellowship. He did his traditional rotating internship at Coney Island Hospital and then returned to NYCOM as an assistant professor in the department of Osteopathic Principles and Practice. Dr. Ettlinger maintained his academic status but moved to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York in 1990 to become the Chair of the newly established Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, where he performed examination and treatment in outpatient clinics as well as consultation and treatment of medicine, surgery, ICU, pediatric, neonatal, and obstetric-gynecological inpatients. Within just two years, Dr. Ettlinger established a premier OMM residency program at that hospital and has been instrumental in the development of other similar programs within the region. His passion for teaching has resulted in his training and mentoring scores of specialists in OMM, many of whom are faculty in OMM Departments throughout the region and country. Some have even become chairs of their respective departments.

Dr. Ettlinger became certified in OMM by the American Board of Special Proficiency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, received his Certificate of Competency in Cranial Osteopathy by the Cranial Academy in 1993, and received his Fellowship in the American Academy of Osteopathy in 1999.

The American Academy of Osteopathy has benefited greatly from the skills and leadership of Dr. Ettlinger.  He serves on the AAO Board of Governors and is a past Trustee of the AAO, is Vice President and on the Board of Trustees of the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation (SCTF), and had been on the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy (OCA; 1995-1997). Dr. Ettlinger has been a Chair, Vice-Chair or Member of several committees of AAO, SCTF, and OCA, and has served as the Advisor to the AAO National Undergraduate Fellows Association (NUFA) since 2005.

He has given numerous lectures at osteopathic conferences, special courses, through study groups, and at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in his capacity as an associate professor. His professional activities also include book chapters in An Osteopathic Approach to Diagnosis & Treatment, Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine, and Applied Anatomy and Physiology of the Thorax. He has also been a contributor to several research poster presentations.

Dr. Ettlinger has been recognized with the FAAO Dig on Award, Fellow of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy, the St. Barnabas Hospital Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sutherland Memorial Lecture, the Northup Memorial Lecture, the Sutherland Memorial Lecture, the Blood Memorial Lecture, as a St. Barnabas Hospital Honoree in 2010, the NYCOM Standard of Excellence Award, and the Heilig Memorial Lecture (PCOM).

Throughout his thirty-five career as an osteopathic physician and educator, Hugh Ettlinger, DO, FAAO, FCA has influenced hundreds of residents and colleagues as well as literally thousands of students. The legacy he has left will continue through the many people he has motivated and their contributions in the future.

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