Sidney N. Dunn '69

Sidney N. Dunn (left) receives the American Academy of Osteopathy's Academy Award from AAO President Michael P. Rowane.

Sidney N. Dunn is the 2018 recipient of the highest award that the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) bestows on a non-physician. The award honors non-physicians who have contributed significantly to osteopathic medicine and whose vision complements the AAO's.

Dunn is the executive director of both The Osteopathic Cranial Academy (OCA) and the Osteopathic Cranial Academy Foundation in Indianapolis where he has managed both entities since 2005.

Dunn previously worked in the management of international college fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi where he served as executive vice president for 30 years until his retirement in 2004. After retirement, he established a management-consulting firm that grew to five association and foundation clients. Dunn also has served on the board of directors, as president and as executive director of the Fraternity Executives Association, and after helping to establish the Fraternity Insurance Purchasing Group, he served as president. He served for three years on the board of directors of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, which awarded him its highest honor, "The Gold Medal," in 2005.

Active in his local conservative synagogue, Dunn now serves as its president and has served as its ritual director for 24 years. In 2007, he received "The President's Call to Service Award" from the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under President George W. Bush for over 4,000 hours of volunteer service to his synagogue.