Outstanding Physician Honorees

Over the past 22 years, a distinguished group of physicians has been honored with the Osteopathic Founders Foundation Outstanding Physician Award. These physicians, who are chosen by their peers, are selected for their extraordinary service to patients, to the community, to the osteopathic profession, and to the education of young osteopathic physicians. The exemplary careers of these honorees are a tribute to the history of this profession and an inspiration to their successors. We congratulate and thank all our past honorees.

2012 Outstanding Physician

• Arthur G. Wallace, Jr., D.O.

• Arthur G. Wallace, Jr., D.O., MPH, is an emergency medicine specialist whose career has taken him around the globe to care for patients in the greatest need.  He is a graduate of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He completed his post-graduate education at the Dallas Family Hospital before completing a Master’s of Public Health in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Oklahoma and additional training in Parasitology and Tropical Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.

   

  Dr. Wallace served as assistant clinical faculty at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences until 2006.  During that time he was emergency medicine program director and later medical director of the emergency department at Tulsa Regional Medical Center.  He currently holds an appointment as clinical instructor at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa College of Medicine.  Dr. Wallace cares for patients within the St. John Magnum Health System as an emergency department physician in Broken Arrow, Owasso, and Sapulpa. 

   

  He has worked quietly and diligently, caring for patients with the utmost compassion and respect; and never known to turn away a patient in need or to give up in the pursuit of finding just the right consultant to help with any aspect of specialty care. 

   

  Dr. Wallace has served DePaul University as a team physician for the in-service learning programs in Siuna, Nicaragua, Quito, Ecuador, and San Salvador, El Salvador.  Since 1991 he has held the position of team commander and senior medical officer for the Oklahoma Disaster Medical Assistance Team (OK-1DMAT) which has taken him to natural disasters such as the Joplin tornado, Hurricanes Gustav, Wilma, Katrina, Ivan, and Frances; as well as man-made tragedies like the Murrah Federal Building response and the World Trade Center disaster in 2001.  He has served the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta as strike team leader and on the FEMA platform medical response team for the 2005 Presidential Inauguration.  In 2009 he was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Region 6 by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations. 

   

  Dr. Stephen Buck was honored to present Dr. Arthur G. “Art” Wallace, Jr. as the 2012 award recipient; a physician who has definitely made a difference in the osteopathic profession locally and world-wide.

Past Honorees

• 2011 George E. Erbacher, D.O.
• 2010 J. Harley Galusha, D.O.
• 2009 Donald M. Dushay, D.O.
• 2008 Joseph J. Back, D.O.
• 2007 Michael P. Carney, D.O.
• 2006 Steven C. Buck, D.O.
• 2005 Richard R. Polk, D.O.
• 2004 Dean R. Fullingim, D.O.
• 2003 Larry J. Dullye, D.O.
• 2002 Harold L. Battenfield, D.O.
• 2001 R. Michael Eimen, D.O.
• 2000 Beverly J. Mathis, D.O.
• 1999 James S. Seebass, D.O.
• 1998 Kenneth E. Calabrese, D.O.
• 1997 David F. Hitzeman, D.O.
• 1996 Dan H. Fieker, D.O.
• 1995 Robert S. Lawson, D.O.
• 1994 James D. Edwards, D.O.
• 1993 B.B. Baker, D.O.
• 1992 Walter F. Kempe, D.O.
• 1991 Joseph A. Keuchel, D.O.
• 1990 Ebb W. Reeves, D.O.