Following the Election Committee Report to the MSDA House of Delegates, new officers of the MSDA were installed last weekend for 2024 – 2025:
President-Elect - Dr. Charles Doring (SMDS)
Vice President - Elect - Dr. William Leboe (BCDS)
Secretary - Dr. Steven Feldman (SMDS)
Treasurer - Dr. Jay Nokkeo (SMDS)
The MSDA President-Elect and Vice President-Elect automatically ascend to President and Vice President respectively. Which means that Dr. Celeste Ziara (ESDS) will be the MSDA’s 2024 – 2025 President, and Dr. Gretchen Seibert (AGDS) will be the association’s Vice President.
In addition, the following candidates were elected to serve a three-year term (2025 – 2027) as a Delegate to the ADA.
ADA Delegates:
Dr. Alexandra Fitzgerald (FCDS)
Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr. (SMDS)
Lastly, the following candidates were elected to serve a one-year term (2025) as an Alternate Delegate to the ADA.
ADA Alternate Delegate:
Dr. Lyndsay Kuzmak (CCDS)
Dr. William Leboe (BCDS)
There were 344 electronic ballot and 3 paper ballots filed.
I hope you will come to any of us with your thoughts, ideas and concerns about our organization and organized dentistry. Your feedback helps us guide our organization forward.
We were also fortunate to have the ADA's incoming president, Brett Kessler of Colorado, address the MSDA House of Delegates and attend the Chesapeake Dental Conference. I had several conversations with him, and he is going to be an excellent leader for the ADA in 2024-25.
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With the election committee report presented to the House of Delegates, this will be my final weekly advocacy email to our membership. What started as a communication tool on an “as needed” basis, has become a 52 week/year endeavor. When we don’t have legislation to write about, we have tried to inform our membership about how certain legislative processes work, provide a few historical lessons, or discuss action (or lack of) in that far away body called Congress!
It has been an honor to communicate with you, read your responses to what was sent, and learn from what’s going on in your practices.
Advocacy is hard work. Not just coming up with the policy, but understanding it and communicating it with our membership and elected officials in ways that everyone can understand. I leave this work, and this weekly email, in the very capable hands of Dr. Tom a’Becket. He is a past president of the MSDA, is the current president of the MSDA Charitable and Education Foundation, and was the vice-chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee for the past two years. And, believe me, there is nobody better at roaming the halls of the House and Senate in Annapolis and helping legislators understand the issues impacting our profession and our practices.
The MSDA advocacy agenda is in good hands.
Please give Dr. a’Becket your time and assistance when he calls. There is so much to be done and, often, so much riding on the work being done in Annapolis.
Thank you for helping this email and our advocacy program become such a success! I look forward to seeing you soon.