Dr. P.D. Shirke is a gold medalist in his Master’s in Oral Medicine from the Govt. Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai. He is certified in Tobacco Control from the very prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. He has numerous other awards to his credit like the Colgate Gold Medal and the International College of Dentists’ award for excellence throughout his academic career.

As a result of his committed and sustained involvement in the field of tobacco control, which includes conceptualized and developing the Indian Dental Association’s Tobacco Control Programme, he was invited to speak at the World Congress on Tobacco or Health. Dr. Shirke’s passion for tobacco control, which translates into a comprehensive quit tobacco program for our patients, formulated with the latest, as well as established, evidence-based techniques, customized to each individual’s preferences and proclivities, sets him apart.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle