Executive Director’s Desk

The AOA is advancing research through several initiatives, including a new 10-year strategic plan for research. But these efforts still are not enough.

AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD, outlines the ways the AOA advocates for DOs locally, federally and globally.

AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD, who has announced he’ll retire this summer, presents “a few ideas to ponder when I'm gone.”

“By hanging together, we have faced the challenges of the past and present and are prepared for those ahead,” writes AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD.

AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD, writes that a unified accreditation system “will strengthen—not threaten—the osteopathic medical profession.”

Social media sites encourage osteopathic medicine's culture of family and unity, writes AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD.

A rapidly changing health care environment requires a new approach to planning, writes AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD.

The AOA helps students and residents navigate the next stages of their careers, writes AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD.

AOA Executive Director John B. Crosby, JD, looks back on a year of AOA accomplishments—and forward to another.

The profession has many leaders in research, but it lacks funding to support research on its most intrinsic practice—OMT.

Video: Getting the ACGME to withdraw or amend the proposed rule is the AOA’s “No. 1 priority.”

The DOs and students in their white coats who stormed Capitol Hill are the key to ensuring that the AOA has a seat at the health policy table.