05/29/2025

2025 Service Award Winners Honored at Annual Seminar

Awardees recognized for leadership, volunteerism, and service

This article was featured in the Spring OHFAMA Journal. Awardees Dr. McCabe and Dr. Stevenson were honored in front of friends and family at the 2025 Annual Scientific Seminar. 

Leadership, volunteerism, and service are the key attributes that come to mind when we think of the 2025 winners of the Ohio Foot and Ankle Medical Association Service Award: Dr. John Stevenson and Dr. Thomas McCabe. Each year, the Service Award recognizes members who demonstrate dedicated leadership and service at the state and academy levels.

Dr. Stevenson established his practice in 1990 and has been serving the people of Dayton ever since. He enjoys that podiatry is the opportunity to practice both surgical and non-surgical interventions. He appreciates that even simple treatments, such as those for calluses, can provide his patients with immediate relief.

Similarly, Dr. McCabe’s favorite aspect of podiatry is helping his patients. He feels fulfilled when
someone enters his office in discomfort and leaves pain-free. Dr. McCabe was introduced to podiatry by his college senior advisor and has never looked back.

Dr. Stevenson was nominated by his peers for a lifetime of service at the academy level. He has served as President of the Midwest Academy almost every year since its inception, co-founding the annual Quickie Seminar. Looking back, the time planning and presenting at the Quickie Seminar – all eight hours of CME – with Dr. Greenberg were some of his favorite times spent serving the academy.

Dr. McCabe has given back to the podiatry community in many ways. He served as OHFAMA President in 2017, sits on the board of trustees, and has served as a representative with the APMA House of Delegates. With a passion for finance, he also served OHFAMA as treasurer. Dr. McCabe also enjoys volunteering a little closer to home, helping to plan the Holy Toledo Seminar, which combines the best of both worlds – CME and a nine-hole golf scramble. His favorite part is hearing new perspectives during presentations from residents.

Both winners agree that joining OHFAMA strengthens the entire podiatric community in Ohio. The awardees encouraged other podiatrists to get involved, whether at the local, state, or national level. Dr. McCabe emphasizes the in-person camaraderie at CMEs and meetings. “When you become a close family, you look out for one another. You understand what everyone’s going through,” he shares.

Doctors like Dr. McCabe and Dr. Stevenson know that helping Ohioans with foot and ankle health means keeping their patients moving, working, and spending quality time with family and friends. Those who know Dr. Stevenson and Dr. McCabe agree that for them, practicing podiatric medicine is not about accolades or awards. It is about serving their communities, giving back to their profession, and advancing the future of podiatric medicine in Ohio.