Association Overview

The OKLAHOMA OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION (OOA) was founded in 1900 as an affiliate of the American Osteopathic Association. An Oklahoma Corporation and a true voluntary professional association, it continues to exist to promote the causes, purposes, and goals of the osteopathic profession in Oklahoma. It is a state organization OF physicians of osteopathic medicine (DOs), BY osteopathic physicians, and FOR osteopathic physicians, we premise that the individual’s interests are best served with unified effort and support in an Association. Nearly all of Oklahoma’s 1,382 DOs, as well as 212 residents, 47 interns, and 360 osteopathic medical students are members of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association. The OOA is governed by an annual membership meeting, which elects a Board of Trustees and Officers to conduct the Association’s business between membership meetings. The Board of Trustees engages a professional full-time staff to manage the everyday and ongoing business of the Association. The Association’s business is for the benefit of individual members, the osteopathic profession, its institutions and other affiliated organizations as well as the many publics served by osteopathic medicine in Oklahoma.