Dr. Ettlinger is a 1987 graduate of New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of OMM at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and the director of the NYCOM/St. Barnabas NMM/OMT Residency Program. Dr. Ettlinger became a Fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy in 1998. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation and is Faculty and Program Director for both the SCTF and the Cranial Academy. He serves the AAO as a member of the Postdoctoral Standards and Evaluation, Undergraduate Academies and C-NMM/OMM Committees. He is also the Advisor for the National Undergraduate Fellows Association. Dr. Ettlinger has been awarded the Northrup Lecture, the Blood Lecture, and the Sutherland Memorial Lecture which he delivered to the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in June 2015. He was awarded fellowship in the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in 2016.