Prof. George Zarb is the first Maltese-Canadian to be awarded membership in the Order of Canada.

Prof. Zarb, a University of Malta graduate, left for the United States in 1960 as a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and pursued graduate and clinical specialty studies at the University of Michigan and Ohio State University.

He was invited to join the full-time staff of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto in 1966 and rose rapidly through the academic ranks to full professor in less than a decade.

Throughout his 39-year career at the university, Prof. Zarb served as professor and department head in his discipline and as associate dean for clinical sciences.

Prof. Zarb has written over 150 papers. He has finished co-authoring his 14th textbook and has contributed chapters to several others.

He is also editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Prosthodontics.