---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000355019-23-000014"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FONR"
cik: "0000355019"
company_name: "FONAR CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T22:37:16.741407+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fonar appoints Jessica Maher as independent director; John Collins takes full-time role

## Summary
- Jessica Maher appointed independent director and audit committee member effective March 20, 2023; fills vacancy from John Collins.
- Maher is a staff accountant at Ives & Sultan, LLP with prior experience at PwC and Northwell Health.
- Maher's appointment maintains board independence compliance under NASDAQ rules.
- Press release reveals HMCA manages 40 MRI machines and performs over 175,000 scans annually.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000355019-23-000014
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FONR
- cik: 0000355019
- company_name: FONAR CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501923000014/0000355019-23-000014-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501923000014/fonar_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355019-23-000014
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355019-23-000014.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355019-23-000014.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jessica Maher was appointed as Director at FONAR CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: The board of directors reported the appointment of Jessica Maher as a replacement independent director to a vacancy on the Company ́s board of directors and audit committee in a press release dated March 20, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501923000014/0000355019-23-000014-index.htm
- Executive change
  John Collins departed as Director at FONAR CORP.
  - Action: left
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mrs. Maher fills the vacancy on the board of directors left by John Collins who has accepted a full-time position with FONAR.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501923000014/0000355019-23-000014-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.