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| name = Harpinder Singh Chawla<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|03|15|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India<br />
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| occupation = Dental surgeon<br />
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| known for = Pediatric dentistry<br />
| spouse = Kiran Chaudhary<br />
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| children = One son and a daughter<br />
| parents = Sukhdev Singh Chawla<br>Iqbal Kaur Chawla<br />
| website = {{Url|https://drhschawla.wordpress.com/tag/dr-harpinder-singh-chawla/|Persona blog}}<br />
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Harpinder Singh Chawla''' is an Indian dental surgeon, medical researcher and writer, known for his work in [[pediatric dentistry]].<ref name="Dr. Harpinder Singh Chawla on Medical Directory">{{cite web | url=http://www.drconnect.in/doctor-finder/dr-harpinder-singh-chawla/ | title=Dr. Harpinder Singh Chawla on Medical Directory | publisher=Dr Connect | date=2016 | access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref> Born on 15 March 1945 to Sukhdev Singh and Iqbal Kaur Chawla in [[Amritsar]], the temple town in the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], he graduated in Dentistry from the Government Dental College and Hospital, Amritsar in 1967 and followed it up with higher studies on [[myelodysplastic syndrome]] at the same institution in 1970.{{cn|date=August 2016}} He started his career as a registrar at the [[Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research]] (PGIMER), [[Chandigarh]] in 1970 and worked in several capacities such as lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and professor{{cn|date=August 2016}} and is the incumbent Head of the ''Oral Health Science Center'' of PGIMER.<ref name="A date with new-age dental restorative techniques">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010514/cth3.htm | title=A date with new-age dental restorative techniques | publisher=Tribune | date=14 May 2001 | access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref><br />
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Chawla is known to have been involved in medical research and has published his research findings as several articles in peer reviewed journals.<ref name="On PubFacts">{{cite web | url=http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Harpinder+Singh+Chawla | title=On PubFacts | publisher=PubFacts | date=2016 | access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="Publications">{{cite web | url=http://gmch.gov.in/dentistry/dental_publications.htm | title=Publications | publisher=Government Medical College and Hospital | date=2016 | access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref> He is a former president of the Asian Academy of Preventive Dentistry and a member and elected Fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] (NAMS)<ref name="List of Fellows - NAMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf | title=List of Fellows - NAMS | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref> as well as the Indian Society Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry.{{cn|date=August 2016}} The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref> He is married to Kiran Chaudhary and the couple has a son and a daughter.{{cn|date=August 2016}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[myelodysplastic syndrome]]<br />
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