ODA 2021 Nominations

THE COUNCIL ON NOMINATIONS NOMINATES THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS FOR VICE PRESIDENT AND TO REPRESENT THE ADA DELEGATION. THESE NOMINEES WILL BE VOTED ON BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES ON APRIL 8, 2021. VICE PRESIDENT IS A ONE-YEAR TERM. ADA DELEGATE AND ALTERNATE DELEGATE ARE FOUR-YEAR TERMS.

VICE PRESIDENT Paul Wood, DDS Southwest District

Dr. Paul Wood is from rural Vernon County in west central Missouri. After graduating high school in 1978, he joined the US Army and spent the next 33 years in uniform. He served as an enlisted soldier, Field Artillery Officer, Military Intelligence Officer, Area/Regional Consultant and National Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Wood obtained two bachelor’s degrees from Missouri Southern State University, one in Economics and one in Biology. He then attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry, graduating in 1991. During dental school, he served as Commander of Service Battery, 1/129 Field Artillery of the Missouri Army National Guard. After serving two years on active duty, he was selected to attend long-term training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at The Ohio State University. He completed residency and then was successful with both the written and oral portions of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. While serving as the National Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Commission Corp of the United States Public Health Service, he served in many regions of the US and was repeatedly assigned to the Coast Guard. Wood was a faculty member at the Graduate Practice Residency Programs at W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and at the Navajo Area Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. He has been in the private sector of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery since his retirement from active duty and enjoys his current position at Live Oak OMS in Lawton. He is a member of the American Dental Association and Oklahoma Dental Association, and serves on the ODA Board of Trustees as the Southwest Component Trustee. He is also a member of the Texas Dental Association, Texas 13th District Dental Society, Comanche County Dental Society, and Stephen’s County Dental Society. Wood enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandson. His hobbies include stock options, welding and old International Harvester trucks.

ADA DELEGATE TIM FAGAN, DDS Oklahoma County

Tim Fagan, DDS, MS holds the William E. Brown Chair in Dentistry at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry where he is a Clinical Professor, Chairman of the Department of Developmental Sciences, and Head of the Pediatric Dentistry Division. He also maintains a private practice specializing in Pediatric Dentistry in Enid. Fagan received his dental degree from OU in 1981 and completed his pediatric specialty training in 1984 at the University of Iowa. He is a member of the American Dental Association, Oklahoma Dental Association, Northwest District Dental Society, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Southwestern Society of Pediatric Dentistry, and the Oklahoma Association of Pediatric Dentists.

He has held multiple leadership roles in organized dentistry including serving as President of the Oklahoma Dental Association, Southwestern Society of Pediatric Dentistry, Oklahoma Association of Pediatric Dentists, Garfield County Dental Society, and as Trustee on the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Board of Trustees. He is a past Chairman of the American Dental Association’s Council on Advocacy for Access and Prevention and served as the council’s liaison to the ADA Council on Governmental Affairs. Fagan served as chairperson of the ADA’s 3CL (Council, Commission and Committee Leadership) Group from 2017 to 2018. He has been an Oklahoma delegate or alternate delegate to the ADA’s House of Delegates since 2012. He is a past ADA Action Team Leader for Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District. Fagan has served as an examiner and member of the examination committee for the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. He has been a member of the Oklahoma Dental Association House of Delegates, served on the ODA’s Council on Communications, ODA Rewards Partners Program, ODA Special Task Force on Managed Care Issues, DENPAC Board of Directors, Governor’s Task Force on Children and Oral Health Implementation Focus Group, and was Chairman for the 2014 Oklahoma Mission of Mercy. In 2017, he chaired the ODA Task Force on Medicaid Best Practices, and in 2018, chaired the ODA Task Force on Alternative Work Force Models.

Fagan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy. In 2014, he received the OU College of Dentistry’s Outstanding Achievement for PartTime Faculty Award and was named the recipient of the College’s Dental Alumnus of the Year Award in 2015. Fagan was the 2017 recipient of the Oklahoma Dental Association’s Dan E. Brannin Award for Professionalism and Ethics. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award by OUCOD for contributions to the overall betterment and welfare of the College and outstanding performance in the broadest sense of education, research and teaching. His dental interests include eradicating early childhood caries, solving access to dental care issues, pediatric restorative techniques, and infant oral health care. Fagan has published numerous articles and presented many continuing education programs in these areas. In the fall of 2018, he was instrumental in establishing the OUCOD senior dental student rotation through the Little Smiles of Norman charitable dental clinic. Last year the dental students provided over $45,000 of donated dental care to underserved students in the Norman Public School system. He also established the Infant Oral Health Clinic at the OU