Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Verma, the Vice Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, gave a message on COVID-19.
He is a prosthodontist and the Director and Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences. He was awarded with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of medicine by the Government of India in 2014. He is the President of International Association for Dental Research (IDAR) India Division, International Association for Disability and Oral Health (iADH) India Chapter and Indian Academy of Restorative Dentistry (IARD).
He was the vice president of the Dental Council of India, 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, Ministry of Defence and as International advisor to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (UK).
Mahesh 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 Springer publication. He also serves as the clinical director of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID).
