{"id":110,"date":"2020-08-24T14:34:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/?p=110"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:43:14","slug":"introducing-dr-lesli-hapak-as-the-new-president-of-the-ontario-dental-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/introducing-dr-lesli-hapak-as-the-new-president-of-the-ontario-dental-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Dr. Lesli Hapak as the new President of the Ontario Dental Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nick-fewings-BPDJLWz_Bog-unsplash.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nick-fewings-BPDJLWz_Bog-unsplash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nick-fewings-BPDJLWz_Bog-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The Essex County Dental Society is proud to have Dr. Hapak represent Windsor-Essex in her role as President of the Ontario Dental Association and congratulate her on this achievement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Lesli Hapak lives and practises in Windsor, Ont. After graduating from the School of Dentistry at Western University&nbsp;in London, Ont., Dr. Hapak attained a diploma in&nbsp;Periodontics from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto. She joined the Essex County Dental Society in 1991 and represented the component society at General Council between 2006 and 2012. Dr. Hapak served as President of the Ontario Society of Periodontists&nbsp;in 2006. She has served on the ODA Education Committee, chaired the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee, the Governance and Nominating Committee&nbsp;and currently is the chair of the Board of Directors. Dr. Hapak has operated a private practice in periodontics&nbsp;since 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oda.ca\/media-room\/backgrounder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/oda.ca\/media-room\/backgrounder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jannerboy62?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Fewings<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/dental?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Ministry of Health has lifted the restrictions placed back in March, dental offices have begun the process of re-opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecds.wizepages.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}