Padma Shri Dr. B. C. Roy Award Delhi State Award FICCI Health Personality of the Year Rotary Vashishat Sewa Samman Dr. P. N. Behl Foundation Award Dr. B. C. Shroff Oration Award Commonwealth Dental Association Oration Award
Verma helped to develop MAIDS[6] from a dental school of meagre proportions into a Centre of Excellence[3][4][7] with a daily count of over 1200 inpatients.[2] An Outlook - Marketing and Development Research Associates (MDRA) survey of premier Indian dental schools placed MAIDS as the best dental school in India.[8] MAIDS have either stood first[9] or has been placed at the top in a few other surveys.[10][11]
Verma has been involved in professional and academic organizations. He is the President of the Delhi unit of the Indian Dental Association.[4][7][12] the India and Sri Lanka chapter of the International College of Dentists and the Indian Academy of Restorative Dentistry (IARD).[3][13] He was the vice president of the Dental Council of India,[14] former president of the Indian Prosthodontic Society[3][4][15] and the former Vice President of the Indian Academy of Dental Educationists[3] and the Indian Society for Dental Research (ISDR)[16]
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.[4] He was also the chairman of the event FDI 2014[17] 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).[3] 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 Springer publication.[3] He also serves as the clinical director of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID).[3]
Awards and recognitions
Padma Shri India
Verma received the State Award from the Government of Delhi in 2001,[3][4] the B. C. Roy Award in 2007,[2][3][4][7] and the civilian award of Padma Shri in 2014,when he was included in the Republic Day honours. He was the Health Personality of the Year for 2012,an honour from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).[3] He is also a recipient of Rotary Vashishat Sewa Samman in 2002,[4]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.[3]
↑ "Padma 2014". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 25 January 2014. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
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