Harpreet Tsui, DO, FACOI, is a board-certified internal medicine physician, the Founder of Coronado Health Direct Primary Care, an ACOI Fellow, and an Associate Clinical Professor at Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine. At ACOI 2026, Dr. Tsui will speak on direct primary care and its benefits to both patients and physicians.
Mental Health After a Wildfire: My Spokane Fire Experience and What Physicians Need to Do
Physicians are increasingly familiar with climate change’s physical manifestations on health. Less consistently integrated into clinical practice is the mental health burden. As I was drafting a more general article on climate change and mental health, I became one of the over 65,000 people in Spokane, Washington evacuated for three separate wildfires.
Outstanding Resident of the Year: A Conversation with Danielle C. Thor, DO, MAUB
ACOI is thrilled to recognize Danielle Thor, DO, who was selected as the 2026 Outstanding Resident of the Year. This award is presented in collaboration with the American Osteopathic Foundation.
A Seat at the Table: A Medical Student’s Perspective on Practice Management
As medical students, we spend much of our time learning how to care for individual patients. We study diseases, medications, and clinical decision-making, but there is another side of medicine to which we often have less exposure: understanding how the healthcare system actually works.
As many of you may know, the theme of ACOI 2026 is "Connecting to the DO Within—IM: the Osteopathic Way." Kudos to this year’s Program Chair Watson Ducatel, DO, MPH, FACOI. I cannot think of a more relevant or timely theme.
Richard R. Thacker, DO, MACOI, is known in the osteopathic community for several leadership roles, and recently added an incredibly high honor to that list: he was inaugurated in July 2026 as the President of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
Greetings, everyone! Since our previous communiqué, we have been busy ensuring that ACOI 2026 is the most compelling, exciting and enjoyable convention we have ever had.
