TRUSTEE REPORT
Summer 2012 Trustee Report By Dr. Brian Cilla, MDA Trustee
our Speaker, Dr. Deb Peters, has made the MDA House of Delegates (HOD) a model of efficiency. I would like to thank the MDDS and WMDDS delegate and alternate delegates for getting the job done at this year’s HOD. Dr. Connie VerHagen is now past-president and her husband, Dr. Mike Cerminaro, is elated. Dr. Jeff “Give ’em Hell” Johnston has become our new MDA president. I look forward to an interesting year as an MDA trustee.
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his year the MDA annual session was held in Lansing. Attendance by member dentists and their staff made the meeting a success. The volunteers and MDA staff are to be congratulated for putting on such a big event and making everything run so smoothly (except for the buses, but that’s another story). We can appreciate that
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MDA Board of Trustee Topics of Interest Governance – The MDA by-laws stipulate that we must review governance on a periodic basis (at least every twelve years). The ADA is also going through this process at the present time. The MDA Board has reviewed four requests for proposals related to the MDA’s governance structure. It was resolved, that the OPIS consulting firm will be retained in
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WEST MICHIGAN DISTRICT DENTAL SOCIETY | SUMMER ISSUE 2012