Welcome Remarks & ACOI in Action: Legislative and Regulatory Updates (2025 AC Live)

Includes a Live Web Event on 10/08/2025 at 12:25 PM (EDT)

Only available as part of a package

12:25pm - 12:30pm ET - Welcome Remarks with C.Clark Milton & Bruce Rankin

12:30pm - 1:15pm ET - ACOI in Action: Legislative and Regulatory Updates with Camille Bonta

Learning Objectives:

Understand ACOI's role in health policy and advocacy and ACOI actions to influence the policy decisionmaking process.
Articulate recent policy changes and proposals that could affect the osteopathic profession and patient care.
Utilize ACOI policy resources and communication, as well as grassroots opportunities.

C. Clark Milton, DO, FACOI

Chair, ACOI 2025

Designated Institutional Official, Internal Medicine - WVUMedicine

Chair, ACOI 2025 Annual Convention and Scientific Sessions

Dr. Milton is the Designated Institutional Official specializing in Internal Medicine for WVUMedicine. Board certified in Internal Medicine, he earned his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at Ohio Valley Medical Center.

Bruce Rankin, DO, CPI, MRO, FACOFP

President

Florida Osteopathic Medical Association

Dr. Bruce Rankin is a native Floridian growing up in Ft. Lauderdale. He was accepted to the early admissions program to college during which time he earned the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Florida and was accepted to the Charter Class of NSU-COM ( SECOM-85). He completed his Residency in Family Medicine at Southeastern Medical Center in North Miami Beach and practices in Deland and Orange City, Florida. He is Past Chief of Staff at Florida Hospital Deland and is Medical Director of Accel Clinical Research Deland. He has been a Principal Investigator for over 500 clinical medical research trials including COVID-19 vaccine research. He served as President of the Florida Society American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians(FSACOFP) in 2015-16. He has served as the team physician for Stetson University in Deland. He currently serves as a volunteer physician at the Good Samaritan Clinic. He was awarded FOMA's Physician of the Year in 2022. He is currently serving as the President of FOMA. He lives with his wife Jeannette and has four children: Andrea, Kyle, Cody, and Billy.

Camille S. Bonta, MHS (she/her/hers)

Principal

Summit Health Care Consulting

For more than 30 years, Camille Bonta has held communications and policy positions in the field of health care, and she is recognized as a respected and reliable expert among her professional society colleagues. During her career, she has forged strong working relationships in Congress, throughout the “House of Medicine,” within the public health community and across federal departments and agencies. She has led large physician- and patient-based coalitions and understands how to navigate the political dynamics of organized medicine.

As principal of Summit Health Care Consulting since 2007, Camille has guided lobbying and advocacy efforts of numerous national health care organizations on a wide range of health policy issues, including provider reimbursement, health care system reform, quality improvement, health equity, medical research funding, disease prevention, and product safety.

Camille is experienced at coalition building and grassroots advocacy and understands the importance of getting organizations a seat at tables where health policy discussions are taking place and decisions are being made.

Camille has served as a policy and advocacy advisor to ACOI since 2022.

Camille began her work in health care policy during her tenure in the office of U.S. Senator John Glenn, which coincided with the release of the Clinton Administration’s “Health Security Act” and the subsequent debate over comprehensive health system reform.

Camille holds a bachelors of science from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and a masters in health science from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.