FACULTY

OPC Continuing Medical Education Directors

Mitchell Hiserote, DO, Director of Medical Education

Dr. R. Mitchell Hiserote D.O. is a California native living and practicing in the California North Bay Area. His academic osteopathic professional endeavors have included positions with experience in all aspects of educating DOs and DO students over 24 years. A alumnus of Western University of Health Sciences (WUHS) – College of Osteopathic Medicine of Pomona CA, where he concurrently completed the Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. His post graduate training was completed at Arrowhead Regional Medical center in Colton, CA.

He currently holds board certification in Neuromusculoskeletal & Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine from the AOBNM, Certification of Proficiency from the Osteopathic Cranial Academy (OCA), and is a Costin scholar from the Midwestern University – Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. Recently he has held academic positions at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUCOM) that include Adjunct, Assistant, Associate Professor and he has served as Vice Chair and Chair of TUCOM’s Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department. He currently is president of Osteopathic Center for Children (OCC) nonprofit board and holds executive board status with the OCA. Dr Hiserote’s enthusiasm and articulation of osteopathic medicine has earned him lecture opportunities in various venues that have included UC California at Berkeley, and UC California at Davis. His current clinical practice resides at Blue Sky Osteopathy in Sebastopol, CA. where he sees patients practicing traditional osteopathic care and precepts medical students in clinical osteopathic medicine. Besides being a proud father and husband, Dr Hiserote is an avid adventure sailor, cyclist, and martial artist.

Dr Hiserote’s connection with Dr Frymann and the Osteopathic Center for Children began as a medical student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 1995 through completing his first forty-hour course in Osteopathy in the Cranial field directed by Dr. Frymann. He was invited by Dr Frymann to be a faculty table trainer for that course in 1997. Subsequently he has participated as table trainer, lecturer and course director in 18 Osteopathy in the Cranial Field continuing medical education courses at the OCC to date. His familiarity with the principles and skills of traditional osteopathic medicine under the tutelage for Dr Frymann contributed to his subsequent appointments as faculty and lecturer for the OCA, WUHS, and Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation (SCTF) in their respective courses that support traditional osteopathic medicine. His current mission is to support and promote Dr Frymann’s mission at the OCC and abroad through:

Facilitating quality osteopathic care of children and families;
Offering quality continuing medical education to interested physicians and students to be able to meet the challenges of #1;
Facilitate and support significant research that elucidates the effectiveness and mechanisms of the principles and practices of quality osteopathic medical care.

Raymond H. Hruby, DO, MS, FAAO (Dist), Senior ME Project Manager

Ray Hruby, DO, MS FAAO (Dist), graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa and interned at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland, Maine. After being in private osteopathic family practice, he became a member of the Service of Osteopathic Medicine at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, and later served as Director of this service.