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| name = Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
| name = Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1905|01|10}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1905|01|10}}
| birth_place = [[Surendranagar district]], [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]], [[Gujarat]], India
| birth_place = [[Surendranagar district]], [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]], [[Bombay Presidency]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1997|06|21|1905|01|10}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1997|06|21|1905|01|10}}
| occupation = Surgeon<br>Medical academic
| occupation = Surgeon<br>Medical academic
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| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br>[[Royal College of Surgeons of England|RCS]] Hallett Prize
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br>[[Royal College of Surgeons of England|RCS]] Hallett Prize
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'''Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta''' (1905–1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic, who established the [[Jaslok Hospital|Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre]], Mumbai.<ref name="Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online">{{cite web | url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E008177b.htm | title=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online | publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England | date=2016 | accessdate=31 March 2016}}</ref> His contributions were also reported in the establishment of [[Tata Memorial Centre]] and the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]]. In 1971, the Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] for his contributions to 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 | accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref>
'''Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta''' (1905–1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic, who established the [[Jaslok Hospital|Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre]], Mumbai.<ref name="Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online">{{cite web | url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E008177b.htm | title=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online | publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England | date=2016 | access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref> His contributions were also reported in the establishment of [[Tata Memorial Centre]] and the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]]. In 1971, the Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] for his contributions to 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>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Mehta was born on 10 January 1905 in [[Surendranagar district]] in the [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] of the Indian city of [[Gujarat]].<ref name="Obituaries">{{cite journal | url=http://nmji.in/approval/archive/Volume-10/issue-4/obituaries.pdf | title=Obituaries | author=Sunil K. Pandya | journal=National Medical Journal of India | year=1997 | volume=10 | issue=4}}</ref> Due to lack of good educational facilities in his native town, he stayed with his maternal grandfather, Motilal Kothari, in [[Rajkot]] and did his schooling there. Later, when Kothari moved to Mumbai, Mehta followed him to continue his education there and it was during this time, he developed a fascination for [[ayurveda]] when he was cured by an ayurvedic physician from a life-threatening bout of dysentry, after [[allopathic]] treatment yielded no positive results.
Mehta was born on 10 January 1905 in [[Surendranagar district]] in the [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] of the Indian city of [[Gujarat]].<ref name="Obituaries">{{cite journal | url=http://nmji.in/approval/archive/Volume-10/issue-4/obituaries.pdf | title=Obituaries | author=Sunil K. Pandya | journal=National Medical Journal of India | year=1997 | volume=10 | issue=4}}</ref> Due to lack of good educational facilities in his native town, he stayed with his maternal grandfather, Motilal Kothari, in [[Rajkot]] and did his schooling there. Later, when Kothari moved to Mumbai, Mehta followed him to continue his education there and it was during this time, he developed a fascination for [[ayurveda]] when he was cured by an ayurvedic physician from a life-threatening bout of dysentery, after [[allopathic]] treatment yielded no positive results.


His graduate degree in medicine came from [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals]], during which time he was also involved with the [[Indian independence movement]] and suffered incarceration at [[Colaba]] Police Station after he, along with five other activists, showed black flag at the visiting [[Simon Commission]] in 1927.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine">{{cite journal | url=http://nmji.in/approval/archive/Volume-1/issue-1/eminent-indians-in-medicine.pdf | title=Eminent Indians in Medicine | journal=National Medical Journal of India | year=1988 | volume=1}}</ref> Later, when he went to England for fellowship at the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]], his earlier involvement in the freedom struggle caused him many difficulties but he completed the fellowship, winning the Hallett Prize, the first Indian to receive the honour. Subsequently, he worked for 9 months at the [[Royal Brompton Hospital]], at ENT, Orthopedic and general surgery departments, where he had the opportunity to train under several notable surgeons.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" />
His graduate degree in medicine came from [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals]], during which time he was also involved with the [[Indian independence movement]] and suffered incarceration at [[Colaba]] Police Station after he, along with five other activists, showed black flag at the visiting [[Simon Commission]] in 1927.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine">{{cite journal | url=http://nmji.in/approval/archive/Volume-1/issue-1/eminent-indians-in-medicine.pdf | title=Eminent Indians in Medicine | journal=National Medical Journal of India | year=1988 | volume=1}}</ref> Later, when he went to England for fellowship at the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]], his earlier involvement in the freedom struggle caused him many difficulties but he completed the fellowship, winning the Hallett Prize, the first Indian to receive the honour. Subsequently, he worked for 9 months at the [[Royal Brompton Hospital]], at ENT, Orthopedic and general surgery departments, where he had the opportunity to train under several notable surgeons.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" />


