(They saw the public record. They promoted him anyway.)
The ODA Board Members’ lack of good judgment is now on full display.
At the March 26-27, 2026, meeting, the ODA’s Board of Directors selected the ODA’s next Vice-President, putting him on track to become the ODA President in 2 years.
Would You Put This Dentist in Charge?
The ODA’s next Vice-President, now on track to become President, has 6 public RCDSO decisions against him:
- Case File: 180023
- Case File: 180127
- Case File: 180567
- Case File: 190607
- Case File: 21-0668
- Case File: 21-0843
Some highlights from the decisions:
- “ A one-on-one course in … Establishing and maintaining appropriate boundaries in the dentist/patient relationship.” x2
- “ A one-on-one course in ethics, boundaries and communication…” x2
- “ Required Course: The PBI Education – Ethics and Professionalism…”
- “…lack of compliance with the College’s repeated requests for records hindered the College’s ability to properly investigate a patient complaint.” x2
- “ Required Course: Restorative dentistry, including instruction on proper removal of all decay from the tooth, marginal integrity and adequate contact points.”
- “ Required Cours: A one-on-one course in restorative dentistry, with the following components: Clinical and radiographic diagnosis of caries; Understanding caries severity and activity; Caries risk assessment; Appropriate radiographic prescribing and interpretation; Treatment planning; Treatment versus monitoring of carious lesions; Minimally invasive and preventive therapies.”
The ODA Board of Directors reveals itself by what it rewards, what it tolerates, and whom it promotes.
Would you, as an Ontario dentist, want to work with this dentist in the same office? Would you want this dentist representing you? Do you want this dentist to be the public face of our organization? Most Ontario dentists would answer no to each of these questions. But the ODA Board of Directors says YES!?
Judge the ODA Board of Directors by the People It Promotes
Forget the speeches. Forget the slogans.
Forget the polished language about professionalism and leadership.
Actions speak louder than words. The ODA Board of Directors can talk all it wants about professionalism, ethics, credibility, and protecting the profession’s reputation. But in the end, words mean very little. Decisions reveal the truth.
They saw the public record. They promoted him anyway. This should concern every Ontario dentist.
This choice tells us everything we need to know about their poor judgment, dysfunction and toxic culture.
ODA leaders do not represent only themselves. Their credibility affects the organization’s credibility. Their reputation affects the profession’s reputation. Their judgment, credibility and reputation reflects on all Ontario dentists.
A healthy Board understands that leadership is about standards, credibility, judgment, and what message this promotion sends to everyone watching.
The ODA Board of Directors have failed that test.
Badly.
Because no serious organization should look at a public record like this and decide: yes, this is the person who should be next in line to lead us.
And yet that is exactly what the ODA Board did.
So the more important question is no longer just about the newly elected Vice-President.
The real question is:
What kind of Board makes a decision like that?
And what does that say about the culture, standards, and judgment of the people now asking to be trusted with leadership again? The answers are becoming impossible to ignore.
Why would the ODA Board of Directors make a Decision Like This?
At some point, dentists have to ask the obvious question:
How does someone with this public record get elevated to the highest leadership pipeline of the ODA?
This selection is a symptom of a deeper problem inside the ODA Board of Directors: a culture that protects its friends, rewards loyalty, and prioritizes internal status, control, and power over its duty to represent and protect the interests of all ODA members.
That is what makes this decision so disturbing.
A healthy Board of Director asks:
What is in the best interests of all the 11,000 ODA dentists we serve?
A dysfunctional Board asks:
Who is with us? Who helps us keep control?
That is the difference.
The ODA Board of Directors’ job is not to reward insiders.
It is not to protect allies.
It is not to advance a clique.
It is not to preserve their own personal status or internal power.
Its duty is to act in the best interests the dentists it represents.
The Board is supposed to put the interests of Ontario dentists ahead of friendships, factions, loyalty networks, and internal politics. That is the Board’s legal fiduciary responsibility.
But this decision does the opposite.
When forced to choose between credibility and its inner circle, this Board chose its inner circle.
When forced to choose between what is best for Ontario dentists and what is best for its own inner circle, it chose the inner circle.
That is why this is not just a bad decision. It is a revealing decision. Because it reveals that the dysfunction inside the ODA Board of Directors is no longer occasional or accidental. It is cultural.
And once a Board reaches that point, it ceases to function as a true representative of the dentists it claims to serve. It becomes a protection system for its own people.
That is not leadership. That is not stewardship.
And it is certainly not what Ontario dentists deserve from the organization that claims to represent them.
