DAVID B. FULLER, DO, FAAO
Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine - Philadelphia
Professor
OMM Department Practice Management Adviser
PCOM Second Year Course Director, Osteopathic Principles and Practice

Courses

Osteopathic Principles and Practice I-VI
Osteopathic Post-Graduate Training Institutional (OPTI) OPP course for interns and residents
OMM workshops at the annual Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Society Annual Clinical Assemblies
OMM CME courses at PCOM

Awards

2016 Item Writer of the Year, COMLEX-USA Examination, Osteopathic Principles and Practice Award.

North Baldwin Healthcare Authority Board of Trustees, 2006-2011. A board appointed by the Baldwin County Commission to manage and distribute ad valorum tax receipts for medically related uses in North Baldwin County, Alabama.

North Baldwin Infirmary Hospital Advisory Board of Trustees, Bay Minette, AL. 2002-2011.

Chief of Staff, North Baldwin Infirmary Hospital (for the second time), 2007.

Chairman, Board of Censors, Baldwin County Medical Society of Alabama, 2001.

President, Baldwin County Medical Society of Alabama, 2000.

Chief of Staff, North Baldwin Infirmary Hospital, 2000.
President’s Citation, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Association, 1996

Family Medicine Chief Resident at Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital and Medical Center, Olympia Fields, Illinois, 1994-1995

Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges, CCOM, 1991

National Student Osteopathic Medical Association Service Award, 1989

Biochemistry Award, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1988

Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, 1987

Sons of the Academy Award for Academic Excellence, Academy of the New Church College, 1985

Publications

Fuller, David B., “The Triune Nature of Humanity: Body, Mind, and Spirit”, chapter 2 and “The Patient with Otitis Media” chapter 14; Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine, 2nd ed, written under the auspices of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Edit., K Nelson. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015; 6-10, 226-233.

Fuller, David B., Osteopathy and Swedenborg: The Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg on the Genesis and Development of Osteopathy, Specifically on Andrew Taylor Still and William Garner Sutherland. Bryn Athyn, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 2012. 607 pp

(Translated into German as Osteopathie und Swedenborg. Jolandos; Auflage: Deutsche Erstausgabe. 2013. 505 pp.)

Fuller, David B., "Review of Swedenborg’s Paradigm of the Brain." The New Philosophy, 2011; Jul-Dec: 129-147.

Fuller, David B., "Robert C. Fulford, D.O." The New Philosophy, 2011; Jul-Dec: 159-173.

Fuller, David B., "Emanuel Swedenborg’s Influence on William G. Sutherland’s Cranial Concept." Letter to the Editor. International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 2010; 13: 38. (Translated in French and available at www.osteopathie-france.net/essai/therapeutique/suth-swed/1062-lettre).

Fuller, David B., Swedenborg’s Brain and Sutherland’s Cranial Concept. The New Philosophy, 2008; Oct-Dec: 619-650. (Translated in French and available at www.osteopathie-france.net/essai/therapeutique/suth-swed/963-fuller-01).

Fuller, David B., A Comparison of Swedenborg’s and Sutherland’s Description of Brain, Dural Membrane and Cranial Bone Motion. American Academy of Osteopathy Journal, 2008; 18 (2): 20-29.

Fuller, David B., “The Patient with Otitis Media” chapter 14; Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine, written under the auspices of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Edit., K Nelson. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2007; 197-207.

Fuller, David B., Osteopathic Management Case Study: Somatic Dysfunction Causing Adolescent Chest Pain - Counterstrain Treatment. Osteopathic Family Physician News. 2005; 5 (4):8-9.

Fuller, David B., Osteopathic Medical Component Missed in Treating Anterior Hip Pain. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 1997; 97:514

Memberships

American Academy of Osteopathy

American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians

American Osteopathic Association

German-American Academy of Osteopathy (DAAO) Teaching Faculty

Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association

The Osteopathic Cranial Academy

Other

Fellowship in the American Academy of Osteopathy

Dr. Fuller became a Fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy (FAAO) in 2007. Earning the FAAO involves a rigorous process of peer review of written patient cases and an original thesis that makes a unique contribution to the osteopathic profession.

Since 2010, Dr. Fuller has been serving on the committee that awards the FAAO. This is the committee that evaluates and assists candidates on their pathway to earning this Fellowship. In 2017 Dr. Fuller started serving as Chair of the Committee, after serving three years as Vice Chair.

National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME)

Dr. Fuller has been writing test items and serving on committees with the NBOME since 2001, including serving on the Osteopathic Principles and Practice Item Review Committee from 2007-2015.

He is has been serving as a member of the Level 1 Advisory Committee of the NBOME Comprehensive Osteopathic Licensing Examination (COMLEX) since April, 2018. 

Dr. Fuller continues to write questions for NBOME and to attend annual Item Review Committee meetings. In January of 2017, he was awarded the NBOME 2016 Item Writer of the Year, COMLEX-USA Examination, Osteopathic Principles and Practice Award.

Peer Reviewer for the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA)

Dr. Fuller has been a Peer Reviewer with the JAOA since 2015.