On his return to India in 1930, he joined [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]], his alma mater, as a member of faculty and an honorary surgeon.<ref name="Obituaries" /> During [[World War II]], when [[British Army during the Second World War|British Army]] took over the hospital for treating armed personnel injured in the war, he was accorded the honorary rank of a Colonel, which he declined. He worked at the hospital, moving up through the ranks, from Associate Professor to Professor, till his superannuation in 1960, and continued his association with the institution for another ten years, in the capacity of the Emeritus Professor.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" /> While his tenure at GMC, he was also involved with the establishment of the ''Association of Surgeons of India'' in 1938 and the [[Tata Memorial Centre]] in 1941. After his retirement from GMC, he also served as the personal surgeon of [[Indira Gandhi]].<ref name="Wikileaks document">{{cite web | url=https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BOMBAY00513_b.html | title=Wikileaks document | publisher=Wikileaks | date=9 March 1073 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref>
On his return to India in 1930, he joined [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]], his alma mater, as a member of faculty and an honorary surgeon.<ref name="Obituaries" /> During [[World War II]], when [[British Army during the Second World War|British Army]] took over the hospital for treating armed personnel injured in the war, he was accorded the honorary rank of a Colonel, which he declined. He worked at the hospital, moving up through the ranks, from Associate Professor to Professor, till his superannuation in 1960, and continued his association with the institution for another ten years, in the capacity of the Emeritus Professor.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" /> While his tenure at GMC, he was also involved with the establishment of the ''Association of Surgeons of India'' in 1938 and the [[Tata Memorial Centre]] in 1941. After his retirement from GMC, he also served as the personal surgeon of [[Indira Gandhi]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}


