Spring 2026 Ceremony
Robert Cain is the President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM). The association represents 44 osteopathic medical schools with 71 teaching sites in 36 states. Today, more than 25 percent of U.S. medical students are earning the DO degree.
In addition to his leadership in osteopathic undergraduate and graduate medical education, Dr. Cain is serving a two-year term as the President of the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions. The Federation’s 19 members, including both osteopathic and allopathic medical education, nursing, pharmacy, PA and others, support over 5000 programs and 1.3 million students training to enter the healthcare workforce. Diversifying that workforce is a shared goal across these health professions.
Prior to assuming his role with AACOM, Dr. Cain was the Associate Dean for Clinical Education at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and served as the Chief Academic Officer for the Ohio Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE), a statewide medical education consortium. Past roles include Director of Medical Education at Grandview Hospital in Dayton, Ohio and the director of the internal medicine residency program there.
Over the past two decades, Dr. Cain has served on numerous national, state and local committees, task forces, and boards including the steering committee for the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Wellbeing Action Collaborative, the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Osteopathic Medical Education and the ACGME Osteopathic Principles Committee, which he chaired.
Dr. Cain is a critical care pulmonologist and operated a private practice from 1994-2008. He was certified in both internal medicine and pulmonary medicine after completing his training at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, rotating internship program at Firelands Community Hospital in Sandusky, Ohio; internal medicine training program at Brentwood Hospital in Cleveland; and the pulmonary medicine fellowship program at Grandview Hospital in Dayton.