The News
The Ontario Medical Association announced in June 2026 that Kimberly Moran has departed as CEO. Dr. Andrew Park, a practising Ontario physician, former OMA President, and Board member, has been named Interim CEO while the association conducts a full executive search. Dr. Park brings both clinical credibility and organizational familiarity to the role — he has been inside the OMA’s governance structure and knows the policy landscape the association is navigating.
Source: OMA leadership announcement, June 2026 — oma.org
MAP’s Take
The OMA choosing a practising physician for the interim CEO seat is not an administrative convenience. It is a deliberate signal about what this moment requires.
The association is currently carrying three of the heaviest advocacy files it has faced in years: ER overcrowding in more than 75% of Ontario emergency rooms, the ongoing push for sustainable physician compensation under the PSA framework, and the systemic transition to Ontario Health Teams and mandatory eReferral. These are not policy files that benefit from abstract management language. They benefit from someone who can sit across from a government official or a journalist and say, from direct experience, what Ontario physicians are actually living through.
That is the credibility Dr. Park brings. And it is the credibility the OMA needs to project right now, not just internally to its membership but externally to the audiences that make decisions about physician funding, hospital capacity, and system design.
There is also something worth naming about the timing. Physician burnout is at levels that have not been seen before. Leadership that visibly understands the clinical reality — not just the financial and political one — matters to how physicians relate to their own professional association. An interim CEO who has worked a clinical shift recently is a different kind of representative than one who has not.
The Takeaway
No policy changes flow directly from this appointment. But the OMA’s voice on ER overcrowding, compensation, and digital health adoption may carry differently with a physician at the helm. If you have views on where the association should focus its energy over the next 12 months, the leadership search period is exactly the right time to make them known — through your district society or directly to the OMA.