Mehta was one of the Indian medical personnel involved in the establishment of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] in 1961,<ref name="Obituaries" /> and was a founder fellow of the Academy.<ref name="Founder Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf | title=Founder Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> In 1973, when an Indian-born British philanthropist, Seth Lokoomal Chanrai, decided to set up a hospital, he entrusted the project to Mehta, which resulted in the founding of [[Jaslok Hospital]].<ref name="Wikileaks document" /> He worked as the medical director of the hospital<ref name="PM Wishes JP">{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/forty-years-ago-pak-envoy-for-dacca/ | title=PM Wishes JP | publisher=Indian Express | date=11 December 2015 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> and established several specialty departments;<ref name="Dr. B. N. Colabawalla">{{cite journal | pmc=2684354 | title=Dr. B. N. Colabawalla | author=S. S. Joshi | journal=Indian J. Urol. | year=2008 | volume=24 | issue=3 | pages=279–280 | doi=10.4103/0970-1591.42605 | pmid=19468454}}</ref> the institution has since grown to become a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital.<ref name="Corporate Profile">{{cite web | url=http://jaslokhospital.net/corporate-profile/hospital-facilities | title=Corporate Profile | publisher=Jaslok Hospital | date=2016 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> He chaired the ''Medical Education Review Committee'' (later known as the ''Mehta Committee'') of the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]], Government of India, in 1982, which proposed guidelines for medical education in India.<ref name="Mehta Committee">{{cite web | url=http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/images/d/da/Mehta_Committee_report_1983.PDF.pdf | title=Mehta Committee | publisher=Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | date=September 1982 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> Later, he was also associated with ''Swami Prakashanava Ayurvedic Research Centre''.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" /> He received the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1971.<ref name="Padma Awards" />
Mehta was one of the Indian medical personnel involved in the establishment of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] in 1961,<ref name="Obituaries" /> and was a founder fellow of the Academy.<ref name="Founder Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf | title=Founder Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> In 1973, when an Indian-born British philanthropist, Seth Lokoomal Chanrai, decided to set up a hospital, he entrusted the project to Mehta, which resulted in the founding of [[Jaslok Hospital]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} He worked as the medical director of the hospital<ref name="PM Wishes JP">{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/forty-years-ago-pak-envoy-for-dacca/ | title=PM Wishes JP | publisher=Indian Express | date=11 December 2015 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> and established several specialty departments;<ref name="Dr. B. N. Colabawalla">{{cite journal | pmc=2684354 | title=Dr. B. N. Colabawalla | author=S. S. Joshi | journal=Indian J. Urol. | year=2008 | volume=24 | issue=3 | pages=279–280 | doi=10.4103/0970-1591.42605 | pmid=19468454 | doi-access=free }}</ref> the institution has since grown to become a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital.<ref name="Corporate Profile">{{cite web | url=http://jaslokhospital.net/corporate-profile/hospital-facilities | title=Corporate Profile | publisher=Jaslok Hospital | date=2016 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> He chaired the ''Medical Education Review Committee'' (later known as the ''Mehta Committee'') of the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]], Government of India, in 1982, which proposed guidelines for medical education in India.<ref name="Mehta Committee">{{cite web | url=http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/images/d/da/Mehta_Committee_report_1983.PDF.pdf | title=Mehta Committee | publisher=Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | date=September 1982 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> Later, he was also associated with ''Swami Prakashanava Ayurvedic Research Centre''.<ref name="Eminent Indians in Medicine" /> He received the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1971.<ref name="Padma Awards" />


Mehta, who was married to Champaben, suffered from age-related illnesses towards the later stages of his life and died on 21 June 1997, at the age of 92.<ref name="Dr. Shantilal J Mehta&nbsp;— an outstanding Indian surgeon">{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/17075906/Dr._Shantilal_J_Mehta_-_an_outstanding_Indian_surgeon | title=Dr. Shantilal J Mehta&nbsp;— an outstanding Indian surgeon | publisher=Academia | date=2016 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref> ''Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation'' is a medical research foundation operating in Mumbai which has been named after him.<ref name="Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.knowledgebible.com/forum/showthread.php/884312-Exemption-u-s-35(1)(ii)-Institution-Dr-Shantilal-J-Mehta-Medical-Research-Foundation-Bombay | title=Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation | publisher=Knowledge Bible | date=2016 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}</ref>
Mehta, who was married to Champaben, suffered from age-related illnesses towards the later stages of his life and died on 21 June 1997, at the age of 92.<ref name="Dr. Shantilal J Mehta&nbsp;— an outstanding Indian surgeon">{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/17075906 | title=Dr. Shantilal J Mehta&nbsp;— an outstanding Indian surgeon | publisher=Academia | date=2016 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref> ''Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation'' is a medical research foundation operating in Mumbai which has been named after him.<ref name="Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.knowledgebible.com/forum/showthread.php/884312-Exemption-u-s-35(1)(ii)-Institution-Dr-Shantilal-J-Mehta-Medical-Research-Foundation-Bombay | title=Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation | publisher=Knowledge Bible | date=2016 | access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.jaslokhospital.net | title=Jaslok Hospital website | publisher=Jaslok Hospital | work=Official website | date=2016 | accessdate=31 March 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.jaslokhospital.net | title=Jaslok Hospital website | publisher=Jaslok Hospital | work=Official website | date=2016 | access-date=31 March 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/images/d/da/Mehta_Committee_report_1983.PDF.pdf | title=Mehta Committee Report&nbsp;— Full Text | publisher=Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | date=September 1982 | accessdate=1 April 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/images/d/da/Mehta_Committee_report_1983.PDF.pdf | title=Mehta Committee Report&nbsp;— Full Text | publisher=Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | date=September 1982 | access-date=1 April 2016}}


