June 2025 | Vol. 69, No.2

This POMA member graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy in 1935 and went on to become Chairman of the Department of Surgery at PCOM and ultimately Chancellor. In the early 1950s, he had a chance meeting with presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower relayed to this physician how osteopathic treatments had alleviated his chronic shoulder pain during the war. This physician relayed that there was no federal funding for osteopathic medical schools, unlike their allopathic counterparts. The next year, funding for osteopathic medical schools was in President Eisenhower’s budget. A promoter of osteopathic medicine from the beginning, he was the 62nd president of the AOA.

Answer: Galen Young, DO