Osteopathic education a priority for former president, family
Posted: November 5, 2009
Tinning endows annual lecture
A commitment to osteopathic medicine is more than just lip service for Fred C. Tinning, Ph.D.
Dr. Tinning, along with his wife, Janet, recently created an endowment at ATSU’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine that will provide an annual lecture on osteopathic medicine during Founder’s Day.
The annual lecture was formerly known as the Scott Memorial Lecture and was sponsored and funded by the American Academy of Osteopathy.
Dr. and Mrs. Tinning established the Fred C. Tinning, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Founder’s Day Osteopathy Lecture Endowment be- cause of their strong belief in perpetuating the importance of osteopathic principles and practices.
The purpose of the lecture endowment is to provide a perpetual source of income that will sponsor a lecture by a nationally recognized expert on Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (NMM/OMM). The first lecture in this new series, held October 15, was presented to ATSU- KCOM students, faculty, staff, and alumni as part of Founder’s Day activities, which will be covered in the Winter 2009 issue of Still Magazine. Read news and photos of Founder’s Day now on iconnect at http://iconnect.atsu.edu.
Ed Stiles, D.O., FAAO, presented this year’s lecture. Dr. Stiles has served the osteopathic medical profession since his graduation from KCOM in 1965 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy in 1975. Dr. Stiles has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including the A.T. Still Medallion of Honor, the most prestigious award presented by the American Academy of Osteopathy. He also has taught extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe and currently serves as director of neuromusculoskeletal medicine in the Pikeville Medical Center Family Practice Plus-one residency.
Dr. Tinning was ATSU’s eighth president, serving in that capacity from 1984-1996, and currently lives with his wife in Lansing, Mich. Because of his exceptional service to the university, the ATSU Board of Trustees named the Tinning Education Center building on the Kirksville campus in his honor.
Continuing the family legacy of supporting osteopathic education is Tinning’s daughter, Laura Tinning, D.O., ’00, who is board certified in both Osteopathic Family Medicine and NMM/OMM. She is co-director of the Osteopathic Family Medicine and NMM/OMM residency training programs at Metro Health Hospital in Michigan and is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
In addition to this annual lecture, the Tinning family also has endowed an annual scholarship that is given at the Senior Awards Banquet to a graduating KCOM student who is committed to serving the senior citizen/geriatric population with quality osteopathic care.