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Latest revision as of 15:11, 3 December 2023

Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
Born(1905-01-10)10 January 1905
Surendranagar district, Saurashtra, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died21 June 1997(1997-06-21) (aged 92)
Occupation(s)Surgeon
Medical academic
Years active1927–1991
Known forJaslok Hospital and Research Centre
SpouseChampaben
AwardsPadma Bhushan
RCS Hallett Prize

Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta (1905–1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic, who established the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai.[1] His contributions were also reported in the establishment of Tata Memorial Centre and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. In 1971, the Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to medicine.[2]

Biography

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Mehta was born on 10 January 1905 in Surendranagar district in the Saurashtra of the Indian city of Gujarat.[3] Due to lack of good educational facilities in his native town, he stayed with his maternal grandfather, Motilal Kothari, in Rajkot and did his schooling there. Later, when Kothari moved to Mumbai, Mehta followed him to continue his education there and it was during this time, he developed a fascination for ayurveda when he was cured by an ayurvedic physician from a life-threatening bout of dysentery, after allopathic treatment yielded no positive results.

His graduate degree in medicine came from Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, during which time he was also involved with the Indian independence movement and suffered incarceration at Colaba Police Station after he, along with five other activists, showed black flag at the visiting Simon Commission in 1927.[4] Later, when he went to England for fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, his earlier involvement in the freedom struggle caused him many difficulties but he completed the fellowship, winning the Hallett Prize, the first Indian to receive the honour. Subsequently, he worked for 9 months at the Royal Brompton Hospital, at ENT, Orthopedic and general surgery departments, where he had the opportunity to train under several notable surgeons.[4]

On his return to India in 1930, he joined Grant Medical College, his alma mater, as a member of faculty and an honorary surgeon.[3] During World War II, when British Army took over the hospital for treating armed personnel injured in the war, he was accorded the honorary rank of a Colonel, which he declined. He worked at the hospital, moving up through the ranks, from Associate Professor to Professor, till his superannuation in 1960, and continued his association with the institution for another ten years, in the capacity of the Emeritus Professor.[4] While his tenure at GMC, he was also involved with the establishment of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1938 and the Tata Memorial Centre in 1941. After his retirement from GMC, he also served as the personal surgeon of Indira Gandhi.[citation needed]

Mehta was one of the Indian medical personnel involved in the establishment of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 1961,[3] and was a founder fellow of the Academy.[5] In 1973, when an Indian-born British philanthropist, Seth Lokoomal Chanrai, decided to set up a hospital, he entrusted the project to Mehta, which resulted in the founding of Jaslok Hospital.[citation needed] He worked as the medical director of the hospital[6] and established several specialty departments;[7] the institution has since grown to become a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital.[8] He chaired the Medical Education Review Committee (later known as the Mehta Committee) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in 1982, which proposed guidelines for medical education in India.[9] Later, he was also associated with Swami Prakashanava Ayurvedic Research Centre.[4] He received the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1971.[2]

Mehta, who was married to Champaben, suffered from age-related illnesses towards the later stages of his life and died on 21 June 1997, at the age of 92.[10] Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation is a medical research foundation operating in Mumbai which has been named after him.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Sunil K. Pandya (1997). "Obituaries" (PDF). National Medical Journal of India. 10 (4).
  4. ^ a b c d "Eminent Indians in Medicine" (PDF). National Medical Journal of India. 1. 1988.
  5. ^ "Founder Fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  6. ^ "PM Wishes JP". Indian Express. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  7. ^ S. S. Joshi (2008). "Dr. B. N. Colabawalla". Indian J. Urol. 24 (3): 279–280. doi:10.4103/0970-1591.42605. PMC 2684354. PMID 19468454.
  8. ^ "Corporate Profile". Jaslok Hospital. 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Mehta Committee" (PDF). Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. September 1982. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Dr. Shantilal J Mehta — an outstanding Indian surgeon". Academia. 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  11. ^ "Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation". Knowledge Bible. 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
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