Elizabeth A. Palmarozzi Nicole H. Bixler Brian Bixler FORGING OUR OSTEOPATHIC FUTURE 64 2013 The Excellence in Advocacy Award is established to recognize physicians who have significantly contributed their time and talents to national health care policy issues at the local, state, and/or federal levels on behalf of their profession and patients. It is created in honor of Marcelino Oliva Jr., DO, FACOFP dist., and the first recipient of the award is Ronnie B. Martin, DO, FACOFP dist. 2016 In spring, Elizabeth A. Palmarozzi, DO, FACOFP, is elected as the first female speaker of the ACOFP Congress of Delegates. 2018 The Clinical Osteopathic Recognition Training Examination (CORTEx) is created and launched to help residency programs achieve ACGME guidelines by providing formative assessments to residents in osteopathically recognized programs. 2019 The ACOFP Education and Research Foundation launches a $2 million capital campaign, “Forging Our Osteopathic Future,” to ensure a promising future for osteopathic distinctiveness. A significant portion of the campaign supports the new Initial Certification Grant, developed for third-year resident members, to cover both the practical and cognitive portions of the AOBFP certification exams. 2020 On March 11, due to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, ACOFP cancels its annual convention in New Orleans and launches the first virtual annual convention. On October 10, Nicole H. Bixler, DO, MBA, FACOFP, becomes the youngest ACOFP president and the first one to have participated in ACOFP’s Future Leaders Conference. 2021 On March 10, the ACOFP hosts its first virtual Congress of Delegates, and delegates vote to include allopathic physicians as full voting members. Brian Bixler, MD, becomes the first MD member.
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