Daniel B. Moore, DO, FCA, is the son of Hannah Bailey (Moore), DO, FAAO, who received her training in cranial osteopathy from William Garner Sutherland, DO. Dr. Bailey treated Dan cranially from the time he was born and she taught him to feel the cranial movement before he matriculated at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1969.
While at Kirksville, Dr. Moore became a patient, student and friend of Herbert C. Miller, DO, FAAO, FCA, a relationship that ended with Dr. Miller’s death in 2012. During his years at Kirksville, he also was part of a study group formed by his classmate, Anne Laughlin Kempf, DO, that was led by her father, George Andrew Laughlin, DO. Dr. Laughlin encouraged and facilitated Anne’s and Dan’s participation in the SCTF Basic Course in May, 1973. They joined the Cranial Academy following that course. After graduating from KCOM in 1973 and completing internship at Saginaw Osteopathic Hospital in 1974, Dr. Moore began an osteopathic general practice in Versailles, Kentucky. He was a member of the medical staff of Woodford Memorial Hospital until it closed in 2000 and served as president of the medical staff in 1984.
Since beginning practice, Dr. Moore has been a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American Academy of Osteopathy, the Osteopathic Cranial Academy and the Kentucky Osteopathic Medical Association. A lifetime member of KOMA, he served as Secretary/Treasurer from 1983 to 1999, as Treasurer from1999 to 2006, then as interim Treasurer from 2008 to 2010. He was honored as the Kentucky Osteopathic Physician of the Year in 2000 and 2010.
Dr. Moore began teaching with the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation as an assistant table trainer in 1980, was taken on as a table trainer in 1981, began lecturing in 1982, and has taught in all but three domestic SCTF Basic Courses since then. In 1983 he was invited to join the SCTF Board of Trustees. He was elected secretary in 1985 and served until becoming president in 2013 following the untimely death of then president Melicien Tettambel, DO, FAAO, FACOOG. As SCTF Board representative, he participated in basic courses in England in 1989 and Belgium in 2003. He has also assisted in all SCTF Continuing Studies and Face Courses since their inception.
Certified first in Special Proficiency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine in 1995, he re-certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine in 2005 and again in 2015. He was honored to present the Sutherland Memorial Lecture to the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in 2006 and was again recognized by being granted Fellow of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in 2020.