IODA Board of Directors Candidates
Professional Biography
Hamid Paknahad
General Dentist, Toronto, Ontario 2015-Current
Audit Committee, Iranian Ontario Dental Association (IODA) 2019-2020
Election Committee, Iranian Ontario Dental Association (IODA) 2019-2020
Prosthodontist, Tehran, Iran 1994-2014
Prosthodontist, Dental Clinic of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Tehran, Iran 1994-2013
Executive Board member, Iranian Association of Prosthodontics 1999-2003
Honorary faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adam School of Dentistry 1998-1999
Assistant instructor of Prosthodontics, and Faculty of Dentistry at Shahid Beheshti University 1990 – 1995
Graduated from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, as a Prosthodontist 1990 – 1994
Graduated from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, as a D.D.S 1979 – 1986
Hamid Paknahad
Pouriya Motahari
Professional Biography
Pouriya Motahari
Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Vice president of Iranian Dental Association 2013 - 2015
Board member of Iranian Dental Association 2010 - 2015
Vice president and board member of Iranian Association of Oral Pathologists 2002 - 2006
Scientific committee head of Iranian Dental Association 2010 - 2013
Assistant professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology - Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2000 - 2013
Member of community service committee of ODA 2018
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS and POSITIONS
2018-2021 Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
2018-2021 Ontario Dental Association
1996-2021 Iranian Dental Association
1996-2021 Iranian Medical Council
2000-2021 Iranian Association of Oral Pathology
2012-2021 International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists
2008-2010 Vice president of Iranian association of Oral pathologists
2011-2016 Directing board member of Iranian Dental Association
2011-2014 Head of scientific committee of Iranian Dental Association (IDA)
2014-2016 Vice president of Iranian Dental Association (IDA)
2019-2021 Member of community service committee of Ontario Dental Association (ODA)
2019-2021 Executive member of Iranian Ontario Dental Association (IODA)
Ali Tavakoli
Professional Biography
Ali Tavakoli
• DDS degree, University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry 2014
• DDS degree, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran / Iran 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Dentistry, Restorative and Prosthodontic departments UofT 2018- Present
• Director, IODA 2020-Present
• Vice President / Executive Committee, IODA 2019-2020
• Executive Committee, IODA 2020-Present
• Chair of Members Affairs Committee, IODA 2019-2020-Present
• Director, IODA 2019-2020
• Working Committee, IODA 2018-2019
• Audit Committee, IODA 2018-2019
• Private Practice, Toronto ON 2016- Present
• Associate Dentist at Liberty Square Dental Group 2014-2017
• President - IDAPP students, University of Toronto 2012
• Dental Assistant - Prosthodontic Associates 2010-2012
• Private Practice (General Dentistry), Tehran / Iran 2002-2009
• Military Dental Clinic, Shahroud / Iran 2000-2002
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