ADA VB honours Dr Georges Fast with Award for Distinguished Service

The Council and members of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch Inc. have presented to Dr Georges Fast, BDSc, LDS the Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of his outstanding service to dentistry.

The citation for the award reads...

Dr Fast graduated as a dentist from the University of Melbourne in 1969 and served as an oral surgery clinical assistant and senior clinical demonstrator at the Royal Dental Hospital.

His active association with the Branch began in 1984 when he first served on the Practice Administration Committee which he subsequently Chaired. He was elected as a Branch Councillor in 1988 and served on that body for 6 years to 1994.

Dr Fast has been enormously generous to the Branch with his expertise and time. In addition to Branch Council and Practice Administration Committee membership, between 1988 and 2023, he has been a member of numerous committees including Dental Schemes, Dental Education, Dental Nurses Evaluation Committee, Sports and Social, Graduate Education, Public Relations, Legislation and most recently the Quality Assurance Panel and Third Party Committees.

Dr Fast has authored articles and given numerous lectures locally and internationally including those on practice administration, setting fees, marketing and new technologies.

He has contributed at the national level as a member of the ADA Inc's Practice Committee and as a long-term member of the DIME equipment subcommittee.

In 1994, Dr Fast was elected as the inaugural chairman of the Private Dental Surgeries Association of Victoria and served in that role until 2004. He was representative for eight years on a government Working Group for the revision of Practice for Radiation Safety in Dentistry.

He is a fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, International College of Dentists and Academy of Dentistry International.

Also, Dr Fast is a long-time columnist, writing "One Man's Opinion" for the Australasian Dental Practice Journal from 1999 until the present. He also served as the honorary dentist to the Victorian contingent for the Moscow Olympics and to the Fitzroy Football Club.

It is fitting with such outstanding service that Dr Georges Fast is a recipient of the Branch's Award for Distinguished Service.