American Academy of Osteopathy

About This Association

The American Academy of Osteopathy provides quality continuing medical education and advocates on behalf of its members. Recent CME course topics have included palpating the brain, learning the basics of the fascial distortion model and using 3D technology to examine human anatomy. In addition, the Academy supports research in osteopathic medicine and publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal. The AAO is a 501c(3) nonprofit membership association focused on supporting osteopathic physicians who specialize in neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (NMM/OMM). Watch “What Is Osteopathy?” featuring Kenneth J. Lossing, DO, the Academy’s 2014-15 president, discussing the benefits of osteopathic medicine. Academy members consist of osteopathic physicians (DOs), osteopathic medical students, international clinicians and others. The Academy was established in 1937 as the Osteopathic Manipulative Therapeutic and Clinical Research Association and was granted affiliation by the American Osteopathic Association in 1938. In 1970, the name was changed to the American Academy of Osteopathy, and in 1992 the association moved to its present location in Indiana.

Publications

The Academy publishes a peer-reviewed quarterly, The AAO Journal, which is available for review on the AAO Website. The AAO Bookstore includes over 45 publications on osteopathic manipulative medicine, the list of which can be accessed via the Website.

Conventions

2022 AAO & AOASM Convocation

Specialties:

1. Medicine

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