Dr. Mario Brondani

Mario Brondani, DDS, MSc, MPH, PhD, has been elected president of the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry. As newly president-elect, he is also chair of the conference committee and has already started the plans for the association’s 2017 conference in Toronto. Dr. Brondani is an associate professor in the Department of Oral Health Sciences. Read more at http://www.caphd.ca/board-directors

Dr. Leeann Donnelly

Leeann Donnelly, BDSc, MSc, PhD, has been selected as the chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the Canadian Dental Hygiene Association. The chair’s goal is to advise CDHA’s chief executive officer on advancing research in the dental hygiene profession to positively impact the health of the Canadian public. Along with providing leadership and facilitating discussion for the Research Advisory Committee, the role also includes developing strategies for operationalizing CDHA’s vision for research, guiding the organization’s involvement in the creation, support, dissemination and translation of research that influences dental hygiene practice, seeking ways to enhance research capacity and uptake within the dental hygiene profession, and supporting the advancement of dental hygiene education in Canada. Dr. Donnelly is an assistant professor in the Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences. Read more about the CDHA at http://www.cdha.ca