Charles H. Norman III, DDS, of Greensboro, NC, has taken office as the 150th president of the American Dental Association (ADA). Norman was installed as the 2013-2014 president of the ADA during its annual session held in New Orleans.
Norman is a past trustee who represented the ADA’s 16th District (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia) on the Board of Trustees. He also is a past president of the North Carolina Dental Society and past chair of the ADA Council on Dental Practice. Norman is a 1977 graduate of the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. He shares a dental practice with his son Matt Norman, DDS. Norman has been an ADA member for 36 years.
The new president is a member of the Academy of General Dentistry and a fellow of the American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists and Pierre Fauchard Academy.
Meanwhile, Maxine Feinberg, DDS, was chosen as the ADA’s new president-elect and Jonathan Shenkin, DDS, as second vice president. Feinberg will assume the role of president of the ADA in October 2014. She formerly served as Fourth District Trustee to the ADA House of Delegates and is a former president of the New Jersey Dental Association, the first woman to serve in that position.
Shenkin will serve on the ADA Board of Trustees as the second vice president. The ADA Board formulates and reviews policies and programs and makes recommendations to the members of the ADA’s governing body, the ADA House of Delegates. Shenkin is a former president of the Maine Dental Association and former chair of the ADA Council on Communications. He currently serves as an ADA spokesperson on pediatric dentistry issues.
Gary E. Jeffers, DMD; Alvin W. Stevens, Jr, DMD; Andrew T. Kwasny, DMD; and Jeffrey M. Cole, DDS, MBA, were chosen as new members of the ADA Board of Trustees. Jeffers will serve on the ADA Board of Trustees as the trustee from the Ninth District, which encompasses the states of Michigan and Wisconsin. Stevens will serve on the ADA Board of Trustees as the trustee from the Fifth District, which encompasses the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Kwasny will serve on the ADA Board of Trustees as the trustee from the Third District, which encompasses the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Cole will serve on the ADA Board of Trustees as the trustee from the Fourth District, which encompasses the states of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island, as well as the Federal Dental Services.
