| 2023 | Paul T. Scheatzle, DO (Canton) OOA past president |
| 2022 | Eugene D. Pogorelec, DO (Canton) OOA past president M. Terrance Simon, DO (Canton) OOA past president |
| 2021 |
Victor D. Angel, DO (Cincinnati), OOA past president |
| 2020 |
Charles G. Vonder Embse, DO (Columbus), OOA past president, local leader |
| 2019 |
Anita M. Steinbergh, DO (Columbus), 25-year member of State Medical Board of Ohio |
| 2018 | Robert W. Hostoffer, Jr, DO (Cleveland), developer, OOA Scholar Series John M. Kovesdi, Jr, DO (Norwalk) |
| 2017 | David D. Goldberg, DO (Dayton), advocate for physician wellness and patient safety |
| 2016 | John M. Jonesco, DO (Oberlin), advocate, OOA representative to state committees |
| 2015 | Wayne R. Carlsen, DO (Athens), associate professor, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 2014 | Peter A. Bell, DO (Columbus) past president, OOA and health policy chair John A. DeWalt, DO (Lancaster), surgeon, mentor, educator |
| 2013 | William J. Burke, DO (Columbus), trustee, American Osteopathic Association |
| 2012 | E. Lee Foster, DO (Cortland), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
| 2012 | Brian A. Kessler, DO (Cleveland), former board trustee, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
| 2012 | D. Keith Watson, DO (Athens) associate dean, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 2011 | Cleanne Cass, DO (Dayton), Medical Director of Vitas Innovative Hospice Care |
| 2011 | R. Aaron Adams, DO (Portsmouth), Scioto County Health Commissioner |
| 2010 | Paul A. Martin, DO (Dayton) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
| 2009 | Constance P. Cashen, DO (Toledo), medical educator, surgical residency director |
| 2008 | Robert S. Juhasz, DO (Cleveland), trustee, American Osteopathic Association |
| 2007 | Richard J. Snow, DO (Columbus), national authority on medical quality issues |
| 2006 | Boyd W. Bowden, II, DO (Columbus), trustee, American Osteopathic Association |
| 2005 | Marie A. Keener, DO (Canton), osteopathic pioneer Randolphe G. Roulier, DO (Toledo), osteopathic champion |
| 2004 | John F. Uslick, DO (Canton) past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association and American College of Osteopathic Internists |
| 2003 | Frank W. George, DO (Dayton), family practice residency director |
| 2002 | Allen S. Birrer, DO (Columbus), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association |
| 2001 | Robert S. Seiple, DO (Columbus), speaker, Ohio Osteopathic Association House of Delegates |
| 2000 | E. Vance Walters, DO (Cincinnati), trustee, Cincinnati District Academy of the Ohio Osteopathic Association |
| 1999 | John P. Sevastos, DO (Cleveland), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association and American Osteopathic Association |
| 1998 | Robert J. George, DO (Akron), chair, Ohio Delegation to the American Osteopathic Association |
| 1997 | George Thomas, DO (Cleveland), past president, Ohio Osteopathic Association; trustee, American Osteopathic Association |
| 1996 | Richard A. Vincent (Columbus), president, Doctors Hospital and past president of the Ohio Osteopathic Hospital Association |
| 1995 | Raymond Cannane, DO (Akron), trustee, Eighth District Academy of Osteopathic Medicine & Surgery posthumously |
| 1994 | Charles J. Ping, PhD (Athens), president, Ohio University |
| 1993 | Frank W. Myers, DO (Athens), dean, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| 1988 | The Honorable Corwin M. Nixon (Lebanon), Ohio House of Representatives |
| 1987 | Anthony J. Tenoglia, DO (Athens), chair of the Ohio Osteopathic Association Council on Health and Wellness |
| 1982 | Leonard G. Greenbaum, DO (Cleveland), team physician for the Cleveland Browns posthumously |
| 1981 | Raymond Henshaw, DO (Marietta), trustee, Marietta District Academy of the Ohio Osteopathic Association |