Mahesh Verma is an Indian

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and the Director and Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences. He is the Vice Chancellor of

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. The

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awarded him, in 2014, with the

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, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of medicine,

Biography

Verma graduated with a degree in dentistry (BDS) from the

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and secured his master's degree (MDS) from the same institution, specializing in

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. He joined the Institute of Dental Sciences of

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and became the Head of the institute in 1995. He also did advanced training in prosthodontics at the

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, Buffalo and earned an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS),

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. He is the incumbent Director-Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS), the dental wing of

, New Delhi. Verma helped to develop MAIDS from a dental school of meagre proportions into a Centre of Excellence with a daily count of over 1200 inpatients. An

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- Marketing and Development Research Associates (MDRA) survey of premier Indian dental schools placed MAIDS as the best dental school in India. MAIDS have either stood first or has been placed at the top in a few other surveys. A

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(WHO) fellow, Verma teaches healthcare management at the FMS, Delhi University. He is involved in WHO social and community projects as well as institutional projects of the

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...

(CSIR),

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(ICMR). One of his projects is the development of indigenous dental implants involving

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and the CSIR, funded by the

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Positions

Verma has been involved in professional and academic organizations. He is the President of the Delhi unit of the

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. the India and Sri Lanka chapter of the

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and the Indian Academy of Restorative Dentistry (IARD). He was the vice president of the

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, former president of the Indian Prosthodontic Society and the former Vice President of the Indian Academy of Dental Educationists and the Indian Society for Dental Research (ISDR) He also holds the position of the registrar of the Delhi Dental Council. He serves as honorary advisor to the Armed Forces Dental Services,

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and as international advisor to the

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(UK). Verma has been the organizing secretary of two events, the World Congress on Prosthodontics, held in 1995 at Delhi and the conference of the Commonwealth Dental Association and Indian Dental Association at Delhi in 2000. He was also the chairman of the event ''FDI 2014'' He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American Dental Association (Indian Edition) and the Journal of British Dental Association (Indian Edition). He is the Executive Editor of the India and Sri Lanka sections of the Journal of International College of Dentists and the editor of ''Dentistry'', a

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publication. He also serves as the clinical director of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID).

Awards and recognitions

Verma received the State Award from the

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in 2001, the

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in 2007, and the civilian award of

in 2014, when he was included in the

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honours. He was the ''Health Personality of the Year'' for 2012, an honour from the

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(FICCI). He is also a recipient of ''Rotary Vashishat Sewa Samman'' in 2002, ''Dr. P. N. Behl Foundation Award'' of the Delhi Medical Association in 2006, ''Dr. B. C. Shroff Oration Award'' of the Indian Prosthodontic Society Annual Conference in 2007, Commendation by the Vice Chief of Army Staff in 2009 and Commonwealth Dental Association Oration Award in 2010. He has been designated a fellow of several organizations, including the American College Of Dentists, the

, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the

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, the International Medical Sciences Academy, the

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, the

and the

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, Faculty of General Dentistry Practice.

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