JO Watson, DO - Memorial Lecture Award Recipients
| 2025 | Brian L. Balin, PhD, and Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD Perspectives on Infections as Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease |
| 2024 | Paul A. Martin, DO (Dayton) Medicare Payment: Transparent, Secretive or Somewhere in Between |
| 2023 | Robert S. Juhasz, DO (Cleveland) Our Journey in Diversity in the Osteopathic Profession |
| 2022 | Mitchell J. Silver, DO (Columbus) Management of Acute PE: The Evolution of Therapies |
| 2021 | Anthony G. Chila, DO (Athens) Heritage: An Appreciation of James O. Watson, DO |
| 2020 |
Symposium cancelled due to pandemic |
| 2019 |
Karen J. Nichols, DO (Chicago) STILL Blazing a Trail |
| 2018 | Sonia M. Najjar, PhD (Athens) Discovering a Novel Link Between Fatty Liver and Cardiovascular Disease |
| 2017 | Brian C. Clark, PhD (Athens) Age of Champions |
| 2016 | John J. Kopchick, PhD (Athens) Growth Hormone, Mini-Mice, Football, Dirty Shorts, and a New Drug |
| 2015 | Kenneth H. Johnson, DO, FAAO (Athens) Reaching the Summit: Leading the Medical Education Expedition |
| 2014 | Robert Nagele, PhD (New Jersey) Advanced Research in Alzheimer's and Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| 2013 | John A. Brose, DO, FACFP (Athens) The Changing Landscape of Medicine |
| 2012 | Andrea Amalfitano, DO, PhD (Michigan) Expanding the Frontiers of Osteopathic Research to Address 21st Century Medical Needs |
| 2011 | Frank L. Schwartz, MD, FACE (Athens) Toll-Like Receptors as Novel Therapeutic Targets for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus |
| 2010 | John C. Licciardone, DO, FACPM (Texas) The Rational Positioning, Promotion and Revitalization of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 2009 | Frances Daly, PhD (Illinois) The Audacity of Teaching: Bold Approaches Using Core Concepts |
| 2008 | Michael M. Patterson, PhD (Florida) Research in Osteopathic Medicine: The Fifth Generation |
| 2007 | Leonard D. Kohn, MD (Athens) Toll-like Receptors, and Wnt Signaling in Autoimmune-Inflammatory Diseases (Diabetes) and Cancer: A Potential New Paradigm of Therapy |
| 2006 | James G. Laws, DO, FACC, MACOI, KM (Dayton) The History of Grandview Hospital |
| 2005 | Richard A. Vincent, MBA, president, Osteopathic Heritage Foundations |
| 2004 | John B. Crosby, JD, executive director, American Osteopathic Association |
| 2003 | George Thomas, DO, past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations Focus on Quality Health Care |
| 2002 | John P. Sevastos, DO, past president, Ohio and the American Osteopathic Associations The Health System of the 21st Century |
| 2001 | Karen J. Nichols, DO (Arizona) Past is Prologue: Lessons Our Students Are Teaching The Profession |
| 2000 | Anita M. Steinbergh, DO (Columbus), past president, Ohio State Medical Board |
| 1999 | Richard L. Sims (Columbus) |
| 1998 | Norman Gevitz, PhD, chair, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Social Science The Need for Osteopathic Visibility |
| 1997 | Benjamin Cohen, DO (Texas), JO Watson, VI, DO, Class of 2020 |
| 1996 | Douglas L. Wood, DO, PhD, president, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Osteopathic Medical Education: Past-Present-Future? |
| 1995 | George Thomas, DO (Cleveland) Managed Care Methodology in Workers' Compensation |
| 1994 | Norman E. Vinn, DO (California) The Role of the Osteopathic Profession in Managed Care |
| 1993 | Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, dean, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 1992 | Robert J. Kromer, DO (Sandusky) From Here to Eternity |
| 1991 | Eugene A. Oliveri, DO, president, Michigan Osteopathic Association |
| 1990 | J. Jerry Rodos, DO, special assistant to the president of Chicago Osteopathic Health Systems and former dean of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine Is There Life After Reform |
| 1989 | Frank J. McDevitt, DO, past president, American Osteopathic Association Legislative Challenges |
| 1988 | Dwain L. Harper, DO, vice president of medical affairs, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland Back to the Future |
| 1987 | William G. Anderson, DO, director of government affairs, Detroit Osteopathic Hospital Preface to Interface, Or In the Beginning |
| 1986 | J. Richard Costin, DO, general surgeon, Columbus |
| 1985 | Andrew Lovy, DO (Detroit) director, Psychiatric Training and Education, Michigan Osteopathic Medical Center Osteopathy: Revolution or Reformation |
| 1984 | Benjamin L. Cohen, DO, dean, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Crisis and Crossroads--A Glimpse at Health Care in Transition |
| 1983 | George W. Northrup, DO, editor-in-chief, American Osteopathic Association The Edge of the Shadow |
| 1982 | R. Keith Simpson, DO, past president, National Council on Alcohol, Inc The Impaired Physician |
| 1981 | Thomas H. Rowland, Jr, LLD, president, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Osteopathic Medicine in the 1980s |
| 1980 | Dale G. Keighley, DO (Dayton), author Proctology, Banding of Hemorrhoids and Pilonidal Cysts |
| 1979 | George O. Faerber, DO, and Carl L. Neufeld, DO, (Columbus) radiologist Introduction to Computed Tomography and Computer Tomography of the Brain |
| 1978 | Terrence E. Hawkins, DO (Columbus) ophthalmologist Summer Vision |
| 1977 | J. Richard Costin, DO (Columbus), and Arthur R. Levine, DO (Detroit, Michigan), authors Physiology, Disease and Management of the Thyroid; and New Insight to Thyroid Problems |
| 1976 | Otterbein Dressler, DO, pathologist, former dean of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine The Purpose of Living |
| 1975 | JR Forbes, DO, editor, American College of General Practitioners of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery Newsletter The DO's Approach Toward General Practice |
| 1974 | Myron S. Magen, DO, dean, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Osteopathic Medicine's Role in the Delivery of Health Care |
| 1973 | Theodore C. Hobbs, DO (Columbus) radiologist A Man and His Times |
