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

Only available as part of a package

12:25pm - 12:30pm ET - Welcome Remarks with C.Clark Milton, Robert G. Piccinini & 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.

Robert G. Piccinini, DO, D.FACN

President

American Osteopathic Association

On July 19, 2025, Robert G.G. Piccinini, DO, D.FACN, was inaugurated as President of the American Osteopathic Association. He is the first psychiatrist in AOA history to achieve this honor and is the first graduate of MSUCOM. Dr. Piccinini is an AOA board-certified osteopathic psychiatrist in private practice.

Outside of his involvement with the AOA, Dr. Piccinini is the past president of the Michigan Osteopathic Association. He also is past president of the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists, the Macomb County Osteopathic Medical Association and the Michigan Osteopathic Service Corporation. He worked for Ford Motor Company as a plant physician and profiler.

Dr. Piccinini completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he was tasked with treating patients in the maximum-security unit. He received the Distinguished Fellow award from the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists in 2007. He was the youngest member of the specialty college to receive this honor. Dr. Piccinini has given numerous presentations on domestic violence, violence in the workplace and physician wellness.

Dr. Piccinini earned his osteopathic medical degree from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing. He completed an internship at Genesys Regional Medical Center followed by residency training at Henry Ford Health Systems. He also studied Geriatrics at the University of Rome, Italy.

Outside of his medical career Dr. Piccinini has cultivated his passion for cooking and smoking into “Dr. Bob’s BBQ.”

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.