Board Members &
Professional and Community Appointees

Board Members
Chair Kevin Cloutier, RO 
Vice-Chair Derick Summers, RO 

 

Representatives by District
Paul Imola, 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.

John Battaglia 

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.

 

District 5 (Toronto)

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

Johanna Whalen, RO

District 6 (Contact Lens Mentor – Whole Province)

Whole province of Ontario

Parminder Kalsi, 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.

Carlos Pacheco, 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
Omar Farouk Brampton
Stephen Kinsella Barrie
Alicia Munian  Oakville
Mark Priddle  Almonte 
 Carlo Sicoli  Oakville
Greg Chitilian  Markham 

 

 

Professional & Communittee Appointees
Audric Beauchesne, RO
Lindsay Beriault, RO
Jay Bhatt, RO 
Elliot Borins 
Melissa Campbell, RO
Parneet Dhillon, RO
Rebecca Forte
Elyse Jackson
Stephanie Kelly, RO 
David Milne
Patrick Mott
Panos Petrides
Robert Quinn, RO 
Patricia Raymond, RO 
Elisabeth Roche, RO 
Maximilian Savorani, RO 

 

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