Board Members &
Appointed Optician Members

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

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.

Grazyna Sepczynska, RO

District 5 (Toronto)

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

 

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.

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
Peggy Judge Toronto 
Stephen Kinsella Barrie
Carlo Sicoli  Oakville
   

 

 

Appointed Members
Jamuna Balaram 
John Battaglia, RO 
Lindsay Beriault, RO
Jay Bhatt, RO 
Elliot Borins 
Melissa Campbell, RO
Parneet Dhillon, RO
Rebecca Forte
Parminder Kalsi, RO 
Stephanie Kelly, RO 
Elyse Jackson
Patrick Mott
David Milne
Panos Petrides
Robert Quinn
Elisabeth Roche, RO 

 

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