Board Members &
Appointed Optician Members

Board Members
Chair Stephen Kinsella
Vice-Chair Derick Summers, RO 

 

Representatives by District
Elsa Lee, RO

District 1 (Southern)

The County of Brant, the City of Hamilton, the regional municipalities of Halton and Niagara and the counties of Haldimand and Norfolk, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Derick Summers, RO

District 2 (Eastern)

The City of Kawartha Lakes, the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Haliburton, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward, Frontenac, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell, Stormount, Dundas and Glengarry, the regional municipality of Durham and the City of Ottawa, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Kevin Cloutier, RO

District 3 (Northern)

Territorial districts of Kenora, Rainy River, Thunder Bay, Cochrane, Temiskaming, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Algoma, Manitoulin, and Muskoka, and the District of Sudbury, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Tonya Nahamabin , RO

District 4 (Western)

Counties of Bruce, Grey, Huron, Perth, Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford, Elgin, Kent and Essex, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Dorina Reiz, RO

District 5 (Toronto)

City of Toronto, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Rob Vezina, RO

District 6 (Contact Lens Mentor – Whole Province)

Whole province of Ontario

Samir Modhera, RO

District 7 (Central Western)

The counties of Dufferin and Wellington and the regional municipalities of Peel and Waterloo, or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

Neda Mohammadzadeh, RO

District 8 (Central)

County of Simcoe and the Regional Municipality of York or the equivalent geographical areas and names, as substituted by statute from time to time.

 

 

Public Appointees
Diana Bristow Burlington
Omar Farouk Brampton
Peggy Judge Toronto 
Stephen Kinsella Barrie
Henry Wiersema  Strathroy 
Paul-Jozef Wilk  Mississauga 

 

 

Appointed Members
Jamuna Balaram 
John Battaglia, RO 
Jay Bhatt, RO 
Elliot Borins 
Angelia Brown, RO 
Stephanie Kelly, RO 
Janice Mallette, RO 
David Milne
Tapiwa Musewe, RO
Tonya Nahmabin, RO
Dennis O'Hagan, RO
Desiree Petralito, RO 
Panos Petrides
Robert Quinn, RO 
Daniela Schowalter, RO
 

 

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