Guess Who

Guess Who

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October 2025 | Vol. 69, No.3


If you are a PCOM alum, no words are needed to identify this 1956 graduate of PCOM. Which is fitting, as decades of alumni relate that there are no words to adequately describe the impact this radiologist had on his students. He first began lecturing medical students in 1962, quickly rising to Chairman of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy, from 1973 to 1991. He used puppets as part of his teaching, and he would have students whistling, singing, playing the guitar, and performing skits as part of their education. A past president of POMA, he remained active in teaching until his death in 2005.

Click here if you can identify this legendary osteopathic physician.

The answer will be revealed in JPOMA's February 2026 issue.

 
 

February 2026 | Vol. 70, No.1


Given that National Women Physicians Day was February 3, it is fitting that this month’s Guess Who is the first woman president of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association. She served as president from 1919–1920, but it was another 80 years before the second woman president was installed..

Click here if you can identify this legendary osteopathic physician.

The answer will be revealed in JPOMA's June 2026 issue.

 
 

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.

Click here if you can identify this trailblazing osteopathic physician.

The answer will be revealed in JPOMA's October 2025 issue.

 
 
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