The
President’s Report
Dr Amit Gurbuxani ADAWA President
As my first President’s Report, I would like to start by thanking not only Sean, our immediate past president, but also the entire council, and each and every member of our association. You have all been supportive and have shown interest and involvement with ADAWA during these tremulous times through this pandemic.
Being passionate and involved with ADAWA for the last decade has only strengthened my belief that ADAWA is all about community and its inter-relationships. Being passionate and involved with ADAWA for the last decade has only strengthened my belief that ADAWA is all about community and its inter-relationships. It focuses on creating strong relationships, with an understanding and certain expectations with the people within the organisation, both between each other and also with the organisation itself. Hence, to be elected in as the President of this organisation is an honour. As I believe ADAWA is all about community service. It’s about the greater good. A leader is meant to serve the community. I believe it is now time we work together as a community to help each other continue to move forward. Spending time as an ADAWA council and executive member has taught me that having a cohesive team is very important. Even more important is the development of a culture whereby every single voice is heard. This is where I would like to welcome my very worthy council members, who come from a range of demographics, offering different skill sets and ideas that will ensure diversity and strength in our governance. We will soon be forming our committees for 2022 and I would encourage any
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member who would like to be more involved in ADAWA to please express their interest. As we move forward, we will face further challenges, such as COVID-19 vaccination mandates, which have already resulted in staffing issues in dentistry and also many other professions. An even greater anticipated challenge for the New Year will be the effect on dentistry when our WA borders finally open in 2022. There have already been ongoing discussions in this area. We will endeavour to keep everyone up to date with ADAWA and dental happenings via the currently effective lines of communication with our members. It would be remiss of me if I don’t take this opportunity to congratulate both the ADAWA media team and the members of the executive who have helped create these avenues of information distribution. Just to finish off, I would like to put an image once again in your minds, which I conveyed at the annual general meeting and was portrayed by a mentor of mine: “A good leader is like a bridge: there are two sides that need to try to come together, even if they don’t always meet in the middle.” I am going to try and be that leader. I may not always be right and I may not always have all the answers, but what I will say is that I will reach out and work with members, in an honest, fair and as transparent way as possible to help strengthen our association as we move forward. I would like to wish you all a peaceful and festive holiday season where each of you have time to spend time with your loved ones, be it in person or virtually.
