Warsaw dentist Dr. Steven C. Hollar has begun his term as the 2021-2022 president of the IDA. Dr. Hollar formally assumed his duties as the association’s president on Sunday, May 16, at the IDA’s House of Delegates meeting at the Midwest Dental Assembly. He will serve as president until May 2022.

Dr. Hollar graduated from Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1993. He resides in Warsaw and is the owner of Hollar Dental Group, where he’s been serving his patients for 28 years. Dr. Hollar serves as chair of the IDA’s COVID-19 Task Force and has been an ADA Delegate in previous years. In addition to his work with the IDA and ADA, Dr. Hollar served as a member of the Indiana State Board of Dentistry for nine years, including two years as chair.

IDA is looking forward to a great year of leadership with Dr. Hollar!

The ADA announced May 12 that it named Dr. Raymond A. Cohlmia, dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry and a former ADA Board of Trustees member, as its executive director. Dr. Cohlmia will be replacing the retiring Dr. Kathleen O’Loughlin and will begin his new position on November 15.

Dr. Cohlmia’s experience includes joining the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry faculty in 2009, serving in a variety of leadership positions. In 2011, he was named director of comprehensive care, and he served as assistant dean for patient care from 2013 until he was appointed dean in 2015. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Cohlmia ran a private dental practice for 26 years.

“I am humbled and honored to be selected as the next executive director of the American Dental Association,” said Dr. Cohlmia.  “I have always believed that organized dentistry plays an integral role in the advancement of the profession, and to me, there is no better organization to advocate for oral health than the American Dental Association.”

An active leader in the dental community at the local, state and national levels, Dr. Cohlmia served on the ADA Board of Trustees from 2015-19 and as president of the Oklahoma Dental Association in 2001 and his local dental society in 1997. He has led the ADA New Dentist Committee and Council on Membership, serving as chair in 1999 and 2007, respectively. Additional ADA appointments over the years include the Council on Annual Sessions, the Council on Dental Benefits, and the American Dental Political Action Committee. Dr. Cohlmia has also represented his district as a delegate to the ADA’s House of Delegates, the governing body that develops ADA policies.

Dr. Cohlmia earned his dental degree in 1988 from the OU College of Dentistry. He currently resides in northwest Oklahoma City with his wife, Sherry, and has three children.

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In January 2021, the IDA Board of Trustees approved a request to develop a new logo for the IDA. The current logo has served the organization well since 1997, but the Board agreed that the IDA needed a more modern look, with simpler graphics that reproduce consistently across different media. In addition, the former design wasn’t adaptable to the IDA’s many entities, which created an inconsistent appearance across our organization.

The new logo and the logo for our entities and programs were unveiled on May 15 at the House of Delegates during the 2021 Midwest Dental Assembly. Below is an explanation of the process behind the new design, as well as a compilation of all our new logos. The design concept was created by Whiteboard Marketing in Columbus, Ohio, which has worked with a number of state dental associations around the country.

Over the next few months we’ll be replacing our publications, online resources and other materials with our new logo. We hope you like the new IDA look as much as